tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84467112011-04-21T15:35:41.133-07:00In search of the holy grail of an MBA (class of 2008 hopeful), this space will hopefully chronicle the search and my other quixotic pursuits.sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-33600254679928959472007-06-21T10:50:00.000-07:002007-06-21T11:01:44.142-07:00

Just realized this blog was never formally put to rest. Ok, short version of what happened: got into (barely) Chicago GSB - amazing first year. Now 'amazing' also means bitter-sweet in my dictionary, but we will not go there. Just remember that anyone who tells you that it is not, is either hopelessly incapable of contending with reality or more likely is outrightly misleading you.Anyway, yours

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1142993042300376182006-03-21T18:00:00.000-08:002006-03-22T07:18:22.286-08:00

(My soul cleaveth to the dust)I heard them say with sighs so deep that itwas hard to comprehend the words they spokeDivine Comedy, Dante AlighieriThe calls have gone out - no word from Chicago.Update: This 'soul cleaving' business was quoted from the Divine Comedy cantica Purgatorio. The irony of it. Waitlisted.

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Minutes Before the Status Finally ChangedYes, it is official - I belong in the land of the Kellogg undead - waitlisted! Ah, the agony of it. I noticed that my online status went 'unavailable', which I thought could mean only one thing - a resounding ding. Minutes later it changed to 'waitlisted'. Ayiyiiiieee.

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I have been afflicted. Yes, no not by love. Well ok, you my readers are all too familiar with my quixotic love life; so I will admit: that too, but hold on. I'm serious now. I've been in bed since Saturday with fever chills, a teenager's voice and a pounding headache. It couldn't be the flu - no bodyaches or fatigue. Not the cold either. What could it be? Before you jump to conclusions I need to

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The thing that I hate about long distance relationships is how much it opens up the field to games. There's so much whining, pining and neediness. You ask her out and you hear nothing from her for days. Your feelings of insecurity manifest in fearsome forms. Has she dumped you for the I-banker hunk? You gripe about it to friends who cannot bear to hear one more word from you on the topic. On

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Below the thunders of the upper deep,Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleepThe Kraken sleepeth...Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;Then once by men and angels to be seen,In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. (a ding metaphor?)The Kraken, Lord Alfred TennysonWith the application festivities winding down, I have been able to focus on my life's

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1138665433862726402006-01-30T15:57:00.000-08:002006-01-30T16:10:17.990-08:00

Some of you probably know that I had opted for the off-campus Kellogg interview. Here is a brief rundown of what happened. Maybe the whole purpose of my life is to serve as an example to others of what not to do for a b-school interview.Relentless, Hard TrainingI have been told that a great interview hinges on communication, on body language actually. I shot off an e-mail to a current student

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1136744277730973662006-01-08T10:17:00.000-08:002006-01-08T10:23:54.773-08:00

No, this is no freak of nature. Please, your's truly is not a doting mother. But the point I'm trying to make is that applying to business school is pretty much like giving birth. There is the initial trepidation. Is this really for me? Can I handle it? Is it worth it? Is it overrated? Is it as rewarding as they say? Then there is the long gestation period reading parenting and applicant online

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Despite all the preparation, there is always the possibility that your interviewer could throw a curve-ball and leave you tongue-tied. Despair not, take a leaf out of San Francisco police Capt. Richard Bruce's book:"When I was involved with the shooting of that video, I would sometimes get tongue-tied and would roll my tongue to signify another take," Bruce said.For those not from the Bay area,

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6 AM China Air flight from Shanghai to Shenzen. Sleepy, grumpy, downgraded-to-coach sorebreK has the dreaded 'sandwich' seat. To the right, a grown man with zero snore and drool control. To the left, matronly New England mother of three teenage brats.NE Mom: (smiles)sorebreK: (pretends to fall forward in sleep)NEM: (hint completely ignored) It's quite cold out there isn't it?S: Uhuh?!NEM: My son

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1133080909985994022005-11-27T00:41:00.000-08:002005-11-27T13:00:45.383-08:00

I wrote this oirginally for someone I know as a mini-travelogue of my trip to China a few weeks back, but now I see no reason why I shouldn't post it for public consumption. I like to play around with my writing style every now and then; this is one of those times. To some the style may sound highfalutin, but rest assured that there is nothing affected about the experience itself.In the months

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Like a performing monkey dressed in a suit, wise-cracking with customers during the day and yelping at the yellow moon driving down the Bay bridge at night to Pagliacci, fancying myself the weeping clown, Il Pagliaccio screaming 'Nedda, o Nedda', it hit me. Like a meteor shower on an unexpected fall evening, like a bucket of ice-cold water at 2 AM, like the ten scourges that Jehovah rained on

