A few good schools

Its time to gauge and decide upon five schools that i wish to send my score to. I wish the number is more. I have been doing research on bschools for quite some time and have fair idea on how to choose five shcools. I think my chances are moderate (or dicey) in these schools. I should fine-tune this list and may be i have to come up with a consolidated one.
Anyhow, with my limited knowledge and intial thoughts i have listed down some schools. Here goes the list. (with their 2k7 FT rankings).

33. Emory Goizueta
32. UNC kenan flagler
65. Notre Dame Mendoza
81. NU singapore
ISB Hyderabad
62. UT McCombs
17. UCLA Anderson
25. Haas UC
8. Stern Newyork univesity
9. Darthmouth college, tuck
26. university of virginia darden
6. University of Chicago GSB
23. Duke Univesity Fuqua
27. University of Toronto Rotman

I am kind of averse to british bschools. One of the reason being the cost factor and the other is that i prefer US to england. But of late i am thinking of apping to atleast canadian bschool. I might have second opinions in future.

From the above list i almost finalized on the following fantastic five.
32. UNC kenan flagler
17. UCLA Anderson
25. Haas UC
26. university of virginia darden
23. Duke Univesity Fuqua

Take one look at my schools and you can notice that none of them are in top 10. Am i not ambitious? Nope. I can always send my scores to other schools as well, after my GMAT and definately the list will change with time.
On the preparation front, it has been stalled for the last two days. I was exhausted after going to gym and not at all in a mood to study. More over i am reading "Its not about a bike" and totally engrossed in it and cant wait to finish it off.
Happy weekend.. Sayonara!!!

The whole world conspires

paulo coelho in his magnumopus Alchemist quoted.."When you know what you want the whole world conspires you to achieve it".
This is the day three of my preparation. On the first day i got myself familiar with the exam pattern and after going through various sections in OG i decided to start the Operation B7B (breaking 700 barrier) with the most dreadful SC. I managed to complete 38 questions of SC and got really fagged out. Surprisingly i found SC interesting and most of all i liked it. There are 138 questions of SC in OG. I completed 32 questions on the second day. I agree, i am going at a snails pace. Lemme start slowly. I dont know the reason why, but Its getting real difficult to sit in one place and concentrate for 3 hours. I am left with only 43 days and the moment i realize that, i feel butterflies in my stomach. I have to gradually increase the intensity of my preparation.
There are a lots of things going on these days. Work is in full swing. From morning till 6 pm its going to be work, mails, blogs and browsing. After that i go to gym for one and half hours. Then attend some meetings for another hour. By the time i start my preparation its going to be 9:30 to 10.. And i am almost sagged and my grey cells refuse to resond. What happened to my time management skills? (if there are any). The only answer is "prioritize". Expend your energies on vital things and leave the rest. Also i have to start looking into various forms like gmatclub, testmagic, pagalguy et al.. Do i need to take membership in Scoretop? Is it worth to spend $35 on that? I have to figure it out soon. Help me out guyz??
Enough for the day. Lemme go back to work!!!

In great haste

I am yet another mba hopeful, aspiring to make it big someday. Let me give reasons for a rathter clumsy title for my first post. I am really in haste. After dilly-dallying for few months and talking with friends i decided to give my GMAT. Everyone told me that i should first book the date, so that i will be serious in my preparation. After evaluating the pros and cons i finally booked my GMAT date on march 30th. I am hardly left with 46 days and still i haven't started my prepartion. I think i am in haste, hence the title. Today i bought OG 11th edition and went through the first two sections.
What is the GMAT?
How to prepare?
Just now i figured that i have to do lotsa studying for a good score and there is no substitute for hardwork. I think preparation on a serious note for a span of 46 days is enough to tame the beast. Its not important how much time i am spend on studying but rather how effectively i study.
Somewhere deep inside i feel that i did a terrible mistake my booking the date so close. But what can i do now. I really have to stop worrying about it and concentrate on my preparation. I promise to post my experiences with gmat. Hope things fall in place.
Ciao...