A Bittersweet Account Of The Much Debated Sangram 2017
Another year and another Sangram has passed us by.
Another year and another Sangram has passed us by.
My existence is a continuum, so I’ve been what I am at each point in the implied time period. Bye Bye, Oompa-Loompas of science, it’s time to manage resources with this esteemed MBA. I love the intricacies that come with intertwining myself with the complexities of the universe. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s an honour for me, Sheldon Cooper (Sharun Sanel) to be IMTagged.
“Network like anything. Among them will be your business co-founders, your best friends, your lifelong colleagues, and maybe your life partners!” said a senior on the very first day of the college. Networking is indeed one of the most hyped things at an IIM. Its importance can never be questioned. However, there are some dark sides to it.
This article (or story, as InsideIIM would call it) is for all those who have decided to do an MBA after reading all those awesome stories on InsideIIM and other websites. The awesome stories are more than enough in number that I need not add one myself. Instead, I want to show you the other side of the MBA 'coin', the side that is usually hidden from sight by the 'awesome' side of the coin. However, this is NOT to discourage you to join MBA. This post is also NOT a complaint or a rant or a judgement of what is right or what is wrong (this is subjective). Maybe many of my MBA peers might not like this article. However, some things in life are bitter but inevitable. Like medicines, for instance. And this post too. The aspirants must know the whole picture of what they are getting into. Here goes:
“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose the sight of the shore” - Andre Gide
“The z-value is hence derived from NORMSINV and the result is used in determining whether to accept the null hypothesis or not accept it” – 17th June 2017, sitting in a class of 81 students and for the first time in my life, I asked myself if I really was as smart as the others in this class who are nodding to what is actually Greek to me. After 14 years of schooling and 3 years of undergrad, I had sufficient belief in my capabilities to sit in a class and understand what the teacher says (probably, understand in a better manner than many other students); but well, MBA at SPJIMR was now welcoming me warmly. A batch of 240 students who have always been amongst the top percentile in their classes, who are known to be the all-rounders are now my batchmates. Ironically enough, I found out later that everyone was thinking the same thing in that class – Am I good enough? And indeed, they are!
With a lot of anticipation about how MBA life is going to be, I entered the gates of the SIBM Pune campus on the beautiful Lavale hilltop. Having spoken to many alums/seniors studying in college, I had a few ideas in mind about how the course is going to be, but it was the induction process that gave the much-needed insight of what to expect(and what not to) in the months to come.