Welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s coverage of business school bloggers’ sometimes brutal and sometimes beautiful experiences while striving towards an MBA. It’s been a week of reflections from the sometimes overwhelmed MBA applicants and students, with numerous bloggers powering through stressful preparation for their respective pieces of the MBA process.
Steve was not pleased with his own GMAT prep and strongly considered hiring a personal tutor (perhaps he’s been enjoying our GMAT Test Prep Profiles Series?). Hari, with the help of his own tutor, was taking practice LSAT exams in an effort to make the GMAT questions seem less challenging. AMBAGuy tried to keep his life from getting over saturated with GMAT/MBA-specific material. Illuminati wondered about how important the GMAT actually was and recounted the b-school search process. ArdentMeerkat sifted through her stories in preparation for writing her essays. RockyBalboa recounted his conversation with a Fuqua student and finally narrowed down his school selection. XLick worried about pushing his recommendation writer too far and confessed his plans to submit Columbia as soon as possible. AJ wasn’t worrying about his applications; he was too busy thinking about where he would be in 20 years.
While the Class of 2011 scrambles to take care of last minute matriculation details (presumably taking them away from their regular blogging duties), a couple of them offered helpful pre-MBA reflections. Kellogg ’11 D.G. divulged a list of to-do lists and Goizuetta ’11 Ahembeea concluded his pre-MBA postings with a bright outlook for the future.
Current students (rising second years, that is) had a myriad of topics on their minds as well. INSEAD ’09 MBAMrs, after a momentary funk, became determined to make Fontainbleu ‘hers.’ McCombs ’10 Paragon2Pieces was thinking about money and men and asked her readers how long they would wait for a significant other to get their act together. Darden ’10 Mechanigal thought about money, too, mainly that she was enjoying spending it at the Colaba Causeway shopping area of Bombay. Though fellow Darden ’10 student, JulyDream, may have been in Vegas she kept the majority of her money in her pockets, not slot machines or poker tables. Kellogg ’10 Orlando felt that he had found a blog that everyone with an interest in business should read.
Thanks for joining us this week on our journey through the MBA blogging community! If you’ve just joined – or have been milling around – the blogosphere as an MBA applicant or student, send your blog address to wiki@clearadmit.com. We’ll add you to the applicant blogger’s page of the Clear Admit Wiki and you may be featured in Fridays from the Frontline! Happy blogging!
