Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Back to School

Continuing in my path to achieve my main goal of become a CIO and as a Computer Science Engineer I'm aware that is very helpful to have a master's degree, that's why one of my goals of being here in the US is to continue my studies and pursue a MBA.

Why MBA?

Well, the answer is simple, as a CIO everything is about management (right?), even if I don't have a terrible technical background, is harder to get a position like that without more "people skills".

In this context, I decided to start the enrollment process in an university. It's a hard process, and even more if you come from a different education system. For example grades are from 0-100 and not from 0 to 4, transcripts come with a security seal and not in a close envelope send it directly from the school, etc.

Those who are familiar with the admission process won't allow me to lie about how hard is the admission test. It took me three months to be ready to take the famous GMAT admission test. What do you do in this time? simple, no other activity than study (including stop writing posts).

To make this sorter, I got accepted in the school and now I'm taking classes.

I'll be posting interesting anecdotes about how this is going. It seems like I still have a long way to go.