MBA........FINALLY

Finally after a lot of denials here I am, MBA from the Polytechnico Di Milano
so why I have chosen this.
-1 year
-100% scholarship
- small class size of 26 students
-people from 15 countries in that.
- varied experience from all sectors
- Excellent course structure and industrial contacts.

All doubts are now gone after 2 weeks of tough MBA which involves excellent faculty and real class experience with varied perspectives coming in from all sides.
Wow we have people having Finance Background of 10 years , Oil fields experiences, Telecom , marketing guys. What a class. Fun never ends.

Milan, the fashion capital of the world. Amazing place.Went to Swiss on a weekend. Then going to Venice next week.

But hey the most wonderful part is coming. Championship Football Match Live in the Stadium...
Bayern Vs Inter Milan

So the journey has just started.........
Chao for now..Arrivederci

Real Struggle is after GMAT

I was happy that the major battle is over. But I guess I was , writing essays and filling application is the toughest task. Getting recommendations , with each college having different recommendation form pattern is an even tougher task.
Just to list the tough tasks

1) Shortlisting of colleges coz it involves shelling a lot of money.
2)Writing essays.(atleast 1-1.5 month).Different essay for each college.
Don't make a mistake of writing same essay for different college.
3) Getting the essays reviewed.
4)Recommendation. First finding one and then following him to wite them.

It took me about 3 months to get the things into shape, after writing my GMAT.
I applied to a very few colleges and plan to apply with full determination in coming years,reason being I personally feel that some more experience will help me out in getting to the colleges I want to go to.
Will Continue,......................

GMAT Struggle

I guess it started of with a CAT disaster and a feeling that I need to move out of this Software field to do something on my own. I was quite depressed and I guess that decision was somewhat quite instant and out of frustration. That anyone will agree coz I took GMAT date giving myself just 2 months time to work on. Probably I had a lot of confidence on my abilities and other thing was that I didnt like to prolong things too much. I wanted to apply in R1 and thought of completing this tough task at hand ASAP.

So I used to take out some 2 hours in the morning before the my office hours so as to lock horns with GMAT.The biggest challenge was to maintain that determination and enthusiasm. So Abt the Books I referred .
1) Official Guide 10
2) Official Guide 11
3) Kaplan Verbal

I started with Official Guide 10. Maths was never a concern for me so straight to verbal. A healthy mix of question from both Kaplan and OT saw my interest building up.
Then I gave my Power Prep test-1 ,Scored 600. I was happy that I'm quite on the track and thought of increasing it to 670-680 within 1 month.As usual Verbal was my coz of concern.So day in and night out thought of doing verbal.My work suffered somewhat, but I had confidence of coping with that once my battle is over.
Its about priotizing your goals in life. GMAT was something I was going for.Whats important is network.Pagalguy and Business week gave me a lot of friends who were sailing in the same boat.
Though I continued with this schedule for a while but I'm also a human.Frustration level started creeping in,seeing my friends partying and I studying. I forgot to tell. Most of my saturdays and sundays went for preps.

After a month of prep, with the D day approaching I was scoring 670-680 and was a little frustrated.
Thought of many things to improve on that score,but couldn't find much on that.Took membership of scoretop. I feel it helped.

On the D day.
Arrived at the centre 2 hour before the scheduled time. I was asked if I can 45 minutes earlier . I was happy to start that ASAP.Exam was tougher than usual. I guess made some silly mistakes in Quant, costed me heavily.
Verbal was tough and was happy to find some questions straight from scoretop.com .
Finished the exam in 3 hours 45 minutes.


Score : 700
Quant: 49
Verbal: 38
AWA:5.0

Crazy Life

Life , years doesn't matter but what matters is how we deal with all the challenges. Did I say ' Challenges', point is how do we know whats coming in is a challenge.

Just to make it clear, anything which makes our soul wonder is this the correct step and and is somewhat a decisive step in life is iteslf a challenge.

First comes schooling, by the time that merry-go-round is over you don't know what you've achieved in life and what you want to do. Again a challenge.Some people may argue that they had a vague idea about what they wanted to achieve at the age of 10. But how many of tem make it.

Then comes Engineering , another cake walk. The best part was that most of the decisions were taken by your parents and you believe what they believe is true. I believe that to a certain extent.But I feel it would have been better to take those decisions by myself. Independence and cofidence my friend was not that easily found in my schooldays.

Became Delhi state and national Chess champion wanted to do something in that, but pity saw that cover drive of Sachin Tendulkar. You guessed it right . Started playing cricket. But enthusiasm was one thing which was always top notch. Became famous to an extent that got few of my pics published in the newspaper.Then what next. That's what even I wondered. My parents too thought what next.

I would say I agreed with my parents in leaving all that and concentrating on studies.As that's what matters more than anything in India.That I can say after that Ganguly fiasco(Don't worry I'm not a Ganguly critique).It was easy for someone whom I respected to mould my thinking. And thats how I thought IIT is the place I want to be in....

Then came a point when I was able to concentrate nither on school nor on IIT studies. Then the goal changed, BITS Pilani. Its strange how a person can change his goals so often so as to meet his inner instinct's calls.

But got dinged in Physics so Pilani became quite a distant dream. My 90% wasn't enough to draw me in that College. Then came the defining decision. Managed to clear one of the entrances and got admission in one of the Oldest colleges of india . The technological Institute of textile and Sciences.

Well College, what a life it was. First time away from home with pals who themselves wanted to rock this world.

Will Continue.....