Sektion Sieben: Entscheidungen, Entscheidungen

Got the call from the Good Humor Man at Olin, and he came bearing Geld. Time to visit St. Louis and get ready to make a choice. Its a good choice to have, but its also a tough one. On the one hand there's Olin, with a good ranking and what appears to be a pretty good recruiter base. On the other hand is Rice, with extremely friendly students, rock solid finance, and a location in the state I love. I think they are the most under-ranked school in the US, and I think their lack of a PhD program is the only reason.

For the life of me I don't know what a PhD program has to do with an MBA, except that if you don't have one, you're more likely to be taught by actual professors.

So that's the decision, in addition to adding McCombs into the mizzle. Speaking of Macky-C, I got a letter from them last week in a standard envelope. My heart stopped, and I was thinking, "OK, I guess it's down to two." But reading further, I discovered that they had made a review of the waitlist and I was still alive. Anyway, according to them, I may be waiting until May or June before I hear something.

On another note, I'm back to running again, and I seem to be injury free. I'm looking forward to doing the BolderBoulder 10k in Colorado during my bachelor party weekend in May. Also really looking forward to the St. Louis visit.

Sektion Sechs: Neue Gelegenheiten

So the waitlist continues. Managed to drop 10 points on the GMAT. Ran into some lousy combination/permuatation problems early on the quant, and it killed me. I brought my verbal into the 96th percentile, but I don't even get to show this to anyone because of the verdammten math.

We had a great trip to Houston and Austin. My fiance was, suprisingly, more enamored by Houston at first, but in the end I think she prefered Austin. In any case, I've decided not to leave myself with only one choice in the event that McCombs gives me the dizzle. I'm going to submit an application to Wash U (Olin) this week. I finally started reading their emails, and I am really impressed with the school. Not for nothing, it would also be nice to go somewhere where I haven't already lived. Whatever the case, whether it's Rice, Olin or McCombs, it is going to be great and I can't wait to leave the technical world and pursue my intellectual limits in the world of finance.

I apologize for being a slacking blogger (slogger?) the last few weeks. Being waitlisted feels like ice fishing in April: you don't want to do anythin to upset the balance. But I think adding another option into the mix has defininitely filled some of the potholes in my psyche.