From the Great Laker's Mouth!!

Today as I write from the Great Lakes campus, the least that I can say is that I feel privileged. Privileged to be a part of the Great Lakes community and the Spartans family. The last 2 days have been nothing but absolute delight. The feel of being a collegiate, a hostelite, the many introductions with batch mates, the sharing of a joke or two with people I did not know a day before is pure fun. Be it erratic hours at night or the sunny afternoons, both have their charm. I cannot believe that these are the 2 days, during which I have probably spent the maximum number of hours awake!! The watermelon juice and a maggi at 3 in the morning, over some carefree banter is one of those simple pleasures, but ones to cherish.

Today being the 1^st official day at Great Lakes, I can already feel that the next 1 year will just fly by and before we know it, it will probably be time to leave. Sitting in a classroom with 283 students, and attending sessions for almost 9 hours brought back old memories. Playing sign language and listening to that 1 professor who has his own way of pronouncing words is a mandatory recipe for a class that is rollicking with laughter and Great Lakes is not spared from this one.  With the convocation and farewell just around the corner, I have almost even forgotten that we are here to study! But thanks to our professors, and guest speakers, I am convinced that they will leave no stone unturned to ensure that we are constantly on the run. The 70 minutes on Shahrukh’s Chak De and the 364 days on our Chak De may be a different ball game altogether but the mission is just one – to aspire and conquer very very HIGH…

Butterflies in my Stomach

It's the 13th day of April, and I am only 4 days away from my first day at Great Lakes. The butterflies in my stomach, are flapping their wings so hard, that I can feel them with the pounding of my heart!!


It's a concoction of feelings, waiting to release! The MBA which was to happen one fine day, is now  knocking at my door. The excitement to meet the Spartans at college, the longing to be seated at a 75 seater classroom  <with my nameplate proudly sitting right beside me>, the thrill to meet and greet and hopefully much more with the guests and faculty makes me want to run all the way on the ECR to the campus. All right, those were a couple of goodie goodie things and like every thing that is complementary by nature, I cannot stop visualizing those long nights only with my textbooks and a bottomless coffee, or can i say long days which make you feel that the night never arrived. I am not too bogged down though; my heartfelt gratitude to Zuckerboy. The virtual exchanges with the Spartans over Facebook fills me with the hope of a great not so bumpy start and makes me feel part of the family that we are to be :) 


Packing all my bags, the last minute visits to the local shops, filing all my documents and being wished by all makes me feel like I am going on a planet-saving mission. But I just cannot ask for more - back to college after a little less than a decade grabs the sheen away from everything else. 


My butterflies are waiting to FLY............