To Legit To Quit

As of last week, this blog/venting session became legitimate.

After 3 years of hard work, long nights, tons of travel, money spent, classes, essays, coaching sessions, tears, panic attacks, hysterical moments, and so much more...I officially became Miss USA to MBA. I'm officially joining Columbia Business School's class of 2017.


Now let me be honest, yes, I applied to 9 schools.  But seriously, I really only wanted to go to two schools, Columbia and Harvard. I could give you the whole song and dance on why those were my top two, but honestly, who even cares...deciding where you want to go for business school is like falling in love, it's wildly personal and hard to explain.

I think as long as I live I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when I got the call that I got in to Columbia.  I cried for a solid 45 seconds on the phone with the adcomm person that called.

I'm ecstatic, over the moon, and slightly terrified.

What's even cooler, is I made my decision to attend Columbia 5 years from my crowning as Miss DC USA. (I'll share that outfit later this week)

If you think it's time for me to kick back and relax, you are sooooo wrong. Now the real work begins. I'm taking a business statistics class this winter, studying for the CFA Level 1 (can't decide between June or December), reading every possible book by every professor at CBS, and pinning countless outfits.

Don't get it twisted, I understand that the brand is an inside/out process. I'm even planning my Columbia Connect outfit as we speak.

http://www.pinterest.com/mackenzie711/my-style/

...and I can't wait to start the Manhattan apartment hunt...said no one ever.

But thank you all for following along thus far, and I can't wait to share this journey over the next two years and beyond. And I can't wait to really delve further in the lifestyle side of this blog, now that my brain isn't MBA application obsessed.

XOXO,
MacKenzie