For The Love Of MBA

The love story was not out of routine. What started as a fling turned into an admiration for CAT. As they say, your true love would find you when the time is right, and I did find one. I fell deeply in love with the preparation. And there was a time when I couldn’t get enough of it and spent long hours, late nights preparing for CAT. I was enamoured by quant, infatuated by Data Interpretation and serenaded by Vocab. But it wasn’t a smooth ride to the paradise. As in every love story, I did grow weary, weary to the bones from travelling, from sleepless nights, from mind-boggling questions and endless readings. I had painful break-up thoughts. Every step I took backwards increased the distance from my goal but this distance made the heart grow fonder and I pulled more and more into preparing. The grief of separation from my dream was so aching that I doubled up the number of mocks, pushed my limits, redone papers till I learned from my mistakes. I had to fight against my family, prove my love for MBA, challenge the biggest Villain in my life i.e. marriage and shed tears.

I could do all these because I was lost in the love for MBA, lost looking at the future that awaits, lost hearing to the voice of success. I chased my dreams, fell over the obstacles, divided, broken and hurt. But every time I fall, I started it all over again for the struggle isn’t new to me, for the battle isn’t strange to me. I fought a mighty war against my Head to win what my heart wants, what my soul wants. As failures galore me in the form of depressing mock results in DI, I plunged into a sea of new problems, mastered the ocean of DI/LR, steered my way through CAT and landed at ‘the Place to B-IIM B’. I did win my battle of love and emerge victoriously.

Walking through the divine lanes of IIM B, reminiscing about my romantic journey towards IIM B, I realize how my passion, my obsession for IIM got me here. It was my love for MBA that always kept me going, no matter how hard the path was. IIM Bangalore - a heaven down under, has embraced me with all my faults, raised me to stand on mountains, to walk on fiery oceans. So, when the question of ‘to B or not to B ‘, when sandwiched between head and heart, just close your eyes, brush aside the thoughts and listen to your heart. Follow your heart, it gives the confidence to chase your dreams. Follow your heart, it fills you with the fire to work hard. Follow your heart, as in the battle between the head and the heart, the heart always wins.

Remember Backing out is not an option in LOVE!