For all those who have successfully passed all the exams, cleared all the GD PI interviews and arranged all the finances and secured the admissions below is a simple 10 point guide for your life at a B-School. Of course this is not set in stone but a general idea what you should do.
1. Live every moment
(don't waste too much time sleeping): You'll get ample time in life to waste
sleeping and being half-dead. Live these 2 years, every second.. every moment.
2. Network: Connect with everyone-Those who are like you and esp. those who aren't like you. The best part about a b-school is the plethora of varied backgrounds people come from. Absorb it. Cherish it.
3. Read up but don't be a geek: While your cgpa is important and an important parameter, being a geek won't help you (unless you are a PhD student mind you).
4. Don't bunk classes: In most B-schools it becomes fashionable to bunk lectures (as if done by the cool kids) after a few months but don't. You are paying a fortune and are here by choice! Utilize this opportunity. Remember you are giving your life's two important years.
5. Participate in competitions: Lots of competitions of different kind hone your skills. Participate in article writing, business cases, marketing competitions, essay writing etc. At the end of your MBA you should have won at least one international trip through a competition.
6. Learn from others: Each one of the students brings something to the cauldron of the MBA class. Learn from it, learn from others' struggles so that you don't have to face many.
7. Don't be afraid to ask for help: Don't be stiffed up if you don't understand something. Feel free to ask anyone (of course after you've given it all). People, generally, will help you out with a smile on their face.
8. Don't act as a know-it-all: You'll find many people in your class who know everything and anything and will have an opinion on everything from Ethnic cleansing in Darfur to the quantum leap. Don't be such a person.Even if you know it all. Tell when asked. Help but don't lord over it.
9. Grow Up: Never ever think twice before approaching anyone (the opposite sex, a professor, a TA, your rival, etc.) for help or for partnering in a competition/ research paper. Don't keep thinking "Log kya kahenge (What will others say)"? Or think people will link me with so and so, or people will call me a profs chamcha etc. You are here for yourself, not to make your best buds. Milk this opportunity to its last bit.
10. Don't blow you own trumpet: Generally when a class starts, initially there are always few who'll be in the news and discussions, who talk the most, ask the most questions, are talking about themselves, etc. Don't be this. Let your achievements talk.
The two years at B-School are your best ever. You might not exactly find your best buds here but you'll live life to the fullest in these two years. Live.Each.Moment.
Study hard.
Party harder.
Remember a B-School is not a placement agency; it’s a platform that sets you for life.
Have a great time.
2. Network: Connect with everyone-Those who are like you and esp. those who aren't like you. The best part about a b-school is the plethora of varied backgrounds people come from. Absorb it. Cherish it.
3. Read up but don't be a geek: While your cgpa is important and an important parameter, being a geek won't help you (unless you are a PhD student mind you).
4. Don't bunk classes: In most B-schools it becomes fashionable to bunk lectures (as if done by the cool kids) after a few months but don't. You are paying a fortune and are here by choice! Utilize this opportunity. Remember you are giving your life's two important years.
5. Participate in competitions: Lots of competitions of different kind hone your skills. Participate in article writing, business cases, marketing competitions, essay writing etc. At the end of your MBA you should have won at least one international trip through a competition.
6. Learn from others: Each one of the students brings something to the cauldron of the MBA class. Learn from it, learn from others' struggles so that you don't have to face many.
7. Don't be afraid to ask for help: Don't be stiffed up if you don't understand something. Feel free to ask anyone (of course after you've given it all). People, generally, will help you out with a smile on their face.
8. Don't act as a know-it-all: You'll find many people in your class who know everything and anything and will have an opinion on everything from Ethnic cleansing in Darfur to the quantum leap. Don't be such a person.Even if you know it all. Tell when asked. Help but don't lord over it.
9. Grow Up: Never ever think twice before approaching anyone (the opposite sex, a professor, a TA, your rival, etc.) for help or for partnering in a competition/ research paper. Don't keep thinking "Log kya kahenge (What will others say)"? Or think people will link me with so and so, or people will call me a profs chamcha etc. You are here for yourself, not to make your best buds. Milk this opportunity to its last bit.
10. Don't blow you own trumpet: Generally when a class starts, initially there are always few who'll be in the news and discussions, who talk the most, ask the most questions, are talking about themselves, etc. Don't be this. Let your achievements talk.
The two years at B-School are your best ever. You might not exactly find your best buds here but you'll live life to the fullest in these two years. Live.Each.Moment.
Study hard.
Party harder.
Remember a B-School is not a placement agency; it’s a platform that sets you for life.
Have a great time.
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