Date: 26-Feb-2010
Time: 9.30 p.m
Immediate future plans:
1. Look forward to an awesome SAG trip to Alibaug during the weekend.
2. Collect all documents for US tourist visa interview on March 8th and prepare for the same.
3. Enjoy my last month at work by relaxing and chilling out. For a change, NO STUDIES.
4. Complete joining formalities for SIBM, Pune and prepare for the pre-induction course from April 1, 2010
5. Last but not the least, prepare for my most awaited event of the year - my first overseas trip to California in April 2010!!
6. Join SIBM, Pune in June 2010 and finally pursue my MBA
After:
Date: March 7, 2010
Time: 4 p.m
Immediate future plans:
1. CAT 99.9 %ile, interview calls from IIMs, study for GDPI, study for GDPI, study for GDPI, study for GDPI .............. spend the whole damn month studying.
2. US trip in jeopardy, Visa interview tomorrow now taken a backseat, somehow finish it off and try to get the visa.
3. SIBM-P right at the bottom of the pecking order now.
It just took one click of a button to turn my whole life around. And as i stared at my CAT scorecard, I was momentarily frozen, paralysed in shock and disbelief. A normal, sane person would jump for joy when he/she sees "99.9 percentile" as their overall score in CAT and an interview call letter from IIM Ahmedabad to boot. But somehow, for those few minutes that followed, I was anything but sane. My immediate reaction was dismay and I cursed my luck - "F*****************ckkkkk, there goes my US trip!! Back to studies now!" The chance of a lifetime - a month long vacation in California - crumbled right before my eyes. Then, slowly, the realization dawned upon me - that I had been blessed with another chance, a different kind of opportunity, one that over 2 lakh people in this country craved for. A chance to pursue my MBA from my dream destination - IIM-Ahmedabad! A chance to be among the elite! Wow!! That makes this interview day probably the biggest day of my life. Talk about pressure!
Well, its back to studies now. Not quite in the conventional sense of the term, but I gotta prepare some topics from engineering, which pretty much amounts to studying. It's gonna be a jam-packed March 2010 ahead......so i'll catch ya guyz in April...rest later...wish me luck! :)
