Reflections Of Life

Doesn’t everyone know the owner of the now famous blog… had the opportunity to chat with him for quite some time in the IIM-A campus and the usual IIM – ISB discussions followed in the middle of the night! And more interestingly, memories of good times in INSEAD as we went on to talk about the fleury home (my pseudo home in France)… some great people in some great places… more about this some other time.

I have had a marathon term for the past 6 weeks and though I would not get any great grades, I am very happy with the effort I have put in… don’t remember when I worked this hard… should use this as a practice for my placement preparations and am planning to do some serious work on the same from next term (which starts on Monday).

Had the most hectic day of my life on Wednesday when I had 2 exams and hadn’t slept for the past few days… I wrote the ‘Fixed Income’ and ‘LSCM’ exams and was supposed to have an interview that evening which got postponed after a two hour preparation and a one hour wait! My body and mind were both dead by this time and I tried to get some sleep before I started my preparations for the ‘Options’ exam the next day. I could get neither sleep nor ‘options’ into my head and I wrote one of my worst exams the next day… as everyone was busy writing, I could not even sit for 2 hours in a 3 hour exam! I celebrated the end of term without any parties (!) as I had to catch a flight to Ahmedabad… reached the IIM campus at 10 pm and my body was searching for sleep… had come here as we were shortlisted for the case presentation – “Innovations on the Horizon” and I hadn’t prepared a single slide for the presentation!!!

After long chats and IIM-A night campus visits, I started the ppt in the early hours and put in my best effort for the whole day! KS has to be acknowledged for the session he took for some of us 2 weeks back, on presentations… This was the best opportunity to try out my experiments and I was impressed with the result… still to show it to the guru and get his opinions!

One of the sickest feelings I have had was yesterday night after I finished the presentations… every part of my body was aching and my mind was dead… didn’t want to give up, but wanted to give up! Realized that I needed sleep desperately and had a good sleep in a dusty room! Mind was clear in the morning to prepare well… However long I prepare, I still can’t help the pressure I feel just before giving a presentation… (if the GOD of cricket can’t sleep before a match, I can feel the same :-)) 6 teams were shortlisted for the final round – 2 from ISB, 2 from IIMA, 1 from IIMC and 1 from Fore School of Business – We came third overall and I was happy we won something for the effort put in though a lil disappointed that we weren’t in the top! The other team from ISB came second and IIMA came first.

I was quite impressed with the big campus when I came in… quite spacious and big lawns in the center were the first attractions… but the rooms that were allocated were disappointing… after staying in ISB, I must say the facilities at ISB rocks!!! (Most of the things here made me remember my BITS campus :-))

Now its time for a decent term break… planning to go around the city… waiting for Harsha Bhogle (He is coming for the quiz tomorrow)… can I have a date with him tomorrow night? ;-)