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    Sunday, August 29, 2004

    The balance of things

    Lately, I find myself looking for a better balance of things. I definitely work hard at my studies, but I also found myself trying to let loose a bit too because I wasn’t feeling very human about the way I was approaching my goals.

    I’m the kind of person that expects 130% out of myself when I focus on things. I wouldn’t say that I’m one track minded, but that I find myself enjoying things less when I can’t give my all to it consistently. Spreading myself over 3-4 projects results in my inability to give 100% to any one project ALL THE TIME. My hope though is that 80-90% in several things is the amount of performance others might be showing when they give 100%. Sometimes though, you just run into some concurrant things in life that you either have to do or want to do because you enjoy them so much. So what am I getting at? Nothing really. Just thinking out loud about how I function and how I find myself wondering if I can get more results out of my time. I think that's why a stopped my daily routine of journaling. I may pick it up again, but there are other things I need to put a little more effort on right now.

    Last Monday I took a midterm and got my results back on Friday. I got above the mean, but wasn’t happy about my effort to outcome ratio. I know two people who had crammed for 3 days before the test did better than me. That made me so mad. But the dilemma there is… to whom or what was I mad about? Their lack of prep compared to mine? My studious prep and lack luster result compared to them? Them being more lucky than I or worse.. smarter than I? Do you know what I mean?

    As I was a bit down, I decided to watch a video rental, “Cold Mountain” last night. It was too serious for my mood. With continued effort and slight adjustments in my study strategies, I don’t see a problem with getting an A in this class though.

    Well, I did the most non-focused thing that I could do Friday night… I watched TV and enjoyed watching Stargate, Stargate Atlantis and the Olympics. That 4 person woman relay really sucked for the U.S. team. They really messed up. I saw Collateral on Monday night. That was pretty fun actually. My favorite TV shows are the West Wing, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis (jury still out yet on this one), Apprentice, American Idol and Trading Spaces. If only had 1-2 hrs in a week to watch TV, I'd choose West Wing and the Apprentice.

    My wife felt that she needed a vacation herself. So she left for Vancouver B.C. yesterday with her sister, mother and brother. I hope they have fun. They’ll be there a week. Then come back and go see the 3rd Theatre Works play in Palo Alto. For the last 20 years, I’ve gone to plays and musicals pretty regularly. For the last 10 years, I’ve had season tickets at local theaters to make sure I take time away to enjoy them. I enjoy plays so much. Theatre Works last play RED was awesome. If your ancestry is foreign, you’ll love this play. If it’s in your area by some other acting troop.. do check it out.

    Going to plays is a bit weird though because 70% of the audience is grey haired. I think I’ve seen between 130-150 plays and 30 musicals so far. The thing I’ve learned about plays is that they are each enjoyable in their own way, but sometimes you run into one that just knocks your socks off. I’ll list them for you. 1) The Last Session- A drama with some songs of a homosexual artist who decided to commit suicide after his last recording session. 2) All my sons-WWII story of a family dealing with the times and some foul play amongst best friends 3) Red-Story of a famous American Chinese book writer who goes to China and remembers who forgotten love and devotion of her father. 4) Steel Magnolias-I saw the play before it was a movie 5) Man of War-Funny and moving. Each of these plays would be considered dramas. Comedic plays have a funny way of entertaining you but being very forgetful.
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    Tuesday, August 24, 2004

    The definition of quantitative.

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on this topic lately. I’ve come up with some ideas on what a quantitative personality means to a top Business School and why they emphasis a pretty good score in this area.

    First of all, a Quant person is not necessarily a good math person. It is someone who can look at independent ideas and facts, look at a situation and be able to come up with a response in a step-by-step fashion. It also means looking at a situation and not respond in a typical fashion of, “what is the right answer?”, but rather, “I have a possible answer…. However, how could it be the wrong answer based on the facts given?”. In short, a quant person is not just a memorizer, although they might have a great memory and often do, but rather someone who reasons very well.

    So when a quant person looks at a math problem with 2,3 or 4 various combinations of theories.. they don’t get confused, but rather pull the question apart and can see where one theory leads into the other and can merge and manipulate the combinations to get the final answer.

    Let me summarize my points. A great Quant person is one who 1) Doesn’t jump to conclusions unnecessarily and make rash decisions 2) Can take various experiences and knowledge points to extrapolate a very good position and direction even though they haven’t had exposure to a particular situation. In other words, with few instructions, they will be able to perform and handle many possible situations well 3) Doesn’t answer with “can’t” until they’ve exhausted all possible knowledge, theories, and experiences before asking for help. Even then… a great Quant person will often realize exactly what pieces of information are missing and ask for them before a conclusion can be drawn.

    With regard to Business Schools, it has become clear to me that great Quant scores are indicative of the people with the capacity to be great business people. They are looking for people who can handle the diversity of business challenges and great Quant people have what it takes. Of course, this isn’t the only characteristic they are looking for, but I think this is a good foundational quality to look for. It makes sense that you don’t want a math head only, but someone who can take their Quant ability and be a good to great communicator. It also makes sense that great Business School candidates are also decisive. I know a lot of great quantitative people who suffer from, “paralysis of analysis” where they don’t know when to say they have enough facts. They need to know when the rest is gut, intuition, experience and economic circumstances to take a calculated risk. Or as some would say, they ought to be able to “bet the farm” on a calculated initiative occasionally and have the courage to follow through.

    With regard to the GMAT, a topic much on my mind these days, a good quant person understands the content (the formulas, geometry rules, work problems and etc…), but don’t just rely on their memory to be able to handle a problem even though they haven’t seen a particular combination of theories in one problem. They are able to proficiently take apart the problem into its’ constituent theories and manipulate them in any combination they run into. The idea of doing a lot of problems to see the various possibilities one might see on the test is therefore NOT the way to do well on the GMAT. However, doing a lot of problems should be a way to test ones ability to manipulate possibilities of questions. Do you see the difference? Therefore, each area of the GMAT are all dependent on ones ability to understand the rules first.. then be able to perform step by step reasoning of independent ideas to come up with a well reasoned answer.

    The practical side to all of this is getting used to doing the problems as a great Quant person would.

    My wife who graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree tells me that she feels like she didn’t learn anything in school. She would always tell me that she didn’t need to memorize every single formula because many of them were derivations of combinations of a core set of formula theories. She understands that her education taught her to be an incredible quantitative math person. She mentions that some other schools are well known for education emphasizing formula learning however and that those students generally didn’t do well in situations where they didn’t see the exact permutation of a problem before.

    Glad I got that off my chest. If you want to do well on the GMAT, you MUST be able to do what a good quant person does. Having 20 different resources of GMAT problems just to see more problems is a vain approach to preparing for the GMAT and is frankly a big waste of time. One ought to have enough problems to go through with 4-5 resources like the Official Guide. If one requires more than that, then you’re relying too much on memory and you may need to get with a tutor or get personalized help to learn to handle the GMAT as a great quant person would.

    Before you conclude in disagreement with me on these ideas, I suggest you take a hard serious look at the way you approach your GMAT studies and see why you are getting wrong answers. The bottom line is that, if you get a question wrong, there are only four reasons why. You don’t know enough content (rules, theories well enough), you were careless, you were tired and unfocused, or your process to handle weird permutations is not solid enough (this last one is the case for me right now). One final comment. I've noticed that if I get a questions wrong... it's not necessarily because I was "careless", but rather because my "process" in doing a problem is not solid enough. Thereofore, we ought not to look at a problem that we got wrong and just see that the fault was due to an overlooked fact, but perhaps our process of step-by-step problem solving was not solid enough or focused enough.

    Well, back to my studies.

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    Monday, August 23, 2004

    Finished my Test and now back to GMAT

    The last 4 days have been pretty killer. I thought my last class was moderatly hard. This one is 3-4 times more work. Well see how I did. x <-- crossing fingers.

