{"id":128,"date":"2006-01-06T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T17:12:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-06T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T13:17:44","slug":"the_stanford_announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2006\/the_stanford_announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stanford Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><blockquote><p>If your passion is to lead organizations that change the world in significant&#8211;and meaningful&#8211;ways, we want to hear from you. &#8211;Robert L. Joss, Professor and Dean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsb.stanford.edu\/mba\/index.html\">Stanford Graduate Business School<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>I am going to Stanford for my MBA.<\/b>No, they haven&#8217;t accepted me yet.  But that&#8217;s only because I haven&#8217;t applied.  Rest assured, it will all happen.  But I have some work to do first.  Here&#8217;s the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill my head with business info from some key books (suggestions?).<\/li>\n<li>Take a business math class.<\/li>\n<li>Take an economics class.<\/li>\n<li>Take the GMAT and do exceptionally well (Stanford doesn&#8217;t require the &#8220;exceptionally well&#8221; part, but I might as well do that anyway).<\/li>\n<li>Get a summer 2006 internship with a Stanford Graduate Business School alum (my eye is on you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethgodin.com\/sg\/bio.html\">Seth Godin<\/a>.  When are you announcing your next big project?).<\/li>\n<li>Get a recommendation letter from that alum.<\/li>\n<li>Start volunteering at a local nonprofit that uses my technical &amp; professional writing skills (suggestions?), and get a recommendation letter from my direct supervisor there. <\/li>\n<li>Incorporate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrit.org\">The Writ<\/a> as a tax-exempt nonprofit.<\/li>\n<li>Secure grant money for The Writ and start giving the staff stipends.<\/li>\n<li>Get a peer recommendation letter from Juli\u00c3\u00a1n Esteban Torres, my partner in literary organization crime.<\/li>\n<li>Write a personal essay about my work on The Writ.<\/li>\n<li>Pick something else remarkable that I&#8217;ve done and write another personal essay about it.<\/li>\n<li>Learn Chinese (hey, it can&#8217;t hurt).<\/li>\n<li>Get my bachelor&#8217;s degree (note to self: don&#8217;t forget this one).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider this my New Year&#8217;s Resolution.  With the possible exception of incorporating The Writ (the govt. likes to drag its feet on such issues), I intend to do all of this in 2006.Wish me luck and send me tips (only encouraging ones).  I&#8217;ll keep you posted on my progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.If your passion is to lead organizations that change the world in significant&#8211;and meaningful&#8211;ways, we want to hear from you. &#8211;Robert L. Joss, Professor and Dean, Stanford Graduate Business School I am going to Stanford for my MBA.No, they haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}