Phew! Inevitable transition it is. Life goes on at such a fast pace and I end up noticing that only after a good half of it has gone by. And by that time it will be too late. Live life to the fullest every moment, enjoying every detail of what ever you do. Personally, I do like to go back and change here and there. But on the whole I am thankful to Almighty for where I am now.
The last 1 year of my life had taught me so many things that I had never learned till then in my entire life. The most precious part is the friends I managed to get. The different kinds of people I got to meet.
It has been almost 1 and a half months since my semester exams are over and I didn’t get time to write what I wanted till now. Now to rewind, I became an engineer, officially on Friday, the 13th of June, 2008. I was pretty ecstatic about finally being a graduate.
Thank God for keeping me so engaged. I got a new part time job for two months as faculty at TIME. When I started teaching my respect for my teachers grew more than ever. I like the new role of a teacher. There are times when the class room is filled with half interested students (no offense meant to any of my students). I also get to interact with some of the energy bundles of my city. One thing is for sure, being a good teacher also means being young forever. The way the eyes look at you eager to learn is something which makes us feel so good about.
So apart from all that, I thought I should write something about my experiences of cat preparations. It all starts in a much disciplined manner. Every other student (around 40 in a class and 10 such batches in your city) poses as a serious threat to you if you are seriously preparing. During the course of time, I found lots of interesting groups.
One group who were not bothered at all about CAT and the other exams. I wonder why they come for classes. But they are the group that pumps in the money to the coaching institutes. A majority of them end up not even taking CAT.
Then there is another group, they start off. Very deceptive! Once the first company comes to campus to recruit them, they disappear.
Then I have come across people who have been preparing so hard for this particular exam, which is the mother of all exams, for over 4 years but each time they lose out because of a 0.5 percentile short in 1 of the 3 sections. They are the unfortunate of all.
From all these what I have understood is that to crack cat, you need to put in tremendous amount of hard work and a bit of luck. Yea, there is the saying, “the harder you work, and the luckier you seem to be”. But I have also seen many cases where this has been quite contrary. So what I will suggest to all mba aspirants is to get the list of probable B schools, of course starting with IIM A and most important is to set a time limit (the time by which you will get into the B school)
Now after college, I am off to another college. Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi is one place that I am sure will be a jam packed experience. Lets wait and see.
