Yet to be there n yet to do that
What high hopes i had while writing my previous post about the iim k experience. What a dream , a dream i would kill for. It was the 12th of april , my mom's b'day , the day iim final results were expected. I woke up quite late that day , checked the websites for final results. Almost all IIMs had the links activated except iim K. So i decided to get ready to go to office. I asked my mom whether she would like to go out for dinner. She said " U call me and tell me that u got thro iim k , u cant give me a better gift". That was the first time i was tensed about my results. As expected the results did come out in the afternoon but my name didnt figure even in the waitlist. I thought that my life ended there. What i went through was a depression which i never thought i would go thro in my life. A lot of things in my life were hitting the rock bottom at that point of time , and this was the last thing i had expected. My depression lasted for almost 15 days. But i realized that life has to move on, but still i couldnt believe that I was not going to do what i dreamt of. I so badly wanted a change in my life. Shifted my house to indiranagar ( the place closest to my heart ) , but it was not helping. The very thought of CAT 2006 was scary. I decided to take the easier but costlier route of writing GMAT and applying to ISB. Things were going smooth , I even started preparing for my GMAT. It was the 20th of may , i was checking my mails at home and my yahoo inbox read "1 bulk" . Normally i dont check my bulk mails more than once a week cos its mostly spam , and that too about things i least care about. The same thing happened on 21st of may too , and i didnt bother to check my bulk mail. On 22nd of may , reached office a little earlier than usual as i had to take a KT on defect prevention , a topic i hardly knew about. The topic was so boring that i decided to read that one mail in my bulk even if it is from those soosies and loosies about contraception. Not even in my wildest imaginations did i think that the one mail in my "bulk" is gonna change my life forever. Yes it was , it was indeed a mail from IIM K admissions office. I couldnt believe my eyes. My inertia was not letting me even get up from my seat. A feeling that cant be explained. I was not happy , I was not excited , I couldnt think about anything. It took me 3 minutes to find my mom's number from the address book , something i do in less than a second normally. My body temperature shot up , i felt pukish , felt dehydrated. After about 30 minutes i realized what had just happened. But amidst all this confusion was a sense of satisfaction. Until that moment i never thought that I was good enough to be a part of the IIM fraternity. Now its up to me to make the next 2 years count. Its an opportunity of a lifetime. So right now "I am yet to be there n yet to do that".
posted by Gobbledygooo at Monday, May 29, 2006
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