Well India might be out of the World Cup... but like hell I am...
Last year... around this time I would've given anything to get an admit... This time is different... I've already got 3 offers under my belt and you bet it feels nice and comforting with acceptance packages lying around your house... so much choice...
I have started my visa process... a almost maternal process thats gonna take 3 months before the baby arrives on my passport...
nothing compares to the feeling i got when i received my first admit... the first blood... the first package... though i might not even end up going there cause i have admit from another institute... i am sure i ll remember this for a long time... maybe when i am old.... sitting on a rocking chair... just dreaming about how my life fared ...
sometimes i think i know what i want...
other times i just guess and keep walking anyways...
Song for the moment : XL di Kudiyan, very very smart... hai meri tauba tauba
The moment i' ve been waiting for... or in hindi
"jiska mujhe ...tha intezaar...wo ghadi aa gayi ..aa gayi ...aa gayi"
is here....
my applications are over and done with... interviews are still going on ...i dont mind them... by this time i have my answers so much "in" me that you can "wake me up" from my slumber and i wouldnt miss a single word...
man i am good...
I havent heard a peep from UCLA...its been like 2 months now... going over the essays with a friend of mine, i realised the kind of grave mistakes i had done in the application... i mean who would talk about his school teachers and librarians... apparently somebody did ...hehehe... gosh...
Well UCLA is incredibly tough to get... but then so are all the other good things in life... so even though i know the results are not yet out... applying to UCLA was worth the effort..
Going through Orkut entries of my friends i managed to locate people who started off with me about 7-8 years ago... some even way back... and most of them are around LA at this time... it would be fun to be in LA...
The more i think of it,
the more anxious i become..
analysing my actions,
finding some deeper meaning into words..
that never existed...
hell I've started believing in numerology, tarot, and what not...
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time
Unsure
Confused
Unsafe
Lost
Disdain
i am an aberration of the system it seems... while everyone got their results today... i am still left in the lurch courtesy my lovely interviewer...
Thoughts in my mind :
1. Patience
2. My time will come (Ramneek taught me that : he had a spate of 6 years of Bad Luck before he was on track to IIM)
I am torn between calling him up again and just forgetting all about it....
i mean whats worse... they say they are a community and here is a great way of welcoming you.... ha...
anyways... maybe i shouldne have tied so many things up with D... maybe it was just good to get a call...
maybe it was important to have met, than to spend a lifetime together.... :)
Today i heard something about forging Letterheads for MBA Applications... simply because the company doesn't provide letterheads for personal use without "adequate" questioning... so someone just thought of a simpler way.... get your own letterhead...
All this .... just to be a little more "Authentic" in the recommendations...
Amongst other absurd things
Getting super special paper for admissions photocopy.... well a friend of mine does that every time she has to send a paper...She s not alone... am I the one sitting on an island??? I still need to figure out...
I finally got the details of the interviewer today. The guy is in a pretty senior position with a leading ceramics venture in India. What remains to be seen is
1. When will the interview be scheduled - Tomorrow is out of the question...i will be in office and don't think i can go without at least a day's notice..
2. Where will it be scheduled. - I don't think i want to travel all the way to bahadurgarh... meeting him on the reception night would be good...
I had my mock interview today... an hour before the interview i had the most terrible case of butterflies in the stomach.. not surprising for a guy who hasnt faced an interview in over an year... surprising for a guy who interviews and tears apart at least 2 people every week...
The interview went off pretty fine... more so because of my passion to join D...
my application to UNC is still hanging midway... hope to finish off the essays today... May the FORCE be with me.....
Round 1 officially ended today!!! Ok I can breathe now !!!
Meanwhile more interestingly... the cab has SPLIT... so far so good... :)... looking forward to new faces and interesting times...
The end is in sight, yes the flesh is weak, the mind is wavering, the spirit too low... time to giddy up and finish off this last "piece" of business...
London Business School
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1. He asks you about yourself from a list of questions
"How would your coworkers describe you?"
"What is your leadership style?"
"What is the biggest risk you have ever taken?"
2. impromptu 5 minute presentation, with 5 minutes to prepare
3. you ask questions about the interviewer's experience.
Darden
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1. "Tell me about yourself, your influences... I am more curious about WHY you did certain things as opposed to WHAT you have done."
2. "What was a failure you learned from?"
3. "What do you like to do in your free time?"
UCLA
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1. if we took all your current and past colleagues and put them in a room, what would they say is your biggest weakness?
2. "What are your career goals and what are you doing to achieve them?".
3. "what do you do for fun?"
Finally i managed to submit all my Essays to McCombs. Somehow i never located the link to resend the essays earlier. It would have saved lot of heartburn.
Anyways the good news is that the bitch next door just died...
Between all that excitement i forgot to update that i ve just submitted my application to Texas... i feel good...so good...
Go baby go...!!!
hehehehhahahahaha!!!!! I am getting ready for my next one... I think its high time i started working on my Jan round things too...
I think Jan could be a special "Reapp round".... :) ...
Hallejulah!!
2nd one completed ...submitted and ....mailed today... precisely 3 weeks ahead of deadline... Now left in front of me is the herculean task of completing 3 more in this month... God give me the power to go on like an Energizer Bunny...amen!!
Allright... today was a good day... not just because i wrote three couplets or the fact that i got up very early and enjoyed the morning... but because today my first application is on its way to Hyderabad today...
Its time to get cracking on the next application in line... this one will be going to London...:)
btw here are the couplets...
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Is it me the heavens are crying for,
or is it just the rain,
is it the gods washing my memories,
or is it just me and my pain??
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I wish i could stop this pain
I wish I had the power to heal,
alas i dont know i'd still be human
if i forgot the way i feel
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do we just love misery
or plainly hate ourselves so,
some things in our mind
we just wont let go
maybe they are the meaning of our existence
maybe its just our insistence
whatever they may be,
this i think is true
we are all
fools by our own virtue.
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Another one i wrote for a friend of mine long time back ...
i ll be the ocean ...
i ll walk with you ...
with my gentle waves just lapping at your feet...
and just when you expect the least...
my tides will take you away ...
away from the world... away to me....
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Well well well… I found something “wow” while I was looking for something else. It just so happens that I am planning a visit to my colleges today to get my transcripts…here I was looking for my Post Graduation Mark sheet and I stumbled upon.. a transcript of the Certificate course in German Language… wowieee… I had forgotten about my German course in the course of time (pun intended)… yahoooooooo for that matter gooooggleee … I am that much closer to my schools… (
First official day of Fall....sigh... I could ve been in Duke today... sigh.... and here i am writing essays once again... all over again.... well this time i ve managed a head start.. staying on top of things as they happen...
From my feedback sessions I know now my strong areas
-- My Acads are solid... dont need to do anything here.
-- Work Experience displayed in good detail through my essays.
-- Long term/short term goals are in place
-- International workex displayed in good detail (I had a client recommendation last year)
and my weak spots
-- Why specifically this univ?
-- What do i do outside of work?
well Mr. Montauk rightly points out in his book (The Bible of Admissions) that engineers/IT guys are known to do notoriously less outside office hours...yeah right ... so it is this mind set that i must defeat in my positioning... hell i do so much reading and career counselling that i can talk about...
Brings me to another lingering question.... LBS essays this year have a compulsory essay on international experiences... does that mean anyone whose not been out of his country is ineligible??