    Last week, I found out that the school offered tutoring for $60 for the whole session. I didn't think I would get much out of it, but thought it might be a good opportunity to meet some new people and find some study partners. We had a review on Friday and it went so badly that I thought I was going to cry. I had A LOT of areas that I wanted to go over because the teacher in my opinion had done such a horrible job on them and the book didn't cover them. I went to the prof's office hours a couple of times and never found him there. Realizing how aloof he was, I knew that I had to take matters into my own hands.

    I literally grabbed his butt after class on Friday and went over material with him for 2 hours. I leaned into him really hard about him not being there for office hours. Thankfully, he felt bad enough that he gave me his time. I know it was risky to do that, but.... I thought he deserved it. I guess others saw what I was doing and followed us to an onsite Cafeteria to go over questions. There were 30 of us! That's what he gets for not being available. The guy never returns any of my e-mails either. Both my e-mails were to let him know that he had wrong info on the class web site.

    As I can't write much on my GMAT or MBA progress.. I'll share what else surprised me about my study prep. Friday, I studied pretty hard. But felt a bit helpless on taking in all the info. So Friday night, I sent out a late e-mail to the entire tutor group of 20 people and invited them to a review session on Sunday from noon to 5pm. Just to make it seem more interesting, I wrote that I would provide free food and drinks. I created an agenda, made some notes on how the review might be handled and prepared review material. I recieved 2-3 e-mails from people saying they would attend and said that they would bring desserts or other food items. I thought I might get a response from about that many so I was pleased.

    I spent Saturday digging in and moved my understanding of the material to about 80% readiness. Sunday came. When I went to the designated review location, I was surprised to find 6 people waiting for me. Within 10 minutes 4 more people showed up. Soon 6 more showed up. Apparently, they invited people from outside the tutor group to join.

    I wasn't sure how people would receive my review invite because nobody knew me. I found out later that many of the students had noticed how I ask many questions during class and seem to follow the lecture with the prof well. They thought, I might be one of those "smart people". Uh, I guess that's why so many came. Despite that, I was glad to be studying with people I could discuss the material with.

    So I sat there staring at these 16 faces wondering how we might have a productive review session with so many people. I had thought we might start from the beginning and go over each area and have various people explain on a whiteboard the bullet points and nuances of the material and then go over some sample tests the prof had provided. I decided to start it off so as to model what I was thinking it might look like to go through the material. Long story short, I stood in front of the white board for 9 hrs going over 4 weeks worth of lecture material. The group kept asking me to continue.

    For about 20% of the material, I asked other students to take over who knew the material better because I needed the help in learning some material. Some students volunteered and did their best to explain the material. It was helpful and it moved my prep readiness to 90%. Alone, I know I couldn't have got my prep that high.

    1/2 way through, another 1/2 dozen people strolled in and sat in with us. During some of our breaks, some of the students invited others they knew in the class and told them that they had better get their butts into the review because according to the group... it was going incredibly well. I guess they liked the way I was presenting the material and identifying bullet points of information and asking everyone to answer made-up on the spot questions I thought we sould know the answer to. For example, how does this idea in lecture 1 relate to lecture 6 material. It was fun, but oh so draining.

    A huge plus was that several of the students had laptops and when a nuance of a topic that I thought we should know wasn't clear, several students would search the internet for the info while a few others would look through the class textbook and various other books. 3-4 of the students had also brought some old tests from the class that I didn't know about from various connections. I lead us through the test material and was really getting excited by all the resources that were brought together to help one another increase our prep for the test.

    During the day, some of the students pulled me aside and asked me why I was holding the review. They couldn't believe somebody would take such an intiative to help others and affect the grading curve by helping people. I told them that the challenge should not really be the other students, but the material. Later, they all pitched in and bought me dinner, candy and drinks as we progressed.

    I knew that sharing the depth of my study prep to a group of people potentially putting me in a position of being taken advantage of. However, I was totally rewarded with resources I didn't even know existed. Having 1/2 a dozen people research the answers of topics we needed to understand better was like having my own office full of research clerks. It felt so good to be able to tell 3 or 4 people to look up a topic on the internet, bookA, bookB and the notes. We had answers to our questions really quick.

    It was a good feeling to walk into the test and see 20 or so faces just so happy to see me. I had made some new friends. After the test, many of the students thanked me profusely because so much of the material and specific questions I had asked us to understand had been on the test. Many of the students have already asked me when my Final Review session would be.

    On a side note, one the students who joined us was a student taking a summer class with us who actually attend Harvard undergraduate. She was incredibly bright and I could clearly see that she was a notch above the most of the group. It made me excited to think I could go to school with her level of sharpness and smarts.

    So now, I'm going to be hitting the GMAT test prep again. I had rewarded myself today with a good lunch with some of the students from my review session and a movie. Now for a good night rest.

    Another note about Dirty_martini and wakechick. All I can say is WOW! They got it together. What I noticed about both of them is that they are mature beyond their years and love to be challenged. I can easily see them both leading a company.

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    Sunday, August 22, 2004

    FMR updates

    Sorry that I haven't been around to journal very much. I'm studying for my midterm and it's kicking my butt big time. It's 4am and I'm still needing to hit the books like crazy for Monday. Had dinner with wakechick and dirty_martini tonight. What a blast!

    latest updates on FMR
    Aug 19, 2004
    · Added new web page to include a dedicated page to Wireless Hotspot Finders
    · Added GMATBuster—GMAT Test Prep Company. Free online GMAT Quant and Verbal Test
    · Added Kellogg Student Organizations—A complete list with access to the web sites of all Kellogg Student Organizations.
    · Added Kellogg Student Organization Executive Summary—1 paragraph descriptions of what each Wharton Student Organization does
    · Added 101 Basic Radical and Exponent Problems Review—PDF file to go over these basics for the the Quant section of the GMAT
    Aug 16, 2004
    · Added article More Jobs and Better Pay Greet 2004 Grads—Article about how HAAS MBA grads are doing on the job market—July 2004
    · Added ARCO—Maker of the GMAT Prep Book. Free online test and study tips.
    · Added Axxent—Online timed GMAT Quant test-Study prep company.
    Aug 13, 2004
    · Added MBA Portal—The Japanese equivalent of the MBA League of Bloggers (MBA Resource)
    · Added R&B Consulting GMAT Prep Software—Adaptive GMAT CAT Exams—As far as I know, this is only 1 of 4 companies that have adaptive GMAT CAT’s (GMAT Resource)
    · Added article America’s Scramble for Global Applicants –July 7, 2004 A slew of factors is causing a notable drop in overseas students at U.S. schools, prompting

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    Thursday, August 19, 2004

    A note from Notre Dame that I received

    Typically we have three deadlines every year.

    November 15, 2004- Early decision deadline. If application is "complete" you would have a decision by December 15, 2004.
    January 15, 2005- Preferred deadline
    March 15, 2005- Final deadline



    Our new Bulletins of Information will be out at the end of September. Please contact me if you'd like one sent in the mail.


    Michele Tharp
    Senior Staff Assistant
    MBA Program
    276 Mendoza College of Business
    Notre Dame, IN 46556
    Phone: 574-631-8488 or 800-631-8488
    Fax: 574-631-8800
    Web: www.nd.edu/~mba
    Email: mba.1@nd.edu

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    Wharton Local events web site status

    I just went to Wharton's event page. The events start the second week of September. The first one I saw was in Utah on Sept 16th. So I went to the registration page and received a message saying that the system is unavailable and would be available in two weeks. How's that? That's weird. I'll chase this down though other venues to see what is going on.

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    Specific School "Admission Events"

    Warning! Warning!

    I'm gasping because I was following up on an e-mail from MIT and saw that they had local events going on all over the Globe. I registered for one in a month. Here's the thing though, I decided to glance at Harvards schedule and found that all their events are starting in September all over the Globe. Checked another school and then another. Dang! All the schools are hitting their "admission events" from September to November. (And some are next week)

    When I went to Harvards web site, there was a note stating that if the hyperlink was NON-EXISTANT, that the event was already full. Well, there was only one hyperlink and the rest of the events in other cities were not hyperlinked. I sat there thinking, "oh, oh, are they all full?"

