I confess IIM Shillong was not my first choice, it just happened to be the best call I converted. I had a lot of doubts before joining – the dilemma was unending – whether to join or to give another year. I came to Shillong with a heavy heart and mind full of doubts about my future stay here to start my journey in IIM Shillong
I know the above paragraphs have not been encouraging but “Mere dost kahani abhi baaki hai...” Despite my apprehensions, I started on a fresh note here… and to my surprise I actually began to like it. I feel the skills and rigour I went through in the past weeks made me a stronger and a far accomplished person than all my graduation and post-graduation combined. (No offense – I really loved my study in DU and JNU). It was not just work her but play too…I still remember my first trek here and the high I felt on completing it.
The students too are from diverse backgrounds me included (educational backgrounds, gender, work experience, hobbies etc) more than any place I have seen. People with technical backgrounds to fashion / International Relations majors; people from Jammu and Kashmir to Daman and Diu. I for the first time realized the true meaning of peer learning and the concept of a student driven campus.
The idealist in me is also very happy as I am getting the chance to actually put my knowledge and intentions to practice. The active projects in sustainability in social sectors – especially in Green Economics, sustainability which are areas of paramount importance to me.
Aditya Birla Group
Here, I also came to know about ABG and the tagline kind of stayed with me – THINK ABOUT TOMORROW TODAY! … So, hopefully I will get a chance to engage and with them on like-minded issues.
In one of my favourite poems by Robert Frost – “The Road not taken” –
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - took the one less travelled by and that made all the difference.”
Coming to IIM Shillong was and is shaping up to be one of the best decisions I have taken in my life that I hope makes all the difference. So, as you can see my story ends or to say has a new beginning not with my head in doubts but in a very beautiful ‘Campus in Clouds’.
Shubhi Jhalani
PGP 1st Year
IIM Shillong
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