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Sitting on the edge of the balcony of my
room in H1, with the green and muddy football ground beneath enticing me to the
euphoria that lies in a dirty monsoon football match, all that comes to my mind
repeatedly is the genius of the ad campaign by a certain detergent brand- “Kuchh
daag achche hote hai”. What a new perspective, a new spectacle I already gained
in merely two weeks of my managerial safari inside this part of technocratic jungle
in Powai. I wonder what kind of vortex of change lay ahead. Let’s explore, let’s keep forging ahead...
“They” say it takes a lot of pressure to
transform a chunk of coal into a magnificent piece of diamond. I often wondered
whole my life who “they” were. Now I know: “They” are the seniors in SOM, they
know how it feels....and I have already experienced the buzz, courtesy- the heady cocktail of classroom teachings
(read assignments) and a long list of activities (read writing a blog may be) that gives a taste of bitterness but plunges
us into an instant high that just remains all the time...always (of course
assignments and activities are aplenty and we hardly rest).
After all tell
me-can you forget those moments when for the first time in your life you get an assignment at 1
o’clock in the midnight, only to prepare an ad campaign to sell a unique
product or package of products : Almond Oil and a Ball Pen!!?. You feel
flummoxed and irritated. You find out who your group-mates are. You prepare a
skit. Stay awake till 3 am in the morning and it seems as if some birthday bash
is going on. You are certainly on a high...mind-blowing!! The next day you go
the induction process and after a chain of lectures just when you feel your
sleepy head can’t take it anymore, you go and perform on stage. Team building
games go on and you realize: wow...This is awesome!! After a long long day , you come back from the
hypnotizing spell of VMCC or IRCC. Legs tired from taking a long stroll across
to adorn the courtship of the Queen of the Campus and she ensconces you. You
sink into the land of sleep and you don’t even know when it happened. What a
hell of a day!! But. Let’s explore, let the pain of the journey
make the story worth telling, interesting...
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You
never know what you’re gonna get”. Sounds familiar, right? Let’s look at
another angle- the common notion is that MBA is about networking, networking
and networking with people. But let me go back to what Forrest Gump (or rather
his mother) said and I must restate that MBA is about Friends (you never know
you may make some of them who will stay in your life forever) and about
learning from them, mixing with them, becoming one in a group of hundred odd
people where the self submerges and one entity rises above (read SOM’14). After
a brief stint at leading the salaried life, going back to the studentship and
experiencing the one-ness again after quite a sometime feels rejuvenating. Let’s
explore, reach new heights...
The induction ends and classes start and
your mind hover on the dialogues of the movie you saw last night at the theatre- A
storm is coming”. And then the storm
hits you. Lectures and sessions just blow your world to pieces. What remains is
the panic of assignment deadlines. Frightening faces of the faculty criss-cross
your dreams and give jitters. Surprise quizzes surprise the wits out of you.
But in the midst of this chaos somehow a connection builds, a realization
dawns- the professors and lecturers, they are the engines of this huge
bandwagon. May be they are the Dark Knights, teaching us to conquer the fear
willingly and hiding themselves inside the cloak of villains ...Let’s explore the uncertainties and be
fearless...
Now the mood is ripe for a flashback and
the memory lens captures one fine morning in March, 2012. The nerve wrecking
day of GD-PI at SOM. A fresh air of
exuberance and hospitality cools you down and suddenly now you realize that
right from that day and on, it has been the seniors who have been breathing
life into SOM. Right from coming up with the results on time, managing
admission process, managing the induction, the Continuums and the list goes on.
Teams and forums galore, their roles ranging from promoting HR management to
Logistics. They teach us how a team is built. They play the perfect role of
advisors, CONSIGlieres. Their Finesse, Systematic(a) approach leaves a
Mark(trix) in our mind and sets the stage for the soap Opera that we call
Life@SJMSOM. We aspire to be them.
My mind returns to the green spectacle
ahead of the balcony of room no 275, H-1, content with the rounds and rounds of
reflection and contemplation. Time to go back for assignments and a thought
occurs, a dormant wish resurfaces somewhere inside- Can I try my hand at writing?
Can I shape my perceptions and my life here into mere words? The PR team is
ready to nurture me...Let me try...let me
explore...
Abhishek Banerjee
SJMSOM’14
Good Job, Abhishek!!
ReplyDeleteIts Systematic(s)! :) Nice job though!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome work there!! Brought back those memories!!
ReplyDeleteMaheshwar has to say something abt Systematics!!
ReplyDeleteWell written Abhishek..
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ReplyDeleteI know, life can be hard sometimes. I know that feeling when you come home, exhausted, without any wishes besides of going to the bed and sleep all night and day. But it passes. Everything passes, you just mustn't give up. I thought I lose everything once, but then I've found edubirdie and now I'm happy again. life is a strange thing, you know
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