Sahil's Journey To IIM Nagpur

That time, I felt becoming an engineer must be the supreme goal for every student as one had 4 years to enjoy. But that was my individualistic fallacy, where I was wrong. After HSC, I started my graduation journey and on the first day in the class I was dreaming about life full of joy and about female professors teaching in class and about beautiful girls in graduation. And when I woke up, I heard a male professor teaching us - water is a universal solvent, then i asked him,"What about a pair of shoes? Can a pair of shoes also dissolved in water? If not, then how can water be an universal solvent?" And then he looked at me like he would kill me but controlled his emotions and told me you are suspended for 3 days, then I learnt why we should control emotions. And after this incident, I felt that to spend 4 years is not an easy task for me and then I remembered my father's  words and now you can imagine how I spent my 4 years of graduation with only these adamant male professors.

After this incident, i tried to avoid sleeping in the class. Anyhow, I completed my graduation and after that I thought about doing an MBA. For this, I had to crack CAT - another entrance exam. There, I felt that life is not full of ups and downs but full of exams and exams and I can't avoid this. I wanted to go for MBA after graduation but then I got an offer letter from Samsung Engineering so I thought it would be better to go for an MBA after a years experience.

So, I joined Samsung Engineering. It is true that it is very difficult to prepare for exam with your job, and it will be more difficult if your job timings are not fixed but I faced that challenge, started preparing whenever i got time and appeared  for CAT 2015 and scored 99.44%ile. But I am a GEM candidate. I committed some sins in the past to not to score good marks in HSC and SSC, so I did not get a call from the older IIMs other than a few new IIMs so I choose IIMN and started my PGP programme.

I am happy at IIMN as the best faculty is teaching me management subjects but being an engineer, I can't understand what they are teaching. I must tell you, when I did not get any call from older IIMs, I was very disappointed and that is natural but my father told me, 'You Think Therefore You Are', which motivated me and encouraged me. Now whenever I felt demotivated, I recalled these words and honestly speaking, these words motivated me and helped me to face any challenge. Thank you Papa and Mamma, thank you IIMN for giving me a platform to explore myself and thank you InsideIIM.com to give me a platform where I can share my boring story.

About the Author:

Sahil is a PGP '16 student of IIM Nagpur.