The Day After the MBA tour

The day after the MBA tour @ Bangalore has left me all the more determined...and confused...Determined to do my MBA at the likes of Tuck, Duke or Ross....Confused because of so many things...my yet-to-do GMAT score, better GMATters from the techie citadels of India-the RECs/IITs, the scores of BPOs boyz with funny American accents ...looking all style and no substance...esp the ones pierced all over...

To start off a long story, I finally took off from work to attend a "friends marriage" at Bangalore...escape from Cochin was almost spoilt by a "Bandh" by the combined strength of the trade unions of India(God bless y'all comrades)...however despite a cancelled bus and screwed up monthend targets, made it to a rain drenched Bangalore which had no autos running...after waiting for 2 hours in the rain, finally got a friends friend to pick me up and accomodate me till aftn...Washed up and started roaming around bangalore...gangarams,brigade road in the hope of spotting the 11th edition of OG, some chikkas and general eye candy...babe ditched me as usual, so started walking under a dark cloud down MG Road and reached the Taj Residency about an hour early....and theres that 20 member queue! Kewl! And I'd almost decided that almost all Bangaloreans were beer guzzling "fakes"(sorry,Mr.Salinger-your line)...apparently they had other interests in life...a North Indian hunk with pierced everythings was doing a speed demo of his accent to a lady from the MBA tour...she wasnt impressed.

Session started off with the usual useless lecture by an educated looking/named wise cracker "Mendellsohn" from Rensellaer and soon joined in by ladies from Emory & IESE...not very useful when you consider the volumes of personal questions that came in...Jeez...some folks never learn...woudlnt have minded them being pretty...but stupid questions from ugly babes is Totally Intolerable. After half an hour of this mind numbing Q&A session, the tour started and with that the different games...the most popular being "WHOS GOT THE MOST BROCHURES?" but closely followed by "FLICK THOSE EMBOSSED PENS" & "Ask 10 questions at a go and confuse the firangi &%@#(&s".

Anyways me, met the lady from Tuck and an alumni from Duke who explained the wonderful team building skills that Duke imparts you and how he was using that to build his own chotu power project in India...I was like own chotu WHAT??!!?...after that kick, generally wandered around in a daze to the Cornell stall where they had absolutely useless brochures & also checked out Schulich/Sauder and Rotman....apicked up some women at Tuck/UCLA brochures for MT and then rushed off for dinner with old flame at Blore Central...

Now all that remains to be done is the GMAT, the essays, the transcripts, the VISA apps and the nail biting wait for "YOU ARE ADMITTED" mails...hey, wait a min, you say, take it one at a time... ya, that brings us to the GMAT...just a 40 foot abyss to jump across, so do it, Neo...well thats the way it seems...but I have to crack it to go ahead....can do, will do,must do...or Die Doing thingy ;-)...so tomorrows the deadline for fixing the GMAT date and coming up with a rough draft of the prep schedule...so help me, God!!!