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Located at the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula, it is also know by its former name Cape Comorin...
It's 757 PM on 6 Nov 09 and by all measures, I have hit the lowest point in my MBA stint. Today was the first day in the last 10 months that I did not attend school for a whole day.
That I was ill this morning and had no energy to get up and go to school and face a mid-term examination is true, but what is also important is what brought about the illness.
I have been working very hard in the last couple of months. With a mandate to complete the PMP certification this year, I had used the 3 week break between terms 2 and 3 to complete it. And it was like my company and our customers were waiting for me to become a certified PMP, for, in a week's time, I was loaded with six projects to manage, all at the same time. It has been a full two months now and I have been juggling at least 6, sometimes 9 or 10 balls in the air.
No shortage of glamor, alright. I have visited some exotic locales starting with Sarasota, FL to San Antonio, TX and Los Angeles and San Diego in CA. Include Munich and Berlin in the German land I visited on account of my international Seminar and I have been a globe trotter in these 60 days. And I dare say, I am enjoying it all. "What do you mean? I am having a BALL!"
I guess the trap also lies amidst all this glamor. I am enjoying my work so much, that my MBA has taken a back seat. Even when at Munich and Berlin, I used the time difference and worked all evenings, doing just enough to get past the requirements for the seminar itself. And with one course for the term out of the way, I have spent even lesser time on the other 3 and utilized the breaks I have been getting in my schedule during class weekends doing more work. It's been Blackberry Bluetooth all the way! What's worse, I got to a point where I asked myself, I am enjoying my work so much, why do I need this MBA anyway? That's DANGER ZONE, right there.
The "doing enough to get by" approach is paying its dividends. With a missed mid-term examination, and most importantly, my slack on studies, I am clearly facing grades in Term 3 that will the worst yet. Start with 3 of 5 aces in term 1, go to 1 ace in term 2 and facing none in term 3, my grade graph looks exactly like the west coast of India, starting on a high at Mumbai and currently at Cape Comorin. It's ironical that I am also exactly at the half-time mark in my MBA program (10 of 20 months done!).
My MBA thus far has not taught me to predict the future so I will still have to wait and see if my course line will continue to follow India's coast line and start rising on the east side? But Cape Comorin at the half time mark does offer a good opportunity to sit down and think about what I have learnt so far and what want I want to get out of this MBA. My goal is to capture the thoughts as they occur to me and record them here (and I certainly hope to write more here), but for now, "Vivekananda Rock, here I come!"
