GMAT and Application Progress

OG 12th Edition, Kaplan GMAT Math Workbookm OG 13th Edition, Kaplan GMAT 800

Kaplan GMAT Premier, Kaplan GMAT Verbal Practice, Princeton's GMAT, Princeton's 1012 GMAT, Manhattan Critical Reasoning

How To Get Into The Top MBA Progams by Richard Montauk and 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays were really useful in helping me put a concise application materials for this year. Totally recommend it!

I wish I could say that I'm 100% confident that I could better my previous GMAT score in my 2nd attempt... but unfortunately, computer says no.... (a little bit Little Britain joke, if you don't get it)

Today is a bit special however for some really weird/coincidental milestones. No. 1 I actually have finished my HBS application! That includes the data form, the essays and even managed to get all my recommenders to commit to submit by 20th Sept! I was sooooo happy when I saw this screen:

Proceed to submit? Nah, lemme sleep on it first :)

Deadline is in about 2 weeks, so I'm way ahead of the crunch time. But now I'm sleeping on it for a week before having a final comb through to make damn sure I've filled the form the best way I could've marketed myself and the essays are 100% to my satisfaction. And of course, I'll have to follow up with my LORs dilligently too... oh let's worry about it next week!

Second major milestone is that the project that I've been busting my arse off for the last 7 months had been approved by the President of the company! It is somewhat a huge deal because not everyday (or every year) you get to do a project that has such a huge impact on a company that it needs to get the approval from its President. I was involved in planning, execution, analysis and even crafting the storyline for the final approval presentation. It felt somewhat surreal but good at the same time! Project has now been approved so we're going into major full-on execution mode in the next couple of weeks, and I hope that I get to see the completion of this project before I go to business school next year... fingers cross!

Oh and finally, of course my 2nd attemp with GMAT, which will be next week on Wednesday...

Like you can see in the pics above, I've bought tons of study materials... but the issue I'm having now is not not enough materials to revise but TIME... god lord, I'm so freaking swamped with stuff after coming back from Eid break.

But lucky for me, this weekend is gonna be a long one - gotta LOVE Malaysia and its millions public holidays! So I guess, this weekend will be crunch time for GMAT vs Me round 2!!!

Wish me luck!