“Don’t confuse comfort with learning.”

One of my classmates was pondering on Tuesday if the start of classes would feel anti-climatic after 2 weeks of orientation and leadership training.
After two days of classes, I think I can safely say “nope”. Not anti-climatic at all… As a matter of fact, I don’t think the effort and energy required in this [...]

Life of Pie Charts

One of the exercises that we’ve been asked to do this week is consider our “optimal” and “satisfactory” hours spent on various activities in the MBA program. Honestly, I have no idea what is realistic. So, I counted up the number of waking hours during the week (~119 if you’re getting 7hrs of sleep a [...]

MBA Bootcamp: Day 1 & 2

Thursday was my first day of classes for the University of Washington MBA program! I’m still in shock that I was accepted, let alone starting up classes. Wasn’t I just on a beach in Peru?!
This first set of classes is called “Jump Start”, which is a week long boot camp refresher of quantitative methods, accounting [...]

Slip sliding my way through a few big transitions.

We’ve been back for almost a week now, and wow. I’m back. It’s almost like the last 6-months never happened, except I keep talking to myself in Spanish. Seattle is the same place that I knew and missed and love. It’s nice to slip right back into things.
Actually, I have to laugh when I say [...]

I'm IN!

I got a phone call yesterday at exactly 4:05pm from the admissions office at the UW MBA program… and I’m IN!

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Uniform.

I received my invitation to interview at the UW today! Whoo! YAY! I’m so stoked. It’s scheduled for Monday.
Casey and I spent a good chunk of yesterday trying on suits at Bel Square. I had pretty much picked one, but decided to wait to purchase anything until I got an actual invitation… So, yeah, I [...]

MBA Update

Slow down life. September flew by. October is halfway over. Sheesh.
My application for the UW is officially submitted. Phew! YAY! Feels so good, but it’s not over yet! My next step will be an interview with an admissions rep or alumnus… This should happen sometime in the next couple of months.
I’m also continuing to look [...]