23rd November 2008
8 am, Cold Chilly Foggy Sunday Jaipur Morning
Why did I fill this form up, just because the words " International" and "Business" on the brochure looked good | Chacha dropping me off to an old government army school, am sure he might be thinking the same | Why is this place so crowded
11 am, Army Public School, Jaipur
Scribbling on my rough papers on the rickety SMALL school bench | What? is it 1 hour already?! How the hell is anyone supposed to solve the remaining paper in next 1 hour
22nd November 2009
5 pm, Salt Lake City, Kolkata
The paper had sectional cut offs | Forget preparing, I should have at least read the instructions well | Why on Earth do they keep sectional cut offs |Which era does this B-school lives in | Not even checking answer key
25th November 2010
10 pm, Hyderabad
Read every possible article and discussion available on the internet about today's paper | Not bad | I am so in between the cut offs | It's going to be a tough long wait for the results
10th December 2010
10 am, NIMS Hyderabad
In between the tranquilizers and painkillers | Cranky in my hospital bed | Desperate to know the result | Hanging between the cut offs | Missed by a 1.5 | Silly Me | Sleeps back again
14th Dec 2011
1 pm, IBM Hyderabad
Results Declared | Cut Off - 44.92 | My Score - 45.49 | I am converting it. Period
14th Dec 2015
11 pm, Bangalore
8 am, Cold Chilly Foggy Sunday Jaipur Morning
Why did I fill this form up, just because the words " International" and "Business" on the brochure looked good | Chacha dropping me off to an old government army school, am sure he might be thinking the same | Why is this place so crowded
11 am, Army Public School, Jaipur
Scribbling on my rough papers on the rickety SMALL school bench | What? is it 1 hour already?! How the hell is anyone supposed to solve the remaining paper in next 1 hour
22nd November 2009
5 pm, Salt Lake City, Kolkata
The paper had sectional cut offs | Forget preparing, I should have at least read the instructions well | Why on Earth do they keep sectional cut offs |Which era does this B-school lives in | Not even checking answer key
25th November 2010
10 pm, Hyderabad
Read every possible article and discussion available on the internet about today's paper | Not bad | I am so in between the cut offs | It's going to be a tough long wait for the results
10th December 2010
10 am, NIMS Hyderabad
In between the tranquilizers and painkillers | Cranky in my hospital bed | Desperate to know the result | Hanging between the cut offs | Missed by a 1.5 | Silly Me | Sleeps back again
14th Dec 2011
1 pm, IBM Hyderabad
Results Declared | Cut Off - 44.92 | My Score - 45.49 | I am converting it. Period
(4 years later)
14th Dec 2015
11 pm, Bangalore
Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard said way back in 19th century, that life can only be understood living backwards.Steve Jobs did make the statement connect, some years back.
I could have worried about the 100s of facts around me at that time or the 1000s of people scoring better than me in the written or the fact that selection process doesn't give much weight-age to the later rounds, but then I would have choosen a parallel universe, which I don't even want to think about now ;)
At the end it's all worth the efforts, it's a splendid maze where all the ways are beautiful in it, but you carve the way out of it which you want to and when you look back to connect the dots, it carves itself out differently and extravagantly and turns out to be the right one :)
