It's crazy enough to be doing an MBA while having a full time job, but what's crazier is breaking down your course activities and having to juggle it between your Job and Family life while meeting a deadline that MBA imposes.
This was one such week that went crazier by the day. Apparently I had to cover over 180 pages of writing my MBA II semester assignments by hand. Thankfully someone else had done the painful task of collating the answers to the assignments. All I had to do was hand-write each of these 180 pages within my self-imposed target of Friday, Dec 17th to submit it to the college. Noone could have predicted what lay ahead.
Sunday, Dec 12, 2010: Started writing my assignment. Completed 4 pages. Pushed rest of the assignment to the remaining days of the week.
Monday, Dec 13, 2010: Continued writing from 7:00 pm and slept around mid-night. Completed around 25 pages and yet to find my writing speed. Not to mention how horrid my handwriting was.
Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010: Began writing at 8:00 pm, dined and wrote till 01:30 am. Completed 70 pages in total.
Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010: Had my friends brother-in-laws wedding reception to attend in the evening. Began writing at 9:00 pm and wrote till 1:00 am. Completed around 130 pages. Still had over 50 pages to be completed in a single night. Fatigue set in and took a 15 min nap at 11:00 pm.
Thursday, Dec 16, 2010: Began writing my assignment at 8:30 pm, and wrote straight till 2:30 am. Looked like a dead duck by now. Physical condition: Fingers close to fracture and refused to straighten up not to mention the bad backache and the darkcircles too. Handwriting was a little short of a shorthand scribble.
Friday, Dec 17, 2010 4:00 pm: Managed to successfully submit my assignment at the College. Was proud I could make it within my self-imposed deadline.
10:00 pm: Finally I hit the bed early after a hectic crazy week and was planning on an 8 hr sleep. Now came the bomb when Raj a close friend called up. He had a family emergency and requested me to take his parents to Bangalore and bring them back to Chennai all within a day and that's tomorrow. With so less sleep the whole week, I wasnt physically ready for this 700+ km one day drive, but it was something I couldn't refuse for a close friend. Made a few calls to arrange a car and confirmed the plan with Raj. Time of Sleeping: 12:20 am.
Saturday, Dec 18, 2010: 04:10 am: Woke up to my phone's alarm. Was a sleepy head after a 4 hour sleep. Got ready and left home at 4:30, and executed all my plans on time. Reached Bangalore at 12:00 noon successfully. Physical condition: Tired, dead tired.
3:30 pm: Started my travel back to Chennai. Was a race against time because I wanted to cover the most distance under daylight. Loaded myself on energy bars and a large Red-bull that gave me an alert mind all the way till Chennai.
10:30 pm: Reached home after dropping Raj and his parents at their Chennai destination covering a total distance of 748 kms and driving for 15 of the last 18 hours. Hit the bed at 11:30 pm. Now I AM a dead duck !
Sunday, Dec 19, 2010: 8:00 am: Woke up to a perfectly good Chennai winter morning feeling good that the crazy week finally ended. Later that morning rode to college for a class and planned to return home for lunch. Here's my fate, a couple of kms before home my bike skids and I fall off my bike. I scratch my hands and a big bleeding bruise on my left leg.
So how crazier can a week get. Five straight nights of less than 6 hrs sleep, fingers close to fracture point, Driving 748 kms on the sixth day and now a bruised leg on the seventh day, I didn't ask for this... !!!
