Well, I'm BACK! And I'll post more regularly!
A quick recap:
After my GMAT experience, I was all geared up to restart studying and retake the GMAT and cross that 700 mark. However, a few incidences changed all that. Some were outside my control and some were within my control (and in a classic-me fashion I chose to ignore them)
Outside my control
- I was banking on 3 engineers (1 full time, 2 part time interns) joining my team. They did not join my team (of currently 2 engineers) for various reasons. Since pushing out dates was not an option so I took on extra work.
- We had project delivery delays. Extra time to catch-up.
- Family visiting: I had a few family members who decided they wanted to move back to India and they all wanted to visit San Francisco. Some needed the regular SF tour. Some were veterans. However, we did end up having dinner at Jai Yun with my brother-in-law and it was superb!
- I spent a lot of weekends just doing nothing. I could have at least used that time to plan further.
- Been more proactive at work to plan my time better (like I did when I studied for the GMAT).
- I did meet a few grads from my target school (Haas - more on this later) and they all mentioned that retaking the GMAT for me is really not worth it and instead I should throw my energies towards the essays. After hearing that I starting taking things easy.
So where do I stand now? I'm still planning on retaking the GMAT by December. Just in time for the holidays and before I go on my vacation (more on that later too!).
Overall I'm not really feeling bad that I ignored GMAT-study. I did give my wife some time that I was unable to give all these months and we took some amazing bike rides together when the weather was not foggy.
In the next few days I'll post details on how I plan to re-tackle the GMAT and also some thoughts on selecting target schools.
Feels good to be blogging again.
