SUPERBOWL Activities

Today was the Superbowl but that wasn't the only thing that I had to do today.  Even though today is basically a national holiday the world of business school does NOT stop for anyone or any event.  It's crazy, but I definitely had a fun weekend.  Now it's time to get back into the swing of things.

Today (SuperBowl Sunday - even though now it's 2am on Monday morning) I had to wake up to go to Sage hall (my business school building) to work on an Operations assignment.  I actually like Operations or Ops as we all call it.  There's something about figuring out the capacity of an assembly line by determining it's bottleneck capacity that thrills me - especially when we have to figure it out in case form!  Don't ask - but to each his own right?  Some people thoroughly enjoy Finance or Accounting, but I like Ops.  It's interesting to see which subjects/topics people gravitate towards in my class.  All I can say is thank god the core is over!

So yeah, I had to do an Ops assignment and send it off to my teammates.  I told them last week that this week would be busy for me and that I would do as much as I could on the project but I couldn't do the final write up.  I have three interviews this week and knew that my Sunday would be taken up by the Giants winning the Super Bowl!

After I sent off the assignment to my teammates, I had to prepare for my interview tomorrow morning.  I have one tomorrow morning and another one on Tuesday to them be followed up by one on Wednesday.  Thankfully two of my teammates already have their Summer internship offers because they aren't stressing at all this much like I am.  This is going to be a big week for me!  Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me please!

After I did some interview prep I walked back to my apartment and dropped off my things so that I could go to the Super Bowl party.  At the party I had my printouts of my notes and was going through them during the game.  During the commercials I tried to pay attention though.  It's interesting learning Marketing in business school and then watching a big day like the Super Bowl where the commercials are a major attraction.  I was sitting next to one of my classmates and we were analyzing the commercials that we saw which I must say were sub-par this year.  I was quite disappointed!

When the Giants finally won, I had to leave the party ASAP so I could get home and continue reviewing my notes and preparing for my interview.  That's why I'm still up right now.  You guys all know that I stay up late anyway so this isn't uncommon for me.  With that being said - since my interview is in 6.5 hours I'm going to call it quits for now and go get my clothes ready and make sure that I'm all set for the morning.

BOOM G-MEN!

No Michigan Interview Thus Far :-(

Let's take this hour by hour:

Friday between 9-6 - the real first wave of Michigan Ross R2 interview invites went out.  Initially I wasn't aware that the invites were going out on Friday, so I was just going about my day like a normal person.  Then my friend sent me a copy of Jonathan Fuller's tweet saying that interview invites would be going out Friday and Monday.  So naturally my heart jumped into my throat and I thought... "ok keep hope alive and your fingers crossed... maybe you'll get one today."  Must have refreshed me email 25 times at first and then calmed down.  Then my friend sent me a message saying "I GOT AN INVITE" so of course my heart sank yet again and then the doubt started setting in.  I tried to keep hope alive throughout the day but then my friend told me that Ross interviews everyone that gets accepted even if the person applied through the Consortium.  So what I think that means is that if I don't get an interview invite on Monday, then I know my fate when it comes to Michigan.

Friday between 6-8:30pm - I had drinks with my tutor and a bunch of his other ex and current students on the upper east side.  This was a fun time and I met some very interesting folks who were in the same boat as me.  Some had applied already and were just waiting for decisions to come out, while others had not.  It was interesting to see the light in people's eyes as they were about to embark on the process.  Boy I remember those days.  Now I'm just Bitter Bethanny and am over the whole thing lol.

It was interesting to see the types of applicants that there were.  Two of the folks I met were surprised when they received their interview invites on Friday.  One got an invite from HBS the other got one from Tuck.  It's not like they were surprised that they were invited to interview but they were not watching their emails like hawks and just happened to check their email and see an invite.  I wish I could be that nonchalant about the whole thing myself!  But nooooo I have to be a Crazy Cathy and obsess over everything.  ::shaking my head::

Then I was talking to a guy who got the HBS invite and he was telling me about his "low" gmat score and I'm like... Dude I bet you I have a lower one than you do.  He insisted that he had a lower one.. so I said ok let's make a bet!  Whoever has the highest has the buy the other one a drink.  In my head I was thinking "there's no way he has a lower one than me and got an interview at HBS."  So we asked our tutor who had the lowest one and low and behold mine was lower.  So at the very least I got a free drink out of my GMAT score!

Friday between 8:45 - 10pm - I went across the street to meet my friend who was at Turtle Bay celebrating her Ross interview invite while I sulked over not getting one lol.  It served a dual purpose.  We danced a bit... drank some beers.. she knocked mine out of my hand... and I gave her the side eyes... but it was all good.

Friday between 10:45 - 3am - I was down on the East Village at some bar that I don't remember the name of.  I was hanging out with some of my best friends and also my friend who I met at the HBS LGBT open house last April.  He hasn't been having as much this season with NYU or Tuck.  Now he's just waiting on HBS and Yale.  I wanted to hang out with him cuz A.) he's hilarious and B.) we need to drink because this process leads one to drink heavily in either celebration or frustration.  Then he and I went to a diner by his house and I had french onion soup!

 - Let me vent here for a quick second.  So one time I was at another diner and was drunk and ordered French onion soup to then have them put CROUTONS in it!  Croutons?  Who wants croutons in their French Onion soup?  I want soggy bread.... I was so upset...  So cut to Saturday night when I asked for French Onion soup.. then remembered my dilemma the last time so I asked "wait.. does it have croutons or bread?"  he said "croutons... do you want bread?"  I said "i definitely want bread"... In My Opinion bread should be the default choice.  In any event.. I got it with bread and it was phenomenal. -


Saturday - I got home around 4pm and then just lounged around in my bed and worked on some projects for Beat The GMAT.  


Sunday - Worked on BTG projects and am about to start getting ready to go to the City to watch the SuperBowl.


But congrats to all those who got interviews and acceptances this past Friday.  I'm hoping to be in your position very shortly!   ::Fingers Crossed::