MBA Miles

Another pleasant surprise today (Boy this is getting better by the hour). I am featured in the MBA Applicants Blogroll kept by Hella (Keeper of the MBA blog lists and Wharton MBA 2006).

Due to this, my posts are also showing up on ClearAdmit Individuals’ Blogs page. Cool !

Serendipity strikes again 🙂

Happy Vijayadashami/ Dussehra to one and all. For people who are clueless what Vijayadashami is (read the wiki page for sure), it is a day when many families in South India start formal education of their kids as it is the day of Goddess Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning.

The practice has been so old, that it has even grown secular in parts of South India. For example, in some parts of the state of Kerala, many churches formally adopted the same tradition of introducing young children to education on Vijayadashami. What’s Vijayadashami got to do with my MBA application? Well, today I got a pleasant surprise in the morning. I am unsure to call it Serendipity or Hand of God/Goddess 🙂

You might remember my frustrated post on not being able to attend the Tuck reception. All the Tuck alumni I interacted with have told me that they fell in love with the school at the Tuck reception (well that might be a bit exaggerated) and so I was mad that I missed the window. I wrote to the school explaining my circumstances (the fact that due to my traveling job, i was unable to decide till the last minute if i will be in Bangalore for the event) in a desperate attempt, but this too (as expected) was in vain as they had limited space.

But today morning I woke and something/someone (not able to still decide which 🙂 )told me to check the Tuck website again.  And lo, there was a slot available for today’s Tuck reception at Taj Recidency. Bless the soul who pulled out 🙂 So seems like I have broken my jinx and am going to attend my first MBA event (though I planned to attend 3 of them before this). If you are coming, see you there. You know what I look like (if not, see the side bar)