No postings in a week- must be some kinda record for me. I guess I don’t have as much to write about now and the stuff that is on my mind I’m afraid would be uninteresting for anyone to read. I guess i’m kinda struggling right now as a blogger- can my readers really relate to me now that we’re on different sides of the app process? I don’t mean that in a haughty way believe it or not. I just wonder how much people care about my post-app experience since it wasn’t the original point of the blog. My site stats have taken a dip recently too… bleh.
I haven’t actually ordered Rosetta Stone yet, though I did try the free sample 1st lesson on their sample disc. I was impressed- it was simple, vivid, immersive, and I can see it being effective. But for some strange reason I didn’t find myself motivated to go back and try the other lessons (it turns out that I wouldn’t even have the option since only the 1st lesson was free). Do I really want to spend a few hundred bucks on it and never use it?
I am such a waste of space right now. I do little to no work at work, and then I play basketball at the gym for 4 hours daily. Literally. Apparently 1st year MBA life doesn’t afford time for such luxuries so I’ll get in all my playing now 
But seriously, I need some goals or something. I did borrow my co-worker’s Financial Accounting textbook though. It’s not the one that CBS uses but I just want to grasp some of the concepts so that everything won’t be new. I hear accounting is one of the big ass-kickers for 1st years at most programs. And about work… I have the opportunity to switch teams to the economic analysis part of our company’s business. It sounds cooler but it isn’t… essentially I would be working as a scheduler and using Microsoft Project for 8 hours a day. It sounds terrible! But I would also use Excel a lot more and might improve my Excel skills which is important to me. Should I switch or not? The other option is to stay on my current team which is super easy and unchallenging (I basically do 1 hour of work per day!) and I could try to learn Excel on my own instead. Might be nice to take it easy before school starts but then again, I’ve been taking it easy for a year now. I have actually been chatting with a fellow admitted CBS student who quit her job the day after she got accepted… guess she’s just having fun for the next 9 months!
By the way, I was in Barnes and Noble the other day and read the first 15 pages of Ahead of the Curve, the insider look at 2 years at Harvard Business School. It was a pretty good read, obviously very interesting and relevant since he graduated in 2004. I will probably go back and read it a few more times for free hehe. But that got me thinking: should I write my own insider experience about CBS? I don’t mean that in a negative way… I don’t expect to smear the school at all… if you haven’t noticed, I am very pro-Columbia But maybe it would be good for my memoirs and a good fallback if I can’t get a high-paying job… then I could just publish a book! haha, maybe I will keep a blog while I’m at school but looking around at other student blogs, it looks like there isn’t enough time to post every couple days… once a week if you’re lucky. Who knows.
Hopefully I’ll have more interesting things to blog about soon. I’ll actually be in NY this coming weekend to see a friend or two and take my old manager out to dinner (the one who wrote me a rec)… oh, and I’ll be stocking up at the Columbia bookstore 
On my shopping list are 5 t-shirts (3 for recommenders, 2 for me), sweatpants, and a hoodie. Maybe I will sample Hamilton Deli too.
OH! I cannot believe I almost forgot. Last thursday was a happy hour with co-workers to celebrate my acceptance… it lasted from 6 pm to 12:30 pm! I actually got pretty darn drunk and there was lots of dancing. Stuff that I normally wouldn’t do if I still cared hehe.
Read the full article: Internal Job Switch, Ahead of the Curve, etc.