New Year's Day passed like another desktop wallpaper, changed by an unknown user.
Two years ago this holiday was just disgusting to survive, last year it was a pure expectation and now it is nothing more, but a background. All my inner resources, rational and empiric, are extremely sharpened as a predator's ones and directed to my next step: arrival to Rotterdam, where my MBA at RSM starts on the 9th January. As a common human being I need to admit: I am anxious. Not scared, but anxious. The change I was striving for is materializing in front of my eyes: I've already said goodbye to my beloved one for a few months at least and I'm going to miss him like hell. My mom never gives me even a hint, but I can sense her restless thoughts about my departure: actually, I am leaving her alone in this city for the whole year. My best friend was trying to hide her look, but I had noticed her eyes getting watery a few seconds before that. This list is long, but...
There is always a balance between what you gain and what you leave. That is some sort of an investment, which, if calculated correctly, definitely gives the expected feedback, sometimes doubled. I am sure I did all right. But no one escapes this part.
Once more, I found out how important is being active and involved once you are admitted. Thanks to our Facebook group (Varun and Markus, waving to you!) I more or less interacted with the majority of my MBA batch fellows, found a lot of bright wits (selection is really tough in RSM) and online friends there, who soon will become real ones. All the essential information is always circulating more in the social network groups rather than in official pages: the discussions are sometimes off topic, but really helpful to get to know people one is going to spend the whole year with. Plus, later, when we need to form teams for assignments and competitions, interactions go easier.
I may be badly mistaken, but I already have the personality outlines of my batches, at least some of them. The picture is inspiring to me, because as I had said somewhere in the earlier posts, I consider communicating with strong and ambitious leaders a smart investment in myself with high ROI. Now I can even approximately say who will be involved in the RSM Student Association and in which Club:) As to me, I am really interested in Women in Management Club, as it seems to have a lot of potential to be EXPANDED and DEVELOPED ---> this is exactly what I want. Too close to my personal ambitions. Most likely, I will run for the Presidency.
Another big luck for me is Aushima, my roomie. She pinged me on chat while I was writing this to check once more the docs we need to bring with us to RSM. She should be already traveling to Rotterdam now. Though I haven't seen her in person yet, it seems like I have known her for ages: we understand each other perfectly, always speak the same thing at the same time. Sometimes I am more than sure if I start the sentence, she will finish it. Moreover, at the end of February we are going to the Hult Global Case Challenge (Education track) to London together with our three other batches - Bhawna, Desiree and Rolly. I will write about MBA Competitions in a separate post.
And one more positive fact at RSM I was thinking about - our senior MBAs. I am not familiar with alumni networks of other business schools (yet! need to be explored later), but ours seems to be extremely open and helpful! Till now all information and help I asked for was given to me with pleasure and in enormous quantity: I had asked for one thing, got ten. Not once, it happened as a regular occurence and gave comfort and more energy to act and to give back to these people, thus, to enhance the RSM brand, alumi network, common human relashionships...
So many things to say and so little time. My suitcase is nearly packed, I somehow managed to push all my stuff for a year in 30 kgs. No comments on this.
Emotions are getting tense, but brain is cool.
Exhale...
Two days to go.
Two years ago this holiday was just disgusting to survive, last year it was a pure expectation and now it is nothing more, but a background. All my inner resources, rational and empiric, are extremely sharpened as a predator's ones and directed to my next step: arrival to Rotterdam, where my MBA at RSM starts on the 9th January. As a common human being I need to admit: I am anxious. Not scared, but anxious. The change I was striving for is materializing in front of my eyes: I've already said goodbye to my beloved one for a few months at least and I'm going to miss him like hell. My mom never gives me even a hint, but I can sense her restless thoughts about my departure: actually, I am leaving her alone in this city for the whole year. My best friend was trying to hide her look, but I had noticed her eyes getting watery a few seconds before that. This list is long, but...
There is always a balance between what you gain and what you leave. That is some sort of an investment, which, if calculated correctly, definitely gives the expected feedback, sometimes doubled. I am sure I did all right. But no one escapes this part.
Once more, I found out how important is being active and involved once you are admitted. Thanks to our Facebook group (Varun and Markus, waving to you!) I more or less interacted with the majority of my MBA batch fellows, found a lot of bright wits (selection is really tough in RSM) and online friends there, who soon will become real ones. All the essential information is always circulating more in the social network groups rather than in official pages: the discussions are sometimes off topic, but really helpful to get to know people one is going to spend the whole year with. Plus, later, when we need to form teams for assignments and competitions, interactions go easier.
I may be badly mistaken, but I already have the personality outlines of my batches, at least some of them. The picture is inspiring to me, because as I had said somewhere in the earlier posts, I consider communicating with strong and ambitious leaders a smart investment in myself with high ROI. Now I can even approximately say who will be involved in the RSM Student Association and in which Club:) As to me, I am really interested in Women in Management Club, as it seems to have a lot of potential to be EXPANDED and DEVELOPED ---> this is exactly what I want. Too close to my personal ambitions. Most likely, I will run for the Presidency.
Another big luck for me is Aushima, my roomie. She pinged me on chat while I was writing this to check once more the docs we need to bring with us to RSM. She should be already traveling to Rotterdam now. Though I haven't seen her in person yet, it seems like I have known her for ages: we understand each other perfectly, always speak the same thing at the same time. Sometimes I am more than sure if I start the sentence, she will finish it. Moreover, at the end of February we are going to the Hult Global Case Challenge (Education track) to London together with our three other batches - Bhawna, Desiree and Rolly. I will write about MBA Competitions in a separate post.
And one more positive fact at RSM I was thinking about - our senior MBAs. I am not familiar with alumni networks of other business schools (yet! need to be explored later), but ours seems to be extremely open and helpful! Till now all information and help I asked for was given to me with pleasure and in enormous quantity: I had asked for one thing, got ten. Not once, it happened as a regular occurence and gave comfort and more energy to act and to give back to these people, thus, to enhance the RSM brand, alumi network, common human relashionships...
So many things to say and so little time. My suitcase is nearly packed, I somehow managed to push all my stuff for a year in 30 kgs. No comments on this.
Emotions are getting tense, but brain is cool.
Exhale...
Two days to go.
Nice reflections. So who do you think will lead the student association and where would this person lean politically-left, moderate or right of centre? Also how would you cope and manage your relationship with your 'loved one' during this one year? It is a cause of concern to me how to manage mine too when I come in 2013.All the best.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment Adebayo. Let's discuss the first question once we arrived there. The only thing I would say, there wont be any right or left, there will be a motion forward. As to the second, I believe, distance is of no importance if you both are sure you found the right person. What is one year, in the end?
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