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Name: neener
School: USC Marshall School of Business
Status: Employed...finally
E-mail: Click here!
Reason for blogging: I'm incredibly self-absorbed. |
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I'm listening to...
::"Stay Beautiful," The Last Goodnight
::"Spaceman," The Killers
::"Green Light," John Legend
::"Superstar," Lupe Fiasco
I'm watching...
::24
::The Office
I'm reading...
::Taiwan, A Political History, by Denny Roy
::The Devil and Miss Prym, by Paulo Coehlo
I've just seen...
::Slumdog Millionaire
::I Love You, Man
::The Reader
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Going Through Withdrawal I truly believed that I would be able to update my website and surf the internet with complete abandon once I stopped working. This has not been the case. I should have foreseen these obstacles, but I suppose that in my excitement at being unemployed, my mind glossed over them.
Obstacle 1: Dial-up. At work, I get along swimmingly with a super-fast T1 connection. At home, I have a measly dial-up connection. Not only that, but something is totally out of whack with my dial-up service because I get, ON AVERAGE, a connection speed of 20 kbps. It's excruciatingly slow, and makes checking e-mail more like torture as I wait for each page to load. I'm going to have to talk with my Internet provider about this.
Obstacle 2: Siblings. At work, I worked off a LAN. As long as I was sitting at a computer, I was able to frolic among web pages. Now, at home, I have to wait for a sibling to "be done with their stuff" before I can get on. Naturally, siblings don't care if you have to check your e-mail. They have to read the latest news on their friend's xanga blog, because that's naturally more important. Sheesh, I hate sharing.
I have been going through major Internet withdrawal. I'll be sitting in front of the TV, and all of a sudden, the last funny e-mail I received will run through my head. I'll be sitting in traffic, and my eyes will glaze over as I fantasize about being able to visit my cherished forums and chatrooms. It's pathetic, I know.
Speaking of withdrawal, I finally decided on which b-school to attend. I will definitely be attending the Marshall School of Business at USC. It was a very difficult decision, but I couldn't go on in limbo any further. I had to send in a withdrawal letter to the other school I had accepted (I was not trying to be tricky...the schools had different acceptance deadlines so I had to send in deposits to both). I really liked the other school, and it was really difficult writing that withdrawal letter. If it had been a school that I was ambivalent about, I could have whipped up a quick letter in a jiffy. However, since I felt that I had really gotten to know the staff and students at the school I was declining, I really wanted to write the best rejection letter I could write. I'm not so egotistical as to think that they're crying over my not going there...for all I know, they could be thinking, "Good riddance!" But I'd rather it be the former than the latter. They put in all that effort to appear caring and courteous, so I felt that I should be the same in return, whether or not they were sincere. After I put the letter in the mail, all I could think of was the finality of such an action. But I will not second-guess myself, so I shall leave all doubts behind. Onward! And upward!
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EBITAS (noun):
Abbreviation for "Earnings Before Income Tax, Amortization, and SGARA." Next week, find out what SGARA is.
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