Pushing one's limits - an amazing way of life!

Its 5.30 AM. almost 3/4 of our batch is still up writing research proposals!
This simply HAS to be the last day to this term!!
What a term this has been! from never ending media classes and brand science lectures to curriculum change rules, to lost laptops and "the great house arrest of 2007" to late night WYWI sessions to the furore over the placecomm, this term has been my best at MICA.

A batch meeting that was called by the placecomm at 4 AM has just ended.But the day is far from over. The very last bit of submissions for this term (and the biggest one) is yet to be turned in. The reading room of the library never looked more crowded. And in this state of broken body and tired mind and incoherent thoughts, I once again reiterate that this simply HAS to be the last day of the term. We are leaving for our rural research this afternoon. I am saying "this afternoon" but it still feels like "tomorrow" afternoon, cos on this planet called MICA, a new day never starts until after you have slept at least a couple of hours in the early morning.

I cannot remember how many days it has been since we have been toiling away on classes, long days of playing the online marketing simulation game markstrat to creating a simulated retail store on campus, to writing 2 exams to writing the research proposal.
I think it has been 5. I might be wrong.

At MICA, time is simply suspended. Weekends have no meaning, weekdays are not special either. What holds, simply, is your ability to push your physical, mental and emotional limits as you exist far away from civilisation.

This is my home, this is my family for now...and this is my way of life. I am coming to love it as each day passes and although sometimes, I scream my lungs out and say I want to run away to the "cool" refuge of bangalore and home, I know really that I wouldn't miss even one day of the action on campus.

I shall end here as there yet remains a couple of hours of sleep, a lot of thoughtful packing, polishing and submission of the research proposal, and last minute things to get before the journey to be crammed into about 8 hours.

However, if I were to make one closing statement, it would be this:

This is the only way to live!!