Monday, March 10, 2008
ATTITUDE
Attitude to me means more important than money, skill, social status. It more important than education, strength and influences. It something that can make or break a comapny, a home or even a church. From my experiences till now I have learnt that , lifes always 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it and noth the other way round. We know that certain people are going to behave in a certain way, then why waste time criticizing them. There is nothing such as negative attitude or positive attitude. The attitude that prepares you for the worst and gives you a maximum chance of suceeding is the best attitude. You need to defend sometimes to win a battle. So, hold the strings of attitude in your hand favourably and just see how colourful and exciting your life turns out to be!!!!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Short story of admits and rejects
I had applied to 12 universities. for MS IN EE in United states of America......
Four safe universities, four 50-50 and four aspirational......Sent all the packets together on 18th december via DHL.......
My profile::::
GRE-1310
TOEFL-107
Acads-53
Projects:::1.Prepaid ticketing system for railways,
2.web designer for FIFA WC 2006,
3.database project with World Wide fund and a few certifcations...
I thought I shud get through a few universities atleast because of test scores,extra curriculars, reco and SOP....I know my acads are very very less.....
THE DEPRESSING TIME
It started in 1st week of february when I started calling a few universities whose websites dint show any status. My first call to Southern Methodis University; the lady over the phone told me that I was denied an admission. My first attempt for status check and I got a REJECT...
Reject count ==1
Four days later, received an email from RIT syaing a certain portions of my profile werent as strong as that of students admitted...so they coudnt offer me admission....another REJECT
Reject count==2
I STARTED FEARING THE WORST...what if all my applications are rejected. What would I do? Dint register for placements in college because of confidence of getting thru some university etc etc...couldnt get sleep at night would;used to check my mails atleast 3 times a day....
2 days later, on valetines day received a mail from University of Missouri Rolla stating my undergrad acads are way too low for them to offer me an admission.....
Reject count==3
All dreams shattered...In the mean while 10 classmates got in NJIT with scholarships...I thought to myself, maybe i would get one soon...all friends were already discussing how they would rent an apartment and enjoy living toegether...I would sit and listen...just avoided people who were plannig for MS because of fear of them asking me "did you get any admit?"
That same very day i.e. 15th february one day after UMR reject got a rejec from NJIT....would have cried if somebody was around..Moms last wish of being the first one to go to US for masters blown away...dads dream of seeing me as a big time profeesional wud fail....I cursed myself for having low grades...
Reject count==4
2 days went by without any more replies....I had given up on hopes of getting any admits...monday was a real belter....2 rejects together from UMASS Dartmouth and SUNY Binghamton....The slightest of hope I had vanished...I thought I would take up coaching for CAT/CET and study MBA here and forget about the ferrari, a beautiful home, foreign trips, a high position...6 rejects made me think so much...I was thinking way too ahead in time...Went to sleep at 9 itself when usually i sleep at 12....
reject count==6
Miracle or what???
I dun know what happened to me but I felt somebody waking me up at 4:30 {I am a bad sleeper...nobody dares to wake me up...they get a piece of my mind...eve my father...}Just woke up and got something in my mind that told me to check my mail...I switched on my desktop...startup took almost a year...finally the windows started....
Went to my msn messenger and login...it took another year to login...5 new mails...The first of them George Mason University admission decision...I said to myself another reject because just a week back they told me that it would take 6 weeks for them to give a decision...I thought to myself, myprofile must be so bad that they decided to reject me within a week....
Opened the mail and YAHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO......Congratulations!!!We are pleased to offer you admission in electrical department.....tear or two rlled down my cheek...all my dreams were back....Ferrari, house, moms last wish and so many others....
admit count==1
Was waiting to go to college...and once I reached college and after boasting for whole day just ran and took a irckshaw back to home and went through the whole GMU website...
2 days on I received an email from George washington University....Another admit in so many days
admit count==2
The next day another admit from UTA.....hurray...admit count==3
3 admits in three days........what a relief.....still waiting for replies from my aspirational colleges---NEU, USC and Syracuse.......
What a life!!! 1 thing that i have learnt is to be patient and calm in most difficult of situations because life always gives a chance...If you are not composed you wont be able to take it....
Four safe universities, four 50-50 and four aspirational......Sent all the packets together on 18th december via DHL.......
My profile::::
GRE-1310
TOEFL-107
Acads-53
Projects:::1.Prepaid ticketing system for railways,
2.web designer for FIFA WC 2006,
3.database project with World Wide fund and a few certifcations...
I thought I shud get through a few universities atleast because of test scores,extra curriculars, reco and SOP....I know my acads are very very less.....
THE DEPRESSING TIME
It started in 1st week of february when I started calling a few universities whose websites dint show any status. My first call to Southern Methodis University; the lady over the phone told me that I was denied an admission. My first attempt for status check and I got a REJECT...
Reject count ==1
Four days later, received an email from RIT syaing a certain portions of my profile werent as strong as that of students admitted...so they coudnt offer me admission....another REJECT
Reject count==2
I STARTED FEARING THE WORST...what if all my applications are rejected. What would I do? Dint register for placements in college because of confidence of getting thru some university etc etc...couldnt get sleep at night would;used to check my mails atleast 3 times a day....
2 days later, on valetines day received a mail from University of Missouri Rolla stating my undergrad acads are way too low for them to offer me an admission.....
Reject count==3
All dreams shattered...In the mean while 10 classmates got in NJIT with scholarships...I thought to myself, maybe i would get one soon...all friends were already discussing how they would rent an apartment and enjoy living toegether...I would sit and listen...just avoided people who were plannig for MS because of fear of them asking me "did you get any admit?"
That same very day i.e. 15th february one day after UMR reject got a rejec from NJIT....would have cried if somebody was around..Moms last wish of being the first one to go to US for masters blown away...dads dream of seeing me as a big time profeesional wud fail....I cursed myself for having low grades...
Reject count==4
2 days went by without any more replies....I had given up on hopes of getting any admits...monday was a real belter....2 rejects together from UMASS Dartmouth and SUNY Binghamton....The slightest of hope I had vanished...I thought I would take up coaching for CAT/CET and study MBA here and forget about the ferrari, a beautiful home, foreign trips, a high position...6 rejects made me think so much...I was thinking way too ahead in time...Went to sleep at 9 itself when usually i sleep at 12....
reject count==6
Miracle or what???
I dun know what happened to me but I felt somebody waking me up at 4:30 {I am a bad sleeper...nobody dares to wake me up...they get a piece of my mind...eve my father...}Just woke up and got something in my mind that told me to check my mail...I switched on my desktop...startup took almost a year...finally the windows started....
Went to my msn messenger and login...it took another year to login...5 new mails...The first of them George Mason University admission decision...I said to myself another reject because just a week back they told me that it would take 6 weeks for them to give a decision...I thought to myself, myprofile must be so bad that they decided to reject me within a week....
Opened the mail and YAHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO......Congratulations!!!We are pleased to offer you admission in electrical department.....tear or two rlled down my cheek...all my dreams were back....Ferrari, house, moms last wish and so many others....
admit count==1
Was waiting to go to college...and once I reached college and after boasting for whole day just ran and took a irckshaw back to home and went through the whole GMU website...
2 days on I received an email from George washington University....Another admit in so many days
admit count==2
The next day another admit from UTA.....hurray...admit count==3
3 admits in three days........what a relief.....still waiting for replies from my aspirational colleges---NEU, USC and Syracuse.......
What a life!!! 1 thing that i have learnt is to be patient and calm in most difficult of situations because life always gives a chance...If you are not composed you wont be able to take it....
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