The Preparations

After struggling through my decision of studying practical sciences and comparing all pros and cons of doing an MBA, the toughest part was to select the right school for it. Believe me it is tougher than finding the right girl/boy for you. Anyways, considering all the ifs and buts, I applied to a couple of schools and got into NUS-Business School. It is one of the nicest schools in Asia and one of the cheapest in the world and is very well reputed.

The main problem(if I call it one) with my admission was that I got an offer at least 6 months before the start of the session and after that there was such a huge gap that time was hard to pass. And when you have so much time to kill, your mind becomes so hyper-active that you get tense over petty things which would never have come to your occupied mind. There was a huge anticipation in the mind which happens with every new venture in your life but when you are just about to kick your almost settled working life to spend all savings, get a loan, spend that too, loose 2 years of your salary and all of that for a chance to get entry into the so called MBA club, it hits you like you have just come out of a nice boozing party and the hangover is pounding hammers in your head. In that situation you are bound to think that why in the hell did I have to drink that much. The same feeling was in my heart but the only (or the biggest) difference here was that my hangover was not going to get over soon and was going to haunt me for life.

But then I consoled myself that this was my choice and I will do what I always wanted to do. At that point of time I didn’t know that this consolation is also not going to last long and all my dreams about doing the right thing, getting into right field, finding the right job are going to hit me back to back like continuous Tequila shots hits your mind and you get floored. I cudn’t quite understood at that time that I too was going to get floored pretty soon.