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I waffled on this one. I want to tell you how you can support ANY applicant, not just me. But my situation differs pretty widely from the situation of many, many others, and there’s no way for me to know how my needs match up to someone else’s. There’s also this: If I don’t ask [...]

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I posted my manifesto, so now I’m going to post my list of requirements. As I said before, these are slightly flexible but largely not negotiable. I am not going to in any way injure the progress Marty and I have made here in the pursuit of this opportunity. (Don’t get me wrong—it’s an amazing [...]

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The following is part of a Triiibes blog entry I made last week—when the flurry over Seth’s announcement about his Alternative MBA was first ramping up. It makes a bunch of points that are really important to me. The result of this post was an absolutely insane outpouring of support and encouragement from fellow Triiibesters, [...]

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This is pretty scary. There’s a little voice in my head—hell, you might be hearing it too—that’s saying, DUDE. QUIT SHARING YOUR SECRETS. And it’s not even that I think anything I’m doing is particularly ground-breaking, but that voice in my head, it wants the upper hand. Here’s a lesson I’m learning over time, and [...]

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Becky Blanton is an amazing freelance writer who works with the Danville Small Business Development Center in Virginia and serves as webmaster, photographer and writer in residence for SIPS of America. Like me, she works for herself and has full responsibility for getting her bills paid, but she’s still going strong—and she has awesome things [...]

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Alternative MBA Application Party: NOTES!

by Megan M. on December 4, 2008 · View Comments (Blog) | email me

It’s funny—writing these posts feels a lot like talking to myself. Not because I have a small readership (a small, HIGH-QUALITY readership, thank you) but because this serves a weird set of concentric purposes for me: I can work through questions and confusions I didn’t know I had, I can draw inspiration from talking to [...]

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Assuming you’ve read my Handy Dandy !MBA Application Super Duper Disclaimer, I have a few thoughts on this whole undertaking before I get started (or rather, before I tell you about how I got started). Some of these things are really important, and I don’t want to overlook them once I get into the thick [...]

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