    Then I saw a prospective student link and filled that out for Harvard. After filling it out, the comment said that all events would be announced 2-3 weeks in advance via e-mail and that I would be notified because I had registered. Registration will be first come,first serve at that point.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I plan on registering at each prospective school that I'll be applying to so that I can be notified of the "admission events" for each school that I'm interested in. It's August 19th and a slew of California admission events are EARLY NEXT MONTH! I'm not sure whether I'll be able to attend all of them. I'm debating the wisdom of doing that vs going to the World MBA Tour's where these schools will already be represented. However, I think it would be good to go a school specific one to hear the spotlight info on just that one school and to be able to focus more time on my desired schools.

    I did NOT realize this movement was happening. Did you? Anyway, I'm glad I caught it. I figure that if I can complete school profile registrations this week, then I'll receive notifications of the events in my area. Other schools that allow you to register now like MIT require each of us to take some action quickly to attend the school specific admission events. As there were nearly 5,000 people who applied Kellogg last year for example, I doubt there will be much room to take our time on making decisions about registering and attending these events. Space in these events is sure to be limited.

    Links for the top 30 MBA schools are on the sidebar of this Blog to the right.

    Dave

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    Wednesday, August 18, 2004

    World MBA Tour & Michigan Deadlines

    I was investigating why I wasn't finding information about Michigan's app and deadlines. Turns out they do have their application and deadlines up. link
    Michigan R1 11/1/04 R2 1/7/05 R3 3/1/05

    I was forwarded from a Michigan admissions e-mail to an MBA Tour event coming up. I may go to this event. This event for San Francisco is on Nov 9, Tuesday. Depends on my work situation whether I might go to this one or not.

    The other thing in the same e-mail was for the World MBA Tours. And they are coming up quick. I signed up for the Los Angeles one Coming up on Sept 12. Here's the info of what a World MBA Tour is

    The World MBA Tour is a unique opportunity for you to meet the admissions officers and alumni of the world's top business schools, and discuss your next education and career steps.
    The 11th edition - the World MBA Tour 2004 - is present in over 50 cities in nearly 40 countries, consolidating our market leadership in mature markets and bringing graduate management education to exciting new locations such as Stockholm on the Spring Tour, and Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Guangzhou, Kuala Lumpur and Cairo in the Fall. The Tour enjoys partnerships with leading national media in every location, providing an outstanding opportunity for candidates to research schools and make informed education and career choices, whilst offering the business schools a highly targeted audience of the world's best young professionals. Visitors can also participate in a series of seminars and workshops covering issues such as choosing between specialist post-graduate courses and an MBA, picking the right school, financing an MBA, taking the GMAT test, and preparing a winning application. Information on exclusive scholarships available to finance your MBA program can also be obtained at the fairs.

    Over 350 top MBA programs from around the world took part in the 2003 Tour, helping more than 45,000 visitors to :


    Personalize their b-school research and study goals for both full time MBA and Exec MBA study.
    Find out about the MBA admissions process from both admissions officers and successful alumni.
    Discuss the financing of their studies.
    Apply for exclusive World MBA Tour scholarships including Symonds and Quacquarelli Scholarships.
    Attend B-School Admissions & GMAT Strategy Seminars from renowned experts.
    Enjoy a MasterClass in Management™* (sample MBA class from top b-school professors).
    Visit the Exec MBA Village*.
    Obtain a free copy* of the latest TopMBA Career Guide (*first 100 visitors at each Fair)


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    Tuesday, August 17, 2004

    UCLA Deadlines now Public!-No app online app yet though

    Dear Prospective Applicant:

    Thank you for your interest in The Anderson School at UCLA. If you would like information regarding our Full Time MBA Program, please refer to our website at www.mba.anderson.ucla.edu. The 2005 catalog and application will be available on the website within the next 2-3 weeks.

    If you will be in Los Angeles and would like to join us in a Group Information Session, please contact our office at 310.825.6944 to reserve a seat. We encourage you to become familiar with the website and come prepared with questions because Admissions Counselors are not available on a one-to-one basis. Please feel free to contact us should you have additional questions.

    We have a rolling admissions schedule with four application rounds.

    The 1st round deadline is November 3rd,
    the 2nd round deadline is January 5th,
    the 3rd round deadline is February 2nd,
    and the 4th round deadline is April 18th.

    The 2005 application is only available online, and will be up on the website within the next 2-3 weeks.Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions. Your patience is greatly appreciated.

    Best regards,

    MBA Admissions The Anderson School at UCLA

    mh

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    Monday, August 16, 2004

    Getting my study game face back

    Over the last 3-4 days, I’ve been struggling with trying to get my game on again with regards to focusing on my studies. The rooms at school I've been studying at for the last month are just plain hot and humid now so it’s been very hard to focus. So, I’ve been trying various other areas to get productive. Today, for the first time in 3 weeks, I felt somewhat proud of myself in terms of my productivity. To focus better, I’ve had to resort to a little timer set at 1 hr intervals to help me stay focused. “Don’t do anything but study for that one hour,” I would tell myself.

    Self-discipline and minimizing distraction is a life long battle. I think the effort of studying for the GMAT and doing my last class put me at a bit of burnout that has taken me quite a bit of work, rest and re-focus to get past. There is nothing like setting a few goals in a day and laying your head down on the people knowing that you completed each task. For the last 3 weeks, I haven’t been doing this. It’s been hard, but I’ve started to do this again. One goal that I set for myself recently was to figure out how to get good coaching in the important projects I have going on in my life. Like my class, GMAT prep, MBA App process and physical exercise. It seems to me that if the Olympic athletes use coaches to strive for the best out of themselves, why shouldn’t I use that same philosophy whenever possible in my own life? So I’ve done that. I sort of did this throughout my life, but due to the seriousness of the outcome of the things I’m working on, I decided to take a stance and have this be the case for all the big project tasks. Without going into details, I’ve found “coaches” that I’ve started working with in each of these areas. With some, I’ve already started working with them. With others, I’m working out arrangements to get these going. This has definitely helped my motivation a lot these last few days.

    I haven’t Blogged in awhile because I was trying to minimize the distractions in my life so that I could get my study game face back on. I think I’m just about there. But, because of the amount of thinking and struggles I’ve been going through, I decided to come back and write about it so as to solidify my thoughts better. I envy the person who can push through and keep going consistently. I recall a statement of wisdom I heard a few days ago, “We need to behave like how we want to feel and the feelings will then follow. Many have this mixed up and think that we wait till we feel like doing something before we actually do it.”

    One example of a good coaching result is with my GMAT studies. My coach has helped me to see that my Quant studies are relying too heavily on my ability to memorize content. He’s helped me to get the beginnings of some structure to help me to approach the questions with a “structured process” that helps me to see concepts of the content. I’m practicing that now. I’m going through a major paradigm shift in my study approach and it’s not easy making the adjustment. However, I already see some improvement.

    There is only one problem that I cannot overcome. The problem is the need for sleep. I lost count of how many times I daydreamed about how I wished I didn’t have to sleep to get more done in a day. I know, I know… sleep is very important to our rhythm of life. I just wish I could turn off the need for sleep switch in my body for about a month every so often.

    I’ll continue my summary of the meeting with my UCLA friend. For the essays, we talked about some things I have done in my life and how they might show my qualifications as a great MBA candidate. Since we have been friends for a long time, I didn’t need to describe them very much. I just had to describe my take on them and then hear his critique. Long story short, he summarized where some areas of my life were average in comparison to other MBA candidates, but helped me to see some areas that stuck out as out of the ordinary positive additions to my essays. He premised all this by reminding me of the following guidelines.
    1) Every school wants to see what my added benefit to them will be. In other words, if they accept me, they want to be able to say that what I’m doing or have done are the kinds of things that make both myself and the school look good.
    2) Are the things I describe differentiators? What things have I experienced or done in my life that show my courage, risk-taking, initiative and leadership that is clearly not average. But the number one thing he pointed out was for me to find those examples in my life that showed I would be a person who would continue to making long lasting contributions to society.

