“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life beautiful”
Speaking of one of the major challenges that I faced in life was making it to one of the best B-schools in the country. Completing my graduation from S.R.M University had been a pretty much common affair. Till then I had not faced any major challenge which had to be dealt with, which could impact my life for the bigger future. Till that point life was playing out pretty much okay.
After completing my graduation, I joined a regular kind of IT job at one of the big IT firms in the country. Life was going on well, but I had bigger ambitions in life. I had to take a decision of whether to continue with my regular job or to do something that could raise my standard of living in the future. After a lot of research and consulting, I made the decision to pursue MBA, but getting into the top B-schools was pretty much a challenge in itself. Yet, I decided to take up the challenge. I took the decision in the year 2017, and started preparing for the entrance exams. I gave my best but still could not convert it to a good B-school. Before this, I had not faced a failure of this kind in my life. I started doubting myself as it was a big failure at my end. But sooner, I realised that life is not so easy and that I should face failures with boldness, rather than kneeling down before them. Although it was not easy, but in order to reach my end goal I had to equip myself with a better mindset in order to crack the challenge.
It was time to take up the challenge and live up to the expectations, I had set for myself. I made an attempt again in the year 2018 with even bigger motivation and was able to make it through, to one of the best B-schools in India, SBM NMIMS. The kind of dedication and hardwork required for making it possible was one which I could not have imagined if I would have not met a failure. Challenges are the objects that motivate you to take on things you might never imagine. I believe the real challenge was not cracking the MBA entrance exam, but has now begun to stand among the brightest minds in the country and come out with a better version of myself.
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