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Updated on: 29 Nov 2007, 20:59
Originally posted by riverripper on 29 Nov 2007, 15:46.
Last edited by riverripper on 29 Nov 2007, 20:59, edited 4 times in total.
Last edited by riverripper on 29 Nov 2007, 20:59, edited 4 times in total.
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The Tale of RiverRipper's B-School Dreams
Warning: This is seriously the longest post I ever have done on any message board...it may or may not be worth your reading it. Several sittings may be required.
So, ever since I found out two days ago that I got accepted to a school and my dream is becoming a reality I have been in a euphoric daze. I thought I had a solid chance of getting into at least one of my top 3, I felt my essays were very strong, but not in my wildest dreams did I think I would find out before December, as one of the very first people outside of the Columbia ED folks to know. Since finding out, I have been worried about finding out they got me confused with another person and it was all a horrible mistake. (This process breeds paranoia as we all know)
However, today I had a pretty lax day at work, nothing flying across my desk like the last few days so I kind of drifted out of my fog of disbelief and really thought about how all this came about. There are lots of GMAT success stories but it doesn’t seem like a whole lot of people really write a detail debrief of their b-school application experience. Since I no longer have to work on essays, and no one here will complain about my quick writing with no real thought to making sure my grammar or spelling is perfect (this isn’t SC practice anyone) this is my tale and hopefully it gives some hope to future applicants.
Last fall I was getting frustrated with my job, I already had lots of responsibility but had come to realize that I had reached a level where there is few opportunities to move up. I was younger than everyone else at my level and had even more projects and assignments I was in charge of because I sought them out. I was picked for a promotion (took 6 months for it to pass through some government worker’s desk...one thing I hate about government work is the bureaucracy) and another promotion to supervisor would be years away. I always wanted a masters but figure I would get one in engineering and get my work to pay for it. After doing some research and soul searching I came to think that wasn’t really going to get me to where I wanted to go. It would pretty much pigeon hole me into engineering and that has a limited impact in most areas.
A passing mention by a family friend about an MBA led me to read up on it. I actually started looking at the local state university, which proudly stated it was ranked by someone in the top 100 b-schools. The more I learned about MBAs and what it would do for me and my career, the more I realized that it was the perfect thing to help me reach my goals. In discussions with my wife I told her my thoughts and she agreed it would be a good time in our life to transition into something different before we had kids and were too settled.
Warning: This is seriously the longest post I ever have done on any message board...it may or may not be worth your reading it. Several sittings may be required.
So, ever since I found out two days ago that I got accepted to a school and my dream is becoming a reality I have been in a euphoric daze. I thought I had a solid chance of getting into at least one of my top 3, I felt my essays were very strong, but not in my wildest dreams did I think I would find out before December, as one of the very first people outside of the Columbia ED folks to know. Since finding out, I have been worried about finding out they got me confused with another person and it was all a horrible mistake. (This process breeds paranoia as we all know)
However, today I had a pretty lax day at work, nothing flying across my desk like the last few days so I kind of drifted out of my fog of disbelief and really thought about how all this came about. There are lots of GMAT success stories but it doesn’t seem like a whole lot of people really write a detail debrief of their b-school application experience. Since I no longer have to work on essays, and no one here will complain about my quick writing with no real thought to making sure my grammar or spelling is perfect (this isn’t SC practice anyone) this is my tale and hopefully it gives some hope to future applicants.
Last fall I was getting frustrated with my job, I already had lots of responsibility but had come to realize that I had reached a level where there is few opportunities to move up. I was younger than everyone else at my level and had even more projects and assignments I was in charge of because I sought them out. I was picked for a promotion (took 6 months for it to pass through some government worker’s desk...one thing I hate about government work is the bureaucracy) and another promotion to supervisor would be years away. I always wanted a masters but figure I would get one in engineering and get my work to pay for it. After doing some research and soul searching I came to think that wasn’t really going to get me to where I wanted to go. It would pretty much pigeon hole me into engineering and that has a limited impact in most areas.
A passing mention by a family friend about an MBA led me to read up on it. I actually started looking at the local state university, which proudly stated it was ranked by someone in the top 100 b-schools. The more I learned about MBAs and what it would do for me and my career, the more I realized that it was the perfect thing to help me reach my goals. In discussions with my wife I told her my thoughts and she agreed it would be a good time in our life to transition into something different before we had kids and were too settled.
29 Nov 2007, 15:58
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Congrats.
If you end up at KGSM, we can still be friends
