TopMBA Weekly Pulse June 25

If you’re trying to navigate your way through the vast reservoirs of business school blogs on offer across the virtual seas, fear not, the TopMBA.com Weekly Pulse is back to do all the hard work for you - plumbing the depths of the MBA blogosphere  to serve up the very best of blogs in charted waters.

This week, we feature some of our favorite bloggers – many of whom are pushing the MBA application stone up the hill once more. Will they be doomed to repeat this process forevermore, like Sisyphus before them? Let’s find out! We’ve also got some advice from alumni and a whole lot more besides.

Grant Me Admission has learned from his mistakes over and over and still has lessons to take from his last GMAT as he bids to improve upon a score of 710. He also has some tips from Eliza Chute on how to boost your score on the critical reasoning portion of the test.

Jon Taves, of EF Essays, has been busy writing his own GMAT study guide – you can check out his chapter on integrated reasoning here on TopMBA.com. TopDogMBA outlines the final outcome of their latest round of applications and reveals why they’re off to MIT Sloan - turns out, your opinions might shift during the process. TV to MBA, meanwhile, offers a reading list for any MBA applicants who might not possess what is considered to be a traditional employment background.

Need some advice as an incoming student to an MBA program? Kellogg has some words of wisdom on offer. Need some advice as an MBA student who just graduated? Kellogg again! Are you in the beginning/middle/end of your MBA and wondering if it is really worth all the time and money and energy and effort? GMU Business School has some words of reassurance. Finally, to round things off, MIT Sloan student, Erica Swallow, takes a moment to reflect on her creative outlet.