Term 7 is done, dusted, and with that begins the end. It's been a nerve-wracking past few weeks. And to be honest, I have almost no recollection of the time between Dec - Jan. It's as if someone reached into my skull and ripped my memories out. I guess that's what stress does to you. Now that I have a job and time to kill, it's about time I started stocking on books. The first one I ran across was Alice in Wonderland (this book has to be on the pre-read list for O-week) and came across this scene to describe my own personal placement experience:
Alice asked the cheshire cat sitting on top of the tree
"Which way I ought to go ?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to" said the Cat.
"I don't much care where so long as I get somewhere"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go" said the Cat.
That's the perfect way to capture my emotions. All this expectation that any MBA student should have a clearly mapped out itinerary for his career is mostly bull. As managers we are expected to deal with uncertainty day in day out. I notice that people who deal with this the best are those who are flexible instead of stubborn. They are not zappered by a role/industry/function and instead can recognize a good opportunity when it knocks on the door. Is that what ISB must start looking for while admitting students ? We seem to have crossed the half way mark and further progress can be expected in the coming days. It's the last few remaining who'll face the toughest time.
As for the other tomes, I did manage to hunt down a modern rendering of the Mahabharata. It's been on my to-do list for far too long and after my failed attempt at reading the Gita translation, I realized that I needed a simplified version to appreciate it. An appetizer before attempting the real thing, so to speak.
Since our team was shortlisted for the Asia Moot Corp competition, I'm looking forward to going on a break to Bangkok!! We have tons to do in the meantime and my job is to get the prototype working before the end of Feb. You can never really separate a techie from code for too long. I've never really built a core Java app of this size and I guess timelines are going to be a challenge.
Anyways, I guess I'll be posting regularly in the coming days. Until then, adios...
