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My Journey To IIM Rohtak - Kriti Nagori

I still vividly remember that day, preparing for my engineering entrance exams, I needed a break and had gone out for dinner with my family and I had told my mom ” I may not get a top college for engineering, but I am going to do my MBA only from an IIM!”, and here I am five years later, sitting in my hostel room in of one of the best MBA colleges in India and writing this article. It has been a long journey, full of ups and downs, but worth every effort.

Kriti Nagori13 Aug 2018

Expect The Unexpected When It Comes To MBA

It's the last Sunday of November, and you're at your exam center for CAT. Nervous. There's a buzz in the air, the last few months of your life have led you to this moment. This is just a pitstop in your journey. The next couple of months are gonna fly by in nervous anticipation, and before you know it, your CAT results have been declared and colleges have shortlisted you for interviews. You become a frequent visitor of InsideIIM to try and figure out what you must be doing, what you must NOT be doing, what you should know, etc. But to be completely honest, any amount of prep you do will only be a fraction of what is necessary, because some things you're just unprepared for:

Shamna Adoor13 Aug 2018

For The Love Of MBA

As the sky grew deeper into the shades of night with the stars lighting up the city with their smile, I walk a lonely road shining under the magnificent canvas of the heavens. As the wind blows through my hair with the fragrance of the flowers filling up my lungs I embrace the silence of the woods. Walking down the moon-kissed roads of IIM Bangalore, I climb my mountain of memories. Memories that make me ride on the clouds of confidence and dance on the flames of faith.

beulah magi13 Aug 2018

How To Prepare For A Life At A B-School

I am writing this as a shout-out to all those MBA aspirants out there who have, for the better or worse, decided that their sole aim in life right now is to get into an IIM (or any b-school, really).

Adil Sulthan13 Aug 2018

Fresher In A B-School: Are You Anyway Inferior To People With Prior Work Experience

It was my first week in IIM Udaipur, and we were supposed to do our first group project. In a b-school, study groups are made by PGP office, and the groups are made with a specific purpose. The group contains a lot of diversity. There is at least one female in the group. Similarly, there are people with graduation in different domains in one study group. I was the only fresher engineer in the study group. The moment when other members started talking about balance sheets and Porter's five forces, I felt like an alien. I could not contribute much to the project. The next morning, we had alumni meet where three alumni came to motivate the incoming batch. The only question I wanted to ask what should a fresher do to survive in a b-school environment. I had so much inferiority complex of being a fresher at that time that I could not even ask my question out of the fear of being judged.

Parth Joshi13 Aug 2018

Why MBA? - An XLer's Perspective

Why MBA? The most dreaded question in any MBA college interview. Different coaching institutes will offer you different advice. Some say be yourself and speak the truth, some will draft an answer for you and even how to present it. After hearing all these pieces of advice and giving a lot (LOT!!!) of interviews, I can give you a perspective, or at least a few pointers on how to approach this question.

Mudit Nandwani13 Aug 2018

Every Day At IIM Trichy

Before arriving here the typical time-frame of my day would be from morning 10 am (my work timings were from 1 pm to 10 pm) and go on until 1 am the next morning. But after coming here the boundaries between the days, weeks and months have blurred and it has become a continuous event.

Ipshita Dutta13 Aug 2018

How To Ace Your Marketing Internship - Tips From An HUL PPO Holder

When Rajan said, “You’re so lucky to have bagged a PPO from Unilever”, I gently nodded my head in agreement, but deep down I knew that it wasn’t just luck. It was luck meeting the meticulous execution of an ardent marketer’s dream. A dream that I had envisioned close to a year back. A dream that fuelled me to do my best, a dream that made me out perform, a dream that came true. Today, as I see scores of freshmen ablaze with the fire to crack summers at the doyens of marketing world (HUL, ITC, P&G, RB, Nestle, Marico, among others) I feel the need of sharing my preparation journey with them. What follows is months of planning penned down into a brief set of words, here it goes:

Pratik Ranjan13 Aug 2018