College life is all about making memories and gaining experiences, however, it is not just any other college it is one of most desired B Schools in India i.e. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (IIM Rohtak) where it's altogether a different experience, as compared to graduation days, to be in such an environment.
Before joining IIM Rohtak every new comer has some questions in mind. What would be the campus be like? Is Rohtak a safe city? Am I about to witness a rural Haryana culture? and many others. All these questions keep boggling a potential joiner. But the moment you enter the IIM Rohtak campus the answers to these questions come by experiencing the IIM Rohtak aura.
The mood here at the IIM-Rohtak campus is unusually upbeat these days. Normally one would assume, given that this is our second year and we would soon be going for our placements, still the mood here in our new campus is cheerful. For years our campus has been in the making, but now, finally, the day is here when we are finally in our campus. The campus is huge and gives the feel and vibe of an IIM. Normally people judge a college by its infrastructure, faculties and its placement figures but rarely ask for its culture. I would rather say that college cannot be declared well until or unless it has a good culture. And this is what IIM Rohtak is rich at.
Sir, I have a doubt”, the voice echoes across the room and the whole class shares a notorious smile. This is one of my batchmates, a classmate for the first year. A peculiar man, beyond the understanding of others, though an active participant in all the lectures, he is one of a kind, let’s call him Kumar. I was introduced to Kumar during the induction program of IIM Rohtak, a task with random allotments results in a mandatory engagement with the strangers.
IIM Rohtak, a brand that will accompany me even when my shadow would leave me is the oldest of the new IIMs and was established in 2009 but started its academic from June 2010. Today, after 9 years of its inception it stands tall in giving excellent brains to the corporate world across all the domains, be it Marketing or Finance or Operations or HR. It is the first IIM in north India and the only IIM in National Capital Region.
When you have a plethora of options, it is an operose task to choose few, when this topic came in front of me, a flurry of names flashed through my mind, my flat-mates, class-mates and who not, undoubtedly it was a tough job to shortlist 4-5 out of those. Here are profiles of a few of them:
Uday Hingankar: Uday is a Mechanical engineer with one year of experience in the manufacturing industry. Being a PGP student of IIM Rohtak batch 2017-19, he is excited for his journey at IIM. A keen learner who likes to take initiatives, his job assigned him with the responsibility of making standard operating procedures for various manufacturing processes in the first two months of my probation period. He interned at H&R Block in the field of Marketing. He is a FLIP certified Professional in 'Finance and Banking Fundamentals’ and Six Sigma Green Belt certified professional.
Syed Zaid Ali: Having attempted the Infosys life, being Beckham / Al Pacino, Syed Zaid Ali has joined IIM Kashipur for what he believes is his true calling, understanding how excellent operations and HR practices combined with Analytics can help an office become a home. A devout Muslim, his most prized possession is his Himalaya while his favorite activity is Jumme ki namaz. Do not judge him too harshly after noticing a self-proclaimed Manchester United fan fall asleep during last 10 minutes of a nail-biting game, or over his poor grades or simply because he, in sheer jubilation, kicked someone so hard that it caused a hairline fracture; spend some time with him to appreciate his role as a personal Urdu translator, as someone who dauntlessly answers the professors in their own voice or how shyly and humbly he would wrap a INR 500 note in a INR 20 note while handing it to a needy.
College life is all about making memories and gaining experiences, however, it is not just any other college it is one of most desired B Schools in India i.e. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (IIM Rohtak) where it's altogether a different experience, as compared to graduation days, to be in such an environment.
Before joining IIM Rohtak every new comer has some questions in mind. What would be the campus be like? Is Rohtak a safe city? Am I about to witness a rural Haryana culture? and many others. All these questions keep boggling a potential joiner. But the moment you enter the IIM Rohtak campus the answers to these questions come by experiencing the IIM Rohtak aura.
The mood here at the IIM-Rohtak campus is unusually upbeat these days. Normally one would assume, given that this is our second year and we would soon be going for our placements, still the mood here in our new campus is cheerful. For years our campus has been in the making, but now, finally, the day is here when we are finally in our campus. The campus is huge and gives the feel and vibe of an IIM. Normally people judge a college by its infrastructure, faculties and its placement figures but rarely ask for its culture. I would rather say that college cannot be declared well until or unless it has a good culture. And this is what IIM Rohtak is rich at.
Sir, I have a doubt”, the voice echoes across the room and the whole class shares a notorious smile. This is one of my batchmates, a classmate for the first year. A peculiar man, beyond the understanding of others, though an active participant in all the lectures, he is one of a kind, let’s call him Kumar. I was introduced to Kumar during the induction program of IIM Rohtak, a task with random allotments results in a mandatory engagement with the strangers.
IIM Rohtak, a brand that will accompany me even when my shadow would leave me is the oldest of the new IIMs and was established in 2009 but started its academic from June 2010. Today, after 9 years of its inception it stands tall in giving excellent brains to the corporate world across all the domains, be it Marketing or Finance or Operations or HR. It is the first IIM in north India and the only IIM in National Capital Region.
When you have a plethora of options, it is an operose task to choose few, when this topic came in front of me, a flurry of names flashed through my mind, my flat-mates, class-mates and who not, undoubtedly it was a tough job to shortlist 4-5 out of those. Here are profiles of a few of them:
Uday Hingankar: Uday is a Mechanical engineer with one year of experience in the manufacturing industry. Being a PGP student of IIM Rohtak batch 2017-19, he is excited for his journey at IIM. A keen learner who likes to take initiatives, his job assigned him with the responsibility of making standard operating procedures for various manufacturing processes in the first two months of my probation period. He interned at H&R Block in the field of Marketing. He is a FLIP certified Professional in 'Finance and Banking Fundamentals’ and Six Sigma Green Belt certified professional.
Syed Zaid Ali: Having attempted the Infosys life, being Beckham / Al Pacino, Syed Zaid Ali has joined IIM Kashipur for what he believes is his true calling, understanding how excellent operations and HR practices combined with Analytics can help an office become a home. A devout Muslim, his most prized possession is his Himalaya while his favorite activity is Jumme ki namaz. Do not judge him too harshly after noticing a self-proclaimed Manchester United fan fall asleep during last 10 minutes of a nail-biting game, or over his poor grades or simply because he, in sheer jubilation, kicked someone so hard that it caused a hairline fracture; spend some time with him to appreciate his role as a personal Urdu translator, as someone who dauntlessly answers the professors in their own voice or how shyly and humbly he would wrap a INR 500 note in a INR 20 note while handing it to a needy.
