A great deal of time has passed since I last updated this blog. There are many excuses that I will attempt to offer, amongst which include being caught up in work (just got assigned to help out a new region and […]

Lifted from my status update on Facebook:  “After months of indecision, visits, GMAT-ting, fretting, rebecca black parodies, procrastination, blogging, introspection, and of course, writing, I clicked submit for the *hopefully* last time. DONE!!!” Mood: Euphoric.  I just clicked “submit” for my last application, just minutes before the midnight…[Read more]

Mood: Giggly.  I just created, probably one of the cheesiest, most ridiculous parodies.  In fact, this creation might signify me going off the deep end, and I haven’t even finished my Christmas shopping.  I was inspired to create my own version of  Rebecca Black’s Friday (apparently the  most watched You Tube video of 2011) after seeing this…[Read more]

Mood: Re-Energized.  I’ve been slacking on the application process again, and with a little more than a month away from the due dates, I’m ready to ramp things up full speed! Musing: Kind of bittersweet that the Occupy movement is no longer, though in my dear PNW city, the movement was starting to drive me nuts.   Our office was just [...]

Holy cow.  It seems that I have not updated this blog for the last month and I can literally hear tumbleweeds blowing on here (I know how  Google+ feels now…) In between being on the road for work (2 weeks straight and 5 cities), visiting 2 b-school campuses (reflections to come), college friends in 2 major cities on [...]

I am relieved to say – I am finally moving on from the GMAT aka Give Money And Time to the GMAC. My GMAT retake was Sept. 19th and I resolved it would be my last.  My preparation up until this retake was a little lopsided. I put off studying entirely for the two weeks immediately [...]

Moving forward with the application process, I’m now starting to narrow down my list of schools and realistically assess my chances. First move was to submit my profile to Sandy aka the HBSGuru on Poets & Quants to get his opinion.  I figured if I needed someone to give it to me straight, it would be him. [...]

Survived an “earthquake”, narrowly escaped a hurricane, all to return back to the West Coast, a GMAT retake and B-School Apps! Mood: Thankful – to be alive and safe! Musing: Flying first class in many ways is like a blind date: You and your seat companion start with drinks, then get served a fairly decent dinner, and watch [...]

Mood: A little disappointed but not defeated. Music: Ice Cream Paint Job ; my roomie’s CD wound its way into my car when she borrowed it last week and I’ve been jamming to her hip-hop beats.  I was really hoping that my theme song would be “All I do is win” by DJ Khaled but today’s results provided that, [...]

I am dancing around my living room at the moment. After a long day at work, I decided to head over to visit home.  My sweet mom offered to cook dinner for me during the final countdown week to G-Day – she refused to let me subsist on microwave dinners and take-out, and I have a [...]

Mood:  Inspired. Just co-facilitated a workshop today on multidisciplinary 21st century skills.  If you haven’t deduced yet, I work in consulting in the educational sector. After sharing this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson to highlight the importance of inventive thinking, I was reminded again of why I’m in the field of education, why I hope to remain [...]

Mood: Caffeinated (Drinking a mocha at 9:45 pm at a local non-chain coffee shop. Proud I’m supporting our local small businesses!) Music: Melodramatic piano rock. My attempts at studying last weekend were slightly hampered on account of our house being taken over by a group of snowboarders (acquaintances of my roommate) from Tahoe who were…[Read more]

The other day I was driving in my car to the gym and Avril Lavinge’s latest song came on: “All my life I’ve been good but now, oooh I’m thinking what the hell.” I won’t get started on her lyrical abilities or her “relationship” with the Hills “star” Brody Jenner (Really? Matching tattoos?). But this song struck [...]

The MBA application process is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s a good thing I did cross-country in high school, even if it was for the pre-race pasta dinners. I’m blogging from the Wichita Airport in Kansas, where I was working with a client today.  Yes, my work takes me to some pretty random places, and [...]

When I think back to how I arrived at this decision to apply to business school, two key events stand out in my mind. Numero Uno: Halloween 2010. I was dressed up in a home-made costume as a certain creature from my country of origin, and I happened to talk to the only guy at the [...]

I’m an enthusiastic, hopeful female consultant in my mid-twenties, and I’ve decided to join in on this crazy adventure called applying to business school. As a prospective MBA applicant and blogger, I’ve discovered that there were countless such blogs floating out in the blogosphere. I do love blogs and was fascinated by the thoughts people had and [...]