Dinged by IMD

IMD sent me a ding letter today. It’s very nice and long, with a lot of BS about how competitive the admissions process is, etc. I realise my profile is much weaker than what this school wants and the ding is not much of a surprise, so I’m trying not to let this bring me down. The good thing is, I’ve submitted the INSEAD application so that now I am not tempted to make any desperate last minute changes to my career goals essay or anything.

In other news, the situation at work is getting more unbearable than ever.  Practically nothing to do all day long, not even GMAT problems or essay edits. I’m getting near the breaking point where I’ll snap and ask to be fired right away.

P.S. If I read another article about the crisis, credit default swaps, recession in the US, trouble in Eastern Europe, the stock market, or anything remotely related to those topics, I swear I am going to go nuts.

INSEAD submitted

The INSEAD application is done, about a week before the deadline. It feels strange, I wrote the first drafts more than two months ago and the final versions are not very much different. I only had to re-write from scratch two essays and I tweaked the career goals one a couple of times, but that was it.

A piece of advice to other applicants: they say ’submit early’ on the website and they are not joking. The PDF application form gave me so much trouble, I cannot imagine the stress this would cause one day before the deadline. Also, it is always a good idea to tell the recommenders to be ready earlier. This application turned out much more stress-free than the previous one and this is mostly because this time the recommenders submitted their stuff earlier.

In other news, still no word from IMD. Now that all (both!) of my applications are done I feel bored. Time to start those language lessons, I suppose.