After all the tough times, sleepless nights solving the multiple aptitude books and mocks, memorising and revising the vocabulary and formula, clearing CAT or XAT or the numerous other entrance exams and then clearing those nerve-wracking GDs and interview. Finally, you make it to the B-School of your dreams!
Dr. R. Sesha Iyer, Faculty at SPJIMR Mumbai, was recently voted by the students of SPJIMR Mumbai as the InsideIIM Professor of The Year! He was kind enough to answer a set of questions we posed to him around his experiences as a Professor at one of India’s top B-schools, teaching some of the brightest minds in the country. Here is what Dr. Iyer has to say –
Coming to IIM-K with great trepidation, the institute was an enigma for me. Countless stories and anecdotes from friends and acquaintances painted a picture of a place so beautiful, yet exhausting; so collaborative yet competitive. On reaching the Kampus, I could subdue all the canned thoughts and buck fever, for the Kampus is exceedingly great for its zealous surfeit of wisdom and beyond. The very first ground rule in IIM-K is that everything is K and K is everything, right from the Kampus to Konquest to Konsult. The lush greenery of Kampus spreads over 100 acres on two hillocks, and we live literally among the clouds. Every day we are used to waking up to these views...
On 20th July 2018, I arrived in Mumbai. My Enfield was low on fuel and I was low on patience. What should have been a short ride of 4 hours from Pune to Mumbai had turned into a nightmare. I was drenched in rain, had no place to stay, I took a wrong exit near Navi Mumbai and spent nearly an hour in a traffic, and to top it off my dad forgot to send my luggage to Mumbai, which meant I had to shop for new clothes. So when I stood outside Plaza, Dadar; all I could think of was the expectation vs reality sequence from 500 days of summer. The rains washed the color right off of my rose-tinted glasses through which I adoringly looked at Mumbai.
Have you ever woken up from a dream only to realise you can sleep a little more until the Chicken little on your alarm clock rings up with 'The heaven is falling'?
Belonging to a family, living in a conservative Muslim community, Talat Khanam was told to hide behind Burqa from her childhood. Pursuing higher education to achieve her dreams was a luxury for her in a society that is dominated mostly by men. Religion comes as another hindrance for a woman in her community to branch out and live a life of her will.
Are you a geeky hero/heroine or a freebie amigo at your B-School? Which category do you belong to?
I smiled and giggled more and more as the days of saying goodbye drew nearer. Dear friends chided me that how cold I was, was I really that cold? Here I am writing something which is close to everybody’s heart, a topic which we cherish.
After all the tough times, sleepless nights solving the multiple aptitude books and mocks, memorising and revising the vocabulary and formula, clearing CAT or XAT or the numerous other entrance exams and then clearing those nerve-wracking GDs and interview. Finally, you make it to the B-School of your dreams!
Dr. R. Sesha Iyer, Faculty at SPJIMR Mumbai, was recently voted by the students of SPJIMR Mumbai as the InsideIIM Professor of The Year! He was kind enough to answer a set of questions we posed to him around his experiences as a Professor at one of India’s top B-schools, teaching some of the brightest minds in the country. Here is what Dr. Iyer has to say –
Coming to IIM-K with great trepidation, the institute was an enigma for me. Countless stories and anecdotes from friends and acquaintances painted a picture of a place so beautiful, yet exhausting; so collaborative yet competitive. On reaching the Kampus, I could subdue all the canned thoughts and buck fever, for the Kampus is exceedingly great for its zealous surfeit of wisdom and beyond. The very first ground rule in IIM-K is that everything is K and K is everything, right from the Kampus to Konquest to Konsult. The lush greenery of Kampus spreads over 100 acres on two hillocks, and we live literally among the clouds. Every day we are used to waking up to these views...
On 20th July 2018, I arrived in Mumbai. My Enfield was low on fuel and I was low on patience. What should have been a short ride of 4 hours from Pune to Mumbai had turned into a nightmare. I was drenched in rain, had no place to stay, I took a wrong exit near Navi Mumbai and spent nearly an hour in a traffic, and to top it off my dad forgot to send my luggage to Mumbai, which meant I had to shop for new clothes. So when I stood outside Plaza, Dadar; all I could think of was the expectation vs reality sequence from 500 days of summer. The rains washed the color right off of my rose-tinted glasses through which I adoringly looked at Mumbai.
Have you ever woken up from a dream only to realise you can sleep a little more until the Chicken little on your alarm clock rings up with 'The heaven is falling'?
Belonging to a family, living in a conservative Muslim community, Talat Khanam was told to hide behind Burqa from her childhood. Pursuing higher education to achieve her dreams was a luxury for her in a society that is dominated mostly by men. Religion comes as another hindrance for a woman in her community to branch out and live a life of her will.
Are you a geeky hero/heroine or a freebie amigo at your B-School? Which category do you belong to?
I smiled and giggled more and more as the days of saying goodbye drew nearer. Dear friends chided me that how cold I was, was I really that cold? Here I am writing something which is close to everybody’s heart, a topic which we cherish.
