We have all been a part of the Indian education system. We have all learned the same technique of mugging up a chapter and answering questions at the back of the chapter. For years and years, we have developed a tendency. Even in college, we mug up the entire chapter so as to answer a subjective question, writing lengths and lengths in order to get marks.
a. Akshay, you are a student at IIM, you will be earning Rs. 1 crore after graduation right?
I finished MBA from IIM Rohtak on March 25th this year. MBA was an experience of finding new ways to tell something about myself to interviewers and professors alike, while pursuing the goals and fulfilling my expectations from the degree. A master's degree in management teaches you the ability to plan your priorities right and that's exactly the reason for the delay in the answer for the questions asked in one of my first viral articles on MBA. The degree helped me fulfill the identity crisis by giving me a choice of identities to learn from every case-study, and the answer was in one of the most unexpected places.
In a series that aims to capture coming-out stories across b-schools, this is the first brave entry. Why anonymous, you wonder? Because, as the interviewee points out, coming-out to yourself and close ones is as much of a milestone as letting the entire world know. Little-by-little, and one person at a time, so that you can be comfortable being in your element while sharing your most vulnerable details. A refreshing alternative to the more extroverted version of declaring one's sexual preferences. Read on.
Well, I see too many hearts break after CAT releases the scores. To be frank it hurts when you don’t perform as per your expectations but then that's life. The faster you accept it the more peace one gets and you get to improve yourself. Kudos to all those who scored well as per their expectations, as to other aspirants, this is a steep learning curve.
It's cleaning-weekend today, and the entire house is upside down. You can hear the clanking of vessels in the kitchen and screams from the storeroom (my brother is on bug-duty). I'm almost done with all the cupboards; cleaning the mirrors, arranging the clothes and putting fresh newspapers on the shelves. I have only one more cupboard left, but that isn't a worry because dad is the most organized of us all. His mirror is squeaky clean, his clothes are all arranged, his ties hang crisp on the side doors. Ah, only the annual newspaper change is what has to be done.
Imagine you are on a roller-coaster. Sometimes, you feel your heart beating faster with pure joy before it is plunged into inexplicable sorrow the next second. Because everything you do makes you feel like you’re letting your family down. It makes you ashamed of your status as an ‘outlaw’ not entitled to the pure emotion of love. “The fundamental right to privacy, life with human dignity, equality, freedom and the pursuit of happiness; weren’t those meant to be in the American constitution and all those western liberalist agendas? We don’t tolerate such immorality in our culture, please.”
We have all been a part of the Indian education system. We have all learned the same technique of mugging up a chapter and answering questions at the back of the chapter. For years and years, we have developed a tendency. Even in college, we mug up the entire chapter so as to answer a subjective question, writing lengths and lengths in order to get marks.
a. Akshay, you are a student at IIM, you will be earning Rs. 1 crore after graduation right?
I finished MBA from IIM Rohtak on March 25th this year. MBA was an experience of finding new ways to tell something about myself to interviewers and professors alike, while pursuing the goals and fulfilling my expectations from the degree. A master's degree in management teaches you the ability to plan your priorities right and that's exactly the reason for the delay in the answer for the questions asked in one of my first viral articles on MBA. The degree helped me fulfill the identity crisis by giving me a choice of identities to learn from every case-study, and the answer was in one of the most unexpected places.
In a series that aims to capture coming-out stories across b-schools, this is the first brave entry. Why anonymous, you wonder? Because, as the interviewee points out, coming-out to yourself and close ones is as much of a milestone as letting the entire world know. Little-by-little, and one person at a time, so that you can be comfortable being in your element while sharing your most vulnerable details. A refreshing alternative to the more extroverted version of declaring one's sexual preferences. Read on.
Well, I see too many hearts break after CAT releases the scores. To be frank it hurts when you don’t perform as per your expectations but then that's life. The faster you accept it the more peace one gets and you get to improve yourself. Kudos to all those who scored well as per their expectations, as to other aspirants, this is a steep learning curve.
It's cleaning-weekend today, and the entire house is upside down. You can hear the clanking of vessels in the kitchen and screams from the storeroom (my brother is on bug-duty). I'm almost done with all the cupboards; cleaning the mirrors, arranging the clothes and putting fresh newspapers on the shelves. I have only one more cupboard left, but that isn't a worry because dad is the most organized of us all. His mirror is squeaky clean, his clothes are all arranged, his ties hang crisp on the side doors. Ah, only the annual newspaper change is what has to be done.
Imagine you are on a roller-coaster. Sometimes, you feel your heart beating faster with pure joy before it is plunged into inexplicable sorrow the next second. Because everything you do makes you feel like you’re letting your family down. It makes you ashamed of your status as an ‘outlaw’ not entitled to the pure emotion of love. “The fundamental right to privacy, life with human dignity, equality, freedom and the pursuit of happiness; weren’t those meant to be in the American constitution and all those western liberalist agendas? We don’t tolerate such immorality in our culture, please.”
