A blog post about blogging.  Novel idea, right?  I’ve been blogging since – well, according to my Xanga page – October 2001.  Next Tuesday is apparently my 8-year bloggiversary.  Yay me!  So yes, I started blogging on Xanga, and later eventually moved to my own site, which you see before you now.  The look of it has changed some over the years, but I am still here.  Where else would I be?  I’m pretty sure there is no other Sheryl Hugill out there to try to steal this domain name from me…

Besides my own personal blog, I have also been a blogger for other websites as well.  In 2006 and 2007, I was a blogger for a local magazine that used to be called INtake Weekly.  INtake has since become Indy.com (sadly leaving behind their Blog Squad), and now is a part of Metromix.  And now, I’m excited to add another entry to my blog portfolio… you’re looking at the newest “BizBlogger” for the Kelley School of Business at IUPUI!

The Kelley School of Business showcases their newest blog entries on their main page, found at kelley.iupui.edu.  The link to the “BizBlog” itself can be found at bizblog.kelley.iupui.edu or by clicking on “More Entries” from the BizBlog section on the main Kelley page.  Found here are blogs by several different types of people involved with Kelley, including undergraduate students, alumni, advisors, and of course (like me) graduate students.  If you go to the main BizBlog page and click on Graduate Students, you’ll see my name listed there on the left.  No posts yet, but I currently have one waiting for moderation.

I’m very excited to be blogging for the Kelley School of Business.  I know the MBA program will be a challenge, and I’m looking forward to sharing my experience there.  Interestingly enough, my blog here is what got me the job… someone from Kelley contacted me while I was in the process of preparing for the GMAT and applying to the program, after having seen my post here about that process.  She wanted to talk to me to find out about my experience with the application process, and this later led to my invitation to blog for the school.

What a great opportunity, and a great way to celebrate my “bloggiversary”… with a new blogging challenge.

UPDATE: My first blog at Kelley has been posted/moderated now.  I think they have changed around the graduate students blogs, as mine is listed right now under “Evening MBA Experience”.  Here’s a link to my first post.

And oddly enough, I’m putting off homework to write this blog post.

I figured that I had yet to officially post an update on the status of my application to the MBA program at IUPUI, so while I’m being a blogging fiend I figured I’d do that. So here it is… I got accepted! I took the GMAT and after a few nights of hardcore studying, I ended up with a score of 650, which is pretty decent. It’s apparently higher than the average of students entering the evening MBA program at IUPUI, apparently, which their website states is 620. So I was pretty pleased. And *very glad* to be done with the test.

And yes, I have been accepted to the evening MBA program at the Kelley School of Business at IUPUI. Yay me! So right now I’m taking a summer accounting class online that is a prerequisite for the MBA program, which starts next month. Classes start August 26, and orientation is August 24 and 25th. I’m really looking forward to starting school again. I like being a student, plus I’m looking forward to meeting new classmates. I will have classes on Monday and Wednesday nights at the Community Life & Learning Center in Carmel. For the next. three. years. What am I getting myself into?? Oh well…

So, wish me luck as I embark on the next leg of my academic journey. I look forward to tackling all of the ups and downs that I know it will present.