Table of Contents

 MBA MUST READ 

Applicant Blues                  BSchool Rankings
GMAT                             Creating a Brand        
Application 2002                 Heart
Michigan Interview               Introspection  
Michigan Michigan Michigan       Path to MBA
MBA...                           MBA Strategy
Why Michigan? Why not?           I am King Kong
What is success?                 Why Michigan?

 APPLICATION 

Stanford                         Exhausted              
Focus                            Wharton Reception          
AWA                              Midnight Peril
MIT                              Madness                
Berkeley                         Reality Check              
News Flash                       1 down, 5 to go
Michigan Status                  Michigan Complete      
Life at a Tortiose Pace          Application in Progress    
Life Goes on                     Back to Business
On Schedule                      Research on Wharton    
Midway                           Pain                       
PotPourri                        Back to Reality
Progress on Wharton              Update                 
Stress                           The red ribbon             
Failures                         Dedicated to the dinged
Finally it's over                In at Michigan         
The wait is not over             Nothing New                
Where is Sonny Liston?

 CROSS COUNTRY 

Cross Country                    Leaving on a Jet Car                
Back                             Day 1 - CA to Nevada
Day 2 - Wells to Yellowstone     Day 3 - Yellowstone
Day 4 - Yellowstone to Utah      Day 5/6 - Arches and CO
Day 7/8 - Kansas to Cincinnati   The cross-country story

 BEFORE SCHOOL 

Bliss                            Humility
Farenheit 911                    Various Updates
Laptop and Globalization         Finance executives 
Preparing for Bschool            Where should this lead to?
Orkut - the online community

 MICHIGAN 

Goodbye Blue Sky                 Go Blue Rendezvous      
GBR was a blast                  MLP has started            
MLP contd...                     Highlights
Boot Camp                        Random Thoughts         
Fall B starts                    Time                       
Internships..                     What are my chances?
Interview Preps                  Laugh your ass off      
Momentary Lapse of Reason        I am back                  
Nobody's Home                    Confrontation

 GLOBAL ISSUES 

The world is changing            Oil Politics
Bush's Oil Politics              Islam and the Modern World
Global Economy Update            Diamonds
Islam and Democracy              Bush Budget 2007
The lost boys                    If I were god

 PERSONAL 

Introduction                     I..
Growing up                       I am lost

 RANDOM MUSINGS 

Who is Satyajit Ray?             War and Peace           
San Francisco                    Music and Innovation       
Pink Floyd                       Vacation
Growth in India                  Happy Valentine's Day   
Survey                           Back                       
Preparation                      Reading and Contemplating
mbaadvice.blogspot.com           Holier than thou        
Just a show                      In this world?             
Cross Roads                      The division bell
Transformation                   Transition              
News Feed                        The world of blogging      
Ready and Steady                 Recommendations
I am addicted                    Undergrad Alma Mater

Epilogue

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

- Winston Churchill

On one beautiful October afternoon, this blog was born from an electric flicker in some corner of the human anatomy. It was built on a dream, now it is a reality. The ever winding path of MBA has just ended – 5 years of hope, sweat, dream, aspiration – all ended with the stroke of midnight on April 29th. And as if this blog has stopped breathing as well – it wants to be free, free from the shackles of mind strokes and idiosyncrasies. Now is the time to let it go, let it free.

And then begins another chapter in my life. Now what?

Another blog, another dream, another aspiration, another path…