I have spent 15 days in one of the top B schools in our country. For the past 2 years I have spent a substantial amount of my times imagining being part of a top B school and framed my own preconceived notions. Thanks to Bollywood I knew that I could find my future life partner in here. It was the early morning or to say the midnight of 25th June I reached Kolkata, famously known as the “City of Joy”. I took the famous Taxi, which Kolkata is known for, to chowbaga road a place where I’m going to spend the rest of my two years in what could be my final stint of being a student. The campus is located at a quiet place surrounded by greeneries, really tough to get such a calm and majestic campus in a buzzing metropolitan. I could see a lot of exuberant faces with eyes filled with passion and curiosity. The initial pleasantries were exchanged and the orientation program was completed and my first few hours on the campus didn’t give a sign of what was supposed to come. It was the calm before the storm.
The classes started the same day followed by introduction to clubs, committees and things got moving in a flash and within the next day my hands were full of case studies, assignments, Guest lectures, late night classes and batch meets and I got my first hands-on experience of the academic rigour for which IIFT is known for. Soon you begin realising that sleep is the only variable and 11:59:59 deadlines are sacrosanct. You can't settle for a brief moment and is expected to be one one’s toes all the time .5 hour sleeps are considered a luxury. These extreme environments are a stimulation of what we are expected of in the corporate world. In my second day in IIFT , while working on a assignment at 4:00 am in the morning which took a huge toll on me, I was frustrated and sleep deprived, I paused for a moment and went outside my room to have some fresh air, I could see the entire hostel fully alive and buzzing and people who couldn’t care less about the concept of day and night. People were seen having a coffee in the night canteen, taking small breathers in the midst of time crunches, sleepy faces some crying as well. It was at that very moment I could see my floor guard who had a smile on his face as if he knew what he had in his mind came up to me and said “Sir, you have to be awake for two years so that you can sleep peacefully for next fifty. We slept peacefully for the last twenty years and now will have to stay awake for the next fifty”. I came back to my room pondering on his deep insights. IIFT is moulding me at this very moment to be a better manager, Training me to absorb stress and deliver high quality work. I hope that my next two years are filled with such experiences.
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ABG Company:
Aditya Birla Group has been part of my life for a long time .I’m a loyal consumer of variety of Aditya Birla Group brands such as Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England and Planet Fashion .I have a first hand experience on the quality of the products and its impeccable customer service. It would be a matter of great pride for me to be associated with Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited and I believe that with the skill sets and knowledge, I acquire from my B school , I would be well placed to be part of this prestigious organisation.