28 Feb. 2010. I woke up around 11:30 and turned on my laptop. It has got into my habit to first check the mails and then carry on with the other ablutions. But this was no ordinary day. The people had been crying for long for CAT results and authorities had scheduled this day as the D-day. I opened the site www.catiim.in. The results were out. My heartbeat increased. I clicked on the link to get my score card, entered my Reg. No, DOB and email. Id. and there it was. I jumped off my feet. I scored 99.88 percentile and got a call from IIM A. The mood was ecstatic and this was the day I was waiting for last 2 years. This year’s was the most sincere effort and I would have been devastated if my diligence would not have paid off. Getting emotional is not me but at that moment two drops of tears just rolled out of my eyes. I just wanted to go out and lash out to everyone whoever questioned my credentials. Slowly the emotions sunk in. All this time there was this girl who always believed in me, and she was with me even when I was checking out my result. I wanted to hug her in that moment but she was sitting far far away from me in Dehradun while I was in Ahmadabad. After 2-3 days the calls of other IIMs came out. I wasn’t a BLACKI but a BLACK. I visited my friends in IIM A the same day on which the results came out and started my preparations for GDPI. I didn’t want to lose this opportunity.
