So I thought Ne-Yo would be a one hit wonder (or one album wonder) so I never bothered with him. But his second album makes him too legit to dismiss him again.
I think this is the best kept secret on the discount airfare world:
http://www.mobissimo.com/search_airfare.php
Instead of simply searching airlines for cheapest fares like orbitz and cheaptickets do, it compares those orbitz and cheaptickets websites as well as many more airlines to calculate the cheapest fare.
I’m done. But I’ve been busier than ever before. Chiropractor, meetings with future interns at IBM, 3.5 hours of my dentist grinding away at my teeth. Fenton’s banana split ice cream challenge (I was almost able to drink a gallon of milk some 5 years ago, this was by far much easier, although I was still feeling like crap afterwards, getting auxiliary-in capability on my home for the next 3 months (1980 Mercedes Benz 300SD Turbo Diesel), making extra keys for my car ($50), going into Army IRR, and getting 1 day parking permit passes for my friends coming up this weekend. One of my good Sergeant from Utah who was deployed with us to Operation Iraqi Freedom is training right now in Camp Parks and I want to meet up with him, as well as one of my interviewers from last year’s internship process, whom I had been very impressed with. Napa this Saturday. And I still haven’t packed to move yet.
My brother’s wedding is going to be on 8 Sept. So I moved my start date back for IBM (again) from the 10th to the 17th of Sept. It’s times like these I love being at IBM. No fuss about personal matters. It was true when I was there as an intern, and it has every indication that it’s the case for the full timers. I have a friend at Microsoft, which is supposedly known for looking out for their employees, who doesn’t feel like she gets enough say in her schedule.
You know, if I got any of the job offers that I wanted, I would have started in mid July (Bain, Microsoft). I wouldn’t have a choice on my start date. Maybe it’s for the best I’m with IBM. Otherwise I wouldn’t have this chance to travel.
So a lot of people ask me, why South America? But why not? I mean, everyone and their family does Europe. I’ve already been there, with much of Germany, New Year’s at Paris, and going through Vienna and Salzburg. Plus, my brother’s gonna be in Germany for at least another couple years. So why not do something that you know a million things could go wrong with, because even if it does, you’ll have 3 months to figure something out? Hell, if my car breaks down in Mexico, I’ll just camp out for 3 months at a nearby beach and just chill. I’ll go to Greece and Italy later.
A day before my last final, I get the email from the guy I’m driving down to South America with. He suffered from a life threatening gastro-intestinal infection in Hoi An, Vietnam. So after a week of recuperating in what he thought was his death bed in Idaho, he won’t be joining me. This is the second time someone’s bailed out on me. when I contacted the first 2 Mexican guys I was supposed to go with, the guy lies to me and says, “Oh, I guess you never got my email. My friend (the other Mexican dude) got a crazy summer internship and we won’t be going anymore.” I really doubt there was any such email.
A lot of other things are finally coming together, though. Like getting a better idea about what I’ve gotten done so far, the little things I still need to get. But I’m still optimistic. This is gonna be one hell of a trip. I’m going to meet up with a couple from Pennsylvania and caravan together down to Ecuador after meeting up at my friend’s place in Texas on 1st of June.
So because of all this, I haven’t really felt all too relieved from the end of what could be my last academic pursuit.
But I did email Harvard MBA the other day, asking about GPA. I did terrible the last couple semesters (probably a 3.21 for those 2 combined). But this semester, after having come to a realization that I can still pursue what I really want to do if I get into a top 5 MBA school, I pushed it all up a notch. So I should get no less than 3.7 this semester, hopefully a 4.0. So I asked them how GPA is calculated, because if they just look at my UC GPA (between 3.45 and 3.52 after this final semester) without my Junior College GPA (3.90), I would be just at or a little below their average GPA scores. And that’s an average that includes people from all backgrounds, including engineers. So I wanted to make sure all this fuss about this final push was worth it.
Elliott,
Please be advised that the GPA for each year, as well as the cumulative GPA, regardless of the school, is reported in the application.
Also, all university transcripts must be scanned into the online application.
MBA Admissions
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA 02163
www.hbs.edu/mba
You know, there seems to be this unwritten rule in college that you never talk about your GPA with anyone else. Because if yours is high, than people will think you’re gloating. If it’s too low, people will think you’re just stupid. There doesn’t seem to be any middle ground, really. I don’t know what the other reasons are, but take my statements for what it’s worth.
I keep wanting to mention that this is all mostly for me than anything else. I’ve switched from my blogger account to xanga so people can have a better idea about what I’m thinking, but it’s still mostly for me to jot down my thoughts and look back perhaps years from now and see my past ambitions and compare that to my ideal and realistic self.
You know, people in high school used to be a lot more chill and laid back. Sometimes you try to do things just for the sake of doing things because it’s the right thing to do, even at great cost to yourself. But now a lot of people second guess at some hidden motive that doesn’t exist. I do not condone a society which ultimately trains us that random acts of kindness should always be met with more than a healthy dose of skepticism.