figure i'd give all my AVID readers a quick bschool update, as its obviously been dominating my thoughts and actions here...
Got the Rejection from Stanford. Not surprised about this as they didnt give me an interview, and you have to have an interview to get in.
Got the Waitlist from Harvard. Initially obviously a bit dissapointing, but still some really great news, so i'm really trying to stay optimistic and excited about the opportunity. I'm ganna try to visit the school soon somehow, to show them that I really want to be there....! Also i heard that round one apps (which I applied for) were up 24% but round 2 were down 10%, so maybe i'll have a good chance of getting in.
Interview with columbia here in Barca next week, interviewed waived by Kellogg (due to my location i'm assuming) and no word yet from MIT. These 3 are due to tell me mid march early april....
ps. check out my facebook for some water polo picss....
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
47 hours in Lisboa, 6 hours in Zeregosa, and 28 hours in Grand Canarys...and 724 pictures later
so yes, I do have a problem with picture taking. I love architecture especially historic european architecture so I take lots of pictures...what do I do with these? I dont put them on facebook (dont know why, i just dont) and I havent put them up on my ofoto page...maybe i should do something with them...who knows.
So just a quick update, done a lot of traveling in the last few weeks. For 3 kings holiday i took a last minute solo vacation to Lisboa Portugal. An ok place, glad I went, but not on my list of places to go back to, or recommend others to go to (especially from the us)....
We also had a game in Zaragosa, a city about 350km away from Barcelona...We played the first place team (we were in second) and played really bad and lost by 1. They had a packed house, and a small pool, and I could barley hear myself think no less the reff's whistle...We lost by 1 cause our offense sucked, and we couldnt shoot outside of 5 meters...fixable things, but the next week all we did was swim...>AWESOME.
So that was our second loss and i think it put us down to 4th place, which i was pretty pissed about.
We then had a game this last saturday in Las Palmas, which is on the Grand Canary island of the canary islands which is a group of 7 or so islands off the western Sahara and Morocco. We played really well and in an outdoor pool, which was a bit cold, and won 9-3. Not sure what place we are in now, but it was good to win by a lot, something we havent done in a while...
doing a lot of thinking latley about a lot of things...big life changes on the horizon for me.
i find out about HBS tomorrow. so if wish me luck.
Also i just stood up in my bed for obama's inauguration....wow. Amazing, a new day for america and the world, sorry I'm not at home to enjoy it with my friends and family...
also, im tired of people giving me weird kinda dirty looks here everywhere i go...wtf. i thought i was imagineing it but im not...
sucess is my only motherfucking option...failures not....
allah 'o ackbar...
So just a quick update, done a lot of traveling in the last few weeks. For 3 kings holiday i took a last minute solo vacation to Lisboa Portugal. An ok place, glad I went, but not on my list of places to go back to, or recommend others to go to (especially from the us)....
We also had a game in Zaragosa, a city about 350km away from Barcelona...We played the first place team (we were in second) and played really bad and lost by 1. They had a packed house, and a small pool, and I could barley hear myself think no less the reff's whistle...We lost by 1 cause our offense sucked, and we couldnt shoot outside of 5 meters...fixable things, but the next week all we did was swim...>AWESOME.
So that was our second loss and i think it put us down to 4th place, which i was pretty pissed about.
We then had a game this last saturday in Las Palmas, which is on the Grand Canary island of the canary islands which is a group of 7 or so islands off the western Sahara and Morocco. We played really well and in an outdoor pool, which was a bit cold, and won 9-3. Not sure what place we are in now, but it was good to win by a lot, something we havent done in a while...
doing a lot of thinking latley about a lot of things...big life changes on the horizon for me.
i find out about HBS tomorrow. so if wish me luck.
Also i just stood up in my bed for obama's inauguration....wow. Amazing, a new day for america and the world, sorry I'm not at home to enjoy it with my friends and family...
also, im tired of people giving me weird kinda dirty looks here everywhere i go...wtf. i thought i was imagineing it but im not...
sucess is my only motherfucking option...failures not....
allah 'o ackbar...
Saturday, January 3, 2009
new day, a new year,....a new life?
