It has been almost a month at IIMA. It feels like I have been here forever, so much has happened. My time sense has been really screwed up. And studying PG is definitely not half as fun as UG was, at least so far. There is this invisible aura of responsibility that is hanging in the air. It is not spoken of, but it is like everyone here has just somehow managed to avoid its clutches and be free for a short time. It lies in wait, for the day we step out - really a buzz kill.
Once I came here, I heard a lot of background stories and the success which this place has produced. I don’t feel much radical attitude change so far. One incident though has been stuck in my mind. It was during a class, when I contemplated for a second putting a smiley near a problem, when the professor had given a cricket reference. It was a fleeting moment, and the next second was one of enlightenment. Let me walk you through the steps.
1. I was awake in class.
2. The professor was teaching something which interested me.
3. I was paying attention to it, despite probably a few 18-hour days prior to this.
4. I was actually writing that stuff down
5. I had contemplated a smiley, an act which would have seemed a heinous sin the day before I joined.
If they can do this to me, then they can make successful managers out of anyone. But then again, the PGP office here is cunning, so I won’t put anything past them. They take in the supposedly brightest minds of the nation and still manage to surprise them with quizzes despite all of our predictions. Although I do believe that a month more would have inured me to feeling any surprise. The resignation has not begun to settle in.
I don’t feel like doing long posts. Of course, some of my friends were asking me what I was doing, chatting with them when I should be studying, so they must think of even short blog articles as some sort of sacrilege. The “overworked IIMA student” part is really too hyped up. I don’t want to sound pretentious or anything, it’s just my opinion. I know I am supposed to over the moon having joined here, that I should be thankful to everything etc. But once you are in here, it is like just another college really, with a bit more work. I believe the process over here is mainly for some psychological effect which I am mostly not grasping.
I am possibly beginning to ramble, so I am going to stop with this. It’s been too long a period without writing and I am not really sure what to write right now. I will post in the future on a more regular basis I guess.
