SIBM Bangalore – The First Cut
Vroom! MBA is like a Ferrari! No Brakes!
Time: 4:00 AM..Back in my room, after a long tiring day (and
of course night), I opened my drawer to find a receipt I had to send back home
and I see a train ticket – Chennai Central to Bangalore!!! And I sit with
nostalgia. SIBM Bangalore: The Journey so Far. How quickly has it passed! I here will share my journey but it’s not mine
alone! You all are the part of this journey! So I allow you to be nostalgic, be
emotional and dangle on this journey with me.
Well! 14th July was the day! Morning 4:30 AM my
train stops at Bangalore Central! What do I do at 4:30 in the morning on a
platform of a new city! No other way to but to wait till the dawn! But its
boring to wait, right? I won’t! I will take you to a part of life an important
part of this journey! Rewind! 8 hrs back! Chennai Platform! 15 people have come
to bid you the farewell! Believe me! It’s very emotional. Especially for a
person like me, majority of whose life has been with friends. Leaving those
friends is really painful. We cried together, we consoled that we will be in
touch..always. The train leaves and I wave my hand. As the vision blurred, I
sat down and thought! I worked in an office! And I earned salary! That was not
my real earning. The real earning were those friends, real assets of your
life’s Balance Sheet!
It was 5 am by this time and I came out of the platform. And
my Bangalore diary starts with an argument with the autowalas. But I had become
a veteran in arguing with them being in Chennai so long and was able to
negotiate at 220 bucks! I crossed those roads, the malls, those flyovers and
here I was! SYMBIOSIS..When I read
that board and a series of emotions started flowing. Those mid night
preparations, those office bunks, frustrations of low marks in mocks but the
intent to join a good institute!
I was welcomed with a locked gate! Well, I was excited! I
kept my luggage with the security guard and left for a walk! Weather was
awesome, and the first message I left to my friends in Chennai was that I am in
love with the weather. Of course in these seven months I have known that that
love with the weather is selfless! You never enjoy them thanks to the morning
classes.
First day! First Look! New friends, I explored the campus, the
people..I thought I will have a sleep which I could not on the train. But I
could not. How ironical! When you want to dream, the sleep alleviates from you!
The day passed interacting with people and the night arrived. The night of Floating
clouds..The first night of interaction with seniors! And there has been no
looking back. Be it that yoga at 6 o’clock in the morning with the famous
sawashan where people slept and snored or be it those endless sessions during
the induction program. Believe me, barring a few sessions of those, I wondered,
what my take away from those sessions was. I was yet to realize the importance
of industry interaction in coming days!
But its not all about the thrill! There have been ups and
the downs. Those full night committee interviews, those exams with dwindling
marks..the FM frustration and then the friends who were to become the best part
of MBA and then life.
The first Cut already
had enough glimpse of exciting journey. A journey full of life! A life which had
to teach me a lot. Handling the assignments and then handing the people who
tend to do those assignments, but do nothing. A life which had to teach me
“Never Give Up” and substantiate that there will be downs but you have to accept
that as a part of life in a bid to that you should not miss to be a part those
happy moments which are plenty.
Two years are like a Ferrari and you need to live every
minute of it! It was time to shut my eyes to make it possible for the 9:00 AM
Class!!
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SIBM Bangalore – Second Cut
Courtesy : Prince Kumar
Batch: 2011- 2013