An inspirational writer William Arthur Ward once said - “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
The Indian Institute of Management, Indore has completed its Final Placements for the PGP Batch of 2017-2019!
They say every story inside an IIM is a success story. Truly so. Here is the story of Ritesh Agarwal. Ritesh is currently a PGP1 student of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. I know Ritesh from the very early days in this course.
Getting into an IIM is a dream come true for thousands of CAT aspirants every single year. However, getting into an old IIM is the icing on the cake - these are the most desirable business schools in the country! One such IIM is IIM Shillong, an IIM campus with perhaps the most scenic campus, located in the 'Scotland of the East' - Shillong.
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B-Schools, at times, expect a student to have a blemishless record. Splendid marks in Classes 10, 12 and graduation are seen as a sine qua non. More than that, consistency is what they are looking for. Which is all very well. Each college is free to choose its own entry guidelines. But where does that leave us? By us, I refer to those lakhs of students who have put in average performances at any of these levels. Not only are you rejected from many colleges, you also face puzzled questions from people. You are from IIT/NIT/SRCC (or others), scored 99.5 + percentile and still did not get a call from the top IIMs?
29th June’18, my first day in this jaw-dropping beautiful campus of IIM Indore. I will not be exaggerating when I say this has been a dream and still is. For this first time in a long time, I finally felt this is where I belong. The struggle has been hard and real. (Pro tip: A degree in Computer Science and Engineering and working in an IT mammoth is not is everyone’s cup of tea.) Elated, I entered the premises, very confident about my abilities and proud of the fact that I have finally proved myself. I was on cloud nine. But little did I realise that so were 559 other people.
It is no understatement to say that getting a PPO or not does influence one’s second year on campus to a large extent. Whether the PPO is one that you will accept is quite often beside the point. If not your preferred career choice, it does certainly provide you with a strong bargaining chip during placements. Let’s see how life after a PPO pans out on campus for most of us.
