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December 29, 2005
Night Before the GMAT
Happy Holidays, ya'll!
I had a great Christmas, and my plan of officially celebrating Kwanzaa didn't really happen, but I do know that today's principle is Ujima, Collective Work and Responsibility, so let's all work together and send me positive energy, because tomorrow I take the dreaded GMAT.
Now, I've always thought of myself as a great standardized test taker, but the GMAT has been my Achille's hill. Can you believe that today I took a 3-hour online practice test and I made the EXACT SAME SCORE as I did on my diagnostic test four months ago!? Now that just don't make sense--after four months of studying. I guess I really should have taken a class.
No use crying about it now. I'll go in there, take the test, come out and keep on working on those apps.
I cannot imagine how hectic and overwhelming it must be to apply to 5-10 schools. I am drowning with just Harvard and Stanford.
I am so lucky that I have a year already planned out. I'd be chewing off my fingernails out of anxiety if I didn't already know I had something lined up for next year.
Sometimes I think it will be embarrassing if I get dinged by both Harvard and Stanford--in front of my hordes of blog readers, right?--but then I remember how young I am, how I'll get really valuable feedback, and how everything works itself out somehow.
One exciting thing is that I found out that I'm a semifinalist for the TV and Radio Broadcasting internship in NYC I applied for. I have to submit another app by Jan. 16 to see if I become a finalist. I feel confident--and excited!
One major setback in my application process is that I wrote all seven of my Harvard essays in one document and LOST THEM ALL. Yes, I did. I'm still getting used to my laptop, and I guess I didn't understand how the whole sleep/hibernation/shutdown situation works added with my impatience with Microsoft Word's autorecovery system, so I probably just told it, "No I don't need it!" and lost my essays.
I was really devastated at first and then I figured that maybe my THIRD drafts would be spectacular. Let's hope I at least get them written.
Whew! I have a long way to go. I think it will be great once I get there.
Posted by kaneisha at December 29, 2005 03:32 AM
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Good luck on your GMATs, roomie! I know you'll do well.
Posted by: Lori at December 29, 2005 05:59 PM