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Waitlisted for Eternity!

This is a poem that I wrote at PagalGuy forum when I was wait listed and way too eager to do my MBA at SIBM, Pune. Those were some days! Some of us started tracking the movement of wait listed people and waited with anxieties and crossed fingers to reach it till our magical scores. I remember mine. It was 97.38. Sometimes, that wait got better of us and what followed is here for you all to see ;)

Mom! Results are out!
Oh Honey, your GD/PI went well,
You're in without doubt.

Wait wait..lemme at least check,
Oh darn, am in the wait listed deck!
When would I ever be in?
This is crazy, being wait listed is a mental sin!

What went wrong, I wonder..
Panel seemed happy,
But then, why does the site say WL 40?

Oh crap, that devil guy..He must have crapped!
Creepy smile he had, my scores; he must have sapped.

Oh, PG told me that guy was in my GD/PI group,
Darn! He posts a happy post, 
He was a loser, heavens! How did he manage through?

Ages it has been,
Why doesn't the list move?
Are they sleeping on drink n booze?

Why don't the seniors take some pity?
And end my trauma...
Coz I feel wait listed for eternity...
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  1. Ire21 March, 2009

    MEANIE...you are missing out on some details!

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  2. Himanshu Bhagat21 March, 2009

    hmmm..yea..I remember going to office and instead of sites on Java and Struts, I used to open Pagalguy to check my scores, until their good Web-Sense closed it. No problems, a friend had just bought a GPRS enabled I-Phone!

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  3. Anonymous25 March, 2009

    atleast, u were given a waitlist number bro!

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