The somnabulistic era thrives...returns rather….having written a disastrous exam in the past week and thus effectively shutting myself out from the "indian mba aspirations"...I hv landed myself with the the extremely non cerebral and daunting(sob!!!!!) task of drafting essays for the few bschools whose tuition fee I can ethically pay without resorting to marrying a wealthy octagenarian and poisoning his coffee.
I just read the first draft of my essays, and marveled at how prentitious I sounded.I mean do they actually believe that we go about our lives spreading "integrity" and working with "courage and conviction" and generally being
If we did , with all that strength of character and earth shaking achievements I am expected to have I would be pretty much leading 10 BPO's and appearing on MTV cribs showing off that ethical money.
At this point of time I am very confused so this might sound slightly deranged.(wht doesnt)
I have this one essay where I had to list down 3 of my weaknesses. Now this seemed like a piece of cake so with all integrity I sat down and scribbled down my vices. I trundled off to show them to this friend of mine, who is an “applications expert” (having drafted a few herself) and generally knows the ropes and what is deemed "acceptable" n blah blah.
I was obviously told to change it.
“Your weakness should never actually be a weakness”, she snapped
.It was an aphorism.
“Hmm so wht shd it be???a strength??”, I was trying a lame attempt at sarcasm(I said it was lame).
“Now
“a strength which shd be cloaked to sound like a weakness..which obviously
...And its still a weakness??..I said puzzled..”yes”..and dat was dat
So i set off to draft this non existent weakness’ essay...only i gave up after I counted about 5 occurrences of "excellence" "perfection" and "standards"..and decided that it would pass muster.
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"I mean do they actually believe that we go about our lives spreading "integrity" and working with "courage and conviction" and generally being florence nightingale clones.????????"
Probably not, and that is not what they are looking for either. What they want to see is how well you can confidently BS about a product (yourself) and sell it even though you might not believe in it - the trademarks of most successful careers of a soulless corporate world.
If They Had Just Read The Fountainhead!
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