It has been a year since I joined IIM Lucknow. Now, when seniors are packing their bags for home we are realising that about a year has actually passed. Time really moves very fast in this world of IIML (aka HELL). I hope the information given below will be useful for upcoming students. I have added some of my experiences and information a new joiner should be aware of.
It’s the last year of your under graduation program, the final lecture for the day comes to an end and you hurtle through your classmates to get out of the college building and pray to your Gods that you somehow reach the coaching centre on time. Once you make it, you wade your way through the crowd hoping to get the best seat possible in the classroom. The class begins, the Logical Reasoning faculty throws bouncers at you. After the break, your brain goes in for a toss when the faculty gives you the most difficult number theory questions. At the end of the class you get an assignment sheet, which after a quick scan, you keep it inside your sheet repository only to find older unsolved assignment sheets. You go back to your hostel room and with an empty stomach, you forage through your stuff hoping to find a noodle pack. Somehow you satiate your hunger and try your hands on those assignment sheets only to end up nodding off midway. Alas, the cycle repeats.
Utkarsha Srivastava, worked with Infosys for 2 years and is an Electronics and Communication Engineer. Currently pursuing Human Resource Management PGD Batch of 16-18 from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
“Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room: Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.” ― Xi Jinping
The one question that CAT aspirants dread the most, coaching institutes emphasise on the most and B-Schools ask the most is ‘Why MBA?’ Not only is this a question with no tailor-made answer, but also this is a driving question: the direction in which your interview will head, and how it will head, depends a lot on how you answer it. Besides, as an adult making an important life decision, you ought to have an answer to this question for yourself, don’t you?
Mr. Philip Kotler, in one his lectures said: “You wanted their mind share, you wanted their heart share, but now, you also want a share of their spirit”.
It has been a year since I joined IIM Lucknow. Now, when seniors are packing their bags for home we are realising that about a year has actually passed. Time really moves very fast in this world of IIML (aka HELL). I hope the information given below will be useful for upcoming students. I have added some of my experiences and information a new joiner should be aware of.
It’s the last year of your under graduation program, the final lecture for the day comes to an end and you hurtle through your classmates to get out of the college building and pray to your Gods that you somehow reach the coaching centre on time. Once you make it, you wade your way through the crowd hoping to get the best seat possible in the classroom. The class begins, the Logical Reasoning faculty throws bouncers at you. After the break, your brain goes in for a toss when the faculty gives you the most difficult number theory questions. At the end of the class you get an assignment sheet, which after a quick scan, you keep it inside your sheet repository only to find older unsolved assignment sheets. You go back to your hostel room and with an empty stomach, you forage through your stuff hoping to find a noodle pack. Somehow you satiate your hunger and try your hands on those assignment sheets only to end up nodding off midway. Alas, the cycle repeats.
Utkarsha Srivastava, worked with Infosys for 2 years and is an Electronics and Communication Engineer. Currently pursuing Human Resource Management PGD Batch of 16-18 from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
“Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room: Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.” ― Xi Jinping
The one question that CAT aspirants dread the most, coaching institutes emphasise on the most and B-Schools ask the most is ‘Why MBA?’ Not only is this a question with no tailor-made answer, but also this is a driving question: the direction in which your interview will head, and how it will head, depends a lot on how you answer it. Besides, as an adult making an important life decision, you ought to have an answer to this question for yourself, don’t you?
Mr. Philip Kotler, in one his lectures said: “You wanted their mind share, you wanted their heart share, but now, you also want a share of their spirit”.
