Friday, May 2, 2008

Is it destiny?

My entry into PGSEM'08 has made me believe in destiny more than anything else. The application deadline being extended by 2 days to accommodate my arrival from US, the googly caslet in the exam paper to name a few things.
The exam preparation started six years ago to be precise. My preparation for GRE - the exhaustive 50 wordlists from Barrons that strengthened my vocabulary. 2004 was my tryst with cat, couldnt fare beyond 92 percentile, there were a couple of personal factors attributed to it. 2006 cat + 2007 pgsem.. I'd rather not talk about the disasters. Would erase those chapters if I could.
I always "felt" that I should be giving PGSEM another shot, but never worked towards it. I even tried to settle down for an exec-MBA. It is purely a decision from the heart to go for the PGSEM-08 test. My usually supportive husband was also sceptical about my spurt of interest for the course. I slogged for a month. Took tests after tests. Worked out sums in boring meetings. (I am officially not saying this) Did my worldlists again. Stayed away from TV.

After a long time I felt prepared for an exam. The paper seemed very easy. I attempted almost all the questions.
Ofcourse IIM threw a surprise caselet about "tata-nano" in the exam. There were 2 questions to answer. I did the 1st one really really well. (I guess the practice for GRE case writing helped a lot). Since I had lost touch writing with a pen and paper, I wasnt fast enough for the 2nd answer, gave an half hearted attempt at it. Ofcourse felt super bad about not writing the 2nd answer well. The sad part was I knew so much about nano i could have done the answer really well. :(
I chewed my husband's brains for my mistake. Nice man that he is he did not leave me for all the tantrums I threw :) I eagerly awaited the results..
Finally after days and hours of refreshing yahoo mail I found the mail I was wainting for. Shortlisted!!!! "I made it" I thought I would pass out from the excitement. :)

Stay tuned for the sop, interview and the aftermath. :)

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