The annual ritual in question is CAT. I have been filling the form for the last four years. The sequence of events is mostly the same. Fill the form at the last moment. Somewhere between the exam and form filling, I find myself very serious but that last for only a bout a week and I fill no other forms. Then the exams come. After going through the exams I relax a bit. This is the best part of the ritual. I love these exams. The whole exam process, coaching coming out with different solutions and the stuff. One things to note is I am always relaxed during this part of the process. Now comes the scary parts. Yeah, you guessed it right. The results. I panic after the results. No not because I have done bad, but because I have done rather well and have ended up with the dreaded calls. Now the same agonizing cycle. Reaching the interviews highly unprepared and flunking up all chances. Bunking interviews has also happened.
Now the thing wrong with this is that the circle should start earlier. I am not starving so I have the luxury of thinking whether I want to do the MBA or not. If yes, from what all places. If having fun for 2 more years is the idea, why not in Europe or somewhere good. What good is doing MBA from India. Not that I might not have fun in Indian colleges but do I really want to do an MBA that badly. What I mean by the circle starting earlier (if only a circle could start earlier), is that I should evaluate completely whether I want to do an MBA at all or it is just some seasonal hormones which push me to fill the forms and waste 1200 bucks at least and plenty of other things. Like this year, I missed the trip to Goa for which we were preparing so much.
