About

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

–William Shake­speare. Ham­let, Act IV, Sc. V

About Me

I am a soft­ware devel­oper, free­lancer and an artist. I develop trad­ing appli­ca­tions full­time at Wall St. I also free­lance ten­nis arti­cles and do Inter­net Media con­sul­ta­tions occas­sion­ally. I will start my MBA jour­ney start­ing Fall 2010 where I intend to explore Dig­i­tal Media, High Tech Star­tups, Ven­ture Cap­i­tal, Strat­egy Con­sult­ing and resist the ‘charms’ of Invest­ment Banking.

I started writ­ing ten­nis arti­cles solely because of the love for Mr. Roger Federer’s game. My other pas­sions include poetry and paint­ings – I like to exer­cise my pen and paint­brush some­times when I feel inspired. These works can be found in my ‘art blog‘ which is ded­i­cated to paint­ings – oil, water­color and any­thing and every­thing pic­to­r­ial. My love for poetry is attrib­uted to the pro­found works of Ghalib. My ‘moon­struck blog‘ focuses mostly on urdu and hindi poet­ries. My writ­ings can be found under pseu­do­nym ‘eter­nity‘. I am addicted to works of Ayn Rand, Orwell, Shake­speare and Wodehouse.

I am based in Jersey/New York area and like to stare at the down­town Man­hat­tan sky­line often. The header image on my blog is my trib­ute to the most mes­mer­iz­ing line of con­crete blocks in the world. My home and heart, of course, lies in India.

About This Blog

On this page, I play the part of a racon­teur try­ing to put whats hap­pen­ing around in per­spec­tive. Here, I dis­cuss prac­ti­cal issues.

The new focus of this blog is on tran­scrib­ing my expe­ri­ences of apply­ing for MBA, liv­ing down the Busi­ness School and after­math of it all. I occa­sion­ally dis­cuss issues rel­e­vant to India — pol­i­tics, social dogma, edu­ca­tion etc. Rest, depend­ing on my mood. I keep fairly broad inter­ests in tech­nol­ogy and plan to start my ven­ture some day. Feel free to drop me a mes­sage if you are apply­ing to Busi­ness School.

A lit­tle word of encour­age­ment for appli­cants: Know your­self and don’t fall into the imbroglio of Admis­sions Con­sul­tants — there’s noth­ing called expert when it comes to MBA appli­ca­tions. Do not try short cuts and thou shall be rewarded.

Finally, I write for fun and I hope you have fun read­ing it.

–Nistha Tri­pathi