The American Educational Experience

I graduated from an american business school two weeks back.It felt so serene and calm after the graduation. Apart from the financial, physical and emotional hardships, I really enjoyed being at the school.The experience exposed me to my ignorance, fears, inabilities and strengths that I never knew. It showed me the beauty in giving, receiving, dance, kindness, hope, failure, friendship and hiking. I started appreciating life like never before. I am much more ease with myself.I started liking me.. :) .

So, What did I learn?

A lot. If I have to put it in a single line: " a journey from unknown knowns/unknowns to known knowns/unknowns". Yes, there is yet to learn a lot but I am aware of it.

My MBA education was all about knowing the other side of the table, looking at the various facets of a situation so that I can make a more informed decision. Along with my education, the hardship I went through, the people I interacted with, the people I listened to, taught me various things starting from how to learn things fastly to how to handle a girl's strengths to how to interact with a random stranger to how to keep calm under tremendous pressure to how to be supportive to etc., etc.,

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