Nivi's musings

DWI from Cornell!

2006-11-17T22:25:00.000-08:00

No surprises there! I have been dinged without an Interview at Cornell!

Cornell :(

2006-11-15T00:00:00.000-08:00

Cornell still hasnt contacted me :(..I am so disappointed!...There really was no scope to go wrong in the Cornell Application. I really liked my Cornell essays :(...there was absolutely no dilly dallying, they were so tightly wound..waaaaaaah.

Its going to be either a ding or waitlist from cornell :((

Interview Invites!

2006-11-14T21:07:00.000-08:00

After cribbing for hours and hours about lack of interview invites, the MBA goddess has finally smiled at me! I got three invites this week.

Duke - These guys interview just about all their applicants. Therefore my application did not really have a role to play. However, Duke perhaps was one of my strongest applications. I really love this school and am excited to be interviewing again.

Wharton - Yipppppeeee!!!...Just the other day, I was cribbing about my failure essay to a friend. But looks like I did a pretty good job there :)... I initially wanted to be a part of the hub interviews. However, now I have settled for an alumni interview - as I am not too keen on traveling to a different city. Moreover, there are no free slots for hub interviews.

Tepper - These guys are quick!! I just turned in my application on 6th Nov and I already have an interview invite. Good stuff!!!

I am still waiting to hear from Darden, Ross & Yale.

Good luck to you all! Pulheasssssssse...wish me luck too :D

Whoosh...Duke is finally IN

2006-11-02T20:38:00.000-08:00

I managed to submit Duke 1.5 hrs before the deadline!...What a relief!!

Working on my last R1 application- Tepper.

Ross Submitted!!

2006-10-29T21:57:00.000-08:00

I know...I know...Duke was suppose to go in first. Ross was an R2 application etc.

But as Duke application was going nowhere, I started working on the Ross Application. Once I started, I quite enjoyed the application and just decided to turn it in R1...Ross peepal...do ya hear me?...I like your application :-)

Wow...I just realized...I have submitted 6 applications :-)

Duke Duke Duke...here I come!!

Omigawd!! I have turned into an application vending machine...

2006-10-28T10:50:00.000-07:00

Yess!!...That's how i feel these days - a vending machine!

However, I seem to have totally flaked out in the last one week, I have two big applications coming up next week - Ross & Duke. I have tons to do!...My Duke essays make me wanna cry! But, I am just not able to attack them, this mood better phase out asap, or am in big trouble!

Lack of interview calls :(( and one of my recommenders missing...has certainly not made life any easier!

Interview calls; ppl who got em - congrats and kick ass!,
those of you waiting - chin up, we'll get there too!!

Yale Submitted!

2006-10-24T23:00:00.000-07:00

Yup!...Yale is done!! :)

I luved Yale's application. It is the simplest application I have seen so far :-)

Next comes Duke!!!

Changes to my School List

2006-10-20T06:34:00.000-07:00

If you notice, my school list has changed. Whyz tht?... Why has Chicago been left out?

Well, though I really love the school, I somehow just could not do justice to the Chicago Essays. I was not very happy with them. I might think of Chicago in R2, but for the moment, I have decided against applying to the school.

Tepper- has always been on my mind. I again like the school, as a non-techie, I am not too concerned about the diversity bit at Tepper. The only worrying factor about Tepper was, their non-existent loan program for international students. However, after a lot of thinking, a check on the personal finances etc. I have decided to go ahead with my Tepper application!.

Cornell Update - My file is complete and is currently being reviewed by the Adcom :).

YAYYYY!!!

2006-10-20T06:24:00.000-07:00

I have managed to click on the "Submit" button four times in the past 2 weeks. Yipppeee

Cornell - R1 (Submitted)
Columbia - ED (Submitted)
Wharton - R1 (Submitted)
Darden - R1 (Submitted)

School List!

2006-08-27T06:35:00.000-07:00

My school selection is finally done...Whoosh :)

Its been a heart wrenching process. There are so many schools that I really like and would be delighted to be a part of. But, its practically impossible for me to apply to all these schools. When I started off I had 15 schools on my list, you read that right...15. I really have had to fight with myself to come down to 10 schools.

My School List looks like this :

Round One:

Columbia
Wharton
Chicago GSB
Duke
Darden
Cornell
Yale SOM

Round Two:

Ross
Kellog
Rochester Simon

I have selected these schools based on their goodwill in consulting + finance + entrepreneurship.

I have started writing my essays as well (yaaaay...:D). My first draft for Columbia is almost ready. I just am a little disappointed with my ethical dilemma essay. There somehow is no punch to it. Hopefully that'll start looking better soon.

More Laterz.

Update....

2006-08-02T06:27:00.001-07:00

Finally, I have made up my mind. I will not be graduating in 2008.

I have a couple of admits on hand, but in the last few months I took a lot of time to instrospect and well came to the conclusion that as long as I can help it, I do not want to compromise in life. At the moment attending a Bschool is one of the most important things in my life, therefore not compromising there.

Am apping for the session beginning in Fall 2007 :). Most schools that I wanna app, have already come out with their essays & deadlines....Yipppeeeee....Its quite weird, but I am super excited about reapping :D...