Whats up peeps? Ive been away from the blog for a while, well lets be honest my once a week blogging is probably never ganna happen...so to be more realistic lets say its once a month...haha
the last few weeks were kinda difficult for me for various reasons so I'm going to skip some of that. Although I did spend a great week in Manchester with my parents watching some soccer games and taking "tea walks" through some gorgeous british countryside chillin with the sheep in the mud...
the last few weeks were kinda difficult for me for various reasons so I'm going to skip some of that. Although I did spend a great week in Manchester with my parents watching some soccer games and taking "tea walks" through some gorgeous british countryside chillin with the sheep in the mud...
We won our last game of the year, 12-6 which was great. We just finished a 2 day tournament in which we lost in the finals, to the team we had just beat 12-6...the tournament didnt really matter, and thus my teamates and I kinda played like 'flojos' so whatever...i did score twice in each game including a sick spin lob in the first...havent done one in a few years so it felt pretty good...I'm starting to take more of an active role on offense. My position is primarly defensive and I like to be a play-maker on offense, I actually like a pretty assist better than a goal, but I’ve not been a real goal scorer on this team..that being said our usual goal scorers are sometimes up and down, and its not good for us to rely on only 1 or 2 dudes to get us the 'W'....not george bush..thus ive taken to shooting more, and as my shooting percentage is probably in the 80% range (i only shoot when I have a high probability of scoring, otherwise I find it more prudent to wait for a better opportunity...) its going pretty good…
I found out yesterday that for the next few weeks I was the only person signed up for my 2hr/day spanish course...they gave me 2 options, get my $ back and wait 4 weeks for another round of courses to begin and hopefully more people to sign up, or join the 4hr/day course that starts at 9am....now I'm not really good in the mornings, and 4 hrs a day is a TON of spanish, but if I dont have the spanish class to occupy me during the day I feel a bit lost, and bored, and useless....so I guess its 4hrs a day for now.
My teamates and I got a nice xmas bonus, and my coaches also gave me kinda secretively a xmas basket of ish...which is all like candy and fattening...I'm currently 89 kilos, which is a bit under 200lbs, which is a feat that I dont think i've done since probbaly junior year....of HIGH SCHOOL...so maybe they are trying to fatten me up. I dont know, its working though im eating a ton of it right now
New years was great, had some friends from College as well as High School here, and we had a great dinner and went out to some local bars and enjoyed the night. Its a spanish tradition to eat 12 grapes at midnight, 1 for each chime of the bell...not an easy feat but we managed...we ran into a lot of random people, including some sweet Punjabi Mc's who were from the US visiting and having a great time...although they kept asking my friends if I was indian, so im not sure they were actually indian, despite the headdress and all...
I found out yesterday that for the next few weeks I was the only person signed up for my 2hr/day spanish course...they gave me 2 options, get my $ back and wait 4 weeks for another round of courses to begin and hopefully more people to sign up, or join the 4hr/day course that starts at 9am....now I'm not really good in the mornings, and 4 hrs a day is a TON of spanish, but if I dont have the spanish class to occupy me during the day I feel a bit lost, and bored, and useless....so I guess its 4hrs a day for now.
My teamates and I got a nice xmas bonus, and my coaches also gave me kinda secretively a xmas basket of ish...which is all like candy and fattening...I'm currently 89 kilos, which is a bit under 200lbs, which is a feat that I dont think i've done since probbaly junior year....of HIGH SCHOOL...so maybe they are trying to fatten me up. I dont know, its working though im eating a ton of it right now
New years was great, had some friends from College as well as High School here, and we had a great dinner and went out to some local bars and enjoyed the night. Its a spanish tradition to eat 12 grapes at midnight, 1 for each chime of the bell...not an easy feat but we managed...we ran into a lot of random people, including some sweet Punjabi Mc's who were from the US visiting and having a great time...although they kept asking my friends if I was indian, so im not sure they were actually indian, despite the headdress and all...
thats bout it, nothing to exciting...the 6th of janurary is a holiday here..they have A LOT of freaking holidays. Its the day of the 3 kings, supposedly when they came and brought Jesus his gifts...now I always thought that that was on his actual birthday but as I watched on the tele during xmas night, much of that story is probably made up anyways.
anywho, who's santa clause?
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