If you want something...

"If you want something, all the universe will conspire to help you achieve it".

Alchemist, Paulo coelho.

I fell in love with this line the moment I read it. This is so very inspiring. It always pushes me to dream, and work hard to convert that dream into reality.
A couple of years into my previous job and I'd realized that I'm going no where. There wasn't anything very challenging about what I was doing. I've not taken birth to do these mundane job all my life - This feeling was getting stronger with each passing day. Things had come to a point where neither the promise of reward nor punishment was able to get me interested in my job. Although, my boss never complained, but I used to feel that I'm drawing salary for contributing nothing. I was certainly looking for a change.
I decided that I'll do MBA. Wrote CAT to get into IIMs... the first choice for any MBA aspirant in India, but failed. I took it up as a challenge and decided to write CAT again. I came close, but cudn't clear it again. At some point of time, I'd also thought of doing MBA from abroad, but there wasn't enough money. So I wrote CAT again, this time too I came close but ultimately could not succeed.
I thought, its time. I should give up my dream of doing masters and start looking for opportunities in other companies.
But then, I wasn't aware that some conspiracy was already going on. One after another, bit by bit, everything started falling in place. All of a sudden, one day I filled up form of AIM and took a flight to Mumbai to write AIMAT. All of a sudden I got a call from XLRI. All of a sudden one day I took a decision that even if I don't get ADB scholarship, I'll take education loan and will join AIM MBA. It looked impossible, but I got edu loan too. One by one, everything fell in line and I realized that against all odds, I'm in Manila atending classes.
Its almost a year, and I can feel that some kinda conspiracy is again going on. I'm destined to get, what I so desperately want. Amen!!!

Life at AIM

When I'd came here on 20th, all the seniors were unanimous in saying that, "get ready to experience the kind of sloging and grinding, you have not experienced till date" and I was like What a big deal ... I've already passed the test of 2nd/3rd year pressure cooker situation at IIT and now am ready to face anything.

Alas I was wrong.

My classes were scheduled to begin on 23rd.

Seeing that many of my fellow first yearites have already started reading last chapter of book that we got at the time of registration, I realized that I've been robbed of all the options but to study. That night I probably slept for 4 hrs.

A day latter, it was the turn of reading and problem assinments which didn't allow me more than 3 hrs of sleep. And then yesterday I could manage hardly 2.

Probably it has something to do with the fact that its been almost 5 years now when I'd last lived a student life but I'm sure finding it difficult to cope with the pressure. Now what am I supposed to do today?? Even If I don' sleep tonight as I've to read more than 100 pages of theory and have to solve many problems alongwith submitting an assignment what will I do tomorow then?? As therz going to be a quiz on day after tomorrow!!!

The best part is that its only PRE MBA so these days we are having two lectures only, accounting and quants. Which makes life a bit easier as I can devote all my time for accounts. What shall I be doing when actual MBA classes will start and I shall have to read more than 3 cases a day along with the related chapors from the book???

Life at AIM is certainly not going to be easy.