Call for Post Secret Ideas: An Update on Schools

I do love Post Secret cards and I am trying to think of a good one that will be moody, subversive, but slightly hopeful. The cause? Well, here is an update on schools. First the good news mainly with MA programs:

- Yale: Yes, but it is a one year "let me take your money" program and the professor I like is on leave (Jonathan Spence).
- Columbia SIPA: Yes, but then I remembered that even though I majored in politics, I don't want to be poor for the rest of my life. This school is expensive and probably not worth it.
- UCLA: Yes, but why even consider it when...
- Stanford: Also said yes and it is a decent 2-year program, you write a thesis, lots of latitude, but I have to check on their strength in modern Chinese history.

All these programs are at big name schools, but I don't believe they are that competitive for terminal master's degrees (as opposed to PhDs, where they are hyper-competitive). I am pretty sure they are just looking for bodies to fill seats.

SAIS, Haas, Andersen, and Stanford are all incommunicado = eat dirt. Other definitive "please drop dead" schools include: Harvard GSB, Harvard MA, Wharton, Chicago GSB, Kellogg, and Tuck. Luckily, Columbia GSB is there to graciously put me on their waiting list. Yessss, should know by "late summer." This whole process is 10 times as expensive as a prostate exam, and about as fun.

So I am trying to think of a Post Secret card that reflects my MBA / prostate exam indifference curve. Maybe something with a graph that looks like a bum. Maybe it is something in this econ paper with this awesome title: "Buridans’s Ass and the Austrian Conception of Indifference." (I am *awesome.* I think MBA admission should be based solely on google skills and donut eating abilities.)