I just want to set my mind and heart free of things. So many things on my mind, but I guess it's just the matters of priorities.

Why do I want an MBA? It's really all about me and my ambitions. Maybe once upon in time my reasons were based on being able to provide and make another person happy, maybe I thought that was what the other person would have been proud to see me do. But things change, people change. Over the past few weeks, I've come to grasps with my ambition, and I realize that an MBA is what I want because it would allow me to pursue careers in areas that I can only dream of now.

Maybe it is possible to pursue a career in corporate strategy/strategy consulting with an undergraduate in advertising and marketing. But I have yet to hear of any success stories. However, to be totally honest, my interest is in developing businesses, and so there comes my ambition to do strategy. But building businesses is not necessarily doing strategy, so much more comes before doing strategy - things like bringing in that first deal, setting the right processes, negotiations. But regardless, I do need a sound solid business education that I can rely on - I've experienced setting up a company, developing a department, handling finance, worked in a bank - and there is just so much more that I don't know.

For 2 years I've applied to business school, I've interviewed with one of the best schools, been accepted by a second tier school and now will apply once more again. And as you know, they always say, 3rd time lucky. But beyond that, I think that it's a matter of being prepared. And I am prepared. I've learnt how to write, how to interview, I've had career progression (I'm now heading a team of 5 people), I've got very decent extra curriculars. I believe that this year will be the year, the year that I get accepted into a top school that I WILL attend.