It all started, when I just got done and dusted with my final semester engineering examination. From that night and couple of night followed I couldn’t sleep, not because I had unchecked M.tech option from the list but I was completely haywire as what is up next then?
Few days of career analysis, pros and cons list (fancy it might sound but it didn’t do any great favour to me) and what not? I had finally decided to keep aside all of these chores and just listened and heeded people around me whom I knew had a genuine grasp of who I am.
And then what MBA term surfaced, let me tell you even I had inadvertently envisioned myself for the same but wait… it’s not the end of the story, I have only set the context for further.
The real struggle started when I starkly blown by the fact that I have only 4 good months to prepare for MBA entrances that too from the scratch, instantly I got myself enrolled in one of the coaching centres and while writing the story, this moment prompts me to burst a fallacy ‘Not all Engineers are excellent with quant and horrified with verbal’, I guess I have clarified my case.
Biggest failure - I had put in all I could in those 4 months but ruined the ‘D’day. I remember myself locked in a room and crying like never before after coming from the exam centre but blessed to have my parent, my father saw and brought me some noodles(my favourite) but a bowl of noodles did not rescue me for long. I came back to my vulnerabilities again.
Achievement - But you know what I had not stopped there, because I have always cherished and believed a quote by W.Clement Stone “Aim for the moon if you miss, you may hit a star”. This quote kept me going failure after failure (almost all the entrances), was fully engrossed in my vulnerabilities, insecurities, under confidence and so on, but never stopped.
Surely couldn’t grab the moon, but managed to get hold of a star, led to a journey from Raipur to Mumbai.
1st year MBA - It's highly not possible to justify to the entire 1st-year journey, in brief, all I can say it was nothing less than a roller coaster ride, starting from learning Finance (for engineers), endless presentations, eating and chilling out to scary Result days, but at the end all worth it, the grind, the sleepless nights, the extra mile all worth it.
Internship - I talk about the first year of MBA and don’t address the elephant in the room, how come that’s possible, yes my internship with ‘Colgate Global’.
It is 4’o clock in the morning, I woke up with jittery feet, yes we all had to reach Colgate office by sharp 8 am for the process, GD followed by PI, all that I knew is I have given my best and next day surprisingly I happened to party even before the result came, Yes I got through!!! and that incident just reinforced my confidence a little more.
