Gmail boycott - Who's joining my dharna...

Question

After being repeatedly snubbed by "No new messages" in my Gmail inbox, I have decided enough is enough. I am planning a 1-week boycott of my gmail account. No peeking, no quick status checks, nothing...

Who's willing to join me?

kidderek · Answer

With news of Cornell sending out interview invites, you might be alone.

saurabh357 · Answer

You must be kidding !!! the first thing I do after waking up every morning is to check my Gmail account !!!

dabots · Answer

not happening, i check gmail while driving during my stop and go commute

R.E.D. · Answer

Is it possible to tune up a new message sms alerting service with gmail?

dabots · Answer

i used to have my gmail set up to send a text message when i get new email. did it using sprint on my phone.

kidderek · Answer

yes

go to forwarding and set it up there. If you use sprint, your phone's sms is

xxxxxxxxxx   messaging.sprintpcs.com

to find your phone's email address, send an sms to your gmail account and just put that address into your forwarding option.

collegesenior · Answer

I was pretty much in the same situation. Have given myself a start worrying date of Nov 10. If I don't get an interview invite by then, gosh... :-D

ncp · Answer

Not surprised at all. You are the guy who reads gmat club rss feeds on his cell phone. Aren't you?

mNeo · Answer

Those of you who haven't done so, you may want to consider setting up gmail IMAP on thunderbird / outlook / iPhones. Much easier to let the mails come to you than to go to gmail to find "No message".

kryzak · Answer

hrm... is it strange that I'm pretty calm right now, not even looking at the Stanford and UCLA websites for statuses (except when Avi found out his app was on hold)? 

I think I may just submit Haas this week and not really care about whether I get an email or not, until December that is. I guess the schools I'm applying to either interview everyone (Kellogg) or won't send out invitations till mid-December/early January (Haas, Stanford). 

Not too worried at the moment, though that may change.

aviroop · Answer

Please specify what # school visit is this for Haas. I am placing a wager of 100 to 1 that 2nd yr students think u are a first year student at Haas. You have gone to Haas every week. I think at this point the ad-com should just wave a white flag and tell you "you are in. Please stop visiting us. We surrender. We have a spot here for you in the Entrepreneur class. The seat is covered in gold velvet, the floor has shag carpeting, and there are 2 bikini clad models feeding u grapes and fanning you."

Good luck being the calm sailor in the middle of the storm. I will use my peer pressure to bring some change in ur serene atmosphere.

kryzak · Answer

LOL! Oh Avi, you always make me laugh inappropriately at work! :lol:

Don't get me wrong, I worry A LOT for many things, but somehow I just don't think worrying can change anything after you submit, until you get the interview... like I said before, you and everyone on GMATClub will probably "peer pressure" me into panicking in a month or so. There is a reason why I scheduled a 3-week long vacation to another continent, so I cannot check email that easily! :wink:

That and the schools I'm applying to are VERY slow with interview invites, spread them out over a long period of time, or are very disorganized (you know which school I'm talking about).

bsd_lover · Answer

I am using a Yahoo account for all b-school related stuff.

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