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1132195807311109802005-11-16T18:50:00.000-08:002005-11-17T00:30:04.930-08:00

It comes in many forms:"We already get the newspaper", "I like you as a friend", "I'm not really into indie movies", "My dog needs a root canal", and the classic: "it is not you, it is me"!When I started writing this blog more than a year back, I didn't shy away from talking about other things besides b-school admissions, but then I had set myself the rule that I wouldn't discuss affairs de coeur

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1131329909184314722005-11-06T18:18:00.000-08:002005-11-19T15:35:11.610-08:00

So amici, the last time we spoke, Sorebrek was on a plane trying to score some bottled water. The thing is, normally Sorebrek loves these breaks from the mundane, i.e. sitting in traffic on bay bridge in a blue funk. However, this time, with the gods of MBA admissions to appease, he is not as thrilled to leave the familiar behind. In any case, off he goes, his toothbrush packed. First stop:

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Sure, I've been gone for ages and most of you have confined me to the dust-bin of history. But I'm back. Like that alien jelly-gooey thing that gets pounded by machine-gn fire and blow-torched to well-done, courtesy Michael Madsen, and yet sort of gels back together to come and creep you out, I'm back. Like Michael Jackson in a court-house, I'm back. Like the unending sequels to Nightmare on Elm

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1118442615269743692005-06-10T15:30:00.000-07:002005-06-10T15:53:04.940-07:00

Me:Yeti (Male/Indian b-school applicant/IT background)B-school applicant - applying this fallSan Francisco bay area residentApplying to H/S/K/W/Chicago/Columbia/Sloan/Haas PT You:B-school applicant - applying this fallSan Francisco bay area resident or someone with a good long-distance calling planApplying to at least one of H/S/K/W/Chicago/Columbia/Sloan/Haas PTWe:Swap strategy/ideas,

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So what is common between the Yeti and the most common MBA applicant? For one, they're both from the Indian subcontinent (or thereabout). They're both male (Unexplained Mysteries is yet to feature the Abominable Snow Woman, so I'm assuming). Both do pretty geekish stuff: one keeps busy churning out computer code and the other leaves silly, giant footsteps in the snow to scare the crizzap out of

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1111540520076583192005-03-22T17:30:00.000-08:002005-03-22T17:43:36.833-08:00

(Backdrop - Spangler Hall, news anchor in a yellow turtle-neck and cheap traffic-stopping-red North Face jacket).AnchorMan: As the war in Iraq drags on with no end in sight and the country remains divided along red and blue lines, another storm is brewing here in Cambridge Massachusetts. This time it is the venerable Harvard University taking up battle stations against applicants to its

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1110684141964082292005-03-12T19:10:00.000-08:002005-03-12T19:44:15.453-08:00

I remember visiting the headquarters of Excite in the Silicon Valley in early 2000. We were trying to figure out if Excite might be interested in the technology we were hawking. Little did we know at the time that Excite was tanking like several other tech shops in the area. But the sad part is that this was no 10-person startup. There were hundreds, if not a few thousand employees working from

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1110504818506804242005-03-10T23:11:00.000-08:002005-03-11T17:07:30.683-08:00

I wake up to the incessant ringing of the cell-phone. I pick up and a series of Nextel beeps and crackles later, a voice: You sorebreK? (ok, not really, he asks for me by name).Yours truly: Yeah, that's right.The Voice: You want cable, man?YT (very groggily): Huh? yeah, yeah, cable internet installation right? What time are you coming by?V: Be there soon.Three hours and half of my workday later,

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After agonizing for several months over plunking down $300 for a music player, a very sexy one at that, I finally broke down and bought myself a first generation 5 Gb Apple iPod. I had sworn a blood oath that I wouldn't splurge on an iPod until the price hit the cost of the storage media; once it hit $150, I broke down and went for it. Ok, some first impressions: Terrific interface, but hey,

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1108238085117686372005-02-12T10:17:00.000-08:002005-02-12T16:06:02.186-08:00

Last weekend, while the rest of the nation stayed glued to their TV sets, a different kind of drama was unfolding in a Chicago hotel room. The board members of HP were huddled over plans to ease out Carly Fiorina, the empress of the silicon-valley icon, HP. So why am I writing about yesterday's news? While news-stories focused on her performance as the CEO, I thought I might sound off on what I

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1106216591986026182004-12-29T02:12:00.000-08:002005-01-23T23:09:05.823-08:00

Waiting at Changi airport in Singapore for local friends to come and pick me up so I won't die of boredom in the 8 hours before my connecting flight to India is due. In the words of resident Singapoerans, Singapore is one giant shopping mall; sorry if that sounds judgemental, I am not saying it, the residents are, the logic being if you're catholic I guess you can pull a funny one on the pope.

