Wharton MBA for Executives

I came home after work to find another fedex envelope at home. This envelope was from the Wharton school. It was not a full admit package since I don’t think they have it ready yet. I’m guessing that sometime around 4/15 I will get a nice big package with a lot of […]

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I received a fedex this morning. It was sent priority overnight. It was from Berkeley and included the admit package.
It included:

1) An official sealed envelope containing an invitation to the welcome reception for admitted students on 3/14 at 6:30
2) 2008 enrollment card. I found it interesting that even if you do enroll, […]

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One of my friends once called me the “ultimate consumer” because I’m always buying gadgets and stuff like that.
When electronic organizers and PDAs first came out, I went through a few of those electronic organizers in the early 90s. These were basically small flip open gadgets that let you store your calendar, address book, […]

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I thought I would take a moment to reflect how all of this MBA stuff started. My story basically started on July 31, 2007 with this post:
http://gmatclub.com/forum/102-t49770

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So I received a phone call today from the Director of Admissions at the UC Berkeley Haas / Columbia joint EMBA program. She called to let me know that I’m in!
So it’s official…I am 3 for 3. I should be getting stuff in the mail next week.
I am 95% sure I will be […]

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Back in 2000, a few friends and I tried to start an educational website to teach English. The genre was called “edu-tainment” because we tried to use entertainment to teach English. Our website was hollywoodenglish.com (we no longer own the domain name) and we used popular hollywood movie clips, pop and rock music, […]

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Ok so everyone is asking me where my pictures are for the Wharton West campus (building). Well, last week when I was there, I didn’t bring my camera. I didn’t feel like going through the work of taking pictures of everything (and attracting attention) and then eventually not get in. The pictures […]

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One of the biggest hurdles for any MBA program is financial. The biggest reason why I never got an MBA (full time) after college was money. In terms of salary history, my history went something like this:
year 1 first job out of college: $35k (I was slightly underpaid (most classmates were making ~$42k) […]

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Hello everyone, I just wanted to offer greetings and salutations.  I set up my new blog here (instead of my other blog at foodiedan.com) to focus on my posts regarding my pursuit for my MBA.  I didn’t want my onslaught of posts regarding my MBA to get mixed up with my restaurant and food reviews […]

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I was starting to get nervous because my deadline to respond and commit to UCLA is on Monday 2/25 and it’s Friday 2/22 today. I hadn’t heard a peep from Wharton since my interview and visit last weekend. So this morning I sent an email out to one of the administrative coordinators just […]

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