If I tell you that you can still have her, would you start looking for her? Will you tell her that you missed her all this time? Would you confess your love for her, finally?
At around 6 AM on a Monday morning, in the month of July 2018, I found myself among the bustling crowd of the city’s most hyperactive market place, the ‘Koyembedu Wholesale Market Complex’ (KWMC), interviewing few 2-Wheeler owners in my mother tongue.
It has been only 45 days since I joined campus, but I am already in love with its greenery and architecture. But the most disheartening fact about any IIM is that even though it’s beautiful you won’t be having any time to enjoy its beauty.
Since I embarked on my journey to pursue an MBA, it has been full of rejections. In making it to my current position as a student at XLRI, I have had more rejections than acceptances. While dealing with rejections myself, I have seen many smart students deal with their share of rejections as well.
They say change is the only constant. The same happened to me about a month back when I had to shift to start my MBA here at IIM Indore. New girl to the city, to the hostel life, to an MBA program. It was all completely different. From the fact of going to eat by myself to prepare for the class on the following day, none of it I’d done before. I’ve never been good at accepting changes and I go through a series of denial before I start accepting it. Life at Indore was no different.
I interned with Dell Technologies, Bengaluru during the summer. It was a wonderful experience and I thank Dell for providing me the opportunity. I interned with the finance team of the “Commercial” department at Dell. My role at Dell was related to creating parameters and tools to monitor the performance and produce insights to increase the return on investment for the company. The internship acted as a bridge between the academic world and the real world. I got the chance to apply most of what I learnt during the first year of MBA.
It has been well over a month since MBA first-year students all over the country have returned to campus from their respective summer internships – a fitting end to a gruelling first year. Every now and then, amidst the relatively relaxed schedule of the second year, WhatsApp groups erupt in a frenzy of messages congratulating recent awardees of PPOs (pre-placement offers). The routine is to continue all through the term, as companies take their own time to release results. This is quite a long-drawn period of anxiety for those who await results; of relief and celebration for those who have won PPOs, and of disappointment for those who have had to face rejection.
It was supposed to be another mundane day when my phone beeped. There was a mail in my inbox from IIM Bodhgaya regarding the admission offer. And I swear this moment, this little moment was the one I was working hard for. Two years of preparation, thousands of mock tests, many sleepless nights, all now seemed worthwhile. I will be the first one from my entire family to pursue an MBA from an IIM, this thought started playing on the loop in my mind. I was happy and at the same time a little skeptic about the curriculum and environment of IIM Bodhgaya. Finally, after much discussion and consulting with my parents and friends, I was now standing in the land of Buddha and my destination being “The Enlightening IIM”.
If I tell you that you can still have her, would you start looking for her? Will you tell her that you missed her all this time? Would you confess your love for her, finally?
At around 6 AM on a Monday morning, in the month of July 2018, I found myself among the bustling crowd of the city’s most hyperactive market place, the ‘Koyembedu Wholesale Market Complex’ (KWMC), interviewing few 2-Wheeler owners in my mother tongue.
It has been only 45 days since I joined campus, but I am already in love with its greenery and architecture. But the most disheartening fact about any IIM is that even though it’s beautiful you won’t be having any time to enjoy its beauty.
Since I embarked on my journey to pursue an MBA, it has been full of rejections. In making it to my current position as a student at XLRI, I have had more rejections than acceptances. While dealing with rejections myself, I have seen many smart students deal with their share of rejections as well.
They say change is the only constant. The same happened to me about a month back when I had to shift to start my MBA here at IIM Indore. New girl to the city, to the hostel life, to an MBA program. It was all completely different. From the fact of going to eat by myself to prepare for the class on the following day, none of it I’d done before. I’ve never been good at accepting changes and I go through a series of denial before I start accepting it. Life at Indore was no different.
I interned with Dell Technologies, Bengaluru during the summer. It was a wonderful experience and I thank Dell for providing me the opportunity. I interned with the finance team of the “Commercial” department at Dell. My role at Dell was related to creating parameters and tools to monitor the performance and produce insights to increase the return on investment for the company. The internship acted as a bridge between the academic world and the real world. I got the chance to apply most of what I learnt during the first year of MBA.
It has been well over a month since MBA first-year students all over the country have returned to campus from their respective summer internships – a fitting end to a gruelling first year. Every now and then, amidst the relatively relaxed schedule of the second year, WhatsApp groups erupt in a frenzy of messages congratulating recent awardees of PPOs (pre-placement offers). The routine is to continue all through the term, as companies take their own time to release results. This is quite a long-drawn period of anxiety for those who await results; of relief and celebration for those who have won PPOs, and of disappointment for those who have had to face rejection.
It was supposed to be another mundane day when my phone beeped. There was a mail in my inbox from IIM Bodhgaya regarding the admission offer. And I swear this moment, this little moment was the one I was working hard for. Two years of preparation, thousands of mock tests, many sleepless nights, all now seemed worthwhile. I will be the first one from my entire family to pursue an MBA from an IIM, this thought started playing on the loop in my mind. I was happy and at the same time a little skeptic about the curriculum and environment of IIM Bodhgaya. Finally, after much discussion and consulting with my parents and friends, I was now standing in the land of Buddha and my destination being “The Enlightening IIM”.
