5 Personality Types You're Bound To Find In An IIM

B. The “do-it-all” candidates: There are a few who have a high propensity towards participating in everything that comes their way. Sometimes you envy them and sometimes you pity them. Many a time, it hits them bad when they end up in that dreaded zone lying between being the Jack of all trades and being a master of one. However, many of them excel at their game by getting success at some of their escapades or by gaining great learning from many of their failures.

C. The ones with the veil of coolness: They are the ones who are innate geeks but due to some unfathomable reasons, are ashamed to portray this to the world. They mock the studious ones in all their daytime social gatherings before burying themselves in the books for the entire night. When they score fancy in the exams despite “not touching” the books, their coolness quotient knows no bounds. They never miss a chance to ridicule the ones who get easily scared by whatsoever reasons but then they themselves pee in their pants when confronted by any such situations.

D. The “Help-desks”: Barring the ones who genuinely want to make the lives of others easier, there are many who staunchly believe in quid pro quo. Each gesture of help shown by them today is expected to fetch them recommendations or votes in the club/committee elections poised to happen sometime in the future. They show camaraderie and heap praises on others not because they truly feel like doing so but to draw benefits from the goodwill earned today in some possible way tomorrow.

E. The ones living the extended version of their undergrad: People falling in this category do not find many incentives even in an IIM to push whatever personal limits they had set for themselves during their undergrad courses. It’s said that you’re definitely missing out on something if you’re able to sleep consistently for more than 6 hours in an IIM but these students just go overboard by drawing a sleep of not less than 8 hours a day and still squandering a big chunk of their time while they’re awake! They snub almost all the competitions, events, seminars, guest lectures, etc. with great aplomb.

Although there are a multitude of students who quite clearly lie out of the aforementioned 5 personality types, one tenet applies to them all: everybody has his or her poison to survive the toll-taking environment of an IIM.