Essays are a funny thing

Here is where I spent most of my day today...laying on the floor in front of the fire doing work (for work) as well as working on essays (for the very reason you came to this blog).

I was able to finish an essay draft earlier today / late last night... and then I began working on another essay and got totally stumped.  It's a 250 word essay that is identical to a 300 word essay for another school.  When I say identical wording I mean 100%, so if you do your research of the schools I'm applying too you'll know which one I'm referring too.  Ok fine it's Haas and Michigan.  Both have What is your passion essays.  One would think that this would be an easy task.  Just write a 300 word essay for Michigan and then use that and then cut it down to 250 words for Haas.  Nope sorry .. no such luck.  

For one of Michigan, the topic I'm going to use was already used in another essay and I am not willing to change it.  Luckily, the Michigan essay gives the option of talking about your passion or writing about teaching your classmates, so I'm going to write about that one plus it goes with my story quite well, if I may say so myself!  So while I was stuck on how to convey my passion for my Haas essay... 2 hours later of writing and re-writing... I decided to pour a glass of wine and just come back to that one.  So I worked on the Michigan essay question and wrote 450 words in 35 minutes.  Now I'm not saying that it's the final draft and is ready to be sent to the printer, but considering it's a 300 word essay, I think I got all of my ideas out of my head.  I always write more than I should and then go back and consolidate and cut things out and merge and purge and all that jazz.  It's easier for me and I make sure that I say everything that I want to.

So... with that being said I officially have 2 more essays to go.  This last Haas essay which will be done in about an hour and then the one essay I've been putting off and off and off.  But the good news is that it will be done before New Years.

Ok this break was long enough and I must go back to writing these essays and then send them off to a myriad of folks aka Team Richard!  

Focused on January 5th!

Right now I'm laying in bed watching some stupid movie On Demand.  I am no longer living in New York City :-( and :-)  Sad because that was my life for nearly two years so I was accustomed to my 20 minute commute to work.  I am now back in New Jersey and have a 1.5 - 2 hour commute in the morning!  Not fun by any means...  The plus side is that I don't have to write that quadruple digit rent check any more!  I am not able to begin saving for business school.  So yeah that's that...

So as I lay here watching whatever movie is on right now I'm preparing to focus on the next two months.  I have exactly 2 months to get my applications submitted.  There is only one thing I can and shall focus on for the next two months and that is getting my applications completed.

This weekend I plan on getting all of my first draft essays completed.  Here is what I need to do:

3 Consortium Essays
1 Dartmouth Essay
2 Michigan Essays
3 Cornell Essays
2 Berkeley Essays
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11 Essays

Then I need to get my life together and start studying again for the amazingly fun GMAT.  I do not have another test date yet but I have to take it before the Consortium deadline in December.  I can do it!  I just booked another tutoring session with my tutor.

I still haven't heard whether or not I'm off the waitlist for the Tuck diversity conference.  I still have the days off from work, so if I hear that a spot opens up all I have to do is hop on the bus.

I will also be attending the LGBT preview day at Michigan on the 19th.  My friend (one of the guys I met at Yale during my visit in February) said that I could stay at his apartment even though he won't be there that weekend.  It's all good though because I met many of the other LGBT Michigan students when I was at the Reaching Out conference, so I've been conversing with them giving them a heads up that I'll be visiting that weekend.  I'm really looking forward to it.

I know this was a boring post but I'm exhausted... good night