The beginning of the end

R1 admits for the Class of 2008 were announced yesterday. It seems like just yesterday when I received my own admit email on 7th January 2006. This year has whizzed past. The thrill of admission, the transition phase from work life back to acads and the process of settling into ISB seems so recent. And yet, I can clearly see the end. Term 6 will be done in 2 weeks. Had imagined the highs and lows in April but somehow the highs were higher and the lows lower. I managed to develop new perspectives, make some amazing new friends and go through unbelievable twists and turns; for want of a better term, the cliched - agony and ecstasy. Was the year fulfilling? Every bit.. and some more. Remember wishing during every pressure situation how I wanted to be done with this place. But now that its beginning to seem like reality, I don't feel like leaving it. Call it the Stockholm Syndrome. Mentally fatigued in many ways. Feeling far fresher in others. Words have dried up. There is no flow to what I write. Will wait for the flair to return. I don't know till when.