Thursday, November 09, 2006

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!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrats on the WIN! :) That must have been an awesome experience! So very different from the engineering crap! :D

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Toby said...

I had my Yale interview, and there were absolutely no curveballs or anything.. as with most schools I think they mostly want to hear why you think they're so great! It helped to schedule my interview at the end of the day, that way I got to pack in a full day of classes, lunch with students, etc. so I had some experiences to point to. Their interview process seems haphazard, I'm sure you'll get an invite soon. Good luck!