Its been a long time that I have not wrote anything and
hence would like to pen down all that I learned and earned in last two years. I
would like to start from the point where I left blogging here i.e. the
interview experience.
THE TURNING POINT
I had interview calls from
IIM L, IIM K, IIM I, MDI, IMT and MICA. I attended all except MICA. All these
interviews were done by second week of April and I was on my venture to start
business. All throughout April the only focus I had was to start a new business.
At the same time I was supposed to decide between doing MBA and the business
plan. It was clear that if I get through any IIM then I would join otherwise I
would continue to pursue the B-plan. I don’t remember the exact date but I
think it was 28th April when my interview results for IIM L was out
and I was shocked to see that I didn’t make it. I felt very exhausted and
started sweating thinking that I did everything correct and still I was not
able to make it. I was confused as well because the message it was displaying
was generally not what is displayed when a person doesn’t make through. Hence I
decided to enter my CAT ID one more time without the suffix SR and then there
it was. Dream come true, I had made it into IIM Lucknow. I checked again and again
to be doubly sure about it and then I called my mom, “I got through IIM
Lucknow.” She said, “Good. Congrats. Come home soon.” The conversation was too
short for such occasion but in some time my family and relatives came to know
about it. Everyone was happy with the result except one, my friend and business
partner Varun. But as promised to him we
still kept working on business plan as now I would be idea partner only. Social
media has really changed the way we communicate and within few days there were
more than 200 member in IIM Lucknow 2012. Me and my future batch-mate were
discussing regarding about life at IIM Lucknow with seniors. We also had a
small meeting of future hel(L)ers and seniors. All enthusiastic bunch went to
fresher-alumni meet where only recent alumni and very few old alumni were
present. Everyone just ate and boozed and had small introduction kind of thing
for freshers, but that reminded again me of my early engineering days. I had
many meeting lined up in June and I was travelling from Aurangabad to Delhi to
Chandigarh and then to Lucknow. It was funny to meet MD of one of well know
K-12 business brand in Delhi and talking about taking their franchisee. He was
not that serious but when I told him I am going to join IIM Lucknow and the
infra partner is cousin of my business partner he was all ears. After finishing
our meeting Varun left for Chandigarh and I went to meet my cousins who were
there in Delhi. Now I was supposed to go all alone from Delhi to Chandigarh and
but then luckily I was blessed with a good looking girl sitting next to me. We
started talking and kept on talking till she got down at some place very close
to Chandigarh. Thanks to social media we still are in touch. In Chandigarh we
met an education consultant and post that I rushed back to Mumbai. I wrapped my
packing in 2 days and I was all set to for the Hel(L).
