Choosing a b-school is one of the most important decisions taken by a plethora of students and professionals across our country every year. While parameters like academics, placements, exposure, and brand play a crucial role in the decision-making process, a few parameters and variables are realised only after joining the Institute.
Hell is the place where you are purged of all your previous sins! But at IIM Lucknow, the only thing you are purged out of is lack of fear of enormity. Didn't understand? Let me explain.
Disclaimer: Everything stated in this document is factual information which can be verified at any point by picking up any random PGP 1 student at IIM Indore. None of this is a figment of my imagination. If you are a highly empathetic person, please don’t read further. You are at a risk of putting yourself to great agony and mental pressure. Issued in public interest.
Change is what everyone fears in every phase of life yet inescapable, having realised thus I began to embrace it.
3:40 am: It's drizzling outside like it almost always is, these days in Indore. The wind velocity is high too. You can almost hear it. I am leaning against a wall, scrolling through the website of the fest I was applying for, on my phone. "My first interview at IIM Indore!".
It's been over a month since I stepped inside IIM Indore aka Planet-I, and I feel I have already experienced a plethora of emotions. True to its perception, life at an IIM is truly hectic in every sense of the word. There are a lot of activities going on at the same time and it can become very difficult to prioritise one over the other, but that is what constitutes a major factor of b-school life - TIME MANAGEMENT!
Standing at the entrance of IIM Kozhikode, staring at the statue of Arjuna, ready with a stringed bow and arrow aiming at the sky with the beautiful green carpet covered mountains and endless blue skies as background, I remember the day, I stepped out of the train, nervous and excited, with my dad, proud and a lot more luggage than I could carry. The journey of 18kms from station to the campus with mesmerising beauty of Kerala enriched with slow rains, compelled me to fall in love with the place. We reached our target to find uniformed men ready to welcome and guide us to our respective hostel. Stepping outside of the taxi was a new me, energised and eager to meet my colleagues, the main entities of the two coming years.
“Last night I couldn’t sleep! NO, 24 hours are not enough, not for a PGP-1!”
Choosing a b-school is one of the most important decisions taken by a plethora of students and professionals across our country every year. While parameters like academics, placements, exposure, and brand play a crucial role in the decision-making process, a few parameters and variables are realised only after joining the Institute.
Hell is the place where you are purged of all your previous sins! But at IIM Lucknow, the only thing you are purged out of is lack of fear of enormity. Didn't understand? Let me explain.
Disclaimer: Everything stated in this document is factual information which can be verified at any point by picking up any random PGP 1 student at IIM Indore. None of this is a figment of my imagination. If you are a highly empathetic person, please don’t read further. You are at a risk of putting yourself to great agony and mental pressure. Issued in public interest.
Change is what everyone fears in every phase of life yet inescapable, having realised thus I began to embrace it.
3:40 am: It's drizzling outside like it almost always is, these days in Indore. The wind velocity is high too. You can almost hear it. I am leaning against a wall, scrolling through the website of the fest I was applying for, on my phone. "My first interview at IIM Indore!".
It's been over a month since I stepped inside IIM Indore aka Planet-I, and I feel I have already experienced a plethora of emotions. True to its perception, life at an IIM is truly hectic in every sense of the word. There are a lot of activities going on at the same time and it can become very difficult to prioritise one over the other, but that is what constitutes a major factor of b-school life - TIME MANAGEMENT!
Standing at the entrance of IIM Kozhikode, staring at the statue of Arjuna, ready with a stringed bow and arrow aiming at the sky with the beautiful green carpet covered mountains and endless blue skies as background, I remember the day, I stepped out of the train, nervous and excited, with my dad, proud and a lot more luggage than I could carry. The journey of 18kms from station to the campus with mesmerising beauty of Kerala enriched with slow rains, compelled me to fall in love with the place. We reached our target to find uniformed men ready to welcome and guide us to our respective hostel. Stepping outside of the taxi was a new me, energised and eager to meet my colleagues, the main entities of the two coming years.
“Last night I couldn’t sleep! NO, 24 hours are not enough, not for a PGP-1!”
