TopMBA Weekly Pulse October 2 2014

As applications are being sent off and round one of MBA admissions deadlines pass, stress levels can start to ease up, allowing bloggers a little bit more time to write, as well as study.

Top Dog MBA is rolling through the applications, and has taken a well-earned vacation near the sea to recuperate.

Another applicant, Scott Duncan, offers his thoughts on how he approached his application essays. Elsewhere, Naija MBA Girl managed to celebrate Nigeria’s Independence Day alongside getting her Wharton and Stanford applications out in time.

Pro GMAT is keeping the axe to the grindstone and trying to boost scores, in the continuing fight against the dreaded GMAT.

If you need to stay focused and keep the stress away on GMAT day, then another helpful post from EF Essays, with its guide to day-of-GMAT itineraries , could work wonders.

Moving on from applicants to first-year MBA students sees From Bench to Boards offer some more words of wisdom to those just starting out.

For an overview of the MBA experience, an alumnus of George Washington School of Business, Keith Soranno, reflects back on his time at the school.

Although, one first-year student at UCD Smurfit offers a viewpoint that many will be able to relate to: too few hours in a day to tackle so much work!