[Part 1]
“How is life buddy? You must be chilling out with the hot babes there at ISB. Kitni patai? I wish I were at your place. You are so lucky, itni jaldi MBA bhi ho jaegi teri. Give me some tips about the application,” scribbled one of my friends in my orkut scrapbook. I was wondering how beautiful ISB appears to the outside world. I was one amongst these friends of mine 8 months ago jealous of people who were already at ISB. My pre-ISB life flashed in front of my eyes for the next 5 minutes making me nostalgic. There were several ‘Unanswered’ questions knocking at the door of my mind for at least an hour now. Was I better without an MBA? I started comparing the value of happiness in my life before landing up at ISB to the expected value of happiness in my life post ISB. Am I really gaining anything here or am I here just to add another brand name to my resume? It was 0300 hours and I was sitting in my room staring blankly at the case (case-study) I was to prepare for class the next day. The case was 40 pages long and I was through with just 3 pages. I had a class next day at 0800 hours. “I am sick of it yaar. Ever since I have joined ISB, I have not had a good night sleep. People think I am having a blast with the babes here but little do they realize, meri he blast ho rahi hai. I had thought I would make girlfriendS here and enjoy the last few years ‘of my life’ (read as ‘of my life before marriage’). I had dreamt of reading out my girlfriendS’ future from their palms. Saare sapne toot gaye L . Instead of making girlfriends, I am making reports and instead of reading their future out of their palms, I am reading endless number of cases.”
Totally frustrated, I looked into the sky out of the window and asked God, “Despite being in a ‘Swarg’ full of fairies, why can’t I enjoy life here with them? What wrong did I do in life?” I got no answer. Perhaps, God has better questions to answer or he too has got into a B-School like ISB and has the same ‘Unanswered’ questions…
[Make sure you read Part 2 of this blog later this week :)]
6 comments:
cant believe someone would take a year off fom their career, spend a sizable amount of money, and join a COURSE LIKE isb to have fun with babes!!!
No wonder u r disappointed dude.
Nevertheless, you will realise the value of your MBA after you are out of the school, and 5 or 10 years down the line.
Keep slogging (btw i have kknown ppl who had fun with the babes inspite of the workload--so keep trying thr as well) :)
Venkat
C/O 2007
haha..nice one man..keep it up..!!
I couldn't resist replying to the comment below.
You earn and spend money (be it sizeable or not) to enjoy life, don't you? ;)
Keep the main funda clear dost and ENJOY!!!
All the best... :)
oops!!!
i meant "the very 1st comment on this blog above" :)
Keep trying, dude!
Enakshi
Co2007
It is a corporate slum, you will be between four walls rest of your life, of course you get money but you never get time to use the money for your happiness, may be you enjoy with it..if you have money you get a licence for lustful pleasures........I don't understand how much money we need to live??
Look around what the elite MBAs are created around the world, man live as you want don’t live as system dictates you. What a pathetic people we are we don’t have time to write to a love letter to girl...I guess we lost of our life in this completion....we increasingly turning into skilful workers to unknown power.
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