Sunday, September 4, 2011

Application Nostalgia Revisited

Hello Everyone!  So I'm still waiting to be able to make an announcement, but I need to email someone first - which is the reason I haven't blogged much.  Not to mention that time is scarce in business school, so finding time to blog is difficult, hence the reason it's 1:30am and I'm taking a break from reading a marketing case to write this post.

Back in March about a month and a half after I hit SUBMIT on my applications, I wrote this "Remember When... App Nostalgia" blog post and I wanted to revisit it and now give my perspective.


Remember when... we used to make up questions just to have a touch point with admissions officers?

HAHAHA so true!  And now the admissions officers are our friends!  It's nice to see them in their own element.

Remember when... we would look for someone on your gchat list going through the same experience so you could vent?

Now we look for people on our gchat lists to complain about the work or how busy we are.

Remember when... you had no idea what the consortium was?

most people still don't know!

Remember when... going out was more of a task then the GMAT?

all we do now is go out!  always celebrating something!  1st quiz!  2nd quiz!  1st week of classes!  birthdays!  

Remember when... we would stay up all night complaining about writing essays?

still happens!

Remember when... the GMAT was all we cared about?

unspoken rule not to talk about it!

Remember when... we checked the forums minute(ly)?

can barely remember the URL's.  (although that's not true.. i post like once a week in there)  still feel the need to pay forward the application process experience.

Remember when... we would attend every event that our top b-school was hosting in our area.

clearly doesn't happen now... but it's fun being on the other end of it now.  I'm an admissions ambassador for Johnson and will be bringing students to classes with me and hosting information sessions at school!

Remember when... we would catch every grammar mistake that people made as we prepared for Sentence Correction?

still occurs.

Remember when... we had no social life and had to check our friends that complained about never seeing us?

definitely have a social life now, but it's one with new friends.  the old friends are tough to keep up with.

Remember when... no one believed in "holistic approach?

PLEASE BELIEVE IT!

Remember when... your friends would drunk dial you proclaiming that they weren't getting in anywhere?
now friends drunk dial you - "Where are you?"
Remember when... you practiced sentence correction on your iPhone sitting at my desk because I couldn't let anyone at work know I was leaving?
sentence correction?  What's that....
Remember when... CR, DS, SC, and RC meant something to you?
don't mean anything any more... but now there are soooooooo many more acronyms it's ridic.
Remember when... you had to lug around GMAT books?
now it's Marketing, Accounting, Econ, Laptop, and iPad.
Remember when... you thought you might be stuck in this job forever?
job?  what job?  hopefully I'll get a job!
Remember when... we didn't sleep?
sleep?  haha lots of naps going on in bschool
Remember when... we saw each other ever weekend at a different diversity event?
imagine seeing the same people every single day of the week!
Remember when... we drank to ease the anxiety of the application process?
now we drink just because we're all alcoholics
Remember when... we all thought that the Consortium deadline was the day before it actually was?
thanks to (you know who you are) ::side eyes::  <3 you though!  the person is now at Fuqua.
Remember when you thought the GMAT was the only thing that mattered?
definitely is not the only thing!
Remember when... you thought that no one took supplementary math classes an that it wouldn't help?
A.) sooo many people do it.  B.)  it definitely helped!
Remember when you didn't think you would end up on a waitlist?
hey it happens.
Remember when... you calculated the opportunity cost of buying something vs. an extra tutoring session or GMAT book?
managing one's schedule in b-school is all about figuring out the opportunity cost!
Remember when... your friends in b-school reminded you how unenvious of you they were?
just paying it forward now!  i do not envy you applicants now!  but it's worth it.
Remember when... navigating MBA fairs became a science?
now it's going to be navigating career fairs!
Remember when... you cared about rankings?
rankings are important lol and admissions officers do care about them!
Remember when... you were on a first name basis with the admissions officers?
now there's a genuine relationship there!
Remember when... you took the GMAT so many times that you had the school codes memorized?
LMAO
Remember when... YOU GOT THAT ACCEPTANCE CALL and didn't care about all of that hard work?
TRUE STORY!

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