Another day in Waltham

Another day in Waltham and the evening made me nostalgic. After a week end of snow and rain it was finally sun shine. Standing outside my door of a small townhouse in Garden crest and waves of thoughts hitting me one after the other. Wondering what to take up as my concentration in MBA and at the same time a fear that I might not be able to prove myself if I chose something wrong.

It was so good back in India. I was always surrounded by friends and family. People who really cared who were there for me, thinking about the times I had in India makes me want to cry and drain out the feelings that I’m holding inside.

They say shape of world is changing and that it is shrinking, but why is it that I still feel so far off from home and those warm feelings. It makes me wonder what it would have been when there weren’t mode of communications couple of decades back or when it was far too expensive to possess and use them. How do those people who came here leaving there loved ones behind in different countries communicated and led their feelings out.

I remember the first Cellphone I purchased was back in 2001. It used to be a luxury back in those times. But India grew big comparatively faster than was expected. It has one of the largest cellphone subscriber base today and it’s so cheap to have phones that owing one in US for an Indian is a pain. My first cellphone had nothing more than facility of calling and receiving calls. Today the one I carry is a bundle of goodies, it had camera, 3G, wi-fi, Bluetooth and so on and so forth. I never imagined I would be able to work on spreadsheets on my cellphone; but I guess that’s what technology has given us, the cellphone has become a mini computer. Is that what they meant when they said “the world is shrinking?”

I got my first computer back in 1995, a pentium-1 with 64MB RAM and 640MB HDD. It had a monochromatic monitor which I felt too fond of having at home. I was probably the first one to have a computer at home out of my class of 42 students. I am so proud of my Dad that he took evening classes to learn computers and kept himself updated with technology so that his kids can be at par with the fast moving world. This inspired him to buy a computer in 1995 and not to forget it took 24 days for the computer to finally get delivered.

Today it is impossible to imagine a world without computers and internet.

One thing that made me choose Bentley University was that it was moving in pace with the technology. It has the most advanced technology one could imagine for a University to have. I was so fascinated to learn about the technology Bentley possessed that it made me choose it over all the schools I got admits from.

With my MBA concentration being Finance I want to do lot of courses in Information technology because of this never ending cravings to learn more about technology and its implementations. I would also like to mention here that a great deal of this comes from Professor Anderson who teaches “Strategic Information management” ‘(GS 601) which happens to be a core course and a big motivation for me to go ahead with Information Planning related courses. If it wouldn’t have been for Professor Anderson I would have never thought of taking such courses. But its too soon to say anything as I am in my first semester and don’t really know what courses I’ll pick up for the coming semesters, but I sure going to try taking IPM classes.