    The last point really caught my interest and gave me more confidence towards my application because we found quite a few examples. He told me how this thing or that thing I had done in my life were interesting and positive contributors to society. This was a huge help.

    I think it would be a good idea to contact 3 or 4 other close friends that I’ve known for a long time to give me feedback about interesting and positive societal contributions that impress them. Then I think I’ll have a good foundation to use for my essays when I begin to write them.

    Lastly, more FMR resources added
    Aug 16, 2004
    · Added article More Jobs and Better Pay Greet 2004 Grads—Article about how HAAS MBA grads are doing on the job market—July 2004
    · Added ARCO—Maker of the GMAT Prep Book. Free online test and study tips.
    · Added Axxent—Online timed GMAT Quant test-Study prep company.
    · Added GMATBuster—GMAT Test Prep Company. Free online GMAT Quant and Verbal Test

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    Saturday, August 14, 2004

    Ramblings and Wirless Hotspot Directories

    When I went back home last week to see my, wife, I think we overdid the food thing in Napa Valley. I gained 5 lbs. Ouch. If my wife is reading this.. Hey it’s all your fault. Lately, I’ve been searching for various quiet coffee shops to sit at and quietly read. But more importantly, I’ve been looking for the ones that provide free wireless Internet. One coffee shop I go to is called “It’s a Grind Coffee House”. Before coming to Orange County, I had done a search free wireless internet sites and had only found 2 in the city I’m at. So I was surprised when my sister-in-law told me about this one. They had been open only 6 months and over time, I got to know the owners. I really like their business model. Free internet to attract customers who’ll stay awhile and buy more. This also attracts customers who make a choice between a café with free internet or not. Free Coffee refills. I think this is great. However with the free internet.. I don’t think that the free refills and free internet go well together.

    Anyway, so I got to talking to the owner about how I didn’t see them on the internet when I first came into town. So then he asks me if I could help his coffee shop get registered at the internet site as he said that he wasn't completely comfortable with computers and had contracted out all his wireless installation because he didn't know how to set it up. I decided to help him get his business some more marketing. Over the last 3 days, I went out and probed the internet to find how one would advertise yourself as a wireless hotspot. I found all the info and registered him at each and every directory. It felt good to be part of a business building exercise. That was way more enjoyable than some of the studying I’ve been doing lately. So here is the info of all the fee based and free Wireless hotspot directories. ns within one, two, five or 10 miles, and you'll get back a list of establishments with their addresses, phone numbers, URLs and names of service providers. Includes free sites.

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    More Jobs and Better Pay Greet Berkeley 2004 Grads

    The Berkeley MBA E-News
    July 2004 issue>More Jobs and Better Pay Greet 2004 GradsWith salaries and signing bonuses on the rise, the employment outlook is upbeat, according to preliminary data from a recent Haas School survey of 2004 Full-time MBA graduates. Seventy-five percent of the class of 2004 graduated with jobs, according to Abby Scott, director of the Haas Career Center. She also notes that the median base salary for a Berkeley MBA 2004 graduate is now more than $90,000, an increase from the $85,000 median of the past two years, and that more students are receiving signing bonuses. Contributing to this upswing are an improved hiring environment and the hard work of Haas Account Managers, who each represent key industries and serve as the primary contacts for recruiters, says Scott. Another important factor has been increased participation by UC alumni as recruiters. "The number of internships posted this year is up 44%, and full-time job postings are up 39%," Scott adds. With 96% of the new graduates having reported their job status, another trend gleaned from the survey is the continued predominance of technology, financial services and consulting as the top fields of employment. The number of students entering the biotechnology, health care and pharmaceutical industries is steadily rising. The top 10 employers of Berkeley MBA students and graduates this year are McKinsey & Company, Gap, Wells Fargo Bank, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Boston Consulting Group, Blue Shield of California, SAP Labs, Deloitte, and Cisco Systems. While many graduates remain in the Bay Area, 16% will be working overseas, and 10% have accepted positions in the Northeastern US. We in the Career Center are working to further these positive trends by strengthening existing employer relationships and establishing new ones," Scott says. "In addition, we are continuing to work with recent graduates to help them land jobs in industry. Ameriquest, Toyota, Intel and Walt Disney Studios are just a few of the companies that have recently posted positions with the Career Center, and we expect new postings to continue throughout the summer months.”

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    Friday, August 13, 2004

    Texas McCombs Announces Deadlines

    Fall 2005 Suggested Submission Dates It is to each applicant’s benefit to apply earlier rather than later, but we encourage applicants to submit the strongest application of which they are capable. A stronger application received later in the season is preferred over a weaker or incomplete one submitted early. We continue offering admission until we believe the incoming fall class to be full.

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    MBA process update

    I have much to share and write. I’ll probably need to spread this over several journal entries. Anyway, about my MBA app process….. I have 3 people I’ve found to write my letter of recommendation. I’m looking for 4 since I may need to spread out my requests because of the number of schools I’ll be applying to. I haven’t reviewed the letter of recommendation format, but I hope the writers can copy and paste between letters. I’m assuming that many of the questions will be somewhat similar with a few exceptions. I feel anxious about asking someone to write 8 letters of recommendation for 8 different schools. I met with my friend H who graduated from UCLA's b-school. Because of his grades, GMAT score and education background, I know he could have applied to higher end schools and been accepted. However, he was held up by the company he was working at. They were dangling the finalization of his green card like a carrot and so he couldn’t leave the company and went to the best school in the area. Having applied to only Berkeley and UCLA, he was accepted to both. I need to clarify that my friend is one of blunt observation and is not one to sugar coat things and always has the habit of telling it like it is. As he is a very analytical guy, for the last 10 years that I've known him, I've found most of his observation in life to have a lot of truth to them.

    So we met for 3 hrs last night and talked till we both thought we were going to fall asleep just walking to the car. I got home at 1am. He went over the schools that he thought I should apply to. The list he created matched what I had already researched thankfully. Moreover, it matched a ranking that Business Week had. He told me that although he hadn’t seen the rankings in 3 years, he knew the rankings because of the stigma that he was facing everyday about what school people had graduated from and the kind of subtle judgments that he noticed in the work force. He asked me, “how do you think I know the rankings?” He answered his question by saying that it was because the stigma of what you graduated from were all around him. For him, certain schools had certain kinds of impact on the kind of respect one would initially receive after meeting someone. In consulting, depending on the project, teams of people are put together in various combinations that's based on skill set. Upon meeting each other for the first time, most people would ask one another what school they had graduated from. He could see it in their face what certain schools meant to them. Although, he says that he isn’t prejudiced against, he can see each persons reaction when they hear the name of certain schools. He stated that this was pretty normal to expect. When meeting someone, you tend to ask a few questions of a person to get an idea of who they are and so asking somebody what MBA school they graduated from was like asking where they lived. This was the case whether one is talking about the reaction of a client or a fellow colleague. H makes a note never to ask anyone about which MBA school they went to because he considers this practice abhorable.

    The one school that was removed was Darden. Here were the reasons he picked certain schools for me to highly consider
    1)Class size – smaller class size=higher competition

    2)Alignment with my specialization in IT and general management. So for example, school heavily biased toward finance background students were removed.

    3) Rank of the school based on his experience. What he felt were “real life circumstances and respected reputation in the marketplace” matched almost exactly the rankings in Business Week.
    4)School reputation. As we are on the west coast, schools that are in the rural areas somewhere in the Midwest that were not recognized as reputable/well respected schools were removed. The schools he listed for me were in the following order 1) Harvard 2) Wharton 3) Kellogg 4) Berkeley 5) Michigan 6) Dartmouth 7) UCLA


    Overall, he stated that if one doesn't get into a top 20 school, that going to B-school was more or less just wasting ones money. He said that although it's not really talked about, the reality is that there is a clear distinction in stigma between a tier 1 and tier 2 school in the work place. He suggested that due to my IT background, I should also consider Carnegie Mellon, UCI, USC, Austin and Duke.