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1103105742619058282004-12-15T02:09:00.000-08:002004-12-15T02:15:42.620-08:00

This started out as a comment to Brit-Chick’s excellent post. Her discussion is on whether non-profit applicants have an easier time getting a B-school admit. Here is a statistical viewpoint: I think the only true test for this theory is the empirical results, i.e. by comparing the acceptance rates for each of the applicant pools. In practice, assuming deliberately engineered demographics, the

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1098600681002264662004-10-23T23:02:00.000-07:002004-11-07T10:55:12.100-08:00

Motorcycle Diaries has to be one of the best films to have come out this year. It is the story of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (famous South-American revolutionary) and his friend Alberto Granado embarking on the trip of their life, on a end-of-life motorcycle. What starts out as a college road-trip, changes both friends, not so much because of any particular event or events, but more so due to the

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Back after a long hiatus. Been busy with personal stuff and taking some time off from work. Managed to squeeze in a couple of B-school visits while in Chicago, where the famous weather is slowly unraveling its charms. About visiting Kellogg: The Kellogg school is on Northwestern University's Evanston campus. Actually, they do have a downtown campus, but that facility houses the TMP (part-time)

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News as it happens :-) Just got this off the BW chat forums as it is being announced. Will post more on this later, but for now, here are the top-10 US schools: 10 Dartmouth's Tuck school 8 Columbia Business School 7 Cornell University's Johnson school 6 University of Michigan's Ross school 5 Harvard Business School 4 Stanford GSB 3 Wharton, University of Pennsylvania 2 Chicago GSB 1 Kellogg,

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Here is the skinny on the Wharton reception in San Fran: After I did a few rounds of the block and finally decided to plunk down the $5 for parking, it was a short walk to 101 Howard St. The thing that struck me as amazing was that Wharton had professional, block-cut signage at the reception. Later on I realized that this was where the Wharton West Exec MBA classes were held; so much for my

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1097012992838323162004-10-05T14:49:00.000-07:002004-10-05T14:49:52.836-07:00

Headed to the Wharton reception in San Fran this evening (7 to 9). Anyone else attending? Would love to meet up. Drop me a comment. Here's the event link: https://admissions.wharton.upenn.edu/Admissions/Events/index.cfm?forum=510 The event seems to be full, but based on my past experience, they always have a few buffer seats; so you might want to consider gate-crashing.

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Check out this article on Slate describing Seth Stevenson's effort and my e-mail addressed to him: Seth, Ref: Your article: http://slate.msn.com/id/2107063/entry/2107071/ When you mentioned the piles of garbage, homeless people, the urine stench and the panhandlers, for a moment I thought you were referring to the Tenderloin district in San Francisco. Well, not quite - the drug-peddlers were

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Back from the Stanford GSB song and dance in San Fran. Happy to report that I was impressed and enthused to take Stanford seriously although it is currently at the bottom of my list owing to the stretch factor. Onward to the review: The event was at the GAP offices on Folsom, right by the Embarcadero. Apparently GAP is teeming with GSB alumni. In fact couple of the alumni panelists were

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1096408083067960452004-09-28T14:40:00.000-07:002004-09-29T09:41:36.363-07:00

I was home this morning when I heard the bedroom door open on its own and just as I was about to dismiss it as a lost cat burglar or a draught from the open window, I realized that the windows were all shut and that there wasn't anything at home that might interest a burglar! More noises - pictures moving and blinds rattling. I always feel a little dizzy when a quake hits and this time was no

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1096163975392063332004-09-25T18:55:00.000-07:002004-09-25T18:59:35.393-07:00

Ok, you asked for it. Here is another one of my aphorisms on the strange bedfellows that engineers, sales people and executives make. Engineers think they create the products that define the company. In creating, they in their own reckoning are gods. However the average sales person’s line of thought is: If I don’t sell the #$@$ that you nerds produce, you geeks might as well be flipping burgers

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1096163469584153332004-09-25T18:48:00.000-07:002004-09-25T18:54:39.943-07:00

Another week and another reflection paper. For those who care to read on: While core values by themselves are noble objectives and may often set the course for an organization, I cannot help but wonder how it relates to the organization itself. Let me clarify. Arguably, the people that it employs define an organization. If that were so, why is the practice of core values so far removed from most

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1096162210577816452004-09-25T18:30:00.000-07:002004-09-25T18:35:23.093-07:00

Another shifting season and yet another set of wishes relegated to the next year. Another fading summer ...  What was that REI radio ad about the number of summers we had left in our lives? I am sure that one sold a few thousand backpacks. Anyway, I am not sure if I will have the time to ruminate on the changing seasons next year this time. Might as well make the best of it.

