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Graduation Talk? No Thanks!

by Richard Battle-Baxter on January 20th, 2013
Ellipsing My Way...To Business School is my first hand account of the b-school application process through the eyes of a prospective applicant.
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All I will say is that I almost teared up when I clicked on a website that one of my friends posted in our class Facebook page just now. Here is what I was greeted with when I went to the page:

I mean wtf?!? It’s January 13th and THIS is what I have to start thinking about? I still have another 5 months of school! I thought the 2 years of preparation to get into business school were tough? I think these next 5 months may be the toughest out of this whole experience.

I will say that I “disliked” the post that my classmate put up in the FB page… this is definitely NOT what I want to be thinking about now. Right now I want to enjoy my last week of Winter break, that has been almost a month and a half long. I’m actually getting the itch and feeling lonely not being with my classmates.

What’s interesting is that a lot of us are not going back until maybe this Saturday/Sunday, but we’re all home bored by ourselves. I know that I’m texting/tweeting and all of that jazz with many of my classmates asking when they’re going back. I get the same response. I think it’s going to be one of those situations where if we said “okay let’s go back on Thursday,” we would all get back on Thursday! Kind of like follow the leader – which is funny since we’re all supposed to be leaders.

In any event, there’s no real topic or any advice in this blog post. I’m just bored at home and felt like blogging about something. If you guys have some questions, please post them in the comment box below and I can make sure to answer them or write a special blog post for it.

I need to finish this post because it’s making me think of the next stage of my life and I’m not used to that thought process just yet… #SCARY!

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