IIM Udaipur, a citadel located at the outskirts of Udaipur city. An educational stronghold of 500 gifted management graduates trying to conquer and overcome the regular attacks of assignments, presentation, and pre-reads. Students trying to get most of their “sleep” which they have neglected since their childhood. The constant pressure to outperform everyone and lead the team boils down to one essential task of final placements. But amidst all this chaos, some students are outliers. They don’t follow the conventions and create their own league. Let’s talk about some of these crazy characters I have encountered in IIM Udaipur.
What does one expect in a classroom of a B-school? Boring lectures wherein everyone is talking about ethics, market share, cash flows, liabilities, and assets, right? Well, my experience has been entirely different. Right from the first week where we were made to play interactive games that we used to play in our childhood to my third week where role plays about Avengers, drug addicts and what more took place. In a span of just three weeks, I have done more physical and fun activities in a class that I had in my four years of under-graduation. Being a fresher, I always had this notion that being with people with work experience might make me out of place since I have no knowledge of the world that they are so used to. But these activities have made me realize that I was so wrong. Even though there are many people who are not only elder to me but also have this aura of wisdom in them, they are those that even I can relate too. So now to tell you in detail about one such experience of mine. So we have this subject in our course Managerial Oral Communications, and we were given a group assignment of role play. We were left with the entire creative space, we could present anything and everything. This course gave us all an opportunity to show everyone in the class who we are as a person without the fear of any judgment. In this role play project, we had so many different forms of presentations, advertisements, plays and so much more. On one side we had people talking about such important issues about how girls are portrayed as this weak entity who needs saving without even realizing it or why having a fair complexion in our country is such a necessity. While on the other we also had some fun presentations such as an advertisement of Nirma brand launching a product explicitly directed towards men and having avengers enact in the ad. All in all, it was such a fun experience. These activities helped me engage in such impactful conversations with these people around me that open my mind to so many new things that are happening all around me and I am not even aware of them. And all of this was possible because the platform was given to us by our professor Dr. Rakesh Godhwani. In the end, I would just like to say that you meet a lot of people in the course of your life but there are very few who actually inspire you. And this course and the professor assigned to us really inspired me and this is a memory that will always be close to my heart.
In the Bible the following Golden words are transcribed: “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed”. We are the average of all the people we surround ourselves with; getting into an IIM, one expects to find the coolest, smartest crowd who would help them overcome their inhibitions, expand their knowledge and form relationships for life. And in this respect, IIM Udaipur has been spot-on thus far. With an average work experience of two years, the upcoming batch of 2018-20 might be an experienced lot but there’s nothing conformist in them; with diverse backgrounds and quirky personalities it was difficult to choose who to dedicate this space to, but the onerous task has been performed: we have our four debutants from the PGP batch for 2018-20:
-By Sangita Raviraj, PGP 2018-20, a mechanical engineer having 3.5 experience as a design engineer in Oil and Gas domain. I like playing and watching cricket.
-By Ayushraj PGP 2018-20, a Mechanical Engineer, aspiring to be a travel writer, withunconditional love for Mathematics and Physics, also a movie maniac, a sportsperson and an occasional singer.
-By Madhulika PGP 2018-20. She defined herself as "a passionate b.tech fresher graduate who just found an opportunity and right place to learn, transform and grow. A girl who loves to travel and read to learn all things possible"
There is a question that has divided the world for eternity, does love happens at first sight? I used to think that it does, but my opinion has changed over the last two weeks. I converted IIM Udaipur on the 15th of June and was extremely happy. Why Shouldn’t I be? I got the opportunity to be a part of the fastest growing IIM. The academic rigour was something I was looking forward to.
-By Vanshika Agarwal, with a covert ability to handle stress, claims that she is highly adaptive, and would usually find positive solutions in adverse environment easily
IIM Udaipur, a citadel located at the outskirts of Udaipur city. An educational stronghold of 500 gifted management graduates trying to conquer and overcome the regular attacks of assignments, presentation, and pre-reads. Students trying to get most of their “sleep” which they have neglected since their childhood. The constant pressure to outperform everyone and lead the team boils down to one essential task of final placements. But amidst all this chaos, some students are outliers. They don’t follow the conventions and create their own league. Let’s talk about some of these crazy characters I have encountered in IIM Udaipur.
What does one expect in a classroom of a B-school? Boring lectures wherein everyone is talking about ethics, market share, cash flows, liabilities, and assets, right? Well, my experience has been entirely different. Right from the first week where we were made to play interactive games that we used to play in our childhood to my third week where role plays about Avengers, drug addicts and what more took place. In a span of just three weeks, I have done more physical and fun activities in a class that I had in my four years of under-graduation. Being a fresher, I always had this notion that being with people with work experience might make me out of place since I have no knowledge of the world that they are so used to. But these activities have made me realize that I was so wrong. Even though there are many people who are not only elder to me but also have this aura of wisdom in them, they are those that even I can relate too. So now to tell you in detail about one such experience of mine. So we have this subject in our course Managerial Oral Communications, and we were given a group assignment of role play. We were left with the entire creative space, we could present anything and everything. This course gave us all an opportunity to show everyone in the class who we are as a person without the fear of any judgment. In this role play project, we had so many different forms of presentations, advertisements, plays and so much more. On one side we had people talking about such important issues about how girls are portrayed as this weak entity who needs saving without even realizing it or why having a fair complexion in our country is such a necessity. While on the other we also had some fun presentations such as an advertisement of Nirma brand launching a product explicitly directed towards men and having avengers enact in the ad. All in all, it was such a fun experience. These activities helped me engage in such impactful conversations with these people around me that open my mind to so many new things that are happening all around me and I am not even aware of them. And all of this was possible because the platform was given to us by our professor Dr. Rakesh Godhwani. In the end, I would just like to say that you meet a lot of people in the course of your life but there are very few who actually inspire you. And this course and the professor assigned to us really inspired me and this is a memory that will always be close to my heart.
In the Bible the following Golden words are transcribed: “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed”. We are the average of all the people we surround ourselves with; getting into an IIM, one expects to find the coolest, smartest crowd who would help them overcome their inhibitions, expand their knowledge and form relationships for life. And in this respect, IIM Udaipur has been spot-on thus far. With an average work experience of two years, the upcoming batch of 2018-20 might be an experienced lot but there’s nothing conformist in them; with diverse backgrounds and quirky personalities it was difficult to choose who to dedicate this space to, but the onerous task has been performed: we have our four debutants from the PGP batch for 2018-20:
-By Sangita Raviraj, PGP 2018-20, a mechanical engineer having 3.5 experience as a design engineer in Oil and Gas domain. I like playing and watching cricket.
-By Ayushraj PGP 2018-20, a Mechanical Engineer, aspiring to be a travel writer, withunconditional love for Mathematics and Physics, also a movie maniac, a sportsperson and an occasional singer.
-By Madhulika PGP 2018-20. She defined herself as "a passionate b.tech fresher graduate who just found an opportunity and right place to learn, transform and grow. A girl who loves to travel and read to learn all things possible"
There is a question that has divided the world for eternity, does love happens at first sight? I used to think that it does, but my opinion has changed over the last two weeks. I converted IIM Udaipur on the 15th of June and was extremely happy. Why Shouldn’t I be? I got the opportunity to be a part of the fastest growing IIM. The academic rigour was something I was looking forward to.
-By Vanshika Agarwal, with a covert ability to handle stress, claims that she is highly adaptive, and would usually find positive solutions in adverse environment easily
