I have been going to bed at 12:30 a.m and getting up at 7:00 a.m for the past 4 days. That's 6-and-half hours of sleep. I am in office at 8:30-9:00. Slowly but steadily I am working towards "6 hours sleep".

On the lighter note, 8 hours of sleep is 33% of our life. 6 hours of sleep is 25% of our life. A gain of 8% of our "life"time ;-)

I had a very great weekend. Completely relaxed. Didn't do anything apart from cooking, eating, sleeping, fitness and watching movies.

I initiated the download of "Tom and Jerry - Complete Collection (William Hanna and Joseph Barbera)", some days ago. The download completed on Friday night. Total of 7 GB!! 10 Cd's. I am very very big fan of Tom and Jerry, especially to the Hanna and Barbera saga (1940-1958). If there is one cartoon which people world over like, of all ages, it's the "TOM & JERRY". (Well, Flintstones is another i believe).

The collection comprises of 115 episodes, including the 7 academy award winning episodes and 6/7 academy nominated episodes. I had watched only 50-60 episodes till now. It was thrilling to watch the remaining episodes.

Time to have fun for sometime :-)

I went through my whole application package yesterday. I have good academic credentials (on par with ISB standards). Good GMAT score(710). Strong essays. I spent nearly 20-25 days in essays (includes first-drafting, reviewing, polishing etc.,). I feel my essays have come out really well and conveys my candidacy strongly. Also, going by the rapport and respect I command with my bosses, I feel they would have given strong recommendation letters. Now this leaves me with Interview. Even though I was skeptical about the interview after completion, in retrospect I feel that I have done OK. Some of their questions were mainly aimed to test how marketable I am? How focussed I am? What plans I have for achieving the goals? What compensation I am aiming at? etc., (questions related to POST-ISB). All these makes me feel that they have made up their mind about me (in a positive way ofcourse!)..

Currently there is a battle,going on within me, between my confidence in my ability/application and my sense of humility. A battle between being confident about admit and being anxious about the outcome..Though I would say 'anxiety' has a slightly upper hand now..

So, I have to come to a conclusion. If I get admit, it's a win-win situation for ISB and myself. If I get rejected, well it's the loss for ISB. That's the attitude I have stuck to. No more posts related to my anxiety will be published..Just the final outcome :-)..

http://onmarinasandsinfullmoon.blogspot.com/2005/01/interview-prep-again.html

There was an useful information shared in ISB'05 yahoo groups. Thanks Rohit Sharma.

http://www.coolavenues.com/mbasp/qa_isb01.php3 

The link summarizes all statistics about ISB. The following piece of information caught my attention.

Program Admission Statistics

Number of students applying: 2500

Number called for interview: 600

Number selected: Shortlisting done of about 250 persons

Numbers finally admitted: 219 students

That's a selectivity ratio of 10%! This year the application fees has been reduced to Rs.2000/= from Rs.5000/=. Also GRE scores and CAT scores are accepted as an alternative for GMAT. These factors would definitely increase the applicant pool. May be 6000+??? A selectivity ratio of 5%?? All these makes me worry more...Wait.."worry" is not the right word.."Anxious", that's the correct word.

An admit among such a competition would be a great feeling..7 more days to go!!

When I searched for the phrase "Indian School of Business", mine is the first "blog" in the search result, though it is 31st overall in the results table. Well, that sums up my passion for ISB, isn't it?? :-D

During the past 6 months, I have developed a bad habit. Waking up pretty late in the morning [8:00-9:00]. Somedays I am in the office at 9:00 and other days I am in at 10:00. Not good. If I have taken a resolution this year, it is to manage with a sleep of just 6 hours and to enhance the ability to wake up at the desire time [read early]. Part of the reason for my late awakening is because I sleep pretty late around 12:00 or 1:00 in the night. Other reason is that I am thinking [or dreaming consciously] way too much in my sleep. When I wake up in the morning, I feel drowsy. So my biggest challenge for the upcoming 2 months is to enhance the quality of sleep and to decrease the quantity of sleep. Will help in B-school and in life as well.