Quiet It's been quiet

October 24, 2002 - 2:56pm

Quiet
It's been quiet around here because I took yesterday off work. Tuesday night I was feeling a lot of stress about my application essays and wanted to spend some quality time on them. The majority of the day was spent writing though I did find time to complete a few other necessary tasks (like washing sheets).

Writing these essays has been very discouraging to me. It's not that I can't write. (As I seem to write here all the time...though there might be some question to the quality...) It's that I get so bogged down with how I think the admissions committee would want me to write that I start writing poorly. The stuff I wrote yesterday wasn't a very good indicator of how I write. To me, that's really frustrating. But I've enlisted the help of a few people and they are all making wonderful suggestions. A little more work and this will all be over and done with. If I can make it that long.

I had an epiphany last night. I realized that it's not my writing that I'm having a hard time with but the essay topics. I can write easily when it is a topic I'm interested in or feel strongly about. Though I'm very interested in my future and what an MBA can do to make it better; I'm not particularly good at putting it into words. I'm not in rah-rah mode where I'm all excited to be going back to school. Getting an MBA isn't a lifelong dream that I've been saving my allowance for since I was 5. Rather, it just seems like a smart career move when all things are considered. That's the honest truth. I'm just not convinced that an admissions committee would want to hear that. So I must enter the phase of embellishment - making my future look better than I currently feel about it.

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Well now, here's an interesting topic! My opinion is to be yourself and forget what the committee wants to hear. I applied to four full-time programs and interviewed at all four. The one program I felt like I most was myself is the one program that was most excited to bring me into the school. It was an easy decision. I also felt like when I decided to move from the FT to the Professional program, I had the relationship established that they would understand and would know it was in our best interests. All that just to say, "Be you" and it'll work out for the best (even if you're not quite sure what the "best" is yet).

Posted by Jason on October 26, 2002 - 6:56pm

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Well now, here's an interesting topic! My opinion is to be yourself and forget what the committee wants to hear. I applied to four full-time programs and interviewed at all four. The one program I felt like I most was myself is the one program that was most excited to bring me into the school. It was an easy decision. I also felt like when I decided to move from the FT to the Professional program, I had the relationship established that they would understand and would know it was in our best interests. All that just to say, "Be you" and it'll work out for the best (even if you're not quite sure what the "best" is yet). I do not agree. Go to http://www.lowcostresort.info/page/1156.html

Posted by 1156 on October 19, 2006 - 5:54pm

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Well now, here's an interesting topic! My opinion is to be yourself and forget what the committee wants to hear. I applied to four full-time programs and interviewed at all four. The one program I felt like I most was myself is the one program that was most excited to bring me into the school. It was an easy decision. I also felt like when I decided to move from the FT to the Professional program, I had the relationship established that they would understand and would know it was in our best interests. All that just to say, "Be you" and it'll work out for the best (even if you're not quite sure what the "best" is yet). I do not agree. Go to http://www.lowpricedmotel.info/page/1335.html

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