It’s been just a little over three months since this leg of my life’s journey began. It’s been a bumpy ride thus far, and I only expect it to get bumpier. After all a wise person once said..” The road to success is always under construction.” Sad, yet true.
So what is this obsession that Indian B-Schools have with exams? In the past 3 months, I may have written close to 12 exams!! That never happened in school or during my undergrad. So here I’m thinking (after spending a god awful amount of moolah!)..is it really worth it? When I go in for recruitment, is the company going to ask me my GPA or will they be assessing my competencies? Am I not supposed to be groomed to be a manager, a citizen of the world? Sure, anyone can memorize the formula for WACC and BETA, but what about learning how to network or to have an intelligent conversation? Now there’s a question.
During a typical week here, we have atleast 2-3 quizzes a day, about 2 group assignments and ofcourse one exam. Then there is the fact that the mid-term exam is usually held after 1 week of classes, while the end-term is the following week! Oh, and they expect us to learn all the in’s and out’s of financial management in 2 weeks FLAT! Hmm..if I could do that, would I really be here?
About the management here…what can I say, except – over worked and under-paid. Our course coordinator is a really nice guy, but seems to be everyone’s punching bag. Definitely would not want HIS job. Then there is the man who calls himself the “Warden.” I call him greaseball! Has an advantage though. No one here actually understands a word he speaks, which means he gets away by doing a lot of nothing. So, there you go. An interesting snapshot of my life.
Hmm…looks like this one has turned out to be a bitch session. Probably coz I have 2 exams tomorrow, and no inclination to study. Productivity level today seems to be pretty damn low. So it’s time for me to motivate myself and actually get something done. Till later then…Au Revoir!
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Well a lot of it depends on what we take out of it.
You could be a geek, mug mug n get an A grade. But whats the point if you cant have a decent conversation?
The general majority tends to make you move with the crowd, you need to be stronger and truer to yourself and your anticipations from this course and try and derive the benefit.
Get what you want and get out.
purnima makes a good point. Do you think grades really matter? Knowledge is power not grades. To hell with what bawbaw(some1 very honorable ;) ) says, grades do not matter except we need a cgpa of 3/4 for placements. Let's see what happs
So, does that mean that if we don't have a CGPA of 3.00, we are not good enough for placements?? I mean, I may not be good in the accounting/fin classes, but I'm a good speaker. Hmm.. too bad the fin/acc classes carry 6 credit, while communications only 2. Life's JUST NOT FAIR!
Life is never fair. Only girls are. :))
well I beleive that one should not lament as long as u are sure that you have learnt something it shows at some point or the other
Oh Yes, I just learnt that the OM and MM paper's leaked before the exams. I'm sure we've all read the infamous email.
So now who's the fool? People like us who studied, or the people who spent time getting hold of the paper.
Hmm...come to think of it, those people will fit in perfectly well with today's corp world and culture. HAIL WorldComm and Enron!
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