Monday 5 May 2008

A thought about my MBA

I have realised that it has been ages that I have written something about my MBA and the Cranfield University. Its not that I have forgotten that I need to write about it, but its just that there is nothing spectacular happening that inspires me to write. Sometime eating food cooked by the best chefs in the world day-in-and-day-out makes you take the good food for granted. Perhaps that's the syndrome that has caught up with all of us. The good lectures, the great presentations everything seems so normal and obvious that often I feel sad that I am unable to appreciate them to the core. Its only when some external speakers (senior executives from multinational companies) come and deliver their speeches that you realise the difference. Perhaps when we go and interact with the 'outside world' (that is the world outside the campus) would we realise how superior the environment here is.

Its spring time here...The trees are covered with green leaves and colourful flowers, the grass is green dotted with white flowers - nature's own carpet. The days are getting longer - there is daylight till 9 pm and keeps on extending each day. The silence of the surroundings is often broken by the humming of the bees that get into my room and chirping of the birds or the children playing outside. Isn't this spring that the great immortals like William Wordsworth and John Keats has so often mentioned in their poems?

Its closing time, as well. My MBA is coming to an end. I can see the writing on the wall. Just few more months to go. There are no more team meetings. Once we hated team meetings and thought that they take up most of our time; today there are no regular team meetings. But honestly, I would actually like to go for a team meeting, because its a place where you interact with others and get out of your silos.
A few more months and then its all over.We all will pack up and bid farewell to the university that has changed all of us. The university will wait for the new batch of students - new enthusiasm, new smile, new faces...and not to forget, new DREAMS!