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Ravi D

I am here for Networking

About Me

It's not about me. I've just been really lucky to meet a lot of cool people. Maybe you. This is more like a network, not one of those cell phone commercials, whatever you are about, I may know someone who could help you, or maybe you could help them. Look around and keep in touch.

My Blog

Discovery

Moved into my new place in Monterey. I had a cheap yet comfy bed delivered from Goodwill, as I was making it, something I haven't done since I was in Namibia I remembered when I woke up in the be...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:31:00 GMT

Choices

I came home in anticipation of an answer from Brandeis, and also to an acceptance letter from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.  I feel they have a very strong program, but with th...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:21:00 GMT

Beantown

I did the interview in Boston and spent a few more nights there with Erfan(friend from Peace Corps in grad school at Harvard) checking the place out.  A lot of the Harvard kids were cool and...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:54:00 GMT

Drawing the Plan

I see myself as a man who can go anywhere in the world and do what needs to be done.  A graduate degree from a prestigous university was one way to do that, but there are many ways.  Concord...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:47:00 GMT

The Horizon

I must not think, that I am entitled to anything, I AM NOT ENTITLED to admission to a graduate program because I went to college and did the Peace Corps.  I did not do those t...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:39:00 GMT

Failures and Figures

I've been rejected from Duke and Columbia, well they are pretty elite schools, I'm glad I applied.  But I've also been rejected from Fordham and the University of Denver.  My family, Ali and...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:32:00 GMT

below average

GRE scores were way below average.  The deadlines for Columbia, Fordham and the University of Denver are pretty soon so I'd better just send them what I've got and see if they like the whole...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:20:00 GMT

moving on again

Been back in OC for a little while, went back to work for the County through whom I used to teach autistic kids, right now I'm a sub, moving around to autistic, physcially disabled and emotionally dis...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:10:00 GMT

One year later

We've had a lot of 1 year anniversaries this year, and for me November 6 was an interesting day, I had been back in O.C. for my 10 year high school reunion, that was what it was.  The morning of ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:22:00 GMT

lost the bet

Hey Friends, most of you saw me before I moved to San Francisco to work with a startup, some of you know that after I got up here I found out about another opportunity that looked good to me.  We...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:16:00 GMT