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A passionate learner &
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Before MBA | An Asian Girl in Spain for an MBA!
Before anything else, thank you for being with me!
Being a non-native English speaker (that’s how the world defines us) + Asian + Female is already a challenge, not to mention to study MBA abroad in Spain independently without a loan!
Am I one of those rich Asian kids? Nono, I wish to, so I don’t have to blog desperately to make a living in Spain. How did I make it? No romantic crazy rich Asians boyfriend story, I worked, I invested, I saved for a couple of years, I was once lost too, I always had these questions echoing around my head:
- Should I continue to work? or should I move on to study (trust me, it's a soul-searching question, when you see the salary goes into your account and grows stably, why stop?)
- Why not have it both? To work at day time and study at night or vice versa! (that's how I did for my degree, so I know it's not working)
- How is the possibility of finding a job that is willing to sponsor my VISA? (don't remind me I'm an Asian!)
- How likely am I to immigrate to Spain? (Stay tuned! We will reach to the answer together)
Just that? Of course not! I sat like The Thinker 1000+ times to ponder my future, I can name some of the questions that echo around your head easily, like:-
- It's an MBA! Will they accept me? (well, they accepted me even I didn't take GMAT test, given that I have years' work experiences in various domains, and you can definitely do it if you want)
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Not confident in your English level? (Cut the crap, take the TOEFL / IELTS tests and you'll be confident or you'll work harder to improve it! I hate people looking down on me, so, apart from the TOEFL test, I also got the Trinity CertTESOL, which is a qualification to teach English to speakers of other languages) -
Ahhhh so I need to learn Spanish / a third language? (Come on! English is already our second language, we've got the know-how of learning foreign language, which is a powerful ability that many native English speakers don't have! Grab the opportunity!) -
I don't have money! (Yes, it's not a happy fact, many scholarships are for Western Countries only, and many require excellent academic background, you can try to send out 50+ application prior the course and imagine the second you finally see your name on the resolution list or you can plan, work, invest and save for a couple of years like me, getting a loan is not really my cup of tea)
I’ve found some of the answers and I’m still searching for the rest.
The feeling to study MBA abroad is just like what Mr. Donald Rumsfeld said:
There are known knowns; things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns; the ones we don’t know we don’t know
I’ve done a lot of research, there are considerable websites and educational organizations that pop up once you enter “M” “B” ” A” in google search bar. 90% of them talk about how to choose an MBA, school ranking, how to prepare the application, but seldom tell you the story after you’ve got accepted into the course, like how will be the class, how to find more case studies (for free of course) to prepare for the assignment, how to well prepare for the exam? Honestly, when you pay a fortune to go study, you will want to know everything before the course start, including but not limited to hiccup, gossip, failure.. etc (raise your hand, don’t be shy, I know I’m not the only one think like that)
What frustrated me is, even though I perused from the beginning of Goooooooooogle to its middle (what Goooooogle means? Look at the bottom of the search result you’ll know), I still missed those unknown unknowns!
How I spent 7 times more on Spanish student visa is the most vivid real life example.
So, I found my place, Unboxing MBA, to unveil every personal experience I had or I will have about studying MBA abroad (can’t wait huh? Yeahhh) wanna have a place too? Easy! Buy me a coffee my angel ❥
I can survive only with your support! With your coffee I can:
- Feel you, to know my input is not rubbish, there are people out there want to read it
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Write more, as you see, I'm an authentic MBA student in reality, I'm not an expert in those educational organizations, I write and share experience from the angle of a student -
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I’ll fill in the blank once I survive, you are my angel, aren’t you?
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