Today I went to the notary about my transcript. I was told: you're not the first, lady, and we do not need your own translation, no, thank you. Anyway I gave them my translation and my money, because I don't really care about the price now, I care about getting everything done on time. So I hope to receive the translation on Thursday and will tick another mark on my list (and will write about the outcome later).
Yesterday I visited some event called Business Education Exhibition (description here in Russian). It was mainly devoted to Russian business schools, executive and on-line programs, so I was not hoping to get anything useful. But actually I did: I found a great journal - 'Harvard Business Review' (russian site, american site - american is better, because it has some articles online for free and not only abstracts). I'm reading a September copy of it now and I think it is the most interesting one I've read lately (including 'National Geographic', 'Playboy', 'Company' and 'Money' ;)).
Just for reference I checked how much the journal costs (I got it free - as a visitor). Well, it costs a whole lot, I even stop to think before buying a book for such sum! (about $14 a copy, while other journals mentioned here cost from $1 to $4).
Presentation for Recommenders. That's not required, but I feel myself better with it, than without :)
I used the following sources to gather thoughts:
1. "Recommendation letters too?" (Accepted.com)
2. Mave's posts about recco-letters: 1 and 2
3. A number of Articles form businessmajors.com starting with this one
4. Posts by ClearAdmit: 1 and 2
5. Presentation of some guy from McKinsey
If I missed something important, please, share in comments :)
