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Done being a student!
With the end of this month, I would no longer be a student anymore. (Well, lets assume I don’t get crazy enough to go ahead and do my PhD or something like that!). Now you might be curious to know how I feel about the whole thing. Well, I myself cannot figure out how I feel about the whole thing. I mean, I just woke up the day after my last presentation we made for CAPSIM like it was just another day. It didn’t somehow hit me that I can no longer be a student. Strange.
But when I look back at how I felt when I was done with school, I felt the same – Nothing!. But years later, every time I think about school, I always get nostalgic and never fail to smile. ‘School days are the best’, I’d tell myself. And again, I somehow feel this is exactly how I’m going to feel about college years from now, when I hang my laptop on my shoulder, carry files in hand and fake a smile for a foreign client from whom I expect to fetch my company millions in dollars. I just hope those days aren’t any day near. Yearning to go back in time can be killing! Let that feeling take its own sweet time to reach me.
Having said I have done classroom-studying, I’ll never let my need to keep learning leave me ever. What’s there to outside one’s classroom far outnumbers what one learnt in class. And as I prepare myself to jump across frames that will transform me from being a student to an employee (a businessman later in life), there are things to be done, habits to be changed and people to be thanked. Since the list can get long, please bear with me!
I cannot but start thanking some of the most nicest teachers I have studied under in Christ School, Bangalore. Starting with Sr. Sagaya Mary (Taught me maths in Standard Two), Mr. Baby Philip, Mrs. Shashikala, Mrs. Amita Chaturvedi, Mrs. Latha Renji and Mr. Pandey. I guess if not for them, I would be less competent in one way or another. And then I must thank Mrs. Mariyamma, my accounting lecturer in Christ Junior College. My professors at Alliance Business Academy, where I did my BBM, always believed in me and have played a key role in my academic life. I cannot thank Prof. Ray Titus for his wonderful lectures in Services Management and Strategy, that I remember until today. The list is absurdly long when it comes to my Ohio University Christ College MBA professors whom I love and respect. Thanks to Dr. Raghu Iyer, Dr. Amalendu Jyotishi, Dr. Venkatesha Bhagavat, Dr. John Schermerhorn, Dr. Felicia Morgan, Dr. Dinesh Iyer, Dr. Jayanta Sen and Mrs. Gayathri (Placement Officer). I am really going to miss the office staff in Ohio Christ.
I met some of my best friends while being a student. Though I’ve lost contact with a lot of these people, they still mean a lot to me – Fijo Paulson, Dhanush Jose, Derrin Joseph, Asma Rafeeq, Sharan Sridhar, Soumya Madhavan, Ninal Joseph, Nandini Narayan, Jiji John, Sachin R, Ammar Khan, Krishna Murthy, Vinay Chetan, Nimisha Saha, Nayanshi Shaw, Preethi Paul, Shalini Kashinath and Salma Raheem. I am so sure I’ve missed out a lot of names. If you are among them, my apologies. I really wish I could throw you all a party for being such good friends of mine!
As I start my career, in an not-so-awesome fashion in a not-so-good recession ridden economy, I am nervous and excited. Years from now, as I look back to tomorrow, I just hope I can say to myself – ‘I’ve come a long way!’
Love
Sen
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
