Welcome back to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly wander through the blogs of MBA students and those aspiring to join them in business school bliss. This week was a relatively quiet week, applicants were hearing a bit more from their round one schools, mostly in the form of interview invites, while current students were wrapping up their classes and exams.
Rocky Balboa flew to Bangalore to see his family and girlfriend, and planned on attending an upcoming Darden event in Delhi. XLick finished his Cornell rough drafts and planned to send them out to be read by family and friends. Steve received a Johnson interview invite, and had the opportunity to be in close quarters with a number of celebrities, Bill Clinton and Arnold Palmer among them. A Beautiful Mind wondered whether not getting an invite to interview from Fuqua was a definite sign of being zapped. Procrastinator was also feeling a little down after Fuqua’s lack of interview invite. Bizwiz prepared quite the GMAT and CAT study schedule for himself. Illuminati sat for the GMAT exam and felt positive about the experience, in spite of a few ways in which he could have excelled even more. A good GMAT score for AJ made his desire to apply to b-school official. MadBubbles struggled with a fierce case of impulsive email checking, but found that there was an app for that. LBiggs almost didn’t see his MIT interview invite as a result of some fickle software, and wished the news was better from Kellogg.
Harvard ’10 Gabrielle was in temporarily more upscale digs after a fire in her dorm. Fuqua ’10 Randy considered the concept of a well-rounded MBA. Darden ’10 Sameer planned to take his exams in India, perhaps after a trip to the mountains. Kellogg ’11 Michael explained why he was sticking to his desire to enter the venture capital industry. Kellogg ’11 Shobhit watched a video about social media and found it interesting, though perhaps not totally convincing. Harvard ’11 Military to Business kept himself busy almost every moment of his waking life in an effort to get the fullest possible MBA experience. Kellogg ’11 Orlando felt that it was necessary to clarify the sort of leadership opportunities students would get at the school.
And that concludes this week’s fantastical foray through the sometimes funny and often fraught application and learning experiences of the MBA blogosphere. We hope that, as more news arrives for aspiring students, most of it is good, and that the bad news is softened by good friends and round two essays!
