08/06/2007

Snapshots from hell(o)

hey here is a secret, an MBA isnt really about restructuring or using payoff matrices or some liner programming. It was really a fun go ride for me and i did enjoy every moment. I came here on the first day on the assumption that an MBA was loaded with the concepts of sumantra ghoshal and aaker to global branding to competing for the future and also marketing myopia but it was a truly different experience which i had when i did make some 11 friends on the first day and then we did get closer to them with the chat till 1.30 in the night. Wrong perceived notions that an MBA was a cornucopia of fast paced people who thought of nothing but strategies and tactics and competitive mental angels were not a word here. The plethora of fun and the ambience of values beliefs and support that the people who were far more experienced did make me cross the extra mile but i also had learnt many things and keep learning. The classes were fun, no serious case studies and hectic assignments which i had really learnt from the other B school guys, but my usual course hasnt started and people were freaky on my readin the seth godin and ai ries but really i must confess old habits do die hard. The enormous advantage i did get by mingling with people with work experience and their worldly wisdom did make me a wise person but still i have miles to go before my sleep a la robert frost ( not much into poetry but who cares). The first time i started doin crazy things in life like washing my clothes, ironing my clothes and also waking up early in the morning unlike hyderabad where i used to get up at 12.12 that too with the curses of people at home including my servant but i am doing good kudos to all your blessings which are ever prevailing. The other important thing about hostel life enabled me to change (change for the good) nothin is really permanent but change. It challenges you to think and put things in a very different way as understanding people from various cultures and backgrounds. The thinking process of having people from agriculture, hotel industry and the media had make me think from various angles and think unbiased in situations a many. The over all process was over whelming and the discussions where the learning process takes make my thirst for knowledge even more passionate. Having communicating in the tenth to inter to graduation to a MBA finally has been a one hell of a ride but the exposure of an MBA seems like damn....the memories the coke can apreciation