I am not sure if any B-School would accept this as an SOP but still to be honest to oneself, I thought I will publish this in my blog.
Its a fact that I was good at studies, I was one of the "hopeful" candidates who could achieve some thing in life and prosper. I scored decently in the 10th class and I was a disappointment in my +2 studies. I completed college with neither any troubles nor achievements. All I did at college was to read, read and read books totally unrelated to my line of academics. I did gain a lot of that worldly knowledge that not many people in today's world seem to value. It did equip me with a reasonable vocabulary and improve my understanding of the world around, but it did little or nothing to improve my academic record.
Post college, I joined Polaris S/W labs and here too, I was always aiming at doing an MBA. Till I went to Hong Kong, Honestly speaking, I had little respect for computer programming. But after working with some marvelous brains like Man Fai Chung and Matthew Chen, I thought programming after all is not bad. I learnt a few tech tips that went a long way in improving my tech skills.
Not that I am too mindful of the academic record, but still, I do feel that a few good words, a smile and some flattery would have gone a long way in improving my internal marks. But during my college days, this was some thing I was constitutionally against and I stuck to that throughout. Be it the influence of books like fountain head or the Russian classics like Anna Karenina, all of them brought out this "better-than-thou" attitude in me and I wouldn't stoop low and compromise on my character for something as trivial as internal marks. The result, I lost a solid 4% aggregate, in my internal marks and ended up in first class rather than in distinction. Okay. You can say I am trying to justify my mediocre results, but facts remain facts.
Once out of college, I continued to have this attitude and I planned to study with my own resources. Having lived off my dad for 22 years, I thought I had wings and had to fly on my own. I had a vacuum of three months before which I had time to reflect on and I did fly. I earned a living working as a software Engineer. I worked with an eye towards alternate carriers and was always peddling on more than one boat. That's what transpired so far...
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