MBA Student

Musings Of An MBA Student

I happen to belong to this prestigious category of our country’s most inconsequential people. Quite honestly, most of us hail from this section of the country’s ever-increasing population. We lead a normal existence, have fixed schedules, snooze the alarm at least thrice a week, snap atrociously at our loved ones when stressed, get panic attacks at the most trivial situations, spend hours at the dining table staring at some XYZ space, smile out of the blue for reasons best known to us. This is Me. This is You. I am no different from you and you are no different from me. All of us have our lousy ways of getting the right things wrong. Well, I adore myself for my imperfections. This unassuming, unplanned and highly disorganized way of looking at life attracts me these days. I now love to be associated with people who don’t worry about time wasted, who procrastinate excessively, who are fun loving, less organized, and who live life without worrying too much about tomorrow. I am quite curious to know the reason behind this sudden transformation of mine. Had I been the earlier ME, I would have tried a hundred methods to reverse the change, to go back to being a person who loved being perfect, meticulous to the core, and yes, fastidious to a great extent. I wouldn’t deny that the qualities of being fastidious and striving hard to achieve perfectionism in everything I undertake still rests with me, and that I have probably inherited from my mother, who can give anyone a run for his/ her money! But what made me change? This is something that makes me ponder, makes me analyze, makes me introspect…

The Night Life Of An MBA Student

Mozart In The Jungle - IIM Indore

Have doubts about what to do in life? Sure.

A Journey Through Critical Moments At A B-School

Every year when June happens, happens the advent of Mangoes in the market, Monsoons in the weather and entry of tens of thousands of fresh graduates in a business school. Little do they know that they’ve signed up for a roller coaster ride and nobody knows where the STOP button is. Let us try to break down the 2 years into a few ‘critical moments’ that come into the ‘b-life’ of a management student till the time he/she lands a job.

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:

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).

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.

My Life As An Intern At Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd - Navnoor Kaur, IMT Ghaziabad

Whenever during my first year of MBA I thought about my first work experience, it would send chills down my spine. Finally, the day arrived and Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd., it was. I was one of the few fortunate ones, who got a company and industry of their choice.  I Felt like ‘The girl in the city’ in the financial capital of the country. The city has its breath and feels, very different from the Northern part of the subcontinent where I’ve spent my 22 years. It was a bit arduous to settle in the celebrity land but somehow manageable.