Duke (sigh.....I love the school) after being placed on the waitlist for almost 14 weeks, I was dinged. Fortunately I had the oppurtunity to get a feedback on my application. It was pretty good, the adcom member brought up a couple of unexpected things to my notice. Anyway, the feedback went something like this :

GMAT (no brainer really - I hate this awful test :(( , but looks like I need to buck up the score again)
Duke's contribution towards my goals - (In my goals essay, I wrote a lotta gyan on how awesome the school is, mentioned a couple of courses & research centres etc. The adcom member very candidly said, "We know that we are good, we dont need to know that from you, we are more interested to know as to why we are good for U". Till the feedback, I hadnt realised that I had messed this up. So, yea, feedback sessions are pretty awesome, and not all schools do a bad job of it)
They were quite convinced about my goals etc. so yea tht was pretty good.

I am still working on my school list, but hopefully that should be done by mid Aug.

More laterz!!!

Happy apping for Fall 2007.

Arbit writing....

2005-08-13T10:22:00.000-07:00

Its been a while since i last blogged...I really have nothing much to say...Works kinda getting to me...The thought of continuing this job, for nother year scares the shit out of me :(( :(( :((...But, doesnt seem like I have much of a choice...

GMAT prep is on..though not as disciplined as I would have liked.

Yesterday was one of my closest frends last day at work...I have been dreading this...I hate it when people go away...YES I AM A SISSY.

I have kinda started working on the apps....Columbias ED is something that I have been thinking of for a couple of weeks now..Some loser on BW forum actually has already submitted his essays (losaaaaaaah losssssssssssah losaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah)...

Attended ISB's info session last weekend...Everything they said is available on their website, so the session did not really bring anything new to moi...the q & a session was good fun..some brightspark wanted to know about the scoring methodology at ISB :D :D...

Thats it from me...more laterz..

I have been Tagged!

2005-07-02T06:05:00.001-07:00

Been Tagged for a while now.. Courtesy Anand :).

Am a total fiction only kind of a person...non-fiction reading is kept to the bare minimum....Here is a list of a few books that I have managed to get my hands on :

1. French Lover by Taslima Nasrin - was a okie read..has won a couple of rave reviews by i wouldnt suggest anyboddy to buy the book...there have been a million books or more written on the same lines...its about this bengali chick getting married to this totally ghatti guy and moving to france..and how she overcomes her insecurities blah blah and finally manages to fall in love with a french guy..though the relationship does not last, it gives her courage to discover herself etc etc...I was travelling when I read this book, so this kind of offered some solace (had this madu family sitting beside me, i thought i'd die)

2.Passions Promise by Danielle Steel - i can so imagine everybody going yucccccccccccccck.......when i say Danielle Steel. But, surprise surpise this was quite a nice book..its not the typical book, where the protagnist gets married atleast 5 times, has 10 kids but dies single..Its about this heiress, who pretends to be totally vain, but in reality has a lot of things going for her...Finally, she stops hiding, when she finds the love of her life in a convict...she knows that this wont last for long, as he will have to go away from her..still, they brave it all..yuckkk...i make this book sound horrible..but trust me, its not too bad..

3.The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - Yet again, this book deals with the immigrant experience, but it is a very well written one...I really like the way she writes...its about this this couple who move to Massachusetts..the husband is greatly inspired by the famous Russian writer Gogol, and ends up naming his son Gogol..It also describes Gogol's growing up years, vacations spent in Calcutta, love affairs, conflicting loyalties etc etc..Last heard, Mira Nair - a famous director in Bollywood, is making a movie on this book...Its a nice read, I would certainly recommend it.

4.Life of a Pi by Yann Martel- Pray..why are such books written?

5.Five Point Someone by chetan bhagat - awesome book. I could relate to this book on so many lines, despite not being an engineer and not having lived away from home..its a must read, try getting your hands on it...Its about 3 guys coming together at a College, with very different backgrounds and personalities..actually, i wont write more on this..i suggest you get urself a copy of it :)

Thats that..I dont think I can tag anybody...Most people I know, have already been tagged..

GMAT prep

2005-05-21T08:52:00.000-07:00

I know...I know..I have'nt been regular...Nivi been a lazy girl :(..But i see myself being regular for the next 2 weeks atleast..coz i supposedly have taken 2 weeks off from work to mug for GMAT (i realllllllllly need...that much time)...

Done with basics..am doing okie on most things expect perhaps P & C (i think my mind just blanks out when i see a P & C prob)..damn..i should come over all this in 1 or 2 days...

I am still not too sure on the schools that i want to try...there seem to be just too many of them...lemme see..

Reading Montauk's book..hopefully i'll become einsteins twin by the end of it.

Amidst all this..I managed to watch DDLJ today..it has completed 500 weeks..gosh..thats long...I was in high school when this movie got released and i still remember how me and a bunch of my girl friends had swooned over Shahrukh..lol..those sure were fun daya:).

Sunday.......

2005-04-24T01:18:00.000-07:00

This is perhaps my nth attempt at blogging regularly...hopefully i'll see success someday. Its been a nice lazy sunday, mugged a bit (surprise surprise...eh?).

Life somehow all of a sudden seems less complicated, or maybe i am just getting wise (wink :D)..I guess it becomes so much easier when you know wht u really want out of life..you have got ur goals set right..those days of aimless wandering finally comes to an end...etc etc...all this coz i dinged one bskool for better prospects :)

Besides all the mugging, I managed to clear my cupboard too...i was rudely shocked at the kinda stuff i found in my cupboard..tht cleaning bit took almost 1.5 hrs..geez man...i wonder for whom i was saving up tinkle and chandamama (my kids probably)....

Life is just awesome at the moment...my hate ful project lead has quit..i cudnt ask for more :).

I am getting 2 weeks off from work... (muggu for gmat na?)...zzzz..