Countrymen,
Was shut out of this world last week - when the internet connection at my place refused to work.
Things got corrected only this Monday - but those 3 days( Friday was a public holiday for us) made me think. The value of my laptop reduced by half during those days - I hardly logged in ....
I felt that I have been marooned in some island , just as Tom Hanks was in Castaway. I have to admit that my only connection to the world is thru the internet - I rarely watch the news on TV, and I dont get a newspaper delivered at home. But I remain connected - at times I am so busy that my RSS Reader waits and waits...but when I go there - it finally updates me about most of the things that I like to know abt.
Further, as my internet connection was down , I got time to do a lot of other things, which , I now realise is as important as sitting in front of the screen and reading the interesting blogs that you people write each day. Thanks to technology ( which fails at times ) - I am revising my daily schedule :)
GMAT didnt go much further - but I did solve a few exercises(initial ones - only SC) from the Kaplan book. There were quite a few decent examples, and I learnt a few points. I intend to move ahead with the same today ( after I finish this blog).
It has been good to see people getting admits during the last few weeks - but I wonder , we rarely hear from people who got dinged ( which number is much higher ).
I understand that it is very painful to discuss failure - more so when each one of the guys there put in so much of hard work. What's in store for me - HE only knows.
Interestingly, I looked up the meaning of ding ( both in my local Wordweb dictionary as well as at dictionary.com ) - but couldnt find the meaning that it conveys when we say -" Wharton dinged me" - check it out at Ding in the Dictionary
Cheers,
FG
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Ding http://www.brainydictionary.com/words/di/ding154481.html
To dash; to throw violently.
To cause to sound or ring.
To strike; to thump; to pound.
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
ding 2 (dng) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ding
n. Informal
A small dent or nick, as in the body of a car.
tr.v. dinged, ding·ing, dings
1. To dent or nick.
2. To hit or strike: was dinged on the head by a ball.
3. Slang To shoot, especially with a gun.
so which one of these hold true for all our fellow applicants ?
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