What an experience

Its been a longgg ago since I posted anything. Last sem was really busy for me. I took 3 courses out of which 2 were core courses which kept me at toes and thus all thru the semester. But it was a highly enriching experience and a great learning curve for me. One of the best learnings that came was time management. There were instances where I have had 3 assignments to be submitted on a single day. I did panicked initially but then slowly learnt how to manage things around. I guess grad school is all about such experiences and the learnings that follows. Anyways, feeling sleepy will try to be more active from here onwards.

The other day I happened to watch a movie "Homeless to Harvard". Its based on a true story of girl named Liz Murray. I was touched to see how she fought against all odds to later join prestigious Harvard University. It makes me think that whenever I have felt low in life I ended up saying (most of the times) that "I was so unlucky" but after watching this movie I realized one cannot be in a more worse condition than of her's. A child who lost her mother at the tender age of 15,father suffering with AIDS. A child whose most of the childhood was spent eating the leftovers at the dumpsters.
But she knew that she just need one chance to turn around the things. She started her high school when others of her age have completed her. But all these things didn't pull her back in realizing her dreams. I guess things are not difficult.Its the mindset we have that makes things difficult.One needs to have the perseverance and right attitude and the will to achieve his dream along with the belief that "I can do it". I really liked this movie and would strongly recommend all you guys to watch it.

Shootout in Athens,GA

Focus...is all that matter

I believe focus is the most important factor in determining the height one can attain personally or professionally. When I say focus it refers to each and everything we do in all spheres of life..no matter how minuscule it might be....focus leads to organized efforts.. Correct orientation of efforts is what makes or break the ice....
I agree its tough to be focused 24/7 after all we are humans....but a genuine effort towards it can certainly go a long way in determining your success..its a matter of how we perceive our life....to achieve something one has to work towards it continuously with utmost passion and honest efforts and I don't see any reason why sooner or later the success will not be yours...but as we know "Journey of thousand miles starts with a single step"...so never hesitate to take that single step in life....approach life with a positive frame of mind and let me assure you world will be a much better place to live in.....

US Dreams

Finally I arrived in Athen, US on August 1st 2008, with lots of hopes and aspirations!!! Have heard and seen this place only in movies,internet. But now I was witnessing it with my own eyes!!! My flight was through Chicago. Immediately after landing there my eyes started capturing the views around me. I was desperate to capture everything within that fraction second of my eyes flipping..."This looks like India..we have this in india as well....wow this is really good"...were some of my thoughts that were going inside my mind...I was trying to compare each and everything just to satisfy myself that it was worth coming here thousands of miles away from home...I was a bit nervous too..new place,new set of people..but I guess we derive the pleasure from discovering something new in life...n I could feel the mixture of earnestness and fear in me...

I took a flight for Atlanta from Chicago and reached Atlanta on time...so I was nearing my destination and the excitement was getting high...in few hours I will be able 2 c the place where I need to spend next 2 years of my education..feels great ...i'll be a part of a US school...
Well finally I took a shuttle from Atlanta airport and reached Athens. On the way saw Georgia tech. was pleased to see an Ivy league school abt whom have only heard and read but never seen. At last i reached my destination and till now its been great here...though I must use the phrase "So far so good" as no one has seen the future....but I hope I will have enough motivation in future as well to write abt this place and school....

My Journey..people call it life!!!

Guys, this is the first time I am writing a blog.

I will start with my journey whatever I have gone through, the mistakes I commited and my learnings.

When I was preparing for IIT JEE, I just had one dream in my life..that was just to crack IIT JEE. This exam is so much prevalent in North India that I doubt if any one was able to escape from it. I was no different. However, we doesn't get everything what we want in life. Unfortunately I found my self to be a part of the crowd bearing the loser looks. This was my first meeting with failure and disappointment. But life does not stop and one must learn to move on in life. I did the same and looked ahead with other alternatives. But I guess people who have high dreams cannot stop at any point. They look for ways to reach their destination in some way or the other.But what about people like me who represent that mass majority of people with common desires but limited means but high dreams. Each time we fail, we think is it because I am not capable to achieve this or I don't have the right to think big and change my destiny as I am born in India where to achieve what you want, either you have to be the brainiest of the person or rich enough to buy education.Unfortunatley I was none of them but still have the desire to fly high in life.

I don't remember exactly when I started fancying MBA. I think it all started when I saw one of my college senior getting through IIM Ahmedabad. What attracted me was that I could easily identify that he is no more part of the crowd. He is different, and this is what I want to be. At that time the objective was to be different and to be in the elite few and after seeing this guy, I thought this is the way to achieve this.I started preparing for MBA but not with that earnestness. In between my college placements started.

I was able to crack Wipro and thought that its a big achievement so much that I gave up my MBA plan for the time being and thought of gaining few years of experience and then go for higher studies.I thought I no more belong to that crowd and if not completely but certainly the journey has begun to be among the elite few.
However, within few months of joining Wipro I realised this is not the place where I wanted to be, so I again started preparing for MBA(this time with full vigour) hoping that will join some B-school this year to get rid of this life. I failed to crack any of the B-school exams and then I realized what a mistake I have commited by discontinuing my CAT pptn in college. But time has already flown away and I cannot continue to waste my precious years of life in just "trying" things and consoling that next year I stand a chance. I thought patiently and tried calculating my realistic chances of cracking any reputed B-school next year and realized that now I cannt afford to take chances and better look for alternatives at the same time keeping in mind my objective. With guidance from my father I thought of writing GRE and some how try to save 1 more year getting wasted. After some research I realized I am already quite late. But still thought of taking the plunge and with few days of preparation(100th fraction of what i did for CAT) I wrote GRE and got OK types score. I started applying ,in fact when ppl were getting to know their results I was applying to universities at that time. But still thought of giving it a shot. Atlast I got three admits from good universities. But now the problem was financial requirements. I belong to middle class family. Cant even think of taking 10+lacs of loan.
But then to my surprise I got a mail from one the univ, i have got admit that I have been considered for financial aid. I was elated didn't have words to express my feelings. Now I am planning to join this univ.
I think after going through all these struggling days I have realized that efforts can never go in vain.There is some one watching you and if you are ready to take few steps he will help you to take giant leaps.

I still nurture my dream to do MBA but this time I have a strong reason why i wanna do it.