Vaishnavi Bharti, a student of MBA (HRD) Batch of 2019, Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, shares her experience about how her life has been in the one month she has spent on the campus.
When you get called for an interview, your foot is already in the door. You have actually managed to pass the hard part. Now it is time to meet with the decision-maker and show them you are the best person for the job. However, interviews can be very stressful. After all, the interviewer checks you under a microscope and makes a decision based on those few minutes spent with you on the interview.
There is an age old saying – “Man proposes, God disposes”. People say that one can never make the perfect plan, that no matter how meticulous you are something or the other is always bound to go wrong. To quote Linkin Park, ‘In the end, it doesn’t even matter’. However, no one ever talks about what to do after that happens, how to deal with the problem and come up with a solution. The simple reason for this is that there is no ‘right’ answer to that. The sheer magnitude and the complexity of every possible thing that can go awry is such a humongous number that even the human mind bows before it. The number of moves one can make in a game of chess after the first six moves stand at a staggering nine million. And life is much more complex than a game of chess.
General Engineer Male (GEM) with over 2 years of IT experience dreaming to get into one of the country’s finest b-schools is nothing short of a Herculean task. Below is the depiction of a GEM’s plight through this journey.
From last 2 years, the pattern of CAT has remained consistent. There are three sections QA, DILR, VARC; each one of them with 34, 32, 64 questions each. To do well in CAT, one needs to score consistently in all three section or to say minimum 90%ile in each section would be favourable for getting calls from Top IIMs.
Rock music, Welcome drinks, Tasty food, Smiles and resounding laughter all at the same time - yes it is party time! The event that the freshers eagerly await from the time of their admissions as it provides a great opportunity to spend more time together with friends and to get to know each other better before starting a new chapter in their life.
Budding Finance managers at SIBM Bengaluru now have access to a state of the art Bloomberg Terminal within the campus. For over 20 years, Bloomberg has partnered with leading educational institutions worldwide, empowering students with hands-on knowledge of markets and finance. Now, that power comes to SIBM Bengaluru. Only a handful of b-schools in India have such terminals and SIBM B is the latest entrant to that prestigious league.
I’ll lay down the objective of writing this piece right at the outset to save you the effort of going through all of it before you ascertain its utility for you. From the way I look at it, this piece should be quite useful to those grappling with bad grades in their undergraduate/postgraduate life and aiming to get an MBA degree sooner or later, fairly useful to those who look at CAT as something potentially exciting and worth acing, and probably just about worthwhile to those who are simply curious to know what another aspirant’s journey was like. The others too are, most welcome to read this even if not from a purely utilitarian perspective. That said, I’ll now proceed to narrate my story.
Vaishnavi Bharti, a student of MBA (HRD) Batch of 2019, Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, shares her experience about how her life has been in the one month she has spent on the campus.
When you get called for an interview, your foot is already in the door. You have actually managed to pass the hard part. Now it is time to meet with the decision-maker and show them you are the best person for the job. However, interviews can be very stressful. After all, the interviewer checks you under a microscope and makes a decision based on those few minutes spent with you on the interview.
There is an age old saying – “Man proposes, God disposes”. People say that one can never make the perfect plan, that no matter how meticulous you are something or the other is always bound to go wrong. To quote Linkin Park, ‘In the end, it doesn’t even matter’. However, no one ever talks about what to do after that happens, how to deal with the problem and come up with a solution. The simple reason for this is that there is no ‘right’ answer to that. The sheer magnitude and the complexity of every possible thing that can go awry is such a humongous number that even the human mind bows before it. The number of moves one can make in a game of chess after the first six moves stand at a staggering nine million. And life is much more complex than a game of chess.
General Engineer Male (GEM) with over 2 years of IT experience dreaming to get into one of the country’s finest b-schools is nothing short of a Herculean task. Below is the depiction of a GEM’s plight through this journey.
From last 2 years, the pattern of CAT has remained consistent. There are three sections QA, DILR, VARC; each one of them with 34, 32, 64 questions each. To do well in CAT, one needs to score consistently in all three section or to say minimum 90%ile in each section would be favourable for getting calls from Top IIMs.
Rock music, Welcome drinks, Tasty food, Smiles and resounding laughter all at the same time - yes it is party time! The event that the freshers eagerly await from the time of their admissions as it provides a great opportunity to spend more time together with friends and to get to know each other better before starting a new chapter in their life.
Budding Finance managers at SIBM Bengaluru now have access to a state of the art Bloomberg Terminal within the campus. For over 20 years, Bloomberg has partnered with leading educational institutions worldwide, empowering students with hands-on knowledge of markets and finance. Now, that power comes to SIBM Bengaluru. Only a handful of b-schools in India have such terminals and SIBM B is the latest entrant to that prestigious league.
I’ll lay down the objective of writing this piece right at the outset to save you the effort of going through all of it before you ascertain its utility for you. From the way I look at it, this piece should be quite useful to those grappling with bad grades in their undergraduate/postgraduate life and aiming to get an MBA degree sooner or later, fairly useful to those who look at CAT as something potentially exciting and worth acing, and probably just about worthwhile to those who are simply curious to know what another aspirant’s journey was like. The others too are, most welcome to read this even if not from a purely utilitarian perspective. That said, I’ll now proceed to narrate my story.
