We’ve been asked this question numerous times and we thought, why don’t we save ourselves the effort and make an article out of it? So, is having a temporary campus a factor to keep in mind while choosing a B-school? Definitely. Is it among the most important factors though? We’ll let you decide that for yourself.
As I sit back on my comfortable bed after a hectic day to write this article, I remember all that has happened in these last six months. Attendance, cases, chai, samosa, committee, parties, assignments. The list just goes on and on.
IIM Calcutta’s annual cultural fest, “Carpe Diem” is back to bang once more. Celebrating retro Bollywood, Carpe Diem 2018 brings to you the heroes and the villains, the Gabbars and the Thakurs and the smartest and funniest Bollywood characters.
Calling the life in an IIM a roller coaster would be, at any given point in time, an understatement. Call up any of your acquaintances in IIM during the peak hours (which is usually post-midnight) and ask them about their life, they will have only one statement for you; I hate it but I love it. The sheer breadth and depth of the activities that one gets to perform here are on a superhuman scale. For instance, drawing upon my own experience, when I joined IIM Rohtak I learnt more accounting before my first ever finance class (thanks to our pre-reads) than what a usual commerce aspirant learns in his entire school years. This, while I was familiarising myself with Mr. Kotler with regression analysis and product life cycles poking me from both sides was no mean feat for me at that time. Yet, the magnanimity of an IIM truly becomes prominent when the horns of their annual fests are blown. That is when the already skewed sleep cycle of its students goes for a toss!
On March 24th, I will be a part of the graduating class of 2018 from XLRI Jamshedpur. I will leave this institute with a lot of memories and learnings. Although I will become a part of the well-known and respected XL Mafia, as I am just a couple of months from this date, feel there are several things I could have done differently.
While the past 4 term breaks were spent holidaying or enjoying time away from our busy lives on campus, this last term break came with a plethora of opportunities. For some, especially ones with work experience, this was the time to secure their dream jobs in the lateral placement process. For others, there were 2 half-credit courses being offered which would commence and conclude both during the term break. The two courses namely FIRE and Experiential Learning were unique in their own capacities. Out of the two, I opted for the former.
Sitting in the late evening classes of marketing, all I could do was refresh my Gmail Inbox. I was growing impatient as the clock was ticking beyond the scheduled time, and there was another 1 hour before the deadline for submission of a report. It was raining quite heavily outside, and I could hear the water drops hitting against the classroom windows. It could have been a good night to sleep off early, but things happen very differently here at IIM Ranchi. I had a submission at 9, a quiz at 9:15 and two interviews, one at 1 am and the other at 4 am.
“But out of limitations, comes creativity" - Debbie Allen
We’ve been asked this question numerous times and we thought, why don’t we save ourselves the effort and make an article out of it? So, is having a temporary campus a factor to keep in mind while choosing a B-school? Definitely. Is it among the most important factors though? We’ll let you decide that for yourself.
As I sit back on my comfortable bed after a hectic day to write this article, I remember all that has happened in these last six months. Attendance, cases, chai, samosa, committee, parties, assignments. The list just goes on and on.
IIM Calcutta’s annual cultural fest, “Carpe Diem” is back to bang once more. Celebrating retro Bollywood, Carpe Diem 2018 brings to you the heroes and the villains, the Gabbars and the Thakurs and the smartest and funniest Bollywood characters.
Calling the life in an IIM a roller coaster would be, at any given point in time, an understatement. Call up any of your acquaintances in IIM during the peak hours (which is usually post-midnight) and ask them about their life, they will have only one statement for you; I hate it but I love it. The sheer breadth and depth of the activities that one gets to perform here are on a superhuman scale. For instance, drawing upon my own experience, when I joined IIM Rohtak I learnt more accounting before my first ever finance class (thanks to our pre-reads) than what a usual commerce aspirant learns in his entire school years. This, while I was familiarising myself with Mr. Kotler with regression analysis and product life cycles poking me from both sides was no mean feat for me at that time. Yet, the magnanimity of an IIM truly becomes prominent when the horns of their annual fests are blown. That is when the already skewed sleep cycle of its students goes for a toss!
On March 24th, I will be a part of the graduating class of 2018 from XLRI Jamshedpur. I will leave this institute with a lot of memories and learnings. Although I will become a part of the well-known and respected XL Mafia, as I am just a couple of months from this date, feel there are several things I could have done differently.
While the past 4 term breaks were spent holidaying or enjoying time away from our busy lives on campus, this last term break came with a plethora of opportunities. For some, especially ones with work experience, this was the time to secure their dream jobs in the lateral placement process. For others, there were 2 half-credit courses being offered which would commence and conclude both during the term break. The two courses namely FIRE and Experiential Learning were unique in their own capacities. Out of the two, I opted for the former.
Sitting in the late evening classes of marketing, all I could do was refresh my Gmail Inbox. I was growing impatient as the clock was ticking beyond the scheduled time, and there was another 1 hour before the deadline for submission of a report. It was raining quite heavily outside, and I could hear the water drops hitting against the classroom windows. It could have been a good night to sleep off early, but things happen very differently here at IIM Ranchi. I had a submission at 9, a quiz at 9:15 and two interviews, one at 1 am and the other at 4 am.
“But out of limitations, comes creativity" - Debbie Allen
