It's here!

It was how you felt just before you got your final exam marks in school, or before entering that interview of your dream company in college. It's how you feel just before bungee jumping off a cliff, the fresh air brushing your cheeks while you take a deep breath and gather your courage.

Just imagine every one of these moments stretched to cover a much longer period of time, like 6 months or a year. There's life zipping past on its motorbike, and there's you on it, all set to tackle the speed, complete with goggles, helmet, black leather jacket and thumbs up sign. It's exhilerating, momentous, thrilling. Your mind is on overdrive at this time, absorbing events and people at twice its normal ability, if not more. In fact your brain is so much on overdrive that you need to lull it to sleep every night by counting sheep jumping over a fence or reading inane romances. Life is a 24 X 7 News ticker.

I've been at it for the past 9 months or so and I have only one thing to say about it: I'm lovin it!

Read, Read, Read

Just completed the fourth day of the first trimester, and my first day of not sleeping through a single lecture. ;) The amount of reading that I am supposed to be doing everyday, I can spend the rest of my life doing that! And here, apart from the classes, assignments and "managerial roles in an administrative context" :D, sleeping and eating (two vital functions that are first priority) I have to read the paper, a couple of magazines atleast (not including HBR), the textbooks for the 9 courses that we will be doing in the next 10 weeks, and other management books. So how many more hours do I need in a day?... I don't know!

I cannot possibly be without mentioning PG Lab, where the entire 160+ of us and some faculty went to Lonavla. It was 4 days of incredible fun, 4 days of meeting countless interesting and extremely nice people, 4 days of being together as a batch throughout. We got to know each other in a way that would never have been possible in the 2 years here at SP. And the learnings! (oops..) Lots and lots of them. Both on paper and through experiences :)

The whistle has blown. The wheels creak into motion slowly, belying the speed they are soon to reach once they catch momentum. In the Train, I hold on to one of the beams for support. We are off!