    I know that it may sound like H was making too big an issue out of the reputation, respect issue however he bluntly told me that as much as having an idealistic outlook on the school factors of good teaching etc... that I should just get over it. And that I needed to understand that the respect thing is just a fact of life and that I should just take it into high consideration, do the best I can do with what school I get into and not dwell on it more than necessary.

    I told H that I would be applying to 8 schools potentially. H then asked why not 10-12?
    He went on to say that many applied to that many schools. He said that many MBA grads won’t admit openly to how many schools they applied to unless specifically asked. He also said that people who are real serious about going to B-school apply to that many schools and he knows quite a few who did. I dropped my jaw at this point and told him that I needed to consider it think about it more. We discussed the issue of part-time and full time MBA. We concluded that it would not be a good idea for me to do part-time. Here were the reasons.

    1)Difficulty in assimilating the information while working

    2)Difficulty in creating a network and getting active with the school (Big issue for post-MBA job exposure)

    3)Inability to do internships. THIS WAS BIG ISSUE FOR HIM and suggested that I not take this issue lightly. When going part-time, you can’t do internships period.

    4)Being married and wanting to have kids, balancing work and school would be unrealistic in light of my priority trying to watch my kids grow up from infancy. I want to have kids soon. It would be a tremendous sacrifice and one that has lead to many divorces. I wonder if there are any published stats on this. In my next posting, I’ll talk about what was discussed regarding essays, life as a consultant (He works at a very prominent consulting firm) and GMAT.

    More FMR updates
    Aug 13, 2004
    Added MBA Portal—The Japanese equivalent of the MBA League of Bloggers (MBA Resource)
    Added R&B Consulting GMAT Prep Software—Adaptive GMAT CAT Exams—As far as I know, this is only 1 of 3 companies that have adaptive GMAT CAT’s (GMAT Resource)
    America’s Scramble for Global Applicants –July 7, 2004 A slew of factors is causing a notable drop in overseas students at U.S. schools, prompting them to crank up their recruitment (MBA Article)

    AdmittedEssays.com<—Purchase successful MBA application essays

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    Thursday, August 12, 2004

    Kellogg Deadlines

    As posted by Graham of Clearadmit.com

    Kellogg releases deadlines...
    Kellogg's deadlines for the coming admissions season are as follows:

    Round 1: Oct. 22, 2004

    Round 2: Jan. 7, 2005

    Round 3: March 11, 2005

    What's most interesting about this year's deadlines is the fact that Kellogg has broken with their tradition of an early to mid-November R1 deadline. In prior years, the 'Chicago schools' (Kellogg and U. Chicago) have carved out their own niche in early November, providing some distance between themselves and the earlier R1 dates of Harvard, Wharton and Stanford. This year, Kellogg has opted to place their deadline right in the middle of the pack (between Wharton/HBS in mid-October and Stanford/MIT in late October). This will require more planning on the part of applicants who are scrambling to apply to several top schools in R1.

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    Wednesday, August 11, 2004

    Another day and info about B-School Chats

    Wow! the last few days were very challenging. Been writing quite a few reports. To detail all costs for Business School apps and GMAT, my wife asked me to lay out all the costs. We're starting to see the huge costs. And are now faced with major decisions on cost spending at this point and we wanted to make sure we have it all layed out. If you haven't done this... I highly recommend that you do so. It's helped us to budget and plan where we would get the money. I had money early on, but a tenant situation I had in my house that I'm renting out cost me all the money I had banked for the app process and so we're left with nit pickings on where to get everything paid for that we feel is completely necessary.

    For example, as much as I would love to visit Wharton, Harvard and other schools... I don't see that as realistic at this point. I will however try to visit UCLA and USC while I'm in Southern Cal and when I get back up to Northern Cal, I'll visit Berkely and just for grins... Stanford although I don't plan on applying there. I go to Stanford all the time to show people around and walk around the campus, so I know it pretty well, but never got the inside scoop on the MBA program.

    Another report that I wrote is my GMAT study details. This outlines all the things I did to prepare for the GMAT I took on Aug 24th. A friend that I'm meeting up with tommorrow night for dinner wants to discuss with me the MBA application process and GMAT progress. He graduated from the UCLA MBA program a couple of years ago. I look forward to our meeting. The report will also be helpful as I'll be getting some help from a GMAT instructor in New York to go over with me my strategy thus far. He already went over the report and his response was brutally honest. I like that so much in a person. He wasn't rude or mean, but honest. Basically, I need to simplify my approach and clear up the do this and this... and this... kind of thing according to him. He commented how different the Kaplan and Princeton GMAT strategies are and that trying to study both and applying both was counter-productive. As I never went through the Kaplan study guide portion and just the Princeton one... I was sort of suprised to hear this. I look forward to his help and guidance. Would you believe he's not charging me for any of this?

    So, I'm to take a couple of sample tests so that he can get a better idea of where to recommend strategies to help me along. I wanted to do GMAX Online or Manhattan GMAT and still might, but I need to hear what he has to say first. In fact, he told me to hold off on all my studying for now until we an get an assessment of my GMAT strengths and weaknesses.

    Another report to write is for my meeting with my UCLA friend tommorrow night. He's asked for B-school reviews, numbers, stats and so forth. He is THE most detailed and researcher of information friend that I know. For example, I recall when he was looking to get a house, he had 3-4 sheets of spreadsheets on dozens and dozens of houses that detailed and compared everything. HXXXX, if your reading this... sorry man... I was impressed yet overwhelmed by your thorough research is all. You know what though.. ...I have to admit that I've done that quite a lot too though. But, he is far more detailed. My wife told me that a girl at her work was mentioning how she wanted to apply to Business School and wanted to take the GMAT. She referred her to our mutual friend. The result was a 3 page overview on how to prepare for the GMAT. He does this kind of thorough response all the time.

    That's it for now... I have to go running now. Haven't done much exercise lately.

    By the way, if you haven't run across it yet.. Business Week has online Chats coming up over the next two months that you may want to seriously consider checking out.

    Web Chat Calendar

    Thursday, Sept. 9: Rosemaria Martinelli, Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, will be on hand to answer your questions
    More info

    Monday, Sept. 13: Derrick Bolton, Director of MBA Admissions for Stanford's Graduate School of Business, will be our guest
    More info

    Thursday, Sept. 23: Brit Dewey, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid at Harvard Business School, will be online to take questions
    More info

    Monday, Sept. 27: Stacey Kole, deputy dean for the full-time MBA program at Chicago Graduate School of Business, will be online to take questions
    More info

    Wednesday, Oct. 13: Beth Flye, Director of MBA Admissions at Northwestern's Kellogg School, will be here to take your questions
    More info

    Wednesday, Oct. 20: Johanna Hellborg, associate director of MBA admissions at INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France, will be online to take questions
    More info

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    Tuesday, August 10, 2004

    Cost of School and Updates to FMR

    Yesterday, I had a bit of a soap opera in getting a book for my next class. The prof stated that he had photocopied a few chapters of the book for us at a substantial savings. I had purchased the photocopy set weeks before at a cost of $27. Upon going to class, I find that he didn't copy the other 3 chapters (100 pages) of the book and thus recommended we get the book as a result. He stated that having all the chapters photocopied would have resulted in the photocopy costing as much as the actual book.

    Apparently, copies of the book would be available through the library. My wife and I decided that I should probably just get the $150 book. So I went to the school bookstore late yesterday and they were completely sold out and had no date on when they would get additional copies.

    The bookstore staff informed me that after class, there was a massive crowd who came in and bought the whole inventory in less than 20 minutes. The prof wanted us to use the 2nd edition instead of the latest release of the 3rd edition. The 2nd edition was no longer being made by the publisher. There were probably 40-50 copies of the book on the shelves as I recall when I first saw the book shelves. With 250 students in the class, there will be some very unhappy students.

