'The MBA-Craze Has Faded' - 2IIM
Fewer people seem to be taking the CAT each subsequent year, and, as this article points out the reasons for this seem sound enough.
Fewer people seem to be taking the CAT each subsequent year, and, as this article points out the reasons for this seem sound enough.
My journey to IIM-L encompasses an entirety of 21 years – a shorter period than what most of the people here have experienced. And in this short period I have managed to have a few remarkably bizarre experiences and a few other clichéd ones.
Thanks to Chetan Bhagat, everyone is comfortably married to a story that begins from college corridors and ends up in nuptial vows. My story is different. For my husband and I, applying to business school was a mutual decision – and coming to IIM Calcutta was a journey we decided to embark on together.
Consider a Marathon runner. There are three levels in a marathon.
The CAT 2016 (Common Admission Test) exam is an exam conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). It is an exam that a candidate has to give in order to gain admission for the courses at an IIM. There are 19 IIMs in the country namely IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Amritsar, IIM Bangalore, IIM Bodh Gaya, IIM Calcutta, IIM Indore, IIM Kashipur, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Lucknow, IIM Nagpur, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Shillong, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Trichy, IIM Udaipur and IIM Visakhapatnam.
(#Throwback to 2016: Nikhita's journey to IIM Ranchi still remains an inspirational story, and is a must-read)
Often, when we are starting out in our academic lives in IIMs, the one question asked in interviews are: What area do you want to specialize in? Some say Marketing, some say Finance. And so many times, at the end of the two years, it is so different a specialization from that earlier dream that you start out with. Something very similar happened with me. I came here, answering marketing questions in the interview, while having no idea of what actually marketing is. I did not have any previous experience. Coming to IIMB, I realized Finance is the more respectable thing to specialize in given the apparent brainwork. So in the summers, when I got shortlisted by several banks, I thought Finance was my calling.
Growing up in a lower middle class family, I always had a desire, instead of an aim. My desires were influenced by what I saw in the movies and society. I dreamed of being a rich man as shown in those Yashraj movies. Hidden beneath these desires was an innate aspiration to comprehend the workings of real world around me. So, I chose to graduate as an engineer but soon realized that knowing how a BMW worked was not as important as knowing why a BMW was such a prized possession. It seemed only logical to understand the bigger blocks after knowing all about the shapes and sizes of what comprised them. But collecting a gamut of information without an aim that combed through it was like searching for a needle in a haystack and that too with no information about that needle.
Fewer people seem to be taking the CAT each subsequent year, and, as this article points out the reasons for this seem sound enough.
My journey to IIM-L encompasses an entirety of 21 years – a shorter period than what most of the people here have experienced. And in this short period I have managed to have a few remarkably bizarre experiences and a few other clichéd ones.
Thanks to Chetan Bhagat, everyone is comfortably married to a story that begins from college corridors and ends up in nuptial vows. My story is different. For my husband and I, applying to business school was a mutual decision – and coming to IIM Calcutta was a journey we decided to embark on together.
Consider a Marathon runner. There are three levels in a marathon.
The CAT 2016 (Common Admission Test) exam is an exam conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). It is an exam that a candidate has to give in order to gain admission for the courses at an IIM. There are 19 IIMs in the country namely IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Amritsar, IIM Bangalore, IIM Bodh Gaya, IIM Calcutta, IIM Indore, IIM Kashipur, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Lucknow, IIM Nagpur, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Shillong, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Trichy, IIM Udaipur and IIM Visakhapatnam.
(#Throwback to 2016: Nikhita's journey to IIM Ranchi still remains an inspirational story, and is a must-read)
Often, when we are starting out in our academic lives in IIMs, the one question asked in interviews are: What area do you want to specialize in? Some say Marketing, some say Finance. And so many times, at the end of the two years, it is so different a specialization from that earlier dream that you start out with. Something very similar happened with me. I came here, answering marketing questions in the interview, while having no idea of what actually marketing is. I did not have any previous experience. Coming to IIMB, I realized Finance is the more respectable thing to specialize in given the apparent brainwork. So in the summers, when I got shortlisted by several banks, I thought Finance was my calling.
Growing up in a lower middle class family, I always had a desire, instead of an aim. My desires were influenced by what I saw in the movies and society. I dreamed of being a rich man as shown in those Yashraj movies. Hidden beneath these desires was an innate aspiration to comprehend the workings of real world around me. So, I chose to graduate as an engineer but soon realized that knowing how a BMW worked was not as important as knowing why a BMW was such a prized possession. It seemed only logical to understand the bigger blocks after knowing all about the shapes and sizes of what comprised them. But collecting a gamut of information without an aim that combed through it was like searching for a needle in a haystack and that too with no information about that needle.