It is rightly said, chase your dreams until you reach the epitome of success. This thought has been the driving force of my life. My aim was to do MBA in Human Resource Management from a reputed business school so that I could be qualified enough to construct a congenial and immersive atmosphere for one of the most important resources in any company that I work for.
The two years of management education form an important phase in any student’s life, more so when it takes a considerable amount of effort from you, your parent’s (and a Bank’s part) to get you into a prestigious b-school. Getting admission into one is just the start of it; you go with the mind set of making the best out of it and coming out as a different person. But nothing can fully prepare you for the rollercoaster journey that MBA is, for no two days at a b-school are similar.
Toastmasters International is a nonprofit organisation formed to boost public speaking and leadership skills amongst us. It's headquartered in the USA. B-Schools nowadays teach their students that the first and foremost "C" in any leadership lesson is Communication and Toastmasters do justice to that. I was a part of this lovely organisation for 4 years now and when I secured admission in MISB Bocconi, it dawned upon me to start the Toastmasters legacy here.
Going.. going.. going........ GONE
Irrelevant as it may sound, Tango’s got nothing to do with my article. However, my next three hundred words or so would revolve around the latter. The past three months, to be precise the first Trimester of my MBA Life, has taught me a lot of lessons. So here’s a glimpse into my first trimester at SBM, NMIMS Mumbai.
I remember I had updated my Facebook status as ‘Konverted’, after getting an admission to IIM Kozhikode merely for the swag. However, hailing from Kolkata (Calcutta), the ever-whining me always criticized using such misspelt words. Later, I found it was a frequent sight on Facebook, be it for the onward journey to ‘Kampus’ to being inducted as a ‘Komrade’. I could feel the martyr in me approaching a faster death as I was gradually journeying from a person who criticizes such acts to a person who thinks critically. Random introspection and exchange of thoughts to identify any plausible reason for replacement of C by K apart from say, something as lame as C and K sound same in some words, made me realise that K gains its uniqueness, its own niche among the chain of ‘old’ IIMs by virtue of the letter itself.
About 5 years back top business schools in India suddenly woke up to the fact that the gender diversity ratio in their graduating batches was quite poor. It was extremely rare to find more than 25% women in most of the top IIMs. However, things have taken a turn for the better and the number of women graduating not just from IIMs but schools across the board now is in thousands. While women representation in C-Suite and pay disparity at the top levels are issues which will still take many more years to be solved, we can celebrate the increase in number of women managers at the entry level in India. We should be hopeful and the IIMs and other top schools have done their bit.
It is rightly said, chase your dreams until you reach the epitome of success. This thought has been the driving force of my life. My aim was to do MBA in Human Resource Management from a reputed business school so that I could be qualified enough to construct a congenial and immersive atmosphere for one of the most important resources in any company that I work for.
The two years of management education form an important phase in any student’s life, more so when it takes a considerable amount of effort from you, your parent’s (and a Bank’s part) to get you into a prestigious b-school. Getting admission into one is just the start of it; you go with the mind set of making the best out of it and coming out as a different person. But nothing can fully prepare you for the rollercoaster journey that MBA is, for no two days at a b-school are similar.
Toastmasters International is a nonprofit organisation formed to boost public speaking and leadership skills amongst us. It's headquartered in the USA. B-Schools nowadays teach their students that the first and foremost "C" in any leadership lesson is Communication and Toastmasters do justice to that. I was a part of this lovely organisation for 4 years now and when I secured admission in MISB Bocconi, it dawned upon me to start the Toastmasters legacy here.
Going.. going.. going........ GONE
Irrelevant as it may sound, Tango’s got nothing to do with my article. However, my next three hundred words or so would revolve around the latter. The past three months, to be precise the first Trimester of my MBA Life, has taught me a lot of lessons. So here’s a glimpse into my first trimester at SBM, NMIMS Mumbai.
I remember I had updated my Facebook status as ‘Konverted’, after getting an admission to IIM Kozhikode merely for the swag. However, hailing from Kolkata (Calcutta), the ever-whining me always criticized using such misspelt words. Later, I found it was a frequent sight on Facebook, be it for the onward journey to ‘Kampus’ to being inducted as a ‘Komrade’. I could feel the martyr in me approaching a faster death as I was gradually journeying from a person who criticizes such acts to a person who thinks critically. Random introspection and exchange of thoughts to identify any plausible reason for replacement of C by K apart from say, something as lame as C and K sound same in some words, made me realise that K gains its uniqueness, its own niche among the chain of ‘old’ IIMs by virtue of the letter itself.
About 5 years back top business schools in India suddenly woke up to the fact that the gender diversity ratio in their graduating batches was quite poor. It was extremely rare to find more than 25% women in most of the top IIMs. However, things have taken a turn for the better and the number of women graduating not just from IIMs but schools across the board now is in thousands. While women representation in C-Suite and pay disparity at the top levels are issues which will still take many more years to be solved, we can celebrate the increase in number of women managers at the entry level in India. We should be hopeful and the IIMs and other top schools have done their bit.
