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December 02, 2005
The December Push
So it's December already! I'm really starting to feel the pressure. Finals are due soon in all my classes (Let's not even talk about how behind I feel) in the next two weeks, and I take the GMAT on the 29th.
I've been doing the lessons on my Kaplan GMAT CD, and I've really been improving. Since I'm what they call a "poet" or non-traditional applicant, I have to really wow them with my GMAT score. Although I'm very young, don't have much of a quantitative background, and have no full-time work experience outside of summer internships, I gotta show them that I can roll with the big dawgs. Wow, I sound like a beer commercial during the Super Bowl.
I just turned in another summer internship application. This one is for IRTS Foundation Fellows program, which is an all-expenses paid internship in NYC in Radio and Television Broadcasting. I recently had the revelation that Oprah is my biggest role model and I want to be a multidimensional actor-producer-writer-leader-philanthropist super-power like her. Maybe they'll discover my talent this summer... Or maybe I'll just get have a really cool internship and get to explore NYC. I'll know by December 30, which is beautiful.
It's time for me to prepare the packets for my recommenders for my applications. There's a lot of overlap, so I won't have a lot of distributing to do. However, this essentially means that I need to have most of my essays finished so that they can use them in writing my letters. That's what's scary. My goal is to have the packets ready within a week, so they have about a month to procrastinate and mull over the information.
I'm excited that one of Stanford's recs is to be written by a friend or colleague. My friend Kevin Curry, a Harvard MPP student will be writing mine, and I know that he will write an outstanding rec and really let the people at Stanford GSB know wassup.
I've chosen my classes for my last semester of college. It was pretty anticlimactic, I'd have to say. I'm taking Black Studies Senior Seminar, Daughters of Africa, Painting II, Calc I, Yoga, Voice Lessons, Personal Financial Decision Making, and teaching a class on Hurricane Katrina for my senior thesis project. I know that sounds like hella classes, but those last four are for only one-fourth the credit of a regular class. I'm looking forward to my last semester of college, especially Spring Break, Senior Week, and getting back my grad school decisions.
With my year in Ghana ahead of me, this application process is a win-win situation. If I get in, I'll have my post-Ghana grad school plans beautifully laid out for me. If I don't, I get feedback on my Harvard app, get a whole year to study for the GMAT, and a chance to apply to a wider selection of grad schools. I feel like I have this amazing future ahead of me, and all I have to do is prepare myself so that when great things come, I am ready for them.
I am so blessed.
Posted by kaneisha at December 2, 2005 09:31 AM