    Well, long story short, my wife suggested Amazon.com. I found the book there used for $22 and new for $45. I purchased the 2nd edition copy used for $22 and paid $6 to have it shipped to me in a few days. Why do schools choose to rip us off like that? I feel sorry for those students who paid full price for the book. My wife and I couldn't believe the price difference. Why do schools not give a price break?

    u would think that with the volume they purchase with.. .that they would pass the savings onto the students. That was actually what I thought years ago when I first went to college. Amazon.com didn't exist back then so I was buying books from some bookstores that I knew about sold college textbooks at a 40% savings. Naive/uninformed college freshman continually get hit so hard with the high price of books. I'm telling you it's a scam!

    Some more updates on FMR (Future MBA Resources)

    Aug 12, 2004
    · Added Regents Math Material—Another good guide on Quant. (GMAT Resources)
    · Added Webster’s Grammar Guide—Pretty thorough Grammar manual for GMAT Verbal (GMAT Resources)
    · Added Probability Review for GMAT—A bit more detailed than the GMAT Club one. (GMAT Resources)
    · Added the following Yahoo GMAT Groups
    2k2_ims_gmat —Yahoo GMAT Group
    A_word_everyday —Yahoo GMAT Group
    DreamMBA —Yahoo GMAT Group
    fall2004-mumbai—Yahoo GMAT Group
    future_mba —Yahoo GMAT Group
    gmator_bay—Yahoo GMAT Group
    maxgmat—Yahoo GMAT Group
    GMAT800 —Yahoo GMAT Group
    gmat_smart_test_takers—Yahoo GMAT Group
    gmat_study_group—Yahoo GMAT Group
    gmat_study —Yahoo GMAT Group
    GMATavenues —Yahoo GMAT Group
    gmatexam —Yahoo GMAT Group
    gmattutor—Yahoo GMAT Group

    Aug 11, 2004
    · Added Kaplan GMAT book Corrections Link GRE/GMAT Math Workbook, 3rd Ed.
    · Added Kaplan GMAT book Corrections Link GMAT Verbal Workbook


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    Monday, August 09, 2004

    Back and ready to go

    I'm back from my wine country vacation. I did visit a bunch of wineries and found some good ones. Wine is such an individual tast thing. When a wine kicks me in the butt because it's strong... my wife loves those kinds of wine. When it's smooth and has a lingering subtle kick with distinct flavors, then it's a winner to me.

    Some good wineries we found were Markham wineries and Chateau St Jean in St Helena. (The red Zinfandel at Markahm is awesome. The Cabernets at both were awesome as well) They had very good red wines that my wife and I both liked which was unusual.

    How weird........ I'm talking about wines and Brit-Chick, Aregon, Swoop and others are talking about the essay draft they just finished or are refinning. It's makes me anxious to read their journals, but I know I'm on the right schedule for my situation. I tell myself that I need to manage priorities and keep myself from taking on more than I can handle at a time. This is a key to doing well on the application process as well.

    So onto the reason why I haven't started my essays. I just started my second class today. Oh man it's fast. The material is extensive. The Prof only teaches the class once a year and made it a point to say how excited he gets when he is able to teach the class. He wants us to really learn. The Prof in my last class was more concerned with informing us. This one wants to kick our butt's. Ah Yah! I had a feeling this might happen. So I brought along an electronic voice recorder and started the lecture recording as soon as he began to talk. Thank goodness I brought it because he said that he didn't request the class to be recorded.

    By the way, I got my final grade from the first class. I got an A-. I was one point away from an A. I was all over the house with excitment when I got my grade. The Prof wrote me a personal e-mail just to let me know what I got with some words on some issues he and I were talking about. My wife, my in-laws were all very proud. It was even more gratifying for my mother-in-law because she had tried her best to be supportive by making me lunches and so forth everyday. This will be incredible ammunition in my essays about my current academic abilities.

    So back to the current class. We're going to be guinea pigs for a partial computer based test he will be including that will be 20% of the grade. Apparently, he's doing some research associated with classroom teaching and computer interaction. He will be writing up a paper on it for the University.

    He seems to not know the details well thus far as he continues to make mistakes and talks out loud to himself as he recites the acronym he's using to write out the Organic Chemical structure of the Nucleic Acid he wants us to know. Makes me cringe. As I sit in the front, I can hear all this going on. But, I get the feeling that the foundational details are things he's just throwing out there for us to memorize, but as the class progresses, I doubt he will be resorting to such recitation of knowledge. It's a bit difficult in class because he's a bit animated and speaks with a lisp so it's hard to understand everything he's saying. He talks fast too. It's like the thing he's saying is already superseded by the next thing he is about to say.

    So about the GMAT:
    I tried to study for GMAT by reviewing some GMAT verbal rules while sitting in the Jacuzzi, but it was a little hard :) , so now it begins... Time to hit the GMAT and class studies again.

    Some things that I'll be working on over the next 5 weeks will be the following B-school application prep tasks.

    1) Re-investigating the schools I'll be applying to in terms of their style of teaching and focus of cirriculum. I'd like to make sure that the schools I apply to have a common theme that makes sense for me. Moreover, if asked the question, "what other schools are you applying to and why" in an interview... the question will be an easy one to answer by having prepared my application as I am.

    2) Strategizing schools I may apply as part time or full-time because of my age.

    3) Documenting my background in a succinct fashion and writing out some key essays that describe my core reasons for B-school.

    4) Re-writing my Resume in a B-school format and in a commercial format for the next contract or full-time job that I'll be pursuing when this studying is done in mid-September.

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    Friday, August 06, 2004

    Yale and Carnegie-Melon announce Deadlines.

    More upates were done on some MBA web sites tonight.
    Carnegie-Melon, R1 11/14/04 R2 1/10/05 R3 3/21/05
    Yale, R1 10/27/04 R2 1/12/05 R3 3/16/05

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    Thursday, August 05, 2004

    GMAT AWA results

    Upon arriving at my home in the bay area, I found the envelope that contained my real GMAT results. No change. I did find out that my AWA score was a 5.0. I'm pretty happy about this. Apparently, a 5.0 is a 78%.
    I wrote about 10 essays to prepare for it and read Princeton's guide on the essay. I tried to memorize a template like they recommend, but I couldn't remember it, so I winged it. The best advice for the essay was actually the Arco book for me. The one piece of advice that helped me a lot was not to use personal analogy as the context of the argument essay. 1 quick personal example was fine, but the text of ones argument should be the biggest factor. In my practice tests, I was using personal or familiar business concept analogies to frame my arguments.

    Anyway, I'm trying to study for the GMAT and I have to admit that studying for the GMAT again is a thought that sits with me ok, but gearing up for it again is an entirely different thing. I'm thinking that the best thing for me to do would be sign up for the GMAT again and set a hard date as opposed to just studying again. So, now I've got to set a date. Argh! What date? What date? Right now, I'm thinking lat Oct or early Nov. This would give me time to finish the class by Sept 14. and then start on my essays while I'm studying to limit the number of things I'm focusing on at once.

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    Wednesday, August 04, 2004

    Test results

    I got my results back from my Final. I got a 42 out of 50. This would have been great except that the mean was 39. Dang, these college students are smarter than when I went to school. The Standard deviation was 5. There were 2 questions from the midterm that I got the professor to admit that he had created a poor series of questions. So he's verbally said maybe to 1 point, but thinking about 2 points. I know it's small, but I'm not sure what the Final break in grades will be and my test results were not as good as I expected. Ah well.

    I did my best and that's what my wife will encourage me with. But, from an academic stand point. When you know you knew the information as rock solid as I did and you still didn't get a near perfect score.. it's earth shattering. Took me a couple of weeks to even start to get over it on the midterm. I had put in more effort on the Final by leaving no corner unturned. I memorized the smallest detail and every number in every single chart. I had initially prepared for what I thought would be tested. I was ready for that by Friday. Then I had more time and decided to round out my knowledge with details he might remotely ask. So, I studied and prepared as best as I could.

