Me at my wits’ end doing my MBA applications

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You’re already at MBB why do you need an MBA

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Yup, just move to Australia and you’ll be good to go

Where are you applying? It’s so stressful but best of luck!

Stanford is the one that’s really killing me at the moment. So many little questions to answer!

Keep your head up! I was suffering through the same thing exactly ten years ago today 😱

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