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1096063071652470572004-09-24T14:57:00.000-07:002004-09-25T18:07:32.880-07:00

So you have been thinking about that MBA for a while and you have taken the next step, i.e. research your options. Excellent! Now what you really need is to talk the talk. Like any other sub-culture, the world of MBA applicants has its own jargon. Hopefully, this list will boot-strap some of the jargon-challenged newbie applicants out there. Readers are advised to treat the information provided

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095983562774538592004-09-23T16:49:00.000-07:002004-09-29T23:38:26.576-07:00

If you haven't already seen this on TV, now is the time: http://www.fedex.com/us/about/advertising/tvads/mbaqt.html Btw, it turns out that Fred Smith's business paper on Fedex may not have actually been graded a 'C' as is commonly believed. He doesn't remember what the grade was, just that it wasn't great and that the paper wasn't well thought out. He attributes the 'C' myth to the common

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095972621405928782004-09-23T13:39:00.000-07:002004-09-23T13:50:21.406-07:00

Today seems to be chat fest day. I cannot even begin to tell you how boring the Harvard chat on BW was. So I won't. Ok, I promise to say just this one mean thing and no more: I hope they have a concentration in ambiguity: no minimums grades/GMATs, no special ability/achievements, age no bar, background no bar, no nationality/ethnicity/gender considerations - we just roll some dice and flip a coin

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095970082290689712004-09-23T11:16:00.000-07:002004-09-28T14:32:28.290-07:00

Following the Sloan chat as I blog this (Cannot help but wonder if blog was a verb three years back). Some observations: (1) Oddly enough Sloan does not seem to be asking the "Why MBA? Why Sloan?" questions in their essays. Rod Garcia's (adcomm) advice is to address these in the cover letter. (2) What if your GPAs are less than desirable? "Taking recent college-level courses in

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095970039657073192004-09-16T18:12:00.000-07:002004-09-23T13:07:19.656-07:00

My first B-school reception. I was more than happy for the opportunity to talk to alums in a less rushed environment. Swoops and Aregon23 have written excellent reviews on the event. Go check 'em out!

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095969970308074802004-09-15T03:11:00.000-07:002004-09-23T13:06:17.156-07:00

Happy to report that the festivities of the "World MBA Tour" run by topmba.com have come to a close as far as San Francisco is concerned. Turned out to be quite the circus that I was expecting it to be. It wasn't much of a surprise though, thanks to Dave's post on the LA leg. Some observations are due: 1) Most adcoms seemed to parrot the same set of responses (often to the same questions asked

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095969785286891672004-09-11T20:15:00.000-07:002004-09-23T13:03:05.286-07:00

A largely unmodified version of a free-form reflection paper I wrote for a class I am taking: (Be warned that it was written 5 hours before a 9AM class and comes with all of the accompanying weirdness typical of the hour.) Applying to business school and evolving responsibilities at work had me reflecting, rather absent-mindedly (read, in the shower) about the state of technical

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095969707586990142004-09-07T13:32:00.000-07:002004-09-23T13:01:47.586-07:00

With fall comes chat season. Accepted.com and BusinessWeek are both lining up chat sessions with ad comm members from several top schools. Accepted.com Wharton (9/15) MIT (9/23) UCLA (9/28) Haas (10/11) HEC (10/18) CMU (10/27) BusinessWeek Wharton School (9/9) Stanford (9/13) Harvard (9/23) Chicago (9/27) Kellogg (10/13) INSEAD (10/20)

sorebrekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11724335315033187155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446711.post-1095969647514169622004-09-07T01:53:00.000-07:002004-09-23T13:00:59.356-07:00

World MBA tour comes to town on 09/14. I wonder how this will shape up to be - a stampede? I hope not. But it does not look very promising conisdering that the event would run from 5PM to 9PM.

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Ok so here is the rundown on my schools of choice (in order): Wharton (U. Penn) Kellogg (Northwestern) Sloan (MIT) Chicago GSB Stanford Harvard If you are wondering about the top names, rest assured that it stems from rank arrogance and unfounded hubris. Seriously, at this stage in my career (7 years with a Fortune 50 company) I don't think it is worth my while to look at other schools

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It irks me that I cannot pick a blog skin without being judged about my sexual proclivities :-) But hey, I think I can brave it - here goes 'metrosexual pink'(?) Not meaning to start this off on a combative note, but I guess it is the Sunday-evening blues :-( So the idea is for me to put together my thoughts on applying to B-schools for the Fall '06 admissions; yes, that's right - a couple of

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