Saturday, December 8, 2012

MB-Eish: Post 22: 3


**"Eish" is a South African slang term expressing surprise, dismay, anger or frustration.** 

As I mentioned two years ago, I have joined the droves of engineers who have sold out to the dark side: Banking (and more recently, the elite league of the dark side: Asset Management). To make myself more comfortable in my new, murky surrounds I have decided to do an MBA part-time. This is the twenty-second in a series of posts about my MBA experience.



Three days left. 

And I am trying to exercise  the utmost discipline and exert the craziest amount of effort to finish this paper in style. 

I am restricting myself to three hours of sleep a day. I am working in three hour shifts with ten minute comfort breaks in between. 

I see nothing but my laptops and my many to-do lists. These last few days my eyes will see no television, no novels, no movies. 

I hear nothing but the music streaming out of my head-phones spurring me on. Kanye West telling me now that, that, that, that don't kill me will only make me stronger. Nina Simone empathizing that I been a workin' and a slavin' and I still got so terribly far to go. And Bono, sweet Bono, reminding me that it's a beautiful day, as I search for more literature references, more data... lamenting the fact that I still haven't found what I'm looking for. When my computer crashes, Chris Martin understands that tears stream down my face because I've lost something I can't replace.

And I say nothing, except for talking to myself about how to phrase an argument or how to present a graph. I've probably said ten words to my fiancé today. And I think those words were "Can you go and buy some more Red Bull please?". I haven't called my mother in days. The only calls I take are from other MBAs who need my help or who are calling to cheer me up. 

Three days left. I can do this.

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