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Bengalooru to Ohio
For those who don’t know me that much, and those who were confused what my previous blog was all about, I am one among those millions called ‘An MBA Grad’. I have felt proud and pissed at the same time about my decision to pursue MBA program.
Almost 18 months ago, I had just completed my BBM program, from one of the world’s leading university. No, not Harvard or Stanford. I was talking about Bangalore University! (Now why did you make that face? Eh?) For three years, all I did was read books and magazines, watch movies in PVR, lunch in restaurants and spend one week each semester to diligently go through Neeraj Semester Scanner (this book deserves a Booker Prize) that neatly give you everything ever needed to clear the tough to crack Bangalore University Exam. While I loved those three years for all the friends I made and fun I had, I passed out of the program dumber than I got in. To a large extent, I think we have options to work hard. But we don’t take it. The environment doesn’t support geniuses! (Lol, I was talking about me!)
After my BBM, I could choose between working or continue splurging my dad’s money on a MBA program. I had cleared my BBM with good scores (Thanks to Neeraj Scanner again!) and was full of confidence. My dad largely made my decision when it comes to this MBA program. He asked me to continue studying. And that’s what i did and still doing and would continue doing for the next three months.
I’ve learnt and unlearnt a lot of things since the time I joined Ohio University Christ College AME. Coming from Bangalore University background to this place was nightmarish. To start with, there is no Neeraj Scanner. Everything is so organized here. To just survive, you need to have 75% marks and 90% attendance. These are unheard of figures in the wonderland of Bangalore Univ.
I learnt how to be patient and dynamic at the same time, how to (and how not to) work with teams, value of being punctual (I mean you can loose grades and attendance if you don’t be punctual), participating in class discussions (10 Marks!) and what it takes to reach great heights (Its atleast 4 floors upwards). But I think the most important thing an MBA program in our institution does to you is to REFINE you.
And its this refinement, I feel, that is priceless. Now I am more confident than ever to work for an organization, I make make better presentations and write good reports. I understand businesses better. I am more efficient in managing time and being professional. As we step off to work for corporations in some time, I cannot but thank all that I’ve taken from this institution, while giving back so little in return.
Thanks!
Love
Sen
MBA Woes!
We are at the fag end of the MBA program and like many, we all are paranoid as well about where we would get to work (or will we ever to work at all, given India’s current macro economic conditions!) after our program. For weeks now, professors have been visiting us, more regularly than ever, to scare us about how we could perish in the job market if we don’t prepare well.
But the faculty here at Ohio University Christ College (my institution) came up with a program called Management Competency Program, or ‘MCP’ as we like to call it. Its a series of activities run everyday for two hours as part of our academic learning. We get our CVs fixed, attend mock interviews, participate in Group Discussions and help each other to prepare us for the forthcoming judgement day – Placement Season! At the core of this ambitious, life-saving, career-structuring, brand-building program is the ideology that students who take this seriously would get a job, and those who don’t will not even be given a chance to sit for placements.
While in spirit it sure does look good as a well thought out process, not many of us have taken it seriously yet. Maybe we are immune to warnings of forthcoming trouble. Like just after every exam, we crib about how we couldn’t answer a simple exam paper and had we only studies for a few good hours, we could have fared better.
Dr. Raghu Iyer, our director must be having nightmares each time he reads an article on MINT about how this year’s job market is horrible. He so neatly prints these articles and strangely picks me every time to read it to the whole class. Maybe he’s sending out a message to me. Lol. Mrs. Gayathri Nandakumar is putting in extra hours and I am sure she’s wondering how she’ll place nuts like us into good organizations. Prof. Amalendu Jyotishi is equally worried. I haven’t checked his blog in a long time now. Maybe he might write a poem about how we are hopeless at times. By the way, I love few of his poems. He’s a genius when it comes to writing good lines.
The situation in college right now is so gloomy. Just like in movies, where thirty minutes before the movie ends everyone is crying their hearts out about how life is treating them so badly(Indian heroes cry so shamelessly at times. People say, if you don’t cry, you are not a man! Wonder where that came from). If a movie was ever made on our MBA Woes, our campus would be the setting, Dr. Raghu and Mrs. Gayathri would be the lead actors and the movie would have 100 villains!
And the movie would be called ‘Dr. Raghu and the 100 thieves!’
Love
Sen
