Summer Placements : MDI Gurgaon – Class of 2013-15 (Unverified Report)
We started featuring MDI Gurgaon this year. This is the first report.
We started featuring MDI Gurgaon this year. This is the first report.
Nikhilkumar Subhash Kashimpuria, the guy with probably the longest name on our campus. He is the pearl of the eye for almost all the professors because of all the intellectual questions he asks during the class participation (it is a different thing that his class mates pull his leg for the same).
All great things are achieved by strong teams. You assemble a galaxy of superstars but if they don’t form good team, one is left managing inflated egos and ordinary results. Inversely, one can have a bunch of average players coming together to achieve something great.
In a residential b-school campus, normal body clocks go awfully awry. Most students spend their hours immersed in assignments, case-studies, team-meetings and studying for surprise quizzes. Boring tasks such as dining, lunches, bathing etc demand time too. The first few months are often drowned by hectic schedules, intense rivalry for grades, killing deadlines imposed by placement committees all this while, one is trying to stay afloat in the classroom.
With a large number of universities (imparting ‘higher level’ education, especially that pertaining to management) mushrooming in almost every nook and corner of the world, the concept of learning has somewhat become synonymous to getting good grades by hook or by crook. This has somewhat blurred the thin line that exists between learning for the love of it and studying just to earn a quick buck.
It was a nice and calm morning when my mobile alarm rang at 6:30 AM and the temperature read 10 Deg C in my wallpaper application. I was reluctant to wake up on a Sunday morning. But one of my senior’s words “It will be a great experience, DO NOT miss it”, echoed in my ears. In next fifteen minutes I was having tea with bread and butter in the mess. I was greeted by my friends from EcoBiz club who arranged this day long trek from Ladmawphlang to Mawphlang through David Scott’s trail. David Scott was a political agent to the British Raj, arguably an all-round bad boy, who left behind a hilly road in his name 180 years ago, that remains in bits and pieces even to this day. The trek was very exciting one for me, because it was a much needed moderate trek after my Jambughoda hill trek in Gujarat. We wasted no time and soon twenty eight of us boarded our SUVs and set out to Ladmawphlang.
An MBA after marriage! A decision to be away from your spouse and family for 2 years! Challenges were over weighing but so was the conviction. Destiny had its plans in sync with mine. A dream blended with aspiration, ambition and action landed me to the place I always wanted to be- the IIM. And Shillong added a silver lining to it.