Have you ever fallen in love? At first sight? With a geographical location, one could pinpoint on a map? I have. And I’m sure all my colleagues at the Symbiosis, Lavale hilltop have too. And thus this won’t be a regular article. This is a love letter. Are twenty days too soon to profess love for my muse? Maybe. Is writing a letter stretching it too far? No. My laptop needs to surface out of the inferiority complex the DSLRs have put it through.
June-July are the months when action begins in b-schools. Thousands of eyes filled with dreams and bank account debited heavily (barring a few) steps in to campuses. Welcomed with ‘Personality Development Sessions’, team bonding activities and long inductions (read: boring) kick off the first year. Often energy-draining, intense, experimental, sleepless, exciting and rewarding (depends upon choices you make); first year of MBA is definitely eventful.
It is not without reason that NITIE is called the God’s Own campus with the NITIE pond being its crown jewel. NITIE is flanked by the picturesque Powai Lake on one side and the never ending Vihar lake on the other. One might be forgiven for thinking that the campus is a resort masquerading as a b-school as well.
Now that you have made it to the crème de la crème, you suddenly find yourself in this quandary. As clubs and committee selections are about to start, you have a taxing decision to make - should you join them or focus on academics? I am in no capacity to recommend where and how you should divert your focus, but I can definitely tell you why you should be joining a club or a committee.
With all the dust around onboarding and induction into MBA colleges having slowly settled down, it is the season for committee selection processes, which are in no way less equal to the company placement processes. With already a month having passed, the senior committee of the placement savvy campuses by this time would have successfully elected their Junior Placements team choosing the creme de la creme of the talents who had walked in, trying to impress upon with their skillset in a very brief duration.
The happiness that you get when you finally get into the top business school after the stressful months of preparation for the most awaited exams of the year, writing applications and essays, just to get into one of the top colleges. So you thought that was it? Wait till you take your first class. That’s when the realisation hits you like a bullet. We hardly plan little further than that. I remember preparing for CAT, one of the tutors told something which I can never forget, "Do not think you are preparing to get into a b-school, CAT tests you how good you would be after going to a b-school, as a future manager".
Started in 2014 by the batch of 2016 as a promotional event for Manfest-Varchasva (the annual business, cultural and sports festival of IIM Lucknow), Campus Radio managed to create a hefty amount of buzz back then. After a gap of one year, it was revived in 2016 November to again promote the then upcoming edition of Manfest-Varchasva. It then took place in February 2017 again, right before the PGP31 batch graduated from IIM Lucknow, which was in fact pretty close to Valentines’ Day and even prom on campus.
As discussed in part 1 of the student-run ventures at IIM Lucknow article, this part 2 talks about Head2Toe, the girls’ parlour at IIM Lucknow. This academic year, three of us had the winning bid to run the parlour – Aishwarya, Surbhi and I. So far, we’ve been involved with the parlour for a little over a month since March mid, excluding the 2 months of the internship. However, even in the short span of time, it has proven to provide immense learning.
Have you ever fallen in love? At first sight? With a geographical location, one could pinpoint on a map? I have. And I’m sure all my colleagues at the Symbiosis, Lavale hilltop have too. And thus this won’t be a regular article. This is a love letter. Are twenty days too soon to profess love for my muse? Maybe. Is writing a letter stretching it too far? No. My laptop needs to surface out of the inferiority complex the DSLRs have put it through.
June-July are the months when action begins in b-schools. Thousands of eyes filled with dreams and bank account debited heavily (barring a few) steps in to campuses. Welcomed with ‘Personality Development Sessions’, team bonding activities and long inductions (read: boring) kick off the first year. Often energy-draining, intense, experimental, sleepless, exciting and rewarding (depends upon choices you make); first year of MBA is definitely eventful.
It is not without reason that NITIE is called the God’s Own campus with the NITIE pond being its crown jewel. NITIE is flanked by the picturesque Powai Lake on one side and the never ending Vihar lake on the other. One might be forgiven for thinking that the campus is a resort masquerading as a b-school as well.
Now that you have made it to the crème de la crème, you suddenly find yourself in this quandary. As clubs and committee selections are about to start, you have a taxing decision to make - should you join them or focus on academics? I am in no capacity to recommend where and how you should divert your focus, but I can definitely tell you why you should be joining a club or a committee.
With all the dust around onboarding and induction into MBA colleges having slowly settled down, it is the season for committee selection processes, which are in no way less equal to the company placement processes. With already a month having passed, the senior committee of the placement savvy campuses by this time would have successfully elected their Junior Placements team choosing the creme de la creme of the talents who had walked in, trying to impress upon with their skillset in a very brief duration.
The happiness that you get when you finally get into the top business school after the stressful months of preparation for the most awaited exams of the year, writing applications and essays, just to get into one of the top colleges. So you thought that was it? Wait till you take your first class. That’s when the realisation hits you like a bullet. We hardly plan little further than that. I remember preparing for CAT, one of the tutors told something which I can never forget, "Do not think you are preparing to get into a b-school, CAT tests you how good you would be after going to a b-school, as a future manager".
Started in 2014 by the batch of 2016 as a promotional event for Manfest-Varchasva (the annual business, cultural and sports festival of IIM Lucknow), Campus Radio managed to create a hefty amount of buzz back then. After a gap of one year, it was revived in 2016 November to again promote the then upcoming edition of Manfest-Varchasva. It then took place in February 2017 again, right before the PGP31 batch graduated from IIM Lucknow, which was in fact pretty close to Valentines’ Day and even prom on campus.
As discussed in part 1 of the student-run ventures at IIM Lucknow article, this part 2 talks about Head2Toe, the girls’ parlour at IIM Lucknow. This academic year, three of us had the winning bid to run the parlour – Aishwarya, Surbhi and I. So far, we’ve been involved with the parlour for a little over a month since March mid, excluding the 2 months of the internship. However, even in the short span of time, it has proven to provide immense learning.