    Ok, get this. Another awkward thing happened before the Final. I walked in to take the test about a minute before the class. I was about to take a seat in the front row. 90% of the class was there. The class was as quiet as a Church during quiet prayer and he welcomes me into the class by saying "HEY DAVE". Shakes my hand and continues," Man, I know your going to Ace this test." We talked more, but I could see out of the corner of my eye that much of the class was paying attention to our converstaion.

    Cringe factor 1) He said my name with a big smile and loudly when the class was quiet 2) He shook my hand in front of the whole class 3) He continued to talk to me while the whole class was quiet and clearly did not even try to whisper. (the class acoustics are so good that when he lectures, he doesn't use a microphone). 4) There was not a single person he has done that with in class other than me. Might at as well put a huge set of balloons around my seat with a flag saying, "favored by the prof". I thought the midterm awkward moment was bad. This was 200% more.

    So that was how I started the test. Took my time, reviewed question 3 times each. Read for all trick words, even underlined any word in the question that said, "least, greatest, not, cannot" etc... to make sure I understood what was being asked.

    Well, the prof said I got an A though, but I'm not sure how that's possible. Unless, different people did well on the midterm and Final. We'll see. I'm trying to make an appointment with the T.A. to review my test and see what mistakes I made. I know it's over, but I gotta know.

    So now I'm at school studying GMAT number properties and practicing Quant test timing now.

    Made some adds to FMR, Rechecked Kelloggs deadlines and they still haven't posted on their web site.

    Aug 4, 2004
    · Added Darden Resume’s-a PDF file of current student Resumes with Finance backgrounds.
    · Added link to Darden Clubs-Access to the hyperlink list to learn about all of Darden’s clubs
    Added link to Harvard Clubs-Access to

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    I'm done with my test. I'll find out how I did later. But for now, it's back to GMAT studies. Can't wait till this weekend. I've been to the timeshare place in Napa Valley and have taken friends there. It's a relaxing place. Here are some pictures of the place. I'll check back with how I did on the test later. And Yes, the place looks exactly like this. Posted by Hello

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    FMR Index Updates

    I've decided to drastically cut back on any time I spend on adding links to the sidebar. In fact, over the next several weeks, I may remove many. I have started to add resource links only on FMR and thus, any links will be found there. I'll post occasional updates on what you can find over there. Here is what has been added over the last week. Again, here is the list to FMR

    Aug 3, 2004
    · Added article Tuck school keeps challenger at bay.—A story about the changes Tuck has been making to its MBA program over the last 4 years.
    · Added article Guide to the top 10 business schools-graphical chart showing comparison of cost, GMAT, post-graduate sallaries.
    · Added article Wharton on top-From Career Journal-Recruiters rated Wharton the number one school for 2004.

    Aug 2, 2004
    · Added Kellogg Merger– Kellogg’s online student newspaper
    · Added article “Demand for MBA’s Down”
    · Added Syvum.com—GMAT prep material for Quant and Verbal. Also a good free review of Quant-Verbal-Essay basics
    · Added Realtestquestions.com-Sample GMAT tests with real GMAT questions slightly changed

    Aug 1, 2004
    · Added article Georgia Cabrera: an NYU-Stern MBA Journal—One of the best series of articles I’ve read on applying, life at school, classes classes, getting a job, peer pressure and graduating
    · Added web site MBA Journals—(From Business Week) A series of short 5-7 journal entries of their experience applying, going through school, getting a job and graduating with their MBA’s. Probably the best read on what the whole process is like without having to read endless books on the topic. Stories from real people.

    July 31, 2004
    · GMATclub’s MBA Links—If it’s not here, you’ll probably find it there
    · GMATclub’s GMAT Math Links
    · GMATclub’s GMAT Verbal Links
    · GMATclub’s GMAT Practice Test Links
    · Added GMAT tips from an expert

    July 30, 2004
    · Added Article Applicants:Getting a let up and paying the price
    · Added Article USC Casts a Wider Net May 3, 2004
    · Added Article The Lure of Luxury for MBA’s May 3, 2004
    · Added Article Footing your MBA and paying for it...
    · Added Testprep New York to GMAT Resources (GMAT Prep with extensive help with stress issues) Interesting slant. More info

    July 29, 2004
    · Added Wharton’s Scholarship PDF. Very thorough. Moreover, most of the info applies to all MBA applicant regardless of school. (Financing your MBA) - Thanks Laura
    · Added Business School article “Female MBA students increase at MSU, U-M” [Numbers at all-time high; it gives firms more diverse pool]

    July 28, 2004
    · Added Links to GMAC Insight where you can submit your essay for review with the actual software that reviews your real GMAT essay.(GMAT Resources)
    · Added link to DeltaCourses new SpeedStudying courseware. (GMAT Resources)
    · Added link to DeltaCourses new MBAinfo.com web site. Very good overall MBA application resource. (GMAT Resources)


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    MBA school update

    So I hear that Kellogg Essays are out. link The deadlines however ARE NOT. link.
    Interesting, I had checked the following schools last night so I was surprised to hear Kellogg had announced their new apps. Does this happen regularly? Essays before deadlines? That's like giving out homework and saying... I'll tell you later when it's due.

    So the following schools still have NO DEADLINES posted on their web sites.
    UCLA just made a reorg change on their web site a couple of weeks ago, so I was expecting their app shortly thereafter, but still nothing. I expect to see Kellogg's deadline dates here shortly.

    Carnegie-Melon, D/I no info yet (L/Y R1 11/10)
    Kellogg, D/I August (L/Y R1 11/7)
    Michigan D/I no info yet (L/Y R1 11/1)
    Notre Dame, (L/Y EA 11/14)
    Pepperdine, D/I 7/14 (L/Y R1 12/15)
    Texas-McCombs, D/I no info yet (L/Y R1 11/1)
    UCLA D/I no info yet (L/Y R1 11/5)
    USC, D/I no info yet (L/Y R1 12/1)
    Yale, D/I no info yet (L/Y R1 11/14)

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    Monday, August 02, 2004

    To RSS feed or not to RSS feed, that is the question

    In my life, whenever advising or mentoring anyone, at some point I always finding myself reminding the other person that when we say “yes” to something, we are consequently saying “no” to something else. Put another way, saying “yes” to doing something means that we are saying “no” to something else that we may or may not have wanted to be doing. For example, when we say “yes” to taking on an extensive project at work that will require after hours and even weekend work to complete the task, we are saying “no” to personal time to ourselves. In a more relevant example regarding Blogging, saying “yes” to enabling RSS feed meant no to my personal rights regarding who gets to publish what I write wherever and however they seem fit. No permission is required by me because when I enabled RSS, I was giving public domain permission. Consequently, I was inadvertanly saying “no” to my personal rights to whether I had a say as to who gets to see/read what I write.

    I enabled RSS feed because I knew it would potentially be easier to stay up to date with those things that might be of interest or to those who cared about what I wrote. I never thought this could potentially cause the kind of emotional ups and downs that I’ve gone through. Over the last 3 days when I found that DeltaCourse and Wharton had included my Blog on their websites I was paralyzed with disbelief. It’s taken me a couple of days to even begin to process what I’m thinking and feeling. And today, when I found out Wharton, I knew I had to make some sense of all this because it was happening to fast. So in true Blogger fashion, I’m writing about it to help me process the experience. To see each and everything thing I write is really weird, frightening, exciting and confusing.

    I started this Blog with the intention of writing my very “personal” thoughts about what I was going through in my MBA application process. I thought that perhaps some people might read what I wrote but that people would just come and go if they happened upon my Blog because they would not find it interesting. Over time, some became interested and were relating to what I was writing as they would tell me so via private e-mails or comments on the Blog. I didn’t mind the attention and I also didn’t mind enabling the RSS feed. It was such an innocent thing because my motive behind the conception of my Blog was also an innocent one.

