Pradnya Munghate is a first-year student of NITIE Mumbai. She is full of life, full of dreams and full of drama. She believes in living life with no regrets.
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.
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.”
“What are the expected questions that could be asked in the IIM interview?”- a voice on the phone started my day and a realisation struck me. Almost 9 months have passed by at IIML, but it still feels like yesterday. The preparation for IIM interviews, getting into IIML, the induction, the classes, the deadlines, the CV preparation and the summer placements-life indeed has been a roller coaster ride.
Surabhi Agrawal is studying HRM at XLRI, batch of 2018. What was high school like for you? How did it contribute to your personality/ the person you are right now? There were many personal ordeals I had suddenly come face to face in high school. I had no way of knowing how to deal with. My entire life had shifted in the past year and I was trying to come to terms with it. I had never before found myself lacking in self-reliance. And which was why I was unable to seek help either. I had never required much of it before. Help is always easier to give than to take. But the very living through it each day, on my own, strengthened me. I learnt how to eventually balance things, manage my emotions, patience, and tolerance. I built many life skills during this time. These I have followed till date. I took to writing poetry and had better understanding of the energies around me, their impact on me. I made friends who are all constants in my life now. They are a reaffirmation of each personal promise that I then made and kept, which has made me who I am and would be. If money was no object, what would you do all day?
Kritika Kapoor is currently a PGP-I student at IIM Indore. Prior to her MBA, she completed her B.Tech in Electronics & communication from VIT University post which she worked for two years. She believes that even though there is a change in attitude towards women in our country, we still have a long way to go and it is us ladies that have to take the responsibility that our daughters get the opportunities which we failed to receive.
Shailaja Chaganty is pursuing the first year of her MBA sojourn at XLRI in Human Resource Management. Besides being a trained Carnatic vocalist, she also loves penning her thoughts into poetry and prose. She loves reading during her free time and is a huge fan of Khaled Hosseini.
Pradnya Munghate is a first-year student of NITIE Mumbai. She is full of life, full of dreams and full of drama. She believes in living life with no regrets.
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.
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.”
“What are the expected questions that could be asked in the IIM interview?”- a voice on the phone started my day and a realisation struck me. Almost 9 months have passed by at IIML, but it still feels like yesterday. The preparation for IIM interviews, getting into IIML, the induction, the classes, the deadlines, the CV preparation and the summer placements-life indeed has been a roller coaster ride.
Surabhi Agrawal is studying HRM at XLRI, batch of 2018. What was high school like for you? How did it contribute to your personality/ the person you are right now? There were many personal ordeals I had suddenly come face to face in high school. I had no way of knowing how to deal with. My entire life had shifted in the past year and I was trying to come to terms with it. I had never before found myself lacking in self-reliance. And which was why I was unable to seek help either. I had never required much of it before. Help is always easier to give than to take. But the very living through it each day, on my own, strengthened me. I learnt how to eventually balance things, manage my emotions, patience, and tolerance. I built many life skills during this time. These I have followed till date. I took to writing poetry and had better understanding of the energies around me, their impact on me. I made friends who are all constants in my life now. They are a reaffirmation of each personal promise that I then made and kept, which has made me who I am and would be. If money was no object, what would you do all day?
Kritika Kapoor is currently a PGP-I student at IIM Indore. Prior to her MBA, she completed her B.Tech in Electronics & communication from VIT University post which she worked for two years. She believes that even though there is a change in attitude towards women in our country, we still have a long way to go and it is us ladies that have to take the responsibility that our daughters get the opportunities which we failed to receive.
Shailaja Chaganty is pursuing the first year of her MBA sojourn at XLRI in Human Resource Management. Besides being a trained Carnatic vocalist, she also loves penning her thoughts into poetry and prose. She loves reading during her free time and is a huge fan of Khaled Hosseini.
