December 2008
November 2008
A Charlie Brown Xmas Vince Guaraldi
Ricky &...
Reader Email: "My decision to go to [Harvard]...
Now here’s a pull quote if I ever read one: “[Harvard Business School] is the academic equivalent to getting a really hot body while you are doing something you really enjoy (like dancing and eating cupcakes).”
From: [redacted - female!] Date: November 30, 2008 12:56:58 AM EST To: Julia Allison <julia@nonsociety.com> Subject: Few thoughts on HBS I am 35 now (wow. I...
Reader Email: "What you really need to know about...
A quick note, before you read her letter:
I literally decided less than 24 hours ago I would consider applying, and I have done absolutely no research whatsoever into it. None. It intrigues me, I’m looking into it. Perhaps I’ll do some reading and find out that it’s not even remotely desirable, that I’ve created an idea of what business school is, which does not, in...
Listening to a lecture from Stanford Graduate...
Called Chevron CEO: New World Beyond Petroleum Coming (you can find it on iTunes).
I almost turned it off due to a kneejerk anti-big oil reaction. Then I stopped myself, because I felt that I was being discriminatory.
Still. It’s hard to look up to someone like that.
UPDATE: He was boring and sounded like a robotic ad for oil. Gross. Now I’m checking out the lectures from...
OH MY GOD, CHRISTMAS HAS COME EARLY!!!!! →
This might very well be the best thing that’s happened to me since I discovered the vibrator at age 24.
Too much information?
Me: So how hard is this GRE thing?
Dan: You need to take a class.
Me: I don't want to study. Can't they just use my SAT scores?
Dan: No. [discusses what GRE encompasses for 10 minutes]
Me: Is there a math portion?
Dan: Yes, I just told you that. Were you not listening to anything I said?
Me: I blocked it out.
Why not??
So I can’t stop thinking about getting an MBA, for some reason. Regular readers of this blog know how obsessed I am with college and lectures and dorky things like underlining and annotating books that I read for fun (did I mention that I do that? I do.) I’ve been out of school for almost five years now - HOLY SHIT, [insert cliche about time here] - and the truth is, I really...
I'm going to do it, damnit.
From: [redacted] Date: November 29, 2008 2:51:58 PM EST To: julia@nonsociety.com Subject: hbs! Hi Julia! I love NonSociety, and I’ve been a big fan of your blog for a couple years now. I just saw your latest post about b school and thought I’d throw in my two cents, which is… APPLY TO HBS!! I started this fall and have honestly never been so happy and inspired every single day. You always...
An excerpt from a letter I just wrote ...
to my college roommate, whom I saw for a long, wonderful brunch today.
“More importantly, thank you for being such a good and true friend for the past five years. You have no idea the joy it brings me to see you so fulfilled - FINALLY - and it’s inspiring to me, because you’re not happy due to a *boy* (sadly the reason most women our age feel contentment seems to lie solely in...
NEW YEARS 2009 - HELP!!!!
So. Tomorrow I’m meeting Cailleach de for brunch and we’re going to discuss New Years plans. CD and I have spent more New Years together than anyone else I know, and so I’m ecstatic that she’s “up for anything this year.” YAY!
It won’t surprise you to know that I love New Years (is there a holiday I don’t love?). I feel that it’s very...
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Good Times in '09
Mary: Why are you awake?
Megan Alagna: I never sleep anymore. I'm the new Julia.
Mary: That's so '08. You better get over that.
Mary: It's all about sleep in '09.
Megan: I'm hoping it's all about sex in '09.
“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably. They all count.
But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love...
“Nielsen Co. just reported that home TVs are turned on for an average of 8 hours,...”
– Chicago Tribune. Okay, WHAT?!?!??! THE??!! FUCK@??@?!??!>!
HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!?! I don’t SLEEP 8 hours and 18 minutes a day! How can ANYONE watch this much television??!!!??? And this is the AVERAGE?
Am I missing something here???????
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