yay! it does work
and i'm back.. guess the only person celebrating, is me.. so yay! :)
a quick update..
i graduated (surprisingly) last week and am back at home and all its comforts for 6 whole weeks before i start work (my first proper job - doing shitty intern work does not count)
i did manage to get a job in a company i like.. except that the job is gonna take me far away from almost everyone ive known.. thats the bad part.. :(
two years ago when i left home, i didnt feel too bad coz i thought i was gonna come back to mumbai for sure.. i didnt think i was leaving behind friends and family for too long.. two years was nothing.. and time did fly that fast..
but now im headed to hyderabad (??!!??!!) for heaven knows how long.. i know nothing about the place, am nervous at the prospect of living alone (excited too, of course :-) cant really imagine myself doing grown up stuff like paying bills and employing a maid, cooking for myself and getting a paycheck (THAT im looking forward to :-D )
but basically, i cant imagine myself as a grown up.. seems like just yesterday i was at the iim indore gate on my first day and the guard asked me whether i was old enough to be a student there
"Madamji, aap toh bahut chote lagte ho.. yahan sab bade log aate hai! :P" (sure he wont be saying that now :P )
but, im sure i will be fine.. ive always been watched over very well :)
second year...
whats second year at iim i about?
for me,
its about this feeling of comfort and familiarity, knowing the campus in and out and still feeling lost among the sea of new faces...
its about learning for learnings sake and not coz i have to..
its about being so used to late nights and last minute submissions that panic attacks are down to an all time low...
its about knowing that i am in a position of responsibility where i can make a difference...
its about being so used to the people around me that they seem natural extensions to myself.. i honestly find it hard to remember a time i did not know them..
its about a whole bunch of erstwhile idiots suddenly seeming grown up and mature...
its about still making a lot of mistakes, but handling them a wee bit better...
its about thinking a lot, lot more about life and what i would like to do with it...
its about seeing the campus so beautiful and green in the rains and knowing that its probably for the last time that im gonna see this...
its about falling in love with a city i didnt care a tiny bit about less than 2 years ago..
its about lots lots more......
'm lovin' it!!
record...
just want to record the making of my first movie (nothing hi fi just moviemaker! :P), but im pretty kicked about it (and i think its come out quite ok! :D)
a fortunate few (:P) will get to watch it at the iim indore alumni meets all over the country on 27th...
this means, so far this summer i have designed/made (by designed i mean worked on it from scratch):
4 brochures
1.5 movies
1 newsletter
1 invitation
0.5 handbook
along with scores of templates, motivational notes (:P), ppts......
i think its a sign.... i think my career lies in media/design/advertising.....
why else would i get a
design job during my internship in a
bank as an
MBA student!
hmmmm....
summertime......
got into bombay about 4 weeks ago for summer and my internship - my first ever job stint.
this place is hot, sticky, dirty and traveling is bloody time consuming... but it's my city and i love it alright :)
started off on my summers on the 3rd and the fact that its only now that i've gotten the time to update my blog is an indication of the way things are going. busy as hell. have no time for anything. its been four weeks since ive started reading a really interesting book and cant read more than 2 pages a day before i fall asleep of pure exhaustion. and add to that, one fourth of these four weeks have been spent being ill coz of a combination of heat, traveling and overexhaustion...
whoever said MBA was hard work, s/he was definitely talking about the internship part of it!
on another note, the first wedding of our batch at iim indore will be this sunday. which is how i came to attend a
sangeet ceremony for the first time today. it was really nice. there was so much warmth and family feeling in everything taking place (knocking on wood here :) there were little dances that were put up by the family members right from the old aunties down to the little kids. and the groom and bride looked so happy to be getting married, it felt really nice being there :)
the first list of our
fachchas is out and its pretty entertaining to read their mails and questions.. entertaining just coz it reminds me of the kind of doubts and worries i had before i got there; only to realize none of it mattered (i remember asking some of our seniors how many sarees to carry along and whether i could get frozen food with me.... sheesh! : ).... in a way it makes me feel old. :( cant believe one more year and ill be out of the place...
more unbelivable (atleast to me) is the fact that due to a very unfortunate combination of circumstances, i will be finding myself pretty jobless in my second year... not doing iris, not doing utsaha... for the first time in my life, im facing a year with no major extra curricular activities planned... feels really strange... :(
fear
when you do something not because you want to do it/like doing it/have to do it but only because you're too scared of the absolutely ridiculous consequences of not having done it...
it loses all meaning
absolutely senseless it might seem.. but i had to get it out
also.. my hand is acting weird coz my back is acting weird.. as a consequence i cant type or write much...
also... i tend to make less sense with each passing minute when i'm up an entire night
:)
farewell!
the last few are leaving today...
the campus seems empty... when you are only 230-odd (pun intended!) people on a 200 acre campus, the sudden disappearance of half the population makes quite a difference....
every alternate door has a padlock on it... walking through the corridors, you can see spirals and textbooks lying outside every room, relics of the 'MBA'... standing in the 'D' looking around the hostels, it seems like a pattern - lights out in every alternate room... spamming on the newsgroups is down to a record low....
it's been an emotional week for most people on campus... beginning with the farewell (first edition! :D), the record breaking final placements, the final edition of the farewell and the last party with people getting drunk and emotional all over the place... yearbooks, packing, farewell dinners, final good-bye's.....
and then again it's surprising how quickly we've stepped into our new role...
work on IRIS 2006 and UtsAha! '07 are well under way, electives are being finalized, the exchange program students will be finalized in a week, the interest clubs are planning out their activities for the coming year, summer project details have begun to flow in, hostels and flats are being booked, trips are being planned...
signing off with lyrics of 'circle of life' from the lion king (gosh! ive changed!!)
From the day we arrive on the planetAnd blinking, step into the sunThere's more to see than can ever be seenMore to do than can ever be doneThere's far too much to take in hereMore to find than can ever be foundBut the sun rolling highThrough the sapphire skyKeeps great and small on the endless round
It's the Circle of LifeAnd it moves us allThrough despair and hopeThrough faith and loveTill we find our placeOn the path unwindingIn the CircleThe Circle of Life
