After months of agonizing over logical-but-weird SC rules, racking your brains over tricky CRs and slowly and steadily improving your quant performance, you give your GMAT. You get your score and feel encouraged to apply. You finalize schools and start preparing your app. You struggle to create a recommenders list, spend days (or nights) rediscovering yourself while writing your essays and present your best in your interviews. Then the wait begins and - finally - you get the call you've been waiting for! High fives, congratulations and best wishes fly all around! You are on top of the world!
What now??? How do you deal with the next 2-or-so years?
I'm starting this non-school-specific post-admission advice thread for all admitees - regular MBA, EMBA or part-time. I'd like members to advice or point to articles/books/blogs on the following:
- How to prepare yourself emotionally
- How to prepare yourself academically
- How to organize ones life and schedule to make it easier once the program starts
- How to prepare your family, spouse, kids for the program
Basically focused on - what are things that one should or could do before the program starts?
Some recommendations I have so far:
- Take a vacation (and forget doing so for the next 2 years)
- Set a schedule for study and exercise around the class schedule and follow it before the program starts
- Take a speed reading course to improve reading speed
- Involve the family in all family events in the school (especially true for EMBAs)