Tryst with Destiny???

All these days I knew that BSchool Application process will be very tricky but the more I immerse myself into applications, the more I realize that its more tricky than I ever imagined it to be.

First of all, this whole process needs you to evaluate your priorities, re-examine what you have done in your life until this point ( For some people like me, there wont be much ) and what you want to do after MBA and why do you feel you can do it. Actually there are much complex questions out there but if one has good concrete answers for all these so-called easy questions, I think that’s half battle won.

SO why am I finding it so difficult to answer these easy questions?? For a start, I think these are not easy questions, at least for me. As I try to answer these questions, as I examine my priorities, I sometimes wonder whether MBA will be right for me, whether I will get what I want in my life after an MBA and so many trivial doubts that I wonder if I am the same guy who has been planning for his MBA for close to 2 years now. Even If one musters to write something that satisfies him, there is a small matter of convincing the Adcom with his answers. Because what looks great to you, on paper, may look ordinary or silly to the Adcom, who see thousands of similar essays. Its very important to critique your answers and not to fall into the trap thinking you have written great essays because "Every Mother things her child is the most beautiful ".

On top of all this, there is this small matter of competition. A US MBA is already competitive but India's phenomenal growth means that the number of Indian applicants is increasing every day and the profiles & experiences they carry are also becoming more & more impressive. Of course I have no right to comment on this as today I am thinking of an MBA because such a type of thinking is possible only today.

So the more I get involved in the application process, the more I realize that I am an Underdog. So is it time to pack off. Naa..... I have this classic Underdog mentality and as some one has said "I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.” Of course I see the result of all this, the result that will bring me Joy beyond bounds, the result that will make sure that I have my Tryst with Destiny!!!