ITS OFFICIAL , I AM DOING AN MBA…
The tragic story of my MBA life continues …
The first thing you learn as an events co-ordinator of a Bschool is to make a ‘TO DO’ list at the very start of the day.
The second thing you learn is that half of the things on the list will never be completed that day …..or for that matter the next day ….
October:
The month of October is probably the only month which could be called light in terms of my events committee job . The Puja Vacations were still on .Not that vacations meant a great deal to me . I did not go out a lot anyways , save for Sunday evenings , when I and Ramesh , my best buddy , would go to the Kali temple , a tradition we have maintained for the last six years . But yes , the vacations did give some time for my injured feet to recuperate . Meanwhile my group The Prs , which comprised of Priyanka Prantika and myself , started to work on Sectorama , a writing competition conducted by the IIM Ahemedabad . Since I had gone crazy after working for the ET prodigy case study , I gave the responsibility to Priyanka to choose the topic for the write up and also do the research . To my utter dismay , she chose financial products as the writeup topic . Now at that point of time , I had decided that I would take marketing as my majors and so these finance terms really scared me .. Words like futures , options , derivatives … all terms stolen from other subjects and manhandled to create a monster called finance . To tell you the truth , it was not exactly finance which worried me . It was accounts . I really had no clue about the subject . I wondered how my local grocer did so well in business even though he never maintained a balance sheet for his store . However in the end we did manage to pull it off . Of course Prantika and Priyanka did the bulk of the work . Every time our group did something together , I felt really happy . Yes , there were people who talked crap about us , there were people who thought that I used my events coordinator powers to provide them with unreasonable favors , but to me all of it meant nothing , because deep down we did know that what bonded us was not the desire to help or be helped by others , but because we did feel good about being together as a group .
It was also around this time that our class representative floated the idea of an e- magazine. He asked me to supervise the operations of the magazine along with him . I liked his first idea , but refused the second . The reasons were two fold , first my job as an events coordinator was only going to get tougher this season so I knew I would not be able to do justice to this Emag job . Second I wanted others to get a chance . It was exactly because of this reason that I proposed a 8 or 9 person editorial team . Sandipan , my class mate vehemently opposed the idea , saying that it would delay the proceedings . Finally an eight member editorial board was in place for the emag .However nothing happened . I mean days passed , but there was no sign of the magazine . That is what is my problem with the people responsible for this Emag fiasco . When you have an idea , see that it sees completion , otherwise don’t even waste time starting operations . Eight months have passed and no edition of e mag has come out . Mind you the editors have already submitted the articles for the first edition as far as my sources tell me . I still don’t have any clue why the idea did not see its fulfillment.
On 7th October , I accompanied Sangeeta , one of my best friends , who is doing an MBA AT SRCC for a rural survey . It was great fun . I learnt a lot about villages and the way they worked . Little did I know that during my internship , I would have this ‘fun’ again.
When the college opened on 12th October , I feared that as usual I would not be attending classes but would be preparing for the next big event of our Bschool , PARADIGM , our alumni meet . To my surprise , the senior events team did not summon us for the rest of the month and for a change I did attend a few classes . It was then that I realized that I had done nothing during the vacations . So much had been taught that I had no hope of catching up .So I decided not to waste my time trying , and focus on more important and fundamental things in life , gtalk and orkuting for example.
On the 20th of October our larger group , which comprised of The Prs , and also Preety , Tanushree , Vibha , Nitu , Ankita and Shubhadeep gave a presentation on a marketing case study . The group also decided that we needed to divide our study work so that we could help each other when the exam was near.
On 31st October , I ,Shubhadeep , Priyanka , Prantika and Tanushree went for a trip to Dakhineshwar . It was a long time after I visited the temple and I loved the trip . Although people were not kind on me when they saw me , Priyanka and Prantika together in the pictures posted on Orkut … but then friendship does not need acknowledgement , or else it would not be friendship , would it ?
The month of October was a non eventful one . It however taught me two important things , 1) That I was not studying at all , and would have to buckle up if I was to have any chance of getting first division. 2) I also realized that for our newly formed bigger group to work , I would have to work a hell lot harder because the mentality of a lot of members did not match . It took me the month of April to find out that PRANAY TIWARI was destined to fail in both his endevours.
A work by Pranay Tiwari
Pic : Me with Sangeeta during the survey
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