…you’d better do it! Yeah this is coming at you from the Department of the Obvious, but you’d be surprised. Every year, we get some intrepid BSer with some type of flaw in the profile – not-great GMAT or GRE, blemish-prone GPA – and they decide that they’re going to compensate for that flaw and […]
Continue reading...This post is for everyone who INTENDED to do Round 1…
We had a snarky blurb of a post up since Friday and we figured, hey, no need to be snarky! Because we know a lot of you are not quite where you wanted to be. Did you not manage to submit the apps you had planned to for Round 1? (Round 1 totally isn’t over, […]
Continue reading...($) Authenticity and MBA career goals
In what is a totally understandable impulse, we frequently get BSers asking us what career goals are “best” to use in their MBA essays. It comes up over and over again. We know where that question comes from. When faced with the task of applying to bschool, it seems that you’re dealing with one test […]
Continue reading...Applying to Bschool: The Strategy of Authenticity
We’re reviving this series from the ‘snarchives because it’s so important as a concept to understand in constructing high-quality MBA applications — and in life! We talk a lot about strategy in your MBA apps here on the blahg. Strategy comes down to: pitching the right schools pitching the right way maximizing your strengths […]
Continue reading...Work doesn’t make you happy. But meaningful work might.
In a recent Slaughter & Rees Report from The Tuck School , we get this: In his Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle defined the highest form of human flourishing—eudaimonia, or “good spirit”—as the application of one’s talents to meaningful endeavors of personal and community consequence. This flourishing is largely independent of the results of these endeavors; […]
Continue reading...($) Backup plans and next steps: What if it’s looking like you might not get in?!??
Some of you are starting to worry, which may or may not be justified. If you tend to be a worrier, you already know that about yourself, and you may intellectually recognize that you’re doing it, and be unable to stop. Worrying in this case only adds to your stress levels and is not productive, […]
Continue reading...Anxiety and your interview (MBA or otherwise)
NOTE: We’re reblahgging this article written in February 2020… the Before-Times. While the gist of it in the context of anxiety in an MBA interview is still valid, we acknowledge that anxiety (and depression, and a host of very real mental health challenges) is a totally different thing for many of us these days. Anyway, […]
Continue reading...A fun exercise to be intentional
It’s the last Friday of January. Where did this first month of 2022 go?!?? Whether you’re someone who makes New Year’s resolutions or not, it’s important to track the passage of time, so you can evaluate what you’re doing with it as it goes by. That one precious life, you know? Now that we’re 1/12th […]
Continue reading...We’re in a tough time right now.
Wow, this coronavirus thing… It’s just not going away. Probably every single person reading this post in January of 2022 is experiencing the virus as being very much within their circle of family, work, and friends. It’s likely that all of you are being affected by it directly in ways that you have not been […]
Continue reading...($) “What can I do to increase my chances after submitting?”
Many of you are still in recovery from the stress of submitting your Round 2 applications – or you still haven’t submitted all of them that you’re trying for. However, some of you may come off the rollercoaster of the past few days and then stand there feeling a little lost. There’s often a big […]
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