Calling Chicago GSB 2008 applicants

nah I'm cool...no worries

River - you should be..

not fair...

What, if you relax and try to ignore the stress of waiting for an admit it makes life a lot easier. Hitting refresh every 5 seconds or staring at your cell phone just makes it that much more stressful. Yeah yeah, I know...having an admit already makes it easier to follow this advice, but still. You cant rush their decisions so just try to forget about it.

oh don't get me wrong river, I agree with you on the "adding stress to yourself" thing with the F5 button, but I am pointing out again that you already have an admit. I probably would be in La-La land if I have an admit already, and would be very relaxed waiting for the results of my other schools...

just edited:
"Decisions will be officially released on December 19th. "

I think the lucky ones (some or all) can expect phone calls earlier

GSB always said that decisions will be anounced "officially" on Wednesday...its the whole 9 am email, status update change.....

looks like today was initial D Day that we anticipated but got pushed back for tomorrow...now I know what the soldiers waiting at the British coast on 5th June 1944 felt like....

poor analogy.. but my nerves are shot..

that wasn't my point.
People, it seemed, were beginning to doubt whether phone calls were going to be made before the "official" deadline.

The fact that a post from the adcom which read "Decisions will be released on December 19th. " was changed hours later to "Decisions will be OFFICIALLY released on December 19th." leads me to believe that some (or all) of those accepted will hear before Wed 9AM

You wouldn't like to step into those soldiers' shoes for that day, ops you've done it...

I'm really thinking to pretend tomorrow that nothing is happening and only look for the results on wed, not sure if I'm that strong.

i just finished my mit sloan interview, so i can now concentrate all my energies on joining you guys in pants pooping

Cookie,

Not belittling your post or anything..
I think the official part simply adheres to GSB's claim of all results going out at 9 am Wed.

Unofficially a lot of folks will hear the drum beats tomorrow...

kwam,
I am weak...Like the ring..the "precious" cellphone has possessed me... I will be checking everything tomorrow..

I have a new version for the second essay:

"If I could I'd like to step into Rhyme's shoes, as he is already at GSB an he doesn't have to keep pressing F5, staring at his cel phone, and always answering your friends that you still haven't heard a thing about the results".

Well its 4 50 pm in Chicago and another day bites the dust there...

As the pimp of this forum.... I announce.. .gentlemen and ladies... get ur mojos started... tomorrow is hump day.

My day isn't that much more fun:

Wake up at 9.00am: Check email. Good lord there's a huge pile. Reach out to partner at big name consulting firm who asked me to email him when I got back into town. Surprisingly the email back says he's out of the office through mid FEBRUARY... not sure what to do about that... oops.

10:00am: Get a phone call from a number I don't recognize. Answer it. It's another consulting firm, claiming to call to "learn more about my background" and that "this isn't an interview". By the time the questions have moved from "walk me through your resume" to "what interests you about us?", its pretty clear im on the spot. I scramble together a few hodgepodge ideas, none of which are particularly stellar responses. I hang up having pretty much screwed that opportunity.

11:00am: Complete a job application for a firm, pdfing resumes and such. Send it in.

12:15pm: Receive notification I've made the closed list (note: it never happens this fast normally, usually its weeks later). Rejoice for 10 minutes and move on to the next app. Struggle with the cover letter for an hour and send that in.

1:30pm: Start work on remaining emails, filing away tasks for the rest of this week. That takes amazingly, an hour to complete. Go back to the application list, start another app.....

.....

it basically goes on like this

With your dog poking your legs, barking at odd intervals, your cat jumping about and ur insane craving for Thai food

yea i want some thai tonight too

Rhyme, so you have decided to go into MC?