I am the youngest sibling in a big joint family, so I don’t think I ever had to face any real challenge in my life
, up until I passed out my 12th class. After that I faced many small yet life changing challenges like, whether I should join my family business or study, whether I should choose engineering like my family is demanding or go for BBA as I have always dreamt of and many other challenges (like girlfriend). I took these challenges head on and did my BBA while part time working in my business and maintaining a healthy relationship. After my graduation, I got called for the first interview of my life by a B- school, that to TAPMI institute. I remember that day clearly when I received the mail from TAPMI, and I didn’t had any idea what to say in an interview. For the first time in my life, I was so feared that it made me sulk down for the whole day and no amount of humor or food was able to cheer me up. And then came the day for my big interview, I was composed and calm during the GD, but when the time came for my first P.I. for the CORE Program, I was trembling with fear of the
unknown. I went to the room, and both the panelists were ready to grill me. They hit me with profile-based questions, and I, a fool, went there prepared with only general awareness questions. The interview went horrible, I forgot the meaning of words and sentences, I forgot what I did in my college, I basically suffered from a memory loss during that interview. I walked out of the room with my head down, I felt so bad that I was ready to scream at the top of my voice from the balcony of that hotel room. But I had another interview for the Marketing and Sales Program, and I was not willing to lose the chance at getting admission in TAPMI.
And this was the biggest challenge of my life, how to overcome my feelings and emotions in just 30 minutes and prepare for the next interview. This was the first time I had experienced something like this, so I took a deep breath and just analysed my previous interview. I took out points which I missed there, I took notes of common questions and quickly prepared answers in my mind, I also asked for advice from my friends there. Luck was on my side, and the interview was delayed by 1 hour since they misplaced my profile, so I got extra time for preparing my answers. And when I entered the room for the MSM (Marketing and Sales Management) interview, I said to myself in my head, “Ashutosh, dude! Come on, what the heck are you doing, you can do it.” And after this, when I came back from the interview room, to the seat where my friends were sitting, I said to them with a big smile on my face “I think this is the college I will be going to.”