I am a Physicist too!

If I were to offer one advice to candidates invited to interview for a place in a MBA programme, this is it: Do not drink a mug of Hot Chocolate 5 minutes before an interview.  

If you did, you might as well abandon your interview and instead audition for Bawwy Kwipkee in The Big Bang Theory. There is a reason why Hot Chocolate is called ‘Hot’ Chocolate.

As I sat precariously on a sofa, waiting to be called for the interview, my primary concern was for the buttons on the suit that I had cobbled up to not pop.  I could see the other interviewees either rushing through the stacks of paper they had brought with them or reciting their pitches to their wives and girlfriends. Soon, peer pressure caught on and I had a compulsive need to pretend to be busy. I checked Facebook once again and realised that I do not have many interesting friends.  So I picked up the only newspaper on the coffee table - The Wall Street Journal.  I had never seen a paper edition of the Wall Street Journal before.  To my surprise, I found out that they don’t do sports on the last page or have pictures of skimpily clad women on the second page.  Before I could flick through the other pages to check if they atleast did Calvin and Hobbes I was ushered to yet another waiting area.

We have two things in common. The essay on your career plan is an area I have a lot of experience in and I am a Physicist too!

Life, ye cynical misanthrope

Thy laugheth at me

At my gullibility and misery

The interview lasted for over an hour and half and the conversations will quietly find its way into my big book of secrets.

So what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?

42

I started my application process on the 1^st of March 2013.  In exactly 42 days, I received an email from the London Business School that I have been offered a place in its Executive MBA programme.