Packin’, and being a bit negative about leaving my love for so long. Accepting it as a fact helps and after a lovely evening I fall asleep, dreaming about whats coming. I don’t have to wait long: at 04.00 the buzzer wakes me up. At 06.00 I am at the airport checking in which leaves 3 hours to go to work, do some stuff and return for boarding. So where am I going? Well I am going to San Francisco because it seems that one of the greatest GMAT teachers live there and I just need a higher score on the test.
G-what? Well the GMAT is a standardized test Business Schools (MBA’s) use to compare candidates on Quantative and Verbal skills. In a 4.5 hour test you have to write 2 essays, 3 verbal tests (Critical Reasoning, Sentence Correction, Reading Comprehension) and 3 mathematics tests (2* Problem solving and 1 Data Sufficiency test). Well so far so good, I did the test and I scored a 640 (in a range of 200 to 800) which is not bad (85th percentile) but for top schools you just need to do better, and ambitious as I am, I want to go to a top-school (INSEAD, ranked 1st in Europe, 7th in the world), hence I have to do something to improve.
In Belmont, CA, lives the only person in the world who scored twice a perfect 800 on this test and next to being brainy he seems to be a good teacher as well. I respect his unique way of approaching things so I decide to go for it: A 4-week long immersion in Verbal and Quantative skills in order to improve 60 points. I aim at scoring a 700 which is about 10% higher then I did score previously. Previously I half-heartedly prepared with an online Princeton Review course. This obviously did not do it for me (too many distractions in daily life) so I resort to this course.

So, off we go, SFO here I come!