newbies shining !!!!

Since yesterday, we have seen a deluge of participants. They have swarmed us everywhere, in the MBA lobby, in the Expansiel, on the lanes of HEC. They are the Sep 08 batch, who have come to get started with their MBA. 

Just talking to them took me back to January, when I had come here in my pursuit of the great dream. They had the same questions and most importantly same sense of disbelief on learning that landing a job is not that easy as they had imagined it to be. It is an amazing feeling, knowing that the end of road is nigh. After just 4 months, I will be on my way of internship and then a job.

My much deserved break from 8 years of non stop work will be over and I will embark upon a new journey, which should be more fulfilling that what I had before. At least I fervently pray for so :-)

I was the new intake co-ordinator and thanks to HEC Connection forum, the new participants had already seen my face. It feels great to be recognized by them. I am simply loving these moments :-)

Waiting for Godot

From today, lil Kush has started school again. I am getting bored and sick of waiting for something to happen. To while away my time, I had volunteered to become new intake liaison co-ordinator and now the new admits are coming in. right now it is just a trickle, the flood is expected to be on 4th and 5th. Well, good luck to them all. HEC is indeed a good choice. I have been here for 2 core semesters, and I have loved the great teachers, great ambience and most of all the smiling helpful faces of administration and everyone on campus. That has indeed been one of the greatest take away from this place. 

From next week onwards, my classes will start again. We have something called the live case. Should be fun.

Now that the vacation is getting over, retrospection mood is creeping in. What did I really do all these days? I don't think that I will ever get a chance to enjoy 2 months of blissful vacation again. As usual, my focus had always been on personal comfort. So, slept well :-)

Also, we watched a lot of movies, really an awful amount of them. Right now, I don't have a desire to watch any other movie. BTW, if you haven't really done it, go watch Dark Knight. It is indeed a very good movie.

But did I really work on something concrete? Nahhh. Nothing on personal development, nothing extra work on the Business Plan that I have to work on, nothing really...

God, I really love to do nothing :-)

But now, it is all going to be over and I can't say I am terribly unhappy about it. So, still waiting for 8th.....

It has been now 8 months here. I haven't been blogging away for quiet some time, and now I am back !!!!!

Well, the past 8 months has simply flown away. When we came in here, we knew it was going to be a tough ride. But so far so good :-)

After 2 trimesters here at HEC, Paris, I think I know what I will be doing after my MBA. I still have a lot of open questions, but I now feel that I have progressed on the path that I had chosen. And that matters a lot to me.

After 8 years of putrefaction, while pretending to be enjoying myself in a claustrophobic world of pretense and hypocrisy, it sure feels to be heaven here, where I can share my thoughts without fear of backlash, where I can speak out against anything if I so feel like to without expecting some wise ass to take the high ground. 

Well, looking forward to start of classes now.

We started on vacations in July and we still haven't come to the end of vacation period. Wow!!!! French people really know how to enjoy themselves.

On a personal note, here is a small video of Kush, playing piano. Enjoy!!!!

one month gone

one month has passed away just like a snap of fingers, or more like whiff of a smell. i can't even say that we are settled in Jouy En Josas, what with so many things still to purchase. the pressure of course work has started big time. assignments, presentations, group work, conferences, parties. sometimes, you get this strange feeling that there should be more than 24 hours in a day to get some good sleep, as sleep is something you start to compromise on.

good part is i have started a small regimen of exercise, which goes hand in glove with all the walking that i have to do here. HEC campus is on top of a small hill and the Jouy village is downhill. so you stroll down to the grocery store and you huff and puff on your way to campus. i must have lost around 4-5 kgs and that is not a mean feat, if you think about it.

i have just undergone a terrific experience of a 3 day seminar on intuitive intelligence. it was profound as it challenged so many basic tenets that i had about intuition, about creativity, about emotional experience. i was so moved by the experience that i could not sleep properly on last saturday night and was still up by 4 AM on sunday to reflect and retrospect.

there is a huge challenge coming up. i want it for myself (i am selfish i know),  but i will have to wait and watch and prepare myself for it, both emotionally and mentally.

right now, i am running late on marketing assignments, so i will go, slog.

Enjoy

hec paris

currently i am in hec paris, doing my mba. imagine starting studies again after 8 years of work exp :-) feeling can't be described in words. 

HEC is indeed a great college to be in. the ambience is great. the spirit of co-opetition is encouraged, which just means compete with your friends but also co-operate with them too.

i have been here for the past 3 weeks, meaning i joined the jan 08 batch here. it is indeed a privilege to be here, with such talented persons around. 

i am hoping to start a blog for my experience here, but let us see how much time can i spare after all the studies and assignments.

i will end this blog by saying thanks to all my well wishers and especially to those without whose help i wouldn't be here.

so, cheerio and enjoy