Michigan Complete

Michigan is complete atlast - 2 down, 4 to go. I was pretty satisfied with the end-product - I would say 90% convinced - but you still feel that glitch somewhere, "I could have done a better job" - heck!! It's very difficult to be totally satisfied. Next, I need to wrap-up the Berkeley essays - they are almost complete but need to do some night-outs for them. Michigan - I have worked vigorously in the last one week and have come up with some great flow and content. One thing I forgot - I should have mentioned my GMAT score in my resume as some one pointed out in the forum - there were no place to report your scores - anyway it's a minor thing and I don't need to lose my sleep on it.

Here is some great news. My fiance has agreed to write her own blog. I have put up the link in the right column section - some of you who plan to go for PhD or academia I would say check it out. MBA and PhD are so opposite paradigms - opposite attract :) I am happy that she is soon going to complete her PhD - who knows one day she may have a great idea and we can start a venture of our own - though it's far-fetched ;) I have also asked her to write stuff related to my MBA application if she could - so significant others can relate to her experience :)

I took the day off. Brought some movies from Hollywood Video - just finished watching "Gladiator" - while watching the movie one thing struck me - most of the Roman emperors were very well-read and educated - like some of them were experts in literature and philosophy - to be a "good" leader , I believe, he or she should be well-read, atlast have a reading habit or an intellectual curiosity to know the unknown. I won't like my boss to be a professional robot with whom I can't have an intelligent conversation. Isn't it necessary to go and socialize and be able to talk about any damn thing under the sun? I remember one of my pals from Columbia told me that during the hiring process, one of the recruiters had something called a cocktail reception where the grads had to go and mix with the crowd without having any idea who the actual recruiters were. Pretty interesting!! I feel so relaxed today - a good feeling - a sense of accomplishment but still a heck of a job left.

I should start getting involved with the Wharton and Kellogg application - I saw that some of the content I can reuse and I got some more good ideas after I have hit the submit button. I am expecting that I would know the results of Michigan and MIT before I actually get an interview invite from Wharton, Berkeley or HBS (if !!). I would not bank on the waitlist phenomenon - it's really taxing - rather I would accept the waitlist as a ding (that doesn't mean I won't try) and move on. Yah!! I can see the end is near - 45/60 more days to go before this entire process is over. Then, I can chill and start preparing for my business school education.

Check out my fiance's blog - I suggested her that if I am successful this year then probably next year we can start a consulting service :) Why deny few bucks?