0.5 * MBA

Its been a remarkable one year in pursuit of managerial excellence. We have been living the much desired Great Indian Dream to study at the premier Indian Institutes setup by Nehru in the 60s; envisioned to be the gurukulas to develop our brahmastras of technical superiority and global competitiveness. We read all that was to be read - Levitt, Porter, Hamel and many more. We juggled not two but even three jobs at one time even in the wee hours of early morning privacy. Being trained for a truly global world where the boundaries fade and the disciplines converge, we also alt+tabbed our way through projects on Strategy, Market Research and IPO Valuation at one go. We dared to think beyond IIMS and started naming our chickens before they were conceived. We went further eastward and tried our hand at Live Case Study contests organized by upcoming Singaporean companies in well, Singapore. We then crisscrossed back to Swadesh to give something back to our homeland and won a B-School (Did you know what the B actually stood for? ) Stock Picking contest without investing a single rupee. We escorted and hosted some big names in the industry and academia to campus. We heard, got motivated and felt better that a few still had faith in our abilities to lead the future because we were scared we might have to go out and claim thus. We did all this and much more.

We rose above the normal. We realized that there was a life beyond the mundane existence and acceptance of the status quo. We wanted to achieve elevated levels of comprehension, recognition and appreciation. We battered, bruised, abused our bodies to staying awake and determining the NPV of billion dollar investments in uncertain environments. We devised distribution strategies for the biggest of FMCGs, deduced inconsistencies in the Vision and Mission statements for Fortune 500 companies and deciphered the "hidden" agenda in every deal (Thanks to Prof RC). We revisited the greatly depressing Great Depression of the 1920s and debated into the night as to how we can get out of the current crisis with good jobs and fat pay packets. We took a novel approach and deduced that Pay Packet & Success = F (Expectation, Competency Realization, Subjugation, Obama, Luck) We did all this and much more.

Its been a roller coaster ride and thats as true as saying this statement sounds so fake. If there is one thing that you definitely learn - it is the recognition of the enormity of all that is to be learnt for improvement and progress. It is in this pursuit that we slog on for the remainder of this journey of two years with humility and focus.

P.S: If you are a BSchool aspirant, read twice before you rush into any conclusions after the first 2 paras :)

P.P.S: What was this post for. Damn! I dint want to write something like this. At this rate, I will need kilos of alkali to neutralize you know what..