{"id":606,"date":"2006-05-20T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T19:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2017-06-24T06:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T11:56:57","slug":"surviving-the-gmat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the GMAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/149930913\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: #ccc 2px solid\" height=\"180\" alt=\"DSC00984.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/53\/149930913_0a5b9c2e14_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>GMAT is finally done!\u00a0 I took it this morning and managed to score a 600 with very minimal preparation.\u00a0 Minimal as in, I didn&#8217;t study at all.\u00a0 I just took two practice tests.\u00a0 That&#8217;s all I did.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><BIG><em>Eat your heart out, Chad! That&#8217;s for making worry and stress over a stupid test!<\/em><\/BIG><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess I could say that if I had the luxury of time (which I didn&#8217;t because the application deadline for fall is June 1st) I would&#8217;ve studied for the test for the recommended\u00a0four weeks &#8212; but who wants to do that?\u00a0 Even if I had the time, I don&#8217;t think I would&#8217;ve.\u00a0 So I think I was better of rushing to get the test scheduled and out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the only thing left on my grad school admission to do list is to write my personal goals statement essay. You all know what that will be about &#8212; world domination, of course!\u00a0 Did you expect anything less?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once I get my essay completed (shouldn&#8217;t be too tough as I am an\u00c2\u00a0accomplished marathon blogger with years of\u00a0experience\u00a0&#8212; ask <a href=\"http:\/\/returnhappy.blogspot.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Mr. Duncan<\/a>), I just need to mail it, along with the most recent version of my resume, to the grad school and I am set.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the hard part comes next.\u00a0 Looking for money to fund my grad school education.\u00a0 They say the GMAT is challenging, but looking for a benefactor who will pay your way &#8212; that&#8217;s definitely tougher!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMAT is finally done!\u00a0 I took it this morning and managed to score a 600 with very minimal preparation.\u00a0 Minimal as in, I didn&#8217;t study at all.\u00a0 I just took two practice tests.\u00a0 That&#8217;s all I did. Eat your heart out, Chad! That&#8217;s for making worry and stress over a stupid test! I guess I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17105,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/17105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}