Konversations Curates - Placement Edition #10 - Powered By Aditya Birla Group Leadership Programs
At Konversations, we always want you to keep learning and improving.
At Konversations, we always want you to keep learning and improving.
On 16th June 2017, around sixty of us were sitting in a hall- a little nervous, slightly curious but thoroughly excited. As we awaited our turns to get our documents verified, there was some murmuring (read: acquaintance), some sort of anxiety but moreover, it was the beginning of a sojourn of two years.
We rarely leave our home without a quick check on the best route and traffic conditions on Google Maps - one of the most popular tools which use data science.
Excitement? Really? Is that what I was supposed to feel? I guess not if you were in my shoes. Last semester examinations having ended on 10th June, they called me an engineer, B.Tech graduate and so on. I didn’t have my degree certificate yet and I was scheduled to leave for Bhubaneswar on 15th June to begin the journey to a new degree. Friends and family around were busy in packing and fetching farewell gifts for me. Staying out of my home; out of town for the first time: I knew they were not happy. Apprehension, nervousness or uncertainty? What was it? I could not figure out. With a mixture of emotions down inside, a smile and the belief that life is not about making right choices but choices right, I embarked on this MBA journey at XUB for two years which after a year turned out to be extremely fruitful.
“Management can be taught very well inside a classroom, but it is learnt best outside of it.”
“When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.” – Bob Hope.
"How do you make Beer?" This was a 10 mark question in my 2nd-year finals exam. As naïve as I was, I wrote the textbook answer of how the ingredients react and how fermentation occurs and how the process differs from ales to lagers and pilsner to stout. Well, you might wonder, which engineering paper questions your knowledge of Beer?That's because I am not an engineer, I am a Hotel Management graduate who answered the question bookishly and landed at IIM Raipur.