Finally! Progress!

My application is submitted and complete. I am now officially "Under Review" by Stanford! Woohoo! Although the relief was short lived. Now I am back to anxiety. I have had my fingers permanently crossed since I submitted the application. I may have to have them surgically uncrossed once all of this is over :-)

Stanford Update

So about 15 minutes after I posted my last post I got an email from Stanford saying that my transcripts were missing! I uploaded them per their instructions though! I nearly had a heart attack. I left work in a whirlwind, ran home, found my unofficial transcript and faxed it over immediately with a letter of apology. I have no idea what happened there but now I'm so upset about it. Stanford has so many competitive applications to look at and now mine is going to be less desirable because it looks like I don't know how to follow simple directions. I hope this happens frequently and I don't look like a complete moron. Stanford is my dream school and I pray to God this won't effect my candidacy. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed from now until mid January in hopes that I'm accepted. I wonder if that will help my candidacy?!

What the heck?

What is going on with Stanford? Does anyone know how their review process goes? Do they give any updates on an applicant's status page? I suppose I could ask their adcom about it but I don't want to be the pestering type so I thought I'd ask here first.

I am having a phone conversation with a UMich (Ross) alum this week. He is a local guy. I'm looking forward to getting a feel of Ross' alumni. I've decided that out of all the schools I want to go to I am assured a great education at all of them. The most important part is whether or not I can see myself working as a team with the students at a particular school. I guess I'm trying to judge that ever elusive "fit" with a particular school.

My current job has extended my stay through January. By then I'll at least know about Stanford and Yale. If I'm lucky and I'm admitted to one of those then I may just play around until school starts. Maybe Mexico, back to Chile, or possibly Central America. I've always wanted to hang out in Costa Rica. So now I'm dreaming a little but what is life without dreams??! Boring!

I've also finally gotten back on track with the running. I'm going on 4 days in a row with the running. My wonderful friend fixed up my road bike the other day so I can start riding to work now. Hopefully this will all be very helpful for my marathon in January. It really is nice feeling human again. I was running on adrenaline for so long. I actually had time to read last night! Ahhh life is good again :-)

We Won!

The election is over and I have finally had a chance to sleep and I can almost see straight again! Woohoo! We won and we won big! For the moment, a woman's right to choose is safe and I feel like I had a hand in making that happen. What a great feeling! I've never worked so hard, so long, and for SOOOOO little $money$ before in my life. But I've never been happier. I have to say, it is a bit humbling to be a bottom feeder again. I mean I had responsibilities and all but I definitely was not the one making big ticket decisions. Going from leading a $10 million defense contract to sending out invitations for a board member's house party is VERY humbling. And as much as I loved what I was doing, I'm not so sure my ego could take much more. That's why I'm glad I'm going to grad school...I'm hoping that will allow me to start a bit higher on the food chain in this industry.

I'm not sure what happens now. I was hired on just for the campaign so officially my job ends next week but my manager is trying to get me hired on for at least another couple of months. I also had my last engineering consultant job contact me and see if I was interested in consulting on a new project for them. They apologized over the last incident (long story) and promised I wouldn't have to work for the same guy again. I'm not sure if I want to go back to engineering again but the money is so good it's hard to pass it up especially knowing that I'm going to be making nothing and spending $120k over the next two years at grad school. But we'll see what happens here. Maybe I can work part time at both jobs until I hear back from all the schools. Once I am confident that I'm accepted to at least one of the schools, I may take off to Chile to hang with my compadres over there for a couple of months. I don't know...something will come my way and I'll figure it out.

In other, actual MBA,news, there was FINALLY a change on my status page for Yale, they put my GMAT score with my application. Still waiting on them to match up my transcripts with my application. I can't believe they haven't even put together my application and others are already interviewing? It was making me nervous before but I guess they just start reviewing apps and sending out interview invites immediately? Should I be nervous? And Stanford, there has been no change on my application status page. Does anyone know what goes on there?

This weekend I will finish my UCLA application and submit that, long before the second round deadline. Then I'll start on UMich (Ross). I'm still deciding between NYU and Columbia or both? Enough of my ramblings. Good luck on the interview invites people!