It was in my Engineering 3rd year that I first heard about
blogging. To many, this might seem to be really absurd considering the
penetration of internet and the usage behavior of any average
teenager. Some could even brag that they have started blogging right in their
school and I am here still very proudly saying that I heard about anything like
that in my 3rd year
of Engineering which was – 2010. After my initial lackluster attitude
towards this, I could finally understand what the hell a blog means.
And then, I thought of
creating a blogging website for any project or competition that I got the
opportunity for. Considering my past in which I had many such aspirations and
none to which I stood up, I felt I would be betraying my standards if I suddenly
do this and hence kept all these plans aside and like the best student of the
batch took up a ready made project which just required me to mug up
few steps in order to execute it in front of the external who comes to examine
our projects. As any other common B.Tech student, I took up this task with full
commitment and followed it up religiously. So I kept this very easy task of
creating content / writing a blog aside to do something which requires a lot
more attention and hence did not succeed in writing one.
Then, to complete my
childhood fantasy of becoming an MBA graduate from IIM !!!!! yes, IIM was my
dream though I had never ever stood first in class and neither was I ever
considered as anything worth it. But anyway, dreaming is my right because
that’s the only place where I need not worry as to what and how others would
judge me. Hence, when you can do something at your will and fantasy there is
nothing wrong to just dream to be the best. Then I took up CAT coaching from
TIME to get into IIM and nothing less. Finally the D-date of writing the
exam had come and at the right moment i.e. exactly after I got into the hall of
the exam, I could feel all kind of emotions playing in my mind. This made me
certain of 1 thing – an aspirant who really cracks CAT and gets into an IIM are
not the ones who dream of joining IIM when you have the screen with questions
in front of you, but are those who solve them methodically. In fact they solve
it so sincerely that I thought I could not match up to them and instead went
back to my day dreaming. I am sure that the kind of dedication and sincerity
with which I dreamt of joining an IIM is something that no IIM convert could
have also done.
As any other exam, once
you take it up whether you like it or not you still would have to check the
results in order to avoid the long lectures on careless attitude towards
studies, noncompetitive spirit of the current generation who have
been sadly generalized only by your deeds. In order to avoid such a situation,
I checked the result and it was showing that I scored 90 percentile which was a
great shock to me. For a lot of time I was contemplating what I just saw and
then was continuously watching the news to check if there were any protests of
students getting wrong results due to the enormous number of mistakes that
happened in the previous CAT exam when it newly adopted the computer based
test. Anyhow, to my satisfaction nothing as such happened and it sunk in to me
that I am for a change a 9+ scorer somewhere for a change. Ahh…. what an
achievement that was. Then the search started for the college which –
1. Were still open to
those candidates who did not apply till the results were out, &
2. Was having some kind
of reputation and at least some placements for the final years.
After severe attempts
to search for the best that I could get, I finally narrowed it down to BIM and
oh !!! wow.. Now that’s close to my IIM dream for 2 reasons.
1. It is really close
to the new IIM at Trichy &
2. BIM is like just adding
two balls at the head of an IIM
So finally I did blog
something at last. Hope I’ll continue to waste yours as well as my time
with this new habit and ya, your valuable feedback is always taken in
high spirit.
