SP it is !!

No cents for anyone to guess what SP is and how confused would I have been to join anything other than the coveted "IIM's". After all, graduating from one of the premier colleges in India infact the pride of clearing  IIT leads one into believing that anything with double "I" has his hallmark on atleast one of its seats. Of course, not underestimating the caliber of any ISMITE, reality bites are different and one needs to work hard and sometimes even much more than those who do not carry the halos of IIT somewhere around them.... and thinking that a seat is reserved for you in the lanes of media love - IIM's is a fallacy which just makes you sleep peacefully until the D day and yet another year and so on.

I was about to sleep peacefully for another year when thanks to alerts from coaching institutes on my mobile made me to check for an almost impossible thing; profile based calls of SPJIMR were out. OK .. for those who still don't have any idea what SPJIMR is ..with due respect to you ignorance in the field of management education, it is S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research, one of the best B school in India in the cadre of IIM's, XLRI and FMS. More on how good . comparisons etc will come later...

Right now, I seemed to have bagged a profile based call to SPjain; which wasn't even a remote possibility. To bag a profile call, you have to climb an everest... what , i am serious ? Ok , not an everest but at least you must have some international recognition or ranji playing experience(13th man won't do) or music maestro or through out university topper or might have changed the lives of socially challenged people .....phew ... it's not less than Everest ...

On some retrospection, my profile seemed to have some good points .. well I shall not put it here for public scrutiny .. but it somehow fitted on the lines of the international , zonal .. etc . So what next, prepare for the inteview and decide later if I had to take it up. With couple of sessions in TIME and some more reflection, I somehow managed to impress the interviewers in 2 1hr long interview sessions.

The biggest delimma was when I got through in the first list , a cocktail of emotions made me sick pondering over the age old question " To be or not to be". It took atleast 10 rounds of discussions with my family and close set of friends to convince myself that SP is my destiny for the next two years. There was never a doubt on the college, just that ......... I  thought I had my 1 seat reserved in the heart of a double "I".

More on how I felt there ... the first class .. the induction..... the destiny .. later .... need to sleep .. by the way I dint read a single page today :)