Life @ MBA Part 1 (Pre-MBA phase)

This is one topic on which I wanted to write since long. In this part I will write about my experience before I joined XIM.

I will start from a year before I joined XIMB. I was the so called "engineer" not quite sure what to do in life when I reached my 4th year.

Option1- M tech

Noooooooooo! Two more years doing the same thing.. Well couldn't bear the idea :\

Option2- "Software engineer"

Well is a good back up and I was placed in Infy but no one i guess, if had any other choice would go for this choice.

Option 3- MBA

Well my papa was actually very interested in this and even though I was not sure I went along with the big junta who went for the evening IMS classes, talked at length about the mocks for the whole sunday and surfed pagalguy frequently. Well it was also a kind of fun for me as I got a break from same tasting topics I used to read in engineering. So this seemed the best choice to me of the three. Another reason which made me choose this option was that in my third year I had given the free mock test of IMS and had unexpectedly got good score so I thought maybe I should give it a shot.

But that is not the end to it. Its not the MBA part which attracted me really. It was rather like going back to old times, solving the similar type of quant problems as my school maths, solving the DI questions etc which I liked. I gave all the mocks religiously but I won't say it was with energy or passion. My scores went from high to abysmally low to medium to good. It had become pretty frustrating and disappointing in between.I would come after the mock , see pagalguy, curse the guys who would have got a pretty good score by my standard and would have written "OMG! I screwed it all blah blah n I won't clear cutoffs." I would sit there for an hour or two with my mother repeatedly calling me to have my food. Sometimes the results would be okay and sometimes disappointing. Nevertheless I went on that way and then came November.

CAT din't go very good. I kind of panicked to see the uneven distribution with more weightage given to English. Missed out some easy DI sets. Anyways a different story. XAT was also not so good. Well the examination story will require another blog so will write in short here. After a few more similar debacles I had lost all hopes of doing MBA that year for I didn't have the patience or energy to stretch it any longer. I remember there was a day when I was very very depressed and I had stopped talking to everyone. I was sad because I felt as if I had failed my parents. Well I had a conversation with papa that night and felt a bit good as he was very supportive. Then miraculously, in a day or two XIMB was out with its list and like a small ray of hope I saw the healing words "Congratulations ! you have been selected for the next round of GDPI". The only downside was I had just managed to slip in by .05 percentile and that would ultimately affect my overall score. nevertheless I decided to give it my best shot 'coz nothing to lose. I also got a call from IMT -G which I had applied after the CAT scores were out and IMT extended deadline (was stupid enough not to have applied to any any college separately which used CAT score). Then again started another phase of preparation for GDPI in IMS. Again ups and downs started with me constantly doubting how to make it with the paltry score. Infact there was guy from XIMB , 2nd yr, who had come to take our GD PI sessions and had said me flatly that there is not even .5 % chance that "I with my confused thoughts can ever make it to XIMB". Well I won't say it was ok, but Iwas really very sad after that. Somehow I integrated myself back and then GDPI happened finally. GD was okay, PI was good .Thank god the panel asked me maths questions and it was good. Then was the time for results. The seat increase story will require another blog altogether...nevertheless it increased and I was finally selected into XIMB. When I got the news I felt really great not because I was to do MBA but because I had proved many people wrong and more because papa was really happy on my selection. Mummy was happy because I could stay in Bhubaneswar near them :\.

And then I entered XIMB where a new chapter of my life has begun. More about it in the next part :).