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Hey everybody,

I've decided that to get ahead in life I've got to find a leg up somewhere. So with that in mind I've decided to hunker down and apply to get into MBA school. Yesterday I bought a Kaplan study guide, and have so far been taken as little free time as I have to dive into it. So far it look like this test is going to be a challenge.

The GMAT is definatly going to be difficult. For those who don't know this test is basically the main deciding factor for if your are going to get into an IVY league school or a tutor down the street. The test begins with two Analytical Writing Assessments-essays on assigned topics- each 30 minutes. Then you'll move on to two 75-minute multiple-choice sections: Math (Quantitative) and Verbal. Basically, this is like the SAT's with the quad damage power up. Now I'll that math problems have been tough for me, but I've always found I can overcome it in the end. The part of the test that worries me are those essays and verbal section.

I haven't gotten far enough into my study guide yet to know exactly what their looking for in the essays, but I'm kinda getting a sense of whats going on in the verbal sections. Its broken down to be just like the SAT. One section will involve you will be given a passage and asked to select the answer that either supports or dissuades the argument. The passages will get longer as the test moves on, and the questions will become more in depth. I'm more worried about the longer passages that I am the shorter sections. I had a critical thinking course in college that really opened my eyes to this sort of things. I've found I'm pretty good at it so far.

So anyway, thats whats going on with that. I haven't set a date yet for when I'm going to take the test. My gut feeling right now will be sometime in either July or August. For right now I just want to study casually while I focus on calming down the drama thats developing at my work. I can already see that I'm going to have to set a date for it at some point otherwise I may never put the effort into it that I need. Nothing like a next day test to really push away that laziness.

Anyway, some of you might be wondering what exactly I'm going to try to MBA school for and where I'm going to be going. Well, honestly, I only have an answer to one of those questions, but I'm pretty sure about the other one. I'm going for an MBA with a concentration in finance. After a year or so I'm going to try to apply for CPA license. My hope is that in a few years I'll be crunching numbers for either a large bank or a notable game publishing company. Now some of you may be surprised by what I've just said as I may not fit the description that comes to mind with you think of a certified number cruncher. Also, I don't always come off as being the brightest person you've ever met. However, I will say this. I know what its like to fail and be left behind, and I won't let that happen to myself. I have an interest in all the details that go into making a business work and I want to study it further. I'll just work as hard as I can.

Well thats it in a nutshell about whats going on with me. I've got two more posts I want to make before I'm done before I'm done for the night. So everyone stay up a little bit longer.