Joining an IIM is a dream of all MBA aspirants but not all get a chance to do that. India has 20 IIMs now and I got an opportunity to be a part of one of the baby IIMs, IIM Sirmaur.
It was the afternoon slot. I had reached Pune and the city was under the spell of the afternoon siesta. I was just in time to have lunch and go for the test. It was 4th December – my best friend’s birthday. And (unfortunately) I had my CAT Exam. I had not been quite serious about it. I had secured a PPO at Siemens and was giving CAT just as an experience. All peers in my engineering college had joined a class or two or some of the test series. I had done nothing. Just one day before I had solved a mock test paper on the official CAT website and that was it. I took a printout of the hall ticket, booked a bus ticket for Pune, went to watch “El Clasico” at my friend’s house, came home and slept peacefully.
Before I go on and on about how special and beautiful IIM Indore is (Oh yes, it's gorgeous, to say the least, so much so , if not reminded of the deadlines constantly, I would be on vacation mode 24x7) and how much I cherish each and every moment I get to spend here, I would like you all to have a look at something I wrote exactly a year ago when I was unable to make it to the final list of this very reputed company that had come for placements to my engineering institute:
''You are not down until you decide you are down''
I’m sure, now that the date of CAT 2017 is out, the race to the finish line has already begun. Everyone has started gearing up for the D-Day. All sleeping beauties have been suddenly jolted out from their stupor as they realised that preparation time now has started its own countdown. Did this happen with me? Yes, it definitely did. Was I successful in getting calls? No, I wasn’t. Then how did I get to IIM Indore?
17th June 2017, a normal day at the office I was on a treadmill to shed the extra kilos which came as a byproduct of preparation when after getting down from treadmill I noticed a mail from IIM Visakhapatnam congratulating me for clearing the admission process. As soon as I saw the email I knew that it was going to be a tough decision. I had already made up my mind for CAT next year but went ahead with Visakhapatnam interview to gain some experience.
Hereby, I present my journey to MBA (It is the journey that matters and not the destination). I believe that this journey to secure an MBA Admit in itself imbibes various skills into candidates needed for the program.
My story did not begin when I started my computer engineering course from NSIT, New Delhi, but when I was in school. I had chosen the stream of science with economics in class XI for I had an analytical mind and was fascinated with economics (I am not going to lie, one major factor that drove me to this decision was the fact that this stream opened most doors for a career path in the future). I was determined to pursue B.A. Hons. (Economics) after passing school. Unfortunately for me, I missed the cut off for St. Stephens, my dream college by 3 marks. By that time I had successfully secured admission in the computer science branch of NSIT, which for people who don’t know, is a dream case scenario for many or the answer to some IIT rejects.
Joining an IIM is a dream of all MBA aspirants but not all get a chance to do that. India has 20 IIMs now and I got an opportunity to be a part of one of the baby IIMs, IIM Sirmaur.
It was the afternoon slot. I had reached Pune and the city was under the spell of the afternoon siesta. I was just in time to have lunch and go for the test. It was 4th December – my best friend’s birthday. And (unfortunately) I had my CAT Exam. I had not been quite serious about it. I had secured a PPO at Siemens and was giving CAT just as an experience. All peers in my engineering college had joined a class or two or some of the test series. I had done nothing. Just one day before I had solved a mock test paper on the official CAT website and that was it. I took a printout of the hall ticket, booked a bus ticket for Pune, went to watch “El Clasico” at my friend’s house, came home and slept peacefully.
Before I go on and on about how special and beautiful IIM Indore is (Oh yes, it's gorgeous, to say the least, so much so , if not reminded of the deadlines constantly, I would be on vacation mode 24x7) and how much I cherish each and every moment I get to spend here, I would like you all to have a look at something I wrote exactly a year ago when I was unable to make it to the final list of this very reputed company that had come for placements to my engineering institute:
''You are not down until you decide you are down''
I’m sure, now that the date of CAT 2017 is out, the race to the finish line has already begun. Everyone has started gearing up for the D-Day. All sleeping beauties have been suddenly jolted out from their stupor as they realised that preparation time now has started its own countdown. Did this happen with me? Yes, it definitely did. Was I successful in getting calls? No, I wasn’t. Then how did I get to IIM Indore?
17th June 2017, a normal day at the office I was on a treadmill to shed the extra kilos which came as a byproduct of preparation when after getting down from treadmill I noticed a mail from IIM Visakhapatnam congratulating me for clearing the admission process. As soon as I saw the email I knew that it was going to be a tough decision. I had already made up my mind for CAT next year but went ahead with Visakhapatnam interview to gain some experience.
Hereby, I present my journey to MBA (It is the journey that matters and not the destination). I believe that this journey to secure an MBA Admit in itself imbibes various skills into candidates needed for the program.
My story did not begin when I started my computer engineering course from NSIT, New Delhi, but when I was in school. I had chosen the stream of science with economics in class XI for I had an analytical mind and was fascinated with economics (I am not going to lie, one major factor that drove me to this decision was the fact that this stream opened most doors for a career path in the future). I was determined to pursue B.A. Hons. (Economics) after passing school. Unfortunately for me, I missed the cut off for St. Stephens, my dream college by 3 marks. By that time I had successfully secured admission in the computer science branch of NSIT, which for people who don’t know, is a dream case scenario for many or the answer to some IIT rejects.
