Helping hands along the way

By the time I was attending the TOEFL course, I started to search application tips on the Internet and I also asked some friends for advice.

That's the way I discovered the MBA blogs. Some of them are more focused than others but you can always learn from others' experience. These are my favorite MBA Blogs:

• Asiangal : http://asiangalmba.blogspot.com/
• Rungee Goes to School : http://rungee582.blogspot.com/
• Run Forrest, Run : http://run-forrest.blogspot.com/
• In between dreams : http://thembasaga.blogspot.com/
• etc and etc... : http://i4iday.blogspot.com/
• A young girl's MBA journey at UCLA Anderson : http://youngmbagal.blogspot.com/

I even emailed some of them asking for advice and found they're very helpful people. Thank guys!

Regarding blogs, I found one interesting but looooooooooooong one, called "Journey to my MBA" (http://daveformba.blogspot.com/index.html). I have read almost the middle of this blog and it seems endlessly long. However, I recommend to you read some interesting sections of it like the visits to Harvard and Wharton that Dave did at the beginning of his journey. He also recommends everyone ask some general questions to Graham at http://www.clearadmit.com/. Well, most of the blog so far is about Dave's concerns in regard to GMAT. I hope he finally has got accepted to the school he chose.

By the way, Blogger guys haven't think about the problems one has to face when trying to read old blogs from the beginning. There should be a way to read blogs easily from the first post to the last one. Since I didn't have enough time to stay connected I built an Excel worksheet in order to turn out my favorites blogs into Word-friendly versions and, this is the best, re-arrange the oldest post at the beginning and the newest at the end. I'm attaching a picture of my spreadsheet. I might share it with everybody if I knew how to upload Excel files to this blog.

Anyway, besides reading these blogs I started chatting with my friend Georgi (from Georgia, former USSR republic), I met him at Maastricht (Holland) and I knew he was applying to Cambridge (UK). I'm very happy he finally did it. Now, he's also giving me some advice about application process issues. I also must thank my friend Pomme for giving me so many tips and pieces of advice about how to improve my English, I would never be on this way without your help.

Last but not least, I thank my wife and new-born baby boy for being supportive to me and let me dedicate some time to prepare my way to an international career.