A blog to share my MBA experience from application days to graduation.
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| Harry Potter's MBA Musings A blog to share my MBA experience from application days to graduation. |
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Wednesday, June 30, 2004 Last Day in Bangalore Today is the last day in Bangalore. A sense of mixed feelings as I have been here for 6 years in the last 8 years. Even though, I planned a lot of activities so that moving from an house load of luggage to 2 suitcases is easy, but the last day looks extremely hectic for me. I will have limited access to mail/blog, as I will be travelling around India starting tommorow. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 12:45 AM | Friday, June 25, 2004 Last Day at Work Today is last day at work :)... I am not sure, how I will feel on the coming Monday morning. The coming one month vacation is something I know I wouldnt get in a long time, so planning to make the best of it. And yes, no studying the courses beforehand.:). May be a little bit of time on HSM , but I need to just enjoy. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 2:34 PM | Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Count down begins and the IMN meet this weekend 7 days before I leave Bangalore... Hectic times ahead. BTW, all the students from South Zone - Indian MBA Network are meeting again in Bangalore before we disperse. The meet is this Saturday June 26th at 7:30 pm, at Oblivion. So, if you are an student from any of the listed schools below, please do stop by. The schools list as of now are : Berkeley (Haas), Chicago, CMU (Tepper), Columbia, Darden, Duke (Fuqua), Harvard, INSEAD, Ivey, Kellogg, LBS, Michigan, MIT Sloan, Stanford, Stern, Tuck, Wharton, Yale posted by Ravi Trivedi | 4:53 PM | Sunday, June 20, 2004 To all prospective applicants If you are applying this fall to B-schools and have questions on your application feel free to ask them at IMN_Help yahoo egroup. Quoting from the egroup page "This is the Indian MBA Network (http://www.IndianMBANetwork.org) help chapter for answering questions from prospective Indian B-school students " The group is run by few of us - Class of 2006, 2005 and 2004 students. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 1:12 PM | Last few days in Bangalore These are my last few days in B1angalore, which has been my base station since 1996. Another week of work, and then I have a month to relax .....wohoo. After that, I have planned for an 15 day trip around India, visiting relatives and places I wanted to see. At this stage, I need to finalize on my Air tickets, Laptop, Insurance ( Duke or Private) besides shifting my things home and to US. I have already reserved an apartment complex in Durham, so have one less thing to do. We plan to have another Indian MBA network meet on 26th June in Bangalore. It would be fun to meet friends again before heading for our schools. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 12:45 PM | Monday, June 14, 2004 Of housing, air ticket and shifting Last few days have been spent on finalizing the housing in Durham. I am looking for a 2 bed/2 bath apartment and have finalized on my future apartment mate. Within this week, we should be able to book a nice community . I have taken quotes from few Air Travel agents.. and the tickets vary from Rs 32,000 ( $711) to Rs 36,000 ($800). I have close to 60k miles FF miles on United Airlines and so my decison to buy which tickets will depend on that as well. With 80k miles, I get a round trip to India free. And all this while, I have been able to sell all of my items on sale. Now, what remains is my big collection of books, packed in 4-5 boxes and clothes. I have decided, unlike earlier days, that it is better to donate my technical books, which I wouldnt be reading in foreseable future. I also have a set of Management books, since I have spent time doing couple of courses part time, in last one year. Should be couriering them to US straight or carry it along with me. Am happy, that I have only 9 more working days left. 25th June is my last day, and 30th June is last day in Bangalore. After that I have a hectic India tour from 3-16th July. Plan to be in Durham by July 31st. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 8:13 PM | Friday, June 11, 2004 Duke Opportunity Loan update From the Duke website... Special note for our International Students: Effective immediately the terms of the Duke MBA Opportunity Loan have been changed for the 2004-2005 academic year as follows:posted by Ravi Trivedi | 1:44 AM | Admitted to HSM ... As I had mentioned earlier, I decided to enrol to the Health Sector Management... I was asked to submit a seperate essay on Why HSM and my future career plans. After submitting my essays, I got the following within an hour.... "...... Based on your education and previous experiences I feel you would be a welcome addition to the HSM program! As a result I am going to notify Admissions that your file should be updated to include the HSM indicator and I will also send you an official HSM admit letter. Congratulations again on your admission to Fuqua and now HSM!! Please let me know if I can answer any other questions ~ see you in August! Regards, Nichole Berke Assistant Director .........." Woohoo, so I have my classes from Aug 8th. Medicine is an interesting topic that I had always wanted to study. Now is the time... :) posted by Ravi Trivedi | 12:45 AM | Monday, June 07, 2004 BWeek Journal Writing deadline extended Wow!! Glad that I checked up the BWeek website and the deadline for Journal writers has been extended to 28th June. This will help me from submitting my article/essays in last moment like my application. BTW, yesterday's Sankalp - Indian MBA network meet was fun. Hope we continue the trend and increase the span of activities. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 2:56 PM | Saturday, June 05, 2004 Hectic times ahead and even now After speaking with few students and introspecting, I am planning to do the Health Sector Management(HSM) concentration at Duke. It is a great specialization to do from Duke, if you have had any inclination in Health Sector area. Since, I had missed mentioning this on my application, I need to submit a set of essays to the HSM coordinator, discussing why I want to pursue that. The things are hectic at this time for me. Everything in my house is for sale. I am serving my notice period at my company. Then I have to work on Immunizations, housing, loans and the list goes on. BTW, the deadline for BWeek Journal writers is this weekend. I have little time to assemble my ramblings... Let me see how this turns out. All these while, I have been wondering if I should reveal my true identity on the blog like Future MBA Girl. Like all things, there are pros and cons to this. Besides, there are many friends who met me and know who I am. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 6:19 PM | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 So finally my second admit package with my Duke email id arrived. Feels great to use my Duke id. So far the Bangalore gettogether has good number of people registered for the meet. I hope we will have great fun in this unique cross -school gathering. posted by Ravi Trivedi | 4:33 PM | |
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