November 2006 Archives

Just checking in. I went to my last Managerial Econ class today, opted out of the final exam, too, since I'll have an A- without it; so that's that. Have Accounting and Marketing on Tuesday, and that's it before finals. I'll take the Business Law final on Wednesday night (it's open book), and then the Accounting and Marketing finals on Friday, but then I'll be finished.

The stress definitely has taken its toll on my mental and physical health. I caught a cold at the tail end of Thanksgiving break (thanks to Kristen and Rob, giving me The Hybrid), and I think today is my last real day of dealing with it. I'm very tired of sneezing.

The mental health issues have been both worrisome and amusing. Yesterday I lost a span of about 5 minutes: I couldn't remember walking from lunch to work, as hard as I thought about it. I called Drew to ask him what happened, because I didn't remember any of it. Very strange. Another strange thing, I ordered a cheeseburger yesterday and started eating it, and had taken several bites before I saw a tomato sticking out. I was horrified at having consumed part of a real tomato and not having noticed! Other smaller things, like trouble speaking and arranging thoughts, can be chalked up to lack of sleep.

But I'm okay. Or I will be very soon!

Apparently my friend Matt doesn't like the idea of me even considering BYU as a grad school, just because it is run by crazies. Pish, like that stopped me from attending Rhodes. And he can't talk, he's considering going to CAPE GIRARDEAU for grad school, for God's sake. That's like Crazy Central Incorporated, Inc. Or so the many statisticians in my employ have informed me.

Anyway, so I sent him an email explaining why I was considering it:

To which he replied:

He is such a darn liar! The second most dangerous city in America is DETROIT, not Provo. Interestingly, St. Louis was #1 on that list. Coincedence that they were both World Series 2006 teams? Probably.

Yesterday, after weeks of preparation, I went to take the GMAT. I felt nervous beforehand, but was mostly just tired of thinking about it, so I got focused and determined and just attacked it. I used every second allotted to me for the Writing and Math sections (but not the Verbal), and when it was over, the program offers you an unofficial result.

I am pretty satisfied with this result. It could've been anything; my practice GMATs ranged from 550 to 680, my diagnostic test (the test we took on the very first day of Kaplan to give us a benchmark of where we began and where we finished) was 650, so I kind of wonder if I really accomplished that much.. But anyway, onwards to the application process, which will probably be just as grueling as the test preparation.

Besides all that grad stuff, I've got regular school work, and with registration coming up, it's been hectic. Fortunately I don't have any tests this week, so I can get some non-school things done, like call Dr Martin's office to ask about/schedule the laser skin treatments, and contact Franchise Concepts to make sure they'll have me back over break for closing entries (!!) (ok, that was nerdy), etc. So, yay.

And hopefully I'll be able to write more on here: I know I have a small but loyal readership and they like to have new material every now and then. :)