Freshers Party by Nov 09 Batch

We were informed one day back that we would be having a freshers party the next day. We were all excited and this reminded me of the engineering days. We finished our class on using Excel in the Business world and waited for a while before the freshers party started. There were a lot of performances. Some were songs, some of them skits and some dances. There was also a Mr and Mrs fresher competition which was conducted and lucky few guys got to participate because of the female to male ratio. I was not lucky this time. My roommate eventually won the Mr Fresher. There were a lot of pretty girls in our senior batch. The energy levels in these guys was amazing given that they are already going through a rigourous program. We had a good dinner and some went to a club.

Registration & Orientation @ SPJCM

The registration was the usual stuff with a lot of paper work. The orientation was more about the facilities available in the campus. Was a bit boring as it was for most. We got all the signoff's from the various departments.

Landing in Dubai

While I was landing in Dubai I saw the whole city lit with blue and green lights. It was a wonderfull sight. After landing and doing the normal procedure I came to meet the first few students of SPJCM. A bunch of highly energetic students from various parts. We were welcomed and given a sim card to use in our phones. Then we all crammed into 2 busses all tired. The crowd was having a lot of junk food and introducing each other. We reached the hostel and waited for a long time to get our rooms assigned. We were not very happy with the room as it was a 4 bed room and it was congested. We luckily got a 5 bed room the next morning. We were contended and happy for this. I got a new roommate a man from Norway whose name was Steeg. Was a friendly guy but was very particular about his sleep. He woke me as I was snoring :-)

Preparation for Admission

Getting the offer letter was one part of it. Then there was this whole process of preparing myself to meet the document/fee deadlines. This was a mammoth task given the time crunch I was in. Luckily my mother was there to help me out on this. Everyday was a battle to get the documentation done/ relieving process initiated. I had to fight against time irrespective of whether I was tired or not. After all the documentation was done I had to prepare myself for paying the fees. This was another big task as I was thinking whether to go for a loan or pay it upfront from my savings. I ended up paying it from my savings because of the loan hassles. I thought to myself which 27 old year would have the finances to finance his PG program all on his own. It was a good feeling to know that my investment knowledge was the reason for this.
Long live Warre Buffet :-)

Admission into SPJCM

So life has taken another turn for me towards what I have been wishing to do for a while now. Yeah its the MBA degree of course.
The way this happened in short is my aunt saw an ad in paper on Feb 10th and I wrote the test on Feb 13th in Pune. The journey was supposed to be by flight but ended up being in a bus(the last one bound to Pune). The preparation was minimal given I had to work in the daytime.
I got 65% and was stilled called for the interview.
I happened to go the interview on Mar 7th in Mumbai. On the way to the interview a lot of business/current affairs was crammed into my head by my uncle Partha / newspapers / Things I heard from dont know where.
The interview was of more slumdog millionaire style. Some of the questions that were asked for which the answers were already there in my head.
At this point I was thinking I was through the test, interview and waiting for the offer letter. Something in me said may be I am expecting too much. But to my astonishment I got an sms saying I was selected the day I was coming back from Pune to Hyderabad.