Time for sheer exhilaration!!

There are times in our lives which, we feel, should remain frozen, etched in our hearts and minds forever. Today was one such very special day, causing untold happiness and satisfaction to myself and everyone else around me.

The day started when I woke up from my middle-berth no 5, coach S11, KanyaKumari Express at 0600 Hrs, with my bladder parting at the seams, trying to break free. I obliged immediately to take the call from nature and could not put myself back to sleep. I was coming back from Tirunelveli, after attending a friend's marriage. (I am indebted to write a separate post on the entire trip, with the kind of fun we had for 2 days. But since a lot more happened today, I will save that for another day.)

I got a phone call at 0610 Hrs informing me that the IIM results will be annuonced by today morning, after 1000 Hrs. Myself and 'she' got down at Chennai Egmore and went straight to Anna Nagar. After dropping her there and gulping down a nice filter-coffee-OR-Bru, went home. I waited impatiently for the clock to strike 1000 Hrs, but started hitting the IIM sites well before that. Cometh the hour, but cometh not the results. :-(

I called up IIM-A, only to find that the HRD Ministry had not yet sent an official communication to the IIMs to release the admission list. I was infuriated. The HRD Ministry had already done enough to keep the students' fate in abeyance. And after announcing to the press that the results can be published, they have the audacity to remain incommunicative. I was frustrated with the way these people played ping-pong with the students' lives.

And at around 1400 Hrs, 'she' informed me that the HRD Ministry had just sent the fax to all six IIMs, allowing them to release the list of selected candidates. She called them 5 times, to get this information. But I was already off to her place and was on the way. She called me up again at 1405 Hrs to inform that IIM-C had decided against offering me admission. I felt a little sick, given that the IIM-C GD&PI were the best ones I had. I felt scared about my fate with IIM-A. Not that the GD&PI were bad, but just that they were not as cool as IIM-C.

I returned back home, a little jittery. I confirmed my IIM-C reject, and waited for the others to publish their results. The wait was very annoying, and adding fuel to the fire was the 'IIMC Results Out' thread in pagalguy.com, where every selected candidate was broadcasting with messages like 'I got thru','I am IN', etc etc with funny smileys. I did not know when I fell asleep. 'She' called me up at around 1500 Hrs and informed me that I got into IIM-I. I was a little relieved, because of the fact that I can proudly submit my resignation letter at my workplace, avoiding the no-IIM-admission-continue-work situation. (Note: 'She' had been faithfully checking all the 5 IIM websites for the results, since morning.)

By around 1530 Hrs, the IIM-L result was OUT and I was IN. I was a little more relieved, but not jubilant at all. I had hoped to make it to A or C. Meanwhile, as expected, IIM-K rejected me from even getting near their campus, after my dismal performance in the interview. That left only IIM-A and IIM-B (which I was not concerned about) to publish their results. I was frustrated. The IIM-A website was behaving oddly, going down often and coming back with no updates. I was in a foul mood. So I dozed off again.

I was woken up by her call, and I cut it religiously, opting to call her back, as is the custom. But she was adamant. I kept cutting her call, trying to call her back, but in vain. The landline sprang to life suddenly, making me jump in my chair. I mumbled a feeble 'Hullo' into the receiver. It was her father, from his office, in a high-pitched, excited voice. "Congratulations!!!!" "Thank you!!(thinking it was for the L&I admit)" "You getting into IIM-A was really an expected one" "What???IIM-A result is OUT??And I am IN???(suddenly becoming alert)" "Yes!!Dint you know??(what kind of a person is he?will my daughter be happy with him?)" "No!!I dint know!!Oh wow!!I am sssoooo happy!!" etc etc. And then I called her up, she shared the great news with me. We both were flying (or atleast feeling like it!!).

My happiness knew no bounds!! I felt the feeling of the previous sentence, in its whole purest form. I was over-joyed and other-words-which-I-am-not-able-to-find-in-my-vocabulary. The journey has been confirmed. This itself had taken loads of efforts and hard work put in by her to make me come this far. I wonder how the journey will be. I wouldn't have to wait for more than 2 months to get an answer.

I called up my friends and relatives to share this moment of happiness and for those whom I missed, I do it through this blog. I have made my parents, my brother, her parents and my friends feel very proud. And as my Mom rightly put it, " 'She' was the sole reason for this achievement of mine. What I am today, is mainly because of her". I cannot imagine what I would have done without her. Thank you sweetie!!

I am eagerly looking forward to my 2-year sojourn at IIM-A, however hard the curriculum tries to hit me!! I will keep my readers updated on the joining procedures as and when I encounter them. And for the time being, I am looking forward to a peaceful slumber, and waking up to find that my admission into IIM-A is, indeed, true.