Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Only three months to go - I am so lucky to be here

They warned me. Time would fly by fast. I knew it also. But I had no clue it would be so fast. It only seems yesterday that we moved here half the way around the world. The Stanford campus beckoned, beautiful and shimmering in the warm California sun, with palm trees swaying in a gentle breeze and palm drive making the entry to the campus feel like a country club. It was a dream come true for me. To go to a top university in the world for an academic underachiever like me had always been a wishful thought.

These last 7 months have been fabulous. The classes were generally great. The GSB atmosphere is so fabulous but even more is the atmosphere in the University. There is such a can do spirit here. The real entrepreneurial spirit is outside of the GSB - not in the GSB. Sure there is lots of it in the GSB but the engineers and the scientists seem to be the ones thinking up the ideas.

I am so glad that I came here. My perspectives on the world, the people in the world and generally everybody has refined and in some cases changed so much. I never thought of anything entrepreneurial. Now at least I can dare. Not because of Stanford. But because of the people I met at Stanford.

1 comment:

Ravishankar Palaniappan said...

congratulations shankar..!! Its glad to hear .. please do keep sharing the experiences in GSB

cheers!
ravi