Back with a surprise!!

Hello my dearest readers (hope i can still say that!)

If you hear people saying that business school life is tough, I would say that’s a serious understatement. B-school life is notorious! My b-school life started in September 2010 and as a proof of the notorious schedule I haven’t posted a single blog post since then. Now after two and a half terms into the MBA, I am getting a feeling that the schedule is easing a bit and hence my decision to get back to blogging!

But i promised in the title for a surprise..... (drum rolls....) I have started a brand new self hosted blog! You can access my new web space at www.harikrish.com. The blog is relatively new so there are not many posts yet but i have a feeling that my past readers would like the 2 latest posts (this and this). These two posts are basically a two part series of my 8 months of business school experience! I have many more exciting and interesting posts coming up (more often than last time - that's a promise). So please feel free to visit, subscribe and post your valuable comments and feedback on my new blog!!

I am not going to close this blog down - not a chance. I hope this blog might still help some of the future MBA aspirants. The new blog would serve as an information source (at least that's the intention!) for people in b-schools, MBAs, aspiring MBAs or for anybody just looking to read about interesting stuff related to business, tech, social media, internet and the world around me!
So i ask of you dear readers and subscribers to extend the same level of support you gave me, to help me put together this new blog!

Muchas Gracias!!

"The Best MBA admission posts of 2009" in the Blogosphere

I had two choices to make during the month of December, wait for the application results or wait and do something while waiting. As a part of "doing something" I started reading some books; see my previous post.

Now after three books and three hundred blogposts on social media, I thought why not consolidate the best MBA admissions posts from the blogosphere - something I like to call blog-networking. So here is my first attempt to bring together the best of the best advice from my fellow applicant bloggers so that readers/applicants/bschool aspirants can benefit from a "one stop know all" write-up.

So here it is The Best MBA Admission Posts of 2009:

1. GMAT is often considered as the first hurdle in a b-school journey. This involves (speaking from my own experience) a lot of hard and organized work. Yet there are many daunting questions in the mind of test takers. Why not take some advice from a guy who shattered the GMAT with a 97th percentile score. William Wallace share in this post some invaluable advice on How to best prepare for the GMAT and answers some frequently asked questions.
Also if you need some inspiration you can also check out Rocky's debrief on his second attempt at the GMAT that he aced in his post GMAT Take 2

2. mad-bubbles, who recently got admitted to Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business (and selected as Forte Fellow), shares with us a post on What constitutes a Dream B-school. This very popular post elaborates on how to assess fit with a b-school and would definitely be a great read for anyone who is going through the nerve-wrecking process of business school selection.

3. After you cross the GMAT hurdle and have selected potential b-schools to apply to, you might want to know what are the business school application requirements and how to plan your application. To enlighten you with this information, The Dreamer has highlighted in her post "Application requirements and how to plan and meet them"a detailed check list of the application requirements.

4. Now that you have all the required information, its time to put your brains to work and start writing the essays. Essays are a very important part of your application since they become your pitch as to why you are a deserving candidate for the particular b-school. To get you started, here is a post that I wrote sometime back on The Perfect B-school Essay.

5. Once you have turned in your application, your treacherous wait begins! But hey, instead of simply waiting do yourself some good and start preparing for the final inning of your application - The Interview. To help you with this there are several resources online. You might want to check out my post on Preparing for the Admissions Interview. Here is another useful post by The Dreamer on How to prep. for admissions interview

6. If you want to know how a typical interview sessions goes, you could check out Rocky's post on his Rotman Interview report.
Another useful post on the admissions interview is by Steve in his post about his interview experience. Here he also highlights some interview questions for your reference.

I'm very sure that there are more useful posts out there. So, my dear applicant bloggers, if you think you have written a post which might be useful for the readers, please poke me with a permalink to your post and I'll definitely add it to the list above.

So I hope you all enjoyed the articles. Until next time herez wishing you a Very Happy New Year!!

Cheers,
Hari


Disclaimer: The Best MBA admission posts of 2009 are merely my personal opinion. This does not reflect a judgement of any kind, nor is it listed in any particular order. The bloggers' permission was sought prior to posting.