CAT result was out on 8th, and I avoided seeing my results till the 10th, as it happened many people were more interested in knowing my result than I myself was and for two days all kinds of acquaintances kept asking me what my result was, and finally I had to see my result just to satisfy their curiosity. Getting 98.42 %ile is strange. Though you don’t get any calls, still people feel that it is a very good score and that it is their moral responsibility to congratulate you and console you at the same time. I was a little surprised to see my own result, as far as I remember I had not done much in the paper, how I got even this much is a mystery I have yet to solve.
Why am I discussing all this when this years result has hardly affected me is because all this drama brought back the memories of last year when on the day of the result I had cried my eyes out when I had failed to get calls from any of the IIMs. I seriously thought that the sole aim of my life was to get admission in a good B-school, I did get admission in a few colleges but I myself don’t know why I did not join (though I don’t regret my decision as working with Adobe has been a great experience). But in the past six months I have changed a lot. I have asked my self again and again, do I really want to go for further studies? I am not sure. Do I have to be ambitious only because that is what is expected of me? I have started realizing the importance of such introspection, and so should thousands of others who are running in this rat race without thinking for even one second what their true calling is. Many of my friends joined different B-schools last year, when we meet now two common comments I hear from them are that “I don’t really know why I am doing an MBA” and “All they teach you in MBA is how to dish out a lot of crap and still sound important”. Which just goes to prove that not all people who do an MBA really enjoy the experience, so what is the guaranty that I will? Do I really want to waste two long years of my life just waiting for those two years to get over? But if not this – then what? Lots of times it is said that everyone has their own set of special talents and abilities, so to say everyone has a ‘calling’, well, even if that is true, I have yet to discover mine. So till the time I do, I will continue to celebrate CAT as an annual festival…
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