One year at NMIMS has gone like a dream. It might sound cliched but in a B-school life mostly goes in autopilot mode. You never ever stop to reflect and dwell upon things you do, or don't!
MBA is radically different from engineering or IT life. For highly individual personalities like me, the transformation has been a little difficult. If I could divide my life over the past six years before June 2014 into 3 buckets, it was all similar in one way or the other.
1) Chess - Prepare, play, eat, sleep, repeat
2) Engineering - Study, write exams, go for tournaments, repeat
3) TCS - Sign in, Do coding, Leave
It was all quite simple, yet immensely meaningful. I had loads of time to stand and stare, enjoy music without a slightest feeling of guilt, wake up sans the sound of cellphone alarm, in a nutshell - a lot of control over what I wanted to do.
Enter NM, and none of this were even remotely similar to my lifestyle. Nothing is individual here. May be I wasn't good enough, may be I was, I can't pretend to know the answer to this question. But I know this for sure - most of the Management students don't know what they are doing either; and first year is something that is too fast for most of us. It's just an environment of total noise and everyone just tries to dance to something that's not exactly musical.
That's not taking anything away from what this colossal institution has offered me, something that every lucky soul that lands up here gets for free - the experience of meeting various kinds of people, the crazy lifestyle and Mumbai. Whether we learn good management subjects are not, students do become philosophical at least once a day!
From my own experience I have seen a variety of people - some good souls who are quite honest about the fact that they have no clue and work towards finding something worth pursuing, some annoying creatures who do anything under the sun to put one extra line on their CV, the CGPA mongers who pretend to have a life outside numbers, some very intelligent people who make a mark in everything they do, a few good friends for life, hypocritical species who say anything to the gallery and shamelessly go back when time comes, the list is endless. The hardest challenge was maintaining one's individuality in this environment. And I am not making this all up - find out for yourselves!
The climax was the internship. The experience was amazing. Due to obvious reasons, I am not commenting on it, but it was definitely an above average experience, more than what I expected it would be. And I did meet people who were better in character than the average individual back in my college. All is not wrong with the corporate world.
"There's still 'good' in this world"
The end of internship is really the end of an era. A summer internship will never happen again. So will another full year of college life. The remaining nine months, I pray God, will be as exciting as the first 12! And I wish to be put up a better performance.
On that note, I wish all the juniors (as a responsible senior), the very best for their last gig at student life. Am pretty sure you will think about your IT life more than once during your stint here. Remember me then!
See you soon :)
Disclaimer: The views expressed are personal and do not represent the institutions mentioned here in any way.
MBA is radically different from engineering or IT life. For highly individual personalities like me, the transformation has been a little difficult. If I could divide my life over the past six years before June 2014 into 3 buckets, it was all similar in one way or the other.
1) Chess - Prepare, play, eat, sleep, repeat
2) Engineering - Study, write exams, go for tournaments, repeat
3) TCS - Sign in, Do coding, Leave
It was all quite simple, yet immensely meaningful. I had loads of time to stand and stare, enjoy music without a slightest feeling of guilt, wake up sans the sound of cellphone alarm, in a nutshell - a lot of control over what I wanted to do.
Enter NM, and none of this were even remotely similar to my lifestyle. Nothing is individual here. May be I wasn't good enough, may be I was, I can't pretend to know the answer to this question. But I know this for sure - most of the Management students don't know what they are doing either; and first year is something that is too fast for most of us. It's just an environment of total noise and everyone just tries to dance to something that's not exactly musical.
That's not taking anything away from what this colossal institution has offered me, something that every lucky soul that lands up here gets for free - the experience of meeting various kinds of people, the crazy lifestyle and Mumbai. Whether we learn good management subjects are not, students do become philosophical at least once a day!
From my own experience I have seen a variety of people - some good souls who are quite honest about the fact that they have no clue and work towards finding something worth pursuing, some annoying creatures who do anything under the sun to put one extra line on their CV, the CGPA mongers who pretend to have a life outside numbers, some very intelligent people who make a mark in everything they do, a few good friends for life, hypocritical species who say anything to the gallery and shamelessly go back when time comes, the list is endless. The hardest challenge was maintaining one's individuality in this environment. And I am not making this all up - find out for yourselves!
The climax was the internship. The experience was amazing. Due to obvious reasons, I am not commenting on it, but it was definitely an above average experience, more than what I expected it would be. And I did meet people who were better in character than the average individual back in my college. All is not wrong with the corporate world.
"There's still 'good' in this world"
The end of internship is really the end of an era. A summer internship will never happen again. So will another full year of college life. The remaining nine months, I pray God, will be as exciting as the first 12! And I wish to be put up a better performance.
On that note, I wish all the juniors (as a responsible senior), the very best for their last gig at student life. Am pretty sure you will think about your IT life more than once during your stint here. Remember me then!
See you soon :)
Disclaimer: The views expressed are personal and do not represent the institutions mentioned here in any way.
