Circa Dec 2003
As most aspirants in India who are in second last year of their college, I also saw the same dream - CAT!!!
CAT - Common Admission Test conducted by IIMs. You slog for it - day in and day out!!! Wishing to be one of the elite applicants to get a call from prestigious IIMs!!!
It all starts when you are not even 21!!! But you want to do an MBA and very soon and from one of the best colleges in the country!!!
Then you don't realise why do you want to do MBA... Nor do you realise where does your interest lie... The peer pressure forces you to flow with the current... Bringing to the CAT centre in herds...
Coming back to my journey, my MBA dream too started in Dec 2003... Joined classes.. took test series... put in my best.... suffered badly in semester exams of University... and was partially successful.. managed to get a call from IIM Bangalore but could not convert it...
Today - February 27, 2008
4 CATs, 4 XATs, 1 CET, 1 GMAT, 5 Calls, 1 Company, 4 Roles, 50 months (of which 32 into mehnat mazdoori) later - I finally have an admit!!!! I am finally going to do my MBA!!!! The feeling is more of a relief than happiness or Euphoric!! Its more of a nightmare (of not getting into MBA ) not coming true and you wake up and see that you are safe.... The nightmare has gone... the dream is finally coming into life...
After all this while of pushing, the car's engine has finally turned on... It may not have started running you know it will... all this while of pushing it has paid off.... the car was still moving then but it was not running.. now you know it will run... Waiting to put that foot on accelerator and zooom off.... The journey has started my friend!!!! The journey has finally started!!!!!
Moral of the story: Patience Pays!!!!
