Results are out !!!

After the final interview on April 7th, I felt a much-needed relief ..... Actually, it is "Relief" in BOLD / CAPITAL / font-size 32 !!! Whew ....... One long marathon it was ...... The CAT results came on Jan 2nd and the first interview started on Feb. 7th ...... 6 interviews b/w Feb 7th and Apr 7th ...... Each interview was a psychological roller coaster by itself ........ Feeling low - feeling better - feeling high - feeling good - feeling bad - feeling on top of the world - feeling that I am being treated like a door-mat - feeling that the professors are taking their ire out on me (original ire because of their pet dog's upset stomach) - Complicated by the fact that these feelings do not occur in any particular order ...... could be jumbled in any particular fashion (there are 8! = 40320 possibilities) and could last for different durations of time depending on the institute / interviewer / time of the interview / duration of the interview / fitting of the shirt I am wearing / other relevant cosmic factors !!!

My God !!! Just couldn't wait for these to get over.

And then, it did get over. I celebrated it, in my own way, by taking a long solitary bike ride to Mahabalipuram on April 8th ... I was savouring EVERY moment of the freedom ...... I was in NO PARTICULAR HURRY to know the results ....... Yes - I would have gladly been in the "interview-done-results-not-announced" status atleast until the end of April.

But, Providence had other plans.

One April 11th, an insignificant line in ET said that results of all 6 instis would be declared on April 12th.

Uggggghhhhhhh ....... Could they not have waited for 2 or 3 more weeks ..... Nevertheless, April 11th was a pretty slow day. Ascent Education had put up a stall in Tidel on that day .... Met few friends there .........

April 11 night : went home by about 10 or so .... tense mood ...... was lazily surfing channels ...... spent more time on Channel #26 .......

Clock ticked by .... Minute hand lazily moved past the upright position heralding the arrival of yet another day .... For about 4500 people in India (the number who had received calls from @least one of the 6 IIMs) it was not an "yet another day".

April 12, 00 hours 10 minutes ...... Ding called ...... Anand had checked my results over the net and passed on the information to Ding ...... GOOD NEWS !!! IIM-Calcutta has issued me a final admit ...... Calcutta has to be credited for its promtness .... They issued the CAT results first ..... They sent the interview forms first ...... They issued the final results first ..... A pretty active admissions office !!!

@least I had got through one of the top 3 instis ..... Found hard to sleep .... Managed to doze off by about 1 AM.

April 12, morning 9 AM ...... came to office ..... shared the news with special friends ...... was talking to Srihari in US, from the Sify in tidel ground floor ...... No other results were known by that time .......

Mobile rung ..... "Ding Calling" - said my Nokia ...... Answered the call ...... He had two pieces of news ..... One was good and the other was bad ......

Bad news first - Did not get through IIM-Bangalore

Good news second - GOT THROUGH IIM-AHMEDABAD .....

Yup ........ Yup ....... You read it right ....... A as in Apple, H as in Harry, M as in Mary, E as in Edward, D as in Danny, A as in Apple, B as in Bravo, A as in Apple and D as in Danny

"Ivanukkellaam eppadi kedachudhu ?!?!??" is the thought running in your heads now ...... Ya - I know ..... Neither do I have an answer to that question - even as of now, 16 days after the results have been announced .......

The plethora of emotions that I have been going through is tough to post in one single go .... So, let me restrict with just the results here ..... The results of other instis flowed in throughout the rest of the day. I had got final admits from Lucknow and Indore.

Final Admits : A, C, L and I
Bumps : Bangalore and Kozhikode

Now that the results are out, please do not refer to my post about the IIM-A interview .....