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The Missing Piece In An MBA Story

The Missing Piece In An MBA Story

A few years back, the male protagonist in a Bollywood movie recited these famous words "Main udna chahta hoon, daudna chahta hoon, girna bhi chahta hoon...bus rukna nahin chahta", which translates to ‘I want to fly, I want to run, I want to fall in life but never stop.’ The words resonate with most dreamers like me as I am someone who is highly ambitious and have an exhaustive bucket list that I want to live my life by. However, a year into my journey as a management student in one of the premier institutes in the country, I find myself constantly pondering over questions about all the race(s) I am a part of - the race for bagging the best company in summers, the race to fetch the highest stipend, the race for a PPO, and then the laterals and eventually the final placements. It makes me wonder if we are missing out on something more important: something as important as simply the joy of learning.

apoorva 30
When Porter Meets Barney Stinson - The B-School Playbook

When Porter Meets Barney Stinson - The B-School Playbook

The moment you set foot in an IIM, the first thing you notice is the abundance of engineers. You wonder whether this is a b-school or an F-school for engineers. F stands for finishing (among other things). It can get a tad intimidating if you are not one of ‘them’. That was not a problem for me as I was a freshly (almost) minted mechanical engineer straight out of an NIT. Engineers come here in all shapes and sizes. On one hand, you have the guy who can weed out your percentile from the source code of a centrally monitored web page. On the other, you have that person, including yours truly, who cannot fix a fuse even if their life depended on it.

Abhijeet Singh
MBA Alumni | InsideIIM