ninkorn wrote:
I am sure I am not the only one here…
Since applying to 6 schools for Round 1 (Yale, Stern, Kellogg, Booth, Haas, Tuck) with only one interview remaining (Booth next Tuesday), I am constantly visiting this forum to see if anyone else received any news from adcom.
Yes yes, I know. It’s too early…..but I just can’t help myself.
Lately, I’ve been very unproductive at work. I used to be a morning person and got lots of work done before 11am. Now I come into work every morning and all I do is check this forum, then check all embark application webpages for status updated then back to my email account…
This past Thanksgiving weekend I spent countless hours at Best Buy trying to decide which laptop to buy for b-school. Then I began to think about other items for b-school – such as Amazon Kindle, Netbooks, Wireless Scanner, etc etc.
Now that it’s the first day of December and much closer to decision date, I am filled with anxiety attacks…
While staring and re-reading b-school main web page information over and over again, I tell myself:
“Those Tuck students in the pics look so happy…..lucky bast*rds…I wish I can be one of them…….”
“Damn you Haas adcom!!!! I paid you good money for processing my app. And now you tell me processing is behind schedule due to sheer volume of apps??? Hire more bodies!!! It’s recession!!!”
“Maybe I should have slipped $20 in the application envelope so my application will process before other applicants…”
“If I donate some money to Stern alumni fund now, would they notice?????”
“God, if Booth accepts me, the first thing I am gonna do is go visit their online bookstore and buy Booth sweatshirt and I am gonna wear it to gym everyday to represent…..”
How are you dealing with your anxieties? What are you doing to cope with decision related issues?
you are a productive one today. Welcome to gmatclub.... there is not really much you can do. Maybe find something else to occupy your time and get your mind off of the apps, at least that works for a little while.