Turns out that there have been consistent meets happening on a periodic basis among the admits of the class of 2010, primarily because they want to know more and interact substantially with their peers who will be spending a whole year with them, and secondly and more importantly because everyone is absolutely jobless.
Yes, you can't continue working till the eleventh hour, shut off your monitor, hand in your ID card and walk straight to the airport / train station with your baggage and hit the ground running in Hyderabad. Or maybe you can, since I speak for mere mortals such as yours truly. I've discovered lots of crazy strange things about the fun interesting people here and I wouldn't rule out people who might conform to this scenario that I just dished out.
Anyway, for those not part of the class of 2010 reading this blog hoping you can make it, there is some hope if you are from a small /medium city as well, and your application will not be rejected because you're not cosmopolitan enough. Do take care, however, not to have a couple of cosmopolitans before you head for interview, in any case.
So, the ISB junta in Mysore decided to have a meet-up, to mirror the ones that their fellow batchmates were having in places like New York, Singapore, New Delhi, Old Delhi, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and God only knows where else.
However, for the sake of brevity, the Mysoreans chose not to spam the already flooded yahoo group with more garbled mails, and hence phone was the chosen medium of contact. Zero fanfare was the motto of this ecclectic group of people.
Of course, it is relevant here to mention that the ISB Mysore meet comprised of two people, Nitin Vishwas and yours truly, even though we've masterfully managed to infiltrate the Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune groups on occasion just for kicks.
As is the norm in every meeting, we did discuss loans, laptops and course work for exactly 33 seconds, but some of it was drowned out since I was sneezing. The rest of the evening was spent in discussing cocktails and movies and music and books and travel, basically all the things we are going to miss a lot when we're on campus.
If there are people from around Mysore who want to hold another meet-up here, please do drop in a mail to both Nitin and me, and we'll make sure we're there in a jiffy. Temporary unemployment does have its advantages you see.
Yes, you can't continue working till the eleventh hour, shut off your monitor, hand in your ID card and walk straight to the airport / train station with your baggage and hit the ground running in Hyderabad. Or maybe you can, since I speak for mere mortals such as yours truly. I've discovered lots of crazy strange things about the fun interesting people here and I wouldn't rule out people who might conform to this scenario that I just dished out.
Anyway, for those not part of the class of 2010 reading this blog hoping you can make it, there is some hope if you are from a small /medium city as well, and your application will not be rejected because you're not cosmopolitan enough. Do take care, however, not to have a couple of cosmopolitans before you head for interview, in any case.
So, the ISB junta in Mysore decided to have a meet-up, to mirror the ones that their fellow batchmates were having in places like New York, Singapore, New Delhi, Old Delhi, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and God only knows where else.
However, for the sake of brevity, the Mysoreans chose not to spam the already flooded yahoo group with more garbled mails, and hence phone was the chosen medium of contact. Zero fanfare was the motto of this ecclectic group of people.
Of course, it is relevant here to mention that the ISB Mysore meet comprised of two people, Nitin Vishwas and yours truly, even though we've masterfully managed to infiltrate the Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune groups on occasion just for kicks.
As is the norm in every meeting, we did discuss loans, laptops and course work for exactly 33 seconds, but some of it was drowned out since I was sneezing. The rest of the evening was spent in discussing cocktails and movies and music and books and travel, basically all the things we are going to miss a lot when we're on campus.
If there are people from around Mysore who want to hold another meet-up here, please do drop in a mail to both Nitin and me, and we'll make sure we're there in a jiffy. Temporary unemployment does have its advantages you see.
