Ready to submit Columbia, but am waiting for recommenders. It just occurred to me that I haven’t paid the money yet and don’t have to apply. Isn’t that freeing? But I want to. So I’ll pay my $250 and see what happens.
Not overdoing the essay review this time, they’re solid. I love my master’s class “theory vs. practice” essay – there’s heart and there’s NPV, it’s delicious. I hope I didn’t jinx myself. I told rec-ers to submit by Dec. 20th. I’m not going to tell them about Kellogg until they do it. Sneaky, I know, but they’ve already been such procrastinators that I don’t want to take any chances.
I don’t mean this to be a public service announcement for myself, but I recently talked with a kid at the college prep center where I volunteer who was applying to my undergrad college. I’m going to look at his essays too. It feels really good to mentor someone since he doesn’t have the network those of us in the middle class take for granted. Sometimes I think I should run an educational organization since seeing kids succeed touches me like few other things do. But teaching 40 hrs a week would make me miserable. Looking forward to the nonprofit board leadership programs at all these schools. Go forth and reach out and touch someone today (in a non-skeevy way).
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