IIMA application submitted

I submitted my first application of this application season. The application interface is pretty bad and I wonder if this the best IIM A can do. Why don't they outsource is to some other agency such as Apply yourself.
Another thing I did not like was it only works on IE. grrrhh.. I am a big fan of firefox and with firefox 3.0, I do not even want to look at IE. But they left me no choice! So much to sacrifice for this application season. :)

Also, there were few confusing things and no proper instructions. What do we fill in asset under management or annual turnover. Well I had difficulty in identifying the turn over since my company was never publicly listed and later it was acquired by another company. Though our HR is from bigger company, our payroll still runs with the smaller company. Anyway, just put the estimated amount.

With one thing off my head, and this helped me creating my one page resume as well. So worth the effort. Now I am going to start working on the essays (yeah, I am optimistic for getting shortlisted). Also need to start working on ISB essays. I am not getting thoughts for the case essays. Any ideas?

career goal template

Found a great blog for template to write the career goal
check this

Accomplishments and Goals

I spent this whole weekend contemplating and sitting in front of my laptop. Today, I prepared my first draft of my accomplishments and goal and why I need an MBA. And boy! It feels good. I was struggling with this for last couple of weeks. Though the draft is not a perfect version, I feel I put enough information to get me started and handle essays with specific questions.

Over the last week, I was reading a book by Swami Vivekananda on karma yoga. It really rejuvenated me. Inspite of regular practice of meditation, I was getting pretty tensed up with the app process, evaluating my chance at each and every moment. In this book, SV talks about the importance of doing work 100% and with sincerity without getting attached to the result. And how true is it, the moment I thought about it, all my tension and stress vanished. He was not saying anything new, but what a difference it makes by re-emphasizing and re-iterating the truth.

Anyway, coming back to my mba specific journey, the next target is to work on IIM-A essay. The essays are very generic and I hoping I can reuse quite a few material in my other essays. I have to start working on IIMA application and also on creating a one page resume. Oh boy! lot of work. I got my hands full for next week :)

I am getting tensed

Most of my target schools have announced the application deadlines and released application essays. I have yet not started thinking about essays. Still trying to refine my goals and appropriate career path. Oh God! Give me some clarity :P

I am reading a lot of blogs of fellow mba applicants and other MBA students who are already in. Looks like everyone has done lot homework already, many of them have visited schools, spoke to current students, alumni, faculty and ad com member. And here I am, running late as usual.

Ideally, I should have got a good head start as I took GMAT last year in November, but with my procrastination here I am catching up with this MBA Game.
God give me strength to sail through this tiring and exhaustive process. So far I have done random searches, visited my target schools website. I am pretty happy with all my chosen schools by looking at their website and reading some of their students blogs. But yeah, still have to go through a major milestone of visiting schools and talking to students to really identify whether I fit and get some juice for my essays.

Another dilemma I find myself in is whether to hire a consultant or not. Ad com from various people say that they can identify the professional touch on the application and it is a clear put off for them. But looking at the amount of work needed and competition pool I am in (yeah!! I am MIT - Male Indian Techie), I am trying to find someone who can really help me sail through.

Will keep posted ( ha ha.. as if anyone is reading it)

Mba dreams

I have been thinking about doing MBA since the time I was in my undergrad college. But looks like my dreams are going to be materialized this year.
Finally, this fall I am going to apply for the BSchools and as you guessed it, the dreaded applications are already giving me nightmares.

I am doing lot of introspection and trying to collect my thoughts to finalize my goal essay. I know I want to start up a company, but still struggling to clearly define my goals. The hows, whys, details, short term, mid term goals are creating all sort of problems.

But in a way, I am enjoying it as well. I never really sat down and thought so much about myself, my career. So at least after the whole process, I would definitely have more clearer goal for myself, might be much more well-read and self aware.

I am hoping to continue this blog and update it regularly. We shall see whether it will work