{"id":615,"date":"2006-06-01T21:24:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T02:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2006-06-01T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T02:24:48","slug":"the-gmat-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"The GMAT Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adbox\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=lifeafter-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0976570904%2526tag=lifeafter-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0976570904%25253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\"  title=\"View product details at Amazon\"><img src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0976570904.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So a couple of weeks ago at my graduation get together at mom and dad&#8217;s I told Jen and Ray that I was about to take the GMAT.  I mentioned that I was a bit apprehensive because I had heard so many horror stories from other people.<\/p>\n<p>Ray was like, I&#8217;m going to take the GMAT too but I won&#8217;t study.  He had previously expressed that he was planning on returning to school to get his MBA so he would be taking the GMAT eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after receiving a pretty decent score on my GMAT without studying I told Jen to tell Ray that I scored a 600 and now it&#8217;s his turn.  He goes, &#8220;Screw Ching!  That costs money!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I asked Jen what that comment from the grad party was all about.  She&#8217;s like, &#8220;That&#8217;s just Ray.  He likes to make people feel bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I will laugh my butt off if he studies for the GMAT before taking it and scores less than I did!  I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll probably never find out, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a couple of weeks ago at my graduation get together at mom and dad&#8217;s I told Jen and Ray that I was about to take the GMAT. I mentioned that I was a bit apprehensive because I had heard so many horror stories from other people. Ray was like, I&#8217;m going to take the [&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\/615"}],"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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}