Matriculating at GSB ? Hmmmm....most likely :-)

Ok, for those who care, I dropped the application for the fellowship - attribute it to a mix of repulsiveness I feel thinking of writing an essay, and to another admit telling me that we don't qualify because of one clause. So there goes some big dollars. But who cares ? I guess I should.

Off late, I have been doing some Chicago admit website traveling - and am starting to realise how costly education actually is. I had a ball park figure in mind when I started off this bschool journey years back, but the current estimates are decently higher. Not that it will make me drop this MBA thing, but you do start rationalizing, don't you ? I humored myself by thinking how I would land that golden Goldman Sachs job, and make all this money in just one year. No one stops you from dreaming, right ? Even if it's daytime.

Now to the good part of the post. A nice lady emailed me a couple of days back, inviting to a local get-together of fellow GSB R1 and R2 admits. I was pleasantly surprised to see the email because I didn't realise they can find us through an easy directory scan. Even more surprising was that there is a good number of people from this small town of mine (most likely) heading to the GSB [ the title of the post is inspired by the fact that except the R1 folks, many R2 folks are still considering going to be the GSB, although it's still not written in stone].

So we met up a couple of days back, though not all of us. Although I wont go the length to say that these were the best and smartest folks I have ever met (simply because I cannot judge people in one meeting), one thing is certain, I had a very good time with all of them. There was a good mix of people, although the banker-consultant fraternity dominated the group. We went to an ethnic Turkish place, had hearts-full of wine, and an amazing array of all sort of platters, chips, and many kinds of meat - I am really oblivious of what all I ate.

Discussions happened around pulling the leg of the one person among us who had a scholarship, to what book or movie we had recommended in our essay. We got to know each other, figured out who is going to get married and who will hit the road single, who is going to which Random Walk, and why we should just chuck off our initial order of beer to substitute it with wine ( the happy hours were on, and there was a 1-on-1 offer going).

All in all it was a great couple of hours spent. We will all be meeting up again soon for the Worldwide GSB night, so I am hoping that would be another post for you all.

Au revoir!!