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Critical Reasoning Update:

So it's 11:44pm on Saturday night and I've just completed my set of 20 Critical Reasoning questions.  My friends are out at a house party :-/ .  I had a friend ask me when the next time I would be available because he wanted to plan something.  I told him "The third week of November....no I'm not kidding... the third week of November."  At this point all my friends understand what's at stake.  I still get invitations to go out and I simply say "I'm studying."

After meeting with my tutor today we think we finally picked up on my issue with Verbal.  I was not paying attention to the modifiers in the passages and premises, thus making me deem correct answers out of scope!

So I was excited to try my next set of CR after our session today and I just completed it.  I am happy to report that I only got 2 incorrect out of 20.  I'm not going to get TOO excited just yet but at least it's a step in the right direction!

NYU Diversity Conference Update:

So I finally heard back from NYU regarding the diversity conference.  I was WAITLISTED!

At first I was bummed about this.  I found out at about 6:30 on Thursday while I was on the crosstown bus going home.  I was immediately disappointed upon hearing and then naturally went to that place in my head saying to myself "Well if I can't get into the diversity conference then there's no hope for admissions."  Of course everyone says that they are mutually exclusive, but it's natural for one to think that.  Then I texted Brandon and he made a great point that turned my mood around.  He made a great point.  He said "Well that's a good sign if you were waitlisted with your GPA and GMAT."  I responded with "...you know I didn't think of it that way.  So the way I'm going to interpret my waitlisted status is that NYU finds my profile interesting, but with the combination of my GMAT and GPA, there's no real way they could justify openly accepting me to the diversity conference, since there wasn't an essay."

Yes my text was about that long, but it contained some curse words because I curse like a trucker.. again... I'm from Jersey!

MBA Event - ::sigh:: another one

So I've decided to come full circle and attend The MBA Tour tomorrow here in NYC.  This was the first MBA event that I attended last year when I had no idea what I was in for.  I think I was THAT guy in jeans and a cardigan with a button down.  I remember what I wore last year because I was like "hhmm this should suffice because no one will remember me anyway since I'm not applying this year."

Tomorrow I have an agenda though...there are a couple people that I need to speak too.  Well one in particular!  Here is a preview of tomorrow's agenda...

Ok I'm gonna go take a benadryl because for this upcoming week my tutor said that I have to get 52 hours of sleep!!!!  I told him that I don't think I've ever gotten that much sleep since like 10th grade.  There's no way that I'm going to be able to do that I can tell you all right now.  That means that I would need to be ASLEEP right now.  Ain't gonna happen....just not a possibility so I'm going to push back on this one.

GMAT Prep - Downside

First let me say that I've updated the Business school poll on the left hand side of the screen (scroll down). When I started the poll I put schools in it that I was genuinely interested in and some that I needed to fill up space. I have now updated it with the top schools from what you guys chose and added another batch of potential schools. GO VOTE - CHOOSE 3!


So I my GMAT prep hiatus is coming to an end... I had a phenomenal time off! The downside of not studying is re-injecting myself back into my circle of friends and spending $$$$ again. It's amazing how much money one saves when he or she (almost said THEY, but that would have been incorrect) goes out.

For instance, this weekend:

Friday -
$10 at a rooftop bar in Midtown with coworkers
$6 for a cab to a bar for a friends fundraiser/birthday.
$15 for the fundraiser and a wristband for 1/2 appetizers and 1/2 drinks
$15 for 4 beers
$10 for appetizers
$15 for cab crosstown to my apt.
$10 for pizza at 3am - didn't eat it fell asleep
$10 for cigarettes
________
$81

Saturday -
$10 for hamburger/fries/gatorade/chips (breakfast of champions at 1pm)
$30 for a shirt for a birthday party later that night
$30 for a bottle of Svedka
$10 for cigarettes
$20 for my omelet at the diner later that night
$XX for the cab home (yes it was one of those nights!)
________
> $120

Grand Total about $200 and for what? All I got out of it was some tagged Facebook photos!

Granted I needed to go out and have a weekend like that since I held back for so long. I am now looking forward to getting back into study mode. I refuse to go into hiding as a I did previously for two reasons. The first is that it's SUMMER TIME. The second is simply that it just was not productive. I burnt myself out...

Statistics Class - In any event, tomorrow I have to buy my Statistics book. I have a weird feeling that it won't be available in the bookstore! The first class was good. It was much different from (not different than....think about it.. you would say "Differs from" - thanks Brian@Veritas haha) my algebra class. So much so that multiple people knew the fraction for Pi (22/7) and someone else knew to the hundred thousandths digit for e.

There is this one girl though who tries to answer every question first, while being on her laptop. Like really girl? Put it away it's not that serious... but maybe I'll befriend her so that when we do our assignments I can have her my rolodex of go to people.


Miscellaneous: Hhmm let's see... what else is going on? I reached out to a couple students at UC Berkeley Haas who are members of Q@Haas, which is the LGBT group on campus. I really need to get all of the information out of them that I can so I can determine which school is my top choice Tuck or Haas. They are very similar but very different in a couple ways. That will be a post later down the road, where I'll list out the pros and cons of them both.

Friends update: I'm not sure if I mentioned this before but one of the girls that I met when I visited Tuck is from Canada. I email with her probably once every week. She applied R4 and found out that she was waitlisted. She's pretty happy about it and I think that goes to show that she had a great profile. I've never heard of anyone being waitlisted in R4, but I guess it can happen. Everyone please keep your fingers crossed for her!