The INSEAD App

While writing my INSEAD essays I realized a few points about my own character and my future plans. The entire apping process was really useful in that regard. Even though it can pain quite a bit. Some important takeaways from the entire excercise :

1. It's difficult to be prceise and convey all that you wanted to say. Every point needs to be substantiated. But the word limits are so damn low. Brevity certainly is not my current strength. I need to work on how to make my writing intersting, brief and humurous.

2. My long-term gaols certainly got clarified. I do want to be an entrapreneur. And I do want to be an entrapreneur in the renewable energy field. How, I don't know yet! But "why", I'm pretty clear. The world is goddamn dying. It needs an answer to this madness for the oil. We have the Sun shining away to glory all the time in the year especially in India. Why, can't we use it? I want to change this world, yes. There are so many different routes to it. I could be a peace volunteer, a politician, an environmental activist. But, I'm chosing the MBA route. Yes, I do want to change the world!

3. My short-term goal is also very clear now. I want to revolutionize the way these solar products are sold. So for that, I want to sell some existing product! I'm in the field of product management in a way. I do Release management. So the natural progression for me is product management.

4. I feel proud about my country. India is where the past meets the future. This is where business is going to grow. China's much bigger - but the stability of the Indian democracy is where I would invest in. If the chinese wake up one day to fight for their freedom, then it'll roll back their economy by a significant number of years! No such problems with India.

5. My character : what are my strengths and weaknesses. Frankly, my main weakness is laziness. But can I say that to an Adcom! Hell, no ! I'm sure I wouldn't want a lazy guy in my team. So no point in telling the truth. So the next big weakness is certainly procrastination. That's what I've put in there. Hope the story works.
My strength definitely is my pateince. I've done very well on the personal front only because of my patience. Actually it's a combination of patience and thick-skin. That makes me cool in a lot of situations.

6. My english language skills are dan lousy. That's one thing I figured out from the various reviews by my friends. And God, help me acquire brevity !

Anyways, the Reccos were okay. My past managers - actually Shirish was never really my manager. But he is a manager! Gayathri also was a manager with whom I had good relationship. Hopefully, she's given me a good recco.

Anyways, more on the apping front soon. To be continued ..