    But now, I’m faced with dealing with what an RSS feed to a broad community (larger than I had ever thought was possible) means to me. An RSS feed is like publishing a newspaper. You’ll have to excuse on this point as I used to be the Newspaper Editor of one of my Undergraduate Newspapers and so I know of no other better analogy to describe the issue at hand.

    Bloggers are like writers of articles of a Newspaper and the number of people who read the paper is directly proportional to the distribution. We might get some comments or feedback initially, but when the paper becomes syndicated or bought up by a larger distributor, then each writer has to deal with the fact that criticism, quality of writing will be judged quite regularly. Now, we have to remember that the truth being written by the writers is what caused the growth of the distribution to begin with. So in that sense, there is clear value in what has been written.

    I came to the conclusion long ago, that the general public who read my Blog is a perfectly acceptable thing for me. But my Blog is not just a diary. It’s got a purpose. It’s a themed log and so are all the other MBA Blogs. Therefore, together we make up an MBA applicant newspaper.

    Now, if you wanted to get a raise or a promotion at work and you started a blog on what it would take to make that happen, what would you do if your Boss fell upon your Blog created a web site, shared you Blog entries to everyone else in the company and never told you he/she had done this. Then you find out from a co-worker what had been done. Got the picture? Can you feel the mixture of emotions behind that? That’s what is was like when I found my Blog entries on Wharton’s web site. Now your boss may appreciate your efforts and respect your after hours commitment to make it happen, but what if you were writing about your weaknesses and your struggles as well. How comfortable would you be with your Boss reading your Blog then?

    My Blog has really changed since it started though. The amount of MBA applicant and GMAT resources are quite a lot. These days, I have GMAT vendors and other MBA or GMAT related web site owners contacting me about forming partnerships or supporting one another. The resources I have are intended to be 100% free of any “for profit” bias whatsoever and it will remain so. I love the fact that the resources are helpful to others. I like even more that other MBA hopefuls are suggesting links to be added to the index. My journal portion of the Blog is mine. But the sidebar of resources and the newly created “Future MBA Resources” index is public property as long as I’m concerned as long as a non-biased, quality of resource standard is maintained.

    In summary, when faced with this situation, I realize I have a decision among 3 choices.
    1) Shut down RSS feed and keep the site from being widely distributed.
    2) Keep RSS on, and have courage to keep to ones convictions. But if it’s too private… then either choice 1 or having a completely non-public Blog is the only route to go.
    3) Keep RSS on shut off the emotion and sharing of struggles, but this may eventually kill the purpose of the Blog in ones journey to get their MBA.

    Any choice is fine and each route is good for different kinds of personalities. For me, I plan on sticking to my convictions, but being a little more careful that names and identities of people in my life are not revealed. Moreover, this is why I removed my picture from my blog recently.

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    Didn't realize Wharton had a book publishing company. Here's a book that hasn't been realeased yet. But thought it might be interesting to others. It's weird though because the other two books about to be released are not by Wharton Professors. One is by a Michigan Business professor and I forget the name of the other professor, but he's not from Wharton.

    The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business

    Editorial ReviewsAbout the AuthorYoram (Jerry) Wind is The Lauder Professor, Professor of Marketing, and Founding Director of the Wharton Fellows Program and the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at The Wharton School. A world-renowned marketing expert, his 20 books include Convergence Marketing and Driving Change, and he has been recognized with many major marketing awards. He has advised Fortune 500 firms, non-U.S. multinationals, governments, and entrepreneurial ventures in industries ranging from financial services to consumer goods.
    Colin Crook is senior fellow of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Advisory Board member of Rein Capital, editorial board member of the journal Emergence and has served on numerous National Academy committees and advisory groups. He has provided advice to governments and businesses around the world, and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK). He was formerly Chief Technology Officer for Citicorp.     Book DescriptionThis book is about getting better at making sense of the world...so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not some obsolete model of reality.
    Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research and their experience with corporate transformations, Jerry Wind and Colin Crook explain how your mental models stand between you and reality, distorting all your perceptions...and how they create both limits and opportunities.
    You'll learn how to develop new ways of seeing...how to keep your mental models fresh and relevant...when to change to a new model...how to build a portfolio of models...and improving your models through constant experimentation.

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    Ramblings on small mindedness.

    I’m done with another test review for Tuesday’s Final exam. Can’t wait till I “write” my exam (hehe). Oh, the date for the get together is Aug 21st now. Anyone still interested, let me know. Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego folks ok!

    I don't try to write potentially controversial issues, but I'm pretty passionate about this one. So, here goes....

    I had lunch not too long ago with a close friend recently and he shared with me how he feels so left behind. People around him are quickly getting married, having kids, getting a house, advancing their careers and some are making some serious money. Many, it seems have made very serious career choices and progress that makes him wholeheartedly envious. To some extent though, we all feel that way. Anyway, one major point was how he was seeing that education is the key to career growth. I practically knocked him upside his head as I retorted how many times I kept telling him this over the last 3 years.

    No matter what we do in life, it requires a level of education/learning that is either formal or informal. In the case of work… it is almost always based on formal education whether it’s a certification or advanced degree like an MBA. Many of you who might be reading this and are planning on applying to Business School have already realized this. Bravo to you!

    Interestingly, it seems Asian countries like India, Korea, China and Japan all realized this long ago. Their development of Math and emphasis on quality learning is ingrained deeply into their cultures. Tutors, illegal or not like in Korea, are used by anyone that can afford them. I was telling someone just this afternoon how it’s a bit different here in the U.S.. Generally, to admit that one is using a tutor at nearly any age up to high school is almost like admitting your stupid, despite the fact that the reasons may be due to A.D.D. or some other disorder that you can’t blame the individual for.

    Even with the GMAT, there is this stigma about how one prepares for it. If you’re smart, you don’t use them. Even if you get accepted to a top MBA School and others hear that you used a prep school, there is this, “Oh, well no wonder” kind of response. “Well, they got help!” The truth though is that if they did get in, we’ll start thinking…. Hmmm, I hate to admit it, but maybe I should as well. But, due to cost we may get held up and not do it.

    I, however say, that we should forego certain hang ups with cost and just bite the bullet. If the average MBA student graduates with a 30-40% increase in their yearly salary… how does that not pay for the few thousands dollars up front? In India or Korea, nearly everyone who can afford it or who might need it, get a tutor or outside help. It’s common knowledge and there’s nothing negative about it other then the envy that comes from those who can’t afford them. Why then might we have a problem with getting help like that here in the U.S.? Our academic culture here is definitely upside down compared to the Asian countries.

    Now, if some don’t need a prep school, fine…. But we ought to remove our own personal discrimination against ourselves or others who do. Don’t you think?

    I propose that one reason is that we might be suffering from being small minded. Being small minded is where one makes short term decisions that ignore the long term benefits. At one company I know about, there was a SPAM e-mail project that was victim of this. It was found that the average corporate employee spends between 4-12 seconds per SPAM in reviewing it and then deleting it. Moreover, the average employee received between 15-25 SPAM’s per day. Take the cost of the employee’s salary and divide that over the time to delete SPAM e-mail and multiply that over 2500 employees. This ends up costing the company over $200,000 dollars per YEAR! So when a small minded engineer and CIO who were close friends made a decision to forego the $17,000 cost to put in an enterprise class solution with a $5,000 yearly maintenance cost… I was floored. They put in a solution that cost $1,500 that only caught 45% of the SPAM. The one that was researched by other engineers caught 90% of SPAM. Moreover, after implementing the “cheap” solution, they found that they had to hire a full time person to sit there and “release” e-mails being caught in the queue because the cheaper solution was not blocking SPAM, but blocking legitimate e-mail because it’s catch algorithm was based on key words in e-mails like Viagra vs source domains that were known to be SPAM sources.

    Time and time again, I see this. I’m so fed up with small mindedness. Small mindedness will destroy a company’s revenue because of short sighted profit decision making. I doubt top Business Schools want to hire such short sighted thinkers. Getting a good deal up front is not always a good thing!

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