I am surprised. I didn’t expect to get settled in this fast! Its been just over a week since I arrived and life has moved pretty damn fast. This post comes directly from within Wharton, just after a lil dinner since today was the official first day of preterm. The Wharton Class of 2008 is 800 junta strong and boy do you get to meet amazing people.
As soon as I landed up at Philly, I had two class mates pick me up drop me at my apt and then help me settle in. The next entire week revolved around shopping for furniture, food, utensils and those parties and err… a little bit of sleep. Shopping is TOUGH. More so because none of the gang here has a car. Wharton is bang in the center of the city and almost all the junta live just around 30 mins walk from the place. Insane parking charges and insurance charges ensure that almost no one has their own vehicle. That left gangs of us to shop, lug stuff around and WALK for miles! Hey, I’ve walked more in Philly in the last one week than I’ve probably walked in a month in Mumbai!
Major thanks and cheers to the amazing classmates without whom, it would have been hellishly tough for me to have settled in here. I got free food, free advice, free furniture assembly and more importantly am getting to know the people I would and can bank on. With respect to people, I am so sure that coming to Wharton was the right thing to do! Ofcourse there are niggling concerns when I think and talk about my companies, but heck – I am sure they shall remain sorted out 
The junta at Wharton is err.. too humble I think. Almost never, have I gotten around to seeing someone talk about themselves and their accomplishments. The Indian gang is damn well represented. Looks like there are close to a 100 Indians (Indian passport holders and Intl. passport holders) and its a great support group as well. All it takes is a few calls and a mob assembles at any given place for food or for helping out
People are so willing to share and help out & that is a great hallmark of this place. All you need to do is ask and voila someone, somewhere out there just makes it happen. I’ve learnt more about the finance sector in the last one week than I did in my life and classes haven’t started. I hope the luck continues, because I know I would need all of that and more to get through my math exams and other stuff scheduled to happen soon. Wharton is going to be, what I make and push myself to make out of it. Nothing more and nothing else. It has humongous resources at its disposal and sometimes I really wonder, if I am even capable of leveraging what needs to be done.
First semester is supposed to be hell and beyond and I guess I am going to find it extremely tough to keep it all together. Heck, I’ve never studied all my life and now I have to study along with the best in the world. So its back to academics for me and um.. wait.. may be I should find a way to interview bill g and donald t. (btw, the donald is a wharton alum )
Starting on !
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Great to hear that you are all settled in Allwin bhai…
And 100 INDIANS out of 800….We Indians sure are everywhere !!
Gives you a more-than-clear idea of India’s pop-ex
“It has humongous resources at its disposal and sometimes I really wonder, if I am even capable of leveraging what needs to be done.”
We are sure you will manage sirjee :biggrin:
Posted 03 Aug 2006 at 3:32 pm ¶hola! Besto for this new journey of yours! start a thread soon and keep us updated…you dont use the messengers often nowadays do you?
Posted 03 Aug 2006 at 6:54 pm ¶Just to scare guys, they conduct maths test. You need to pass to continue in the program. I did it in 2003 !
Currently working with Wipro in business development in california !
Posted 03 Aug 2006 at 7:14 pm ¶@Mukesh, yes – the scare is on. Just got done with my first basic stats session. 3 hour classes .. WTH !
@Girish – I do use Y! regularly. Not my old ID though…
Posted 04 Aug 2006 at 2:33 am ¶Nice Update PG
Posted 04 Aug 2006 at 8:52 am ¶Whoa Dude !! Have been following your blog for quite some time now. Both, me and my room-mate (no Brokeback Mountain connections here) are extremely excited about YOU going to Wharton. Enjoy and have a great time..
And oh yes…BEST OF LUCK for the math test. *kneels and prays to God*
Posted 05 Aug 2006 at 3:40 pm ¶Hi Allwin,
Wishing u the very best at W n here’s to u to conquer all that u want to..I am
sure u wud leave ur mark there as well. Keep the blog running. Its nice to catch
up on ur experiences.
Adios..
Posted 06 Aug 2006 at 10:07 pm ¶hey Allwin,
That was a nice insight into the Best school- Wharton. Keep updating us on the events
, i know u’ll be evry busy from now, bu i am sure u will manage all that very well. All the best
Posted 06 Aug 2006 at 10:33 pm ¶Hey you bum,
All that walking is going to make you look too thin and then all those shirts wil go to waste 
Squeeze in some cooking lessons.
All the best. *hug* You’ll be fine.
Posted 07 Aug 2006 at 1:16 pm ¶Wow..
Thats great. Keep updating your blog. Its not easy to know about the life in harton from an Indian perspective.. After all, meeting whartonites is not tat easy.
Do you mean 100 in the batch of 800? Thats a number man!
How many roughly from India itself?
Best of Luck.
Posted 08 Aug 2006 at 8:33 pm ¶Pradeep
@Shekhar – THANKS! With Math exam under a week away, I need all the divine intervention I can get!
@Rajlaxmi – Haven’t heard from you in so long! I hope all is well and I do hope to survive this experience as well
@DJK – Lets not get to the cooking part! My pressure cooker gave way during my flight to Philly. Beat that! Now got to buy a new one and get started. I am not sure about getting an MBA degree, but yes, I do intend to be a fully functional cook when I return.
@Pradeep – At last count around 85 of them hold Indian passports. I would say around 60 are from India – India.
Posted 09 Aug 2006 at 7:06 pm ¶Lage Raho ALLWIN BHAI
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