R2
One week to deadline and all is quite on the MBA front. Is it just me or does anyone else feel that there is no fizz in the R2 applicant pool? I don't see the same amount of nervous energy that made the boards buzz with activity. Where are the:
Frantic Freaks - Who were scrambling around to complete their essays, wondering if their recommender would get around to submitting their recommendation on time.
Amaranthine Agonizers - Who were besieged by doubts whether their 780 GMAT scores tied with 4 years WE and 3.8 GPA qualified them for admissions to a top school. T
Nervous Neurotics - Who weren't sure whether the font size they picked (10.5) should have been 11 points instead, and whether the one typo they made would knock them out of the game.
Social Suitors - Who after submitting their applications would feel the need to communicate their thoughts about clothes and plans, while hitting on members of the opposite sex on the boards.
Statistical Screwballs - Who got a perverse pleasure in breaking down data to its base numbers and constructing castles of fantasy on top. (Well I am still around)
Confident Cool Cats - Who were sure of success come what may
Where are all these people? The number of hits and messages on S2S and BW seem to have plummeted. A couple of people who still stir up the enthusiasm to post are bland and lethargic. There is no pep or fizz left any more and all the categories above seem to have been replaced by the Silent Sleepers. It is either that most people are becoming politically correct and don't want to be another Maverick Bain, or are too busy with their applications to bother about how the rest of the pool is going about their business, or have come to the conclusion that most of the people in the above mentioned categories, went down in flames after a brutally savage R1 and are trying to minimize their exposure so as to not become the topic of conversation in MBA applicants sorrow drowning parties. A la "Whatever happened to xyz, who posted all those messages?", "Dinged! Bartender ONE MORE!".
Whatever said and done it has become a lot more lonely out there. A one time addition to check the boards has been cured by the lack of posts (quality or otherwise). Folks are all retreating into the worlds they came from before jumping into the MBA application pool.
Ah those were the days.
Frantic Freaks - Who were scrambling around to complete their essays, wondering if their recommender would get around to submitting their recommendation on time.
Amaranthine Agonizers - Who were besieged by doubts whether their 780 GMAT scores tied with 4 years WE and 3.8 GPA qualified them for admissions to a top school. T
Nervous Neurotics - Who weren't sure whether the font size they picked (10.5) should have been 11 points instead, and whether the one typo they made would knock them out of the game.
Social Suitors - Who after submitting their applications would feel the need to communicate their thoughts about clothes and plans, while hitting on members of the opposite sex on the boards.
Statistical Screwballs - Who got a perverse pleasure in breaking down data to its base numbers and constructing castles of fantasy on top. (Well I am still around)
Confident Cool Cats - Who were sure of success come what may
Where are all these people? The number of hits and messages on S2S and BW seem to have plummeted. A couple of people who still stir up the enthusiasm to post are bland and lethargic. There is no pep or fizz left any more and all the categories above seem to have been replaced by the Silent Sleepers. It is either that most people are becoming politically correct and don't want to be another Maverick Bain, or are too busy with their applications to bother about how the rest of the pool is going about their business, or have come to the conclusion that most of the people in the above mentioned categories, went down in flames after a brutally savage R1 and are trying to minimize their exposure so as to not become the topic of conversation in MBA applicants sorrow drowning parties. A la "Whatever happened to xyz, who posted all those messages?", "Dinged! Bartender ONE MORE!".
Whatever said and done it has become a lot more lonely out there. A one time addition to check the boards has been cured by the lack of posts (quality or otherwise). Folks are all retreating into the worlds they came from before jumping into the MBA application pool.
Ah those were the days.
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