As a fresher, when you join a B-school, you don’t expect it
to be very different than your undergrad college. Same old mass bunks, missing
classes (or even if we somehow managed to reach the class in time, we would end
up sleeping there), the 8 o’ clock deadline for the girl’s hostel. After all, it is a college. How different could
it be?
But boy oh Boy, was I in for a surprise?
Back at my engineering college, we girls had to fight tooth
and nail with our warden to get an extension of an hour past the deadline
whereas here the day actually starts at 8 P.M.
Co-ed hostels was something so far-fetched that we didn’t even dream of and now
actually l am living in one. Coming from a slightly conservative college, this
is definitely huge for me.
Next shock for me was the diversity. One can find freshers, like me, studying alongside with people born in a completely different decade. No doubt
there are engineers, but there are students from fields as distinct as philosophy
and English and physics. You finally get what “Unity in Diversity” actually
feels like.
Mass bunks is an alien concept here. My three weeks Dussehra
holidays turned to a 3-day weekend. Earlier, I would miss classes at my will
and now missing a class would earn me a grade drop. Sleeping in classes to desperate
class participation, craving for that 6lpa package to getting a stipend of
almost double the amount for an internship, from the flexible
schedule to “sacrosanct” deadlines, a B-School definitely has its own
eccentricities and charms.
Nevertheless, it’s been almost five months, that I have been
here at XLRI, and the experiences I have had here are nothing compared to my
undergrads. Starting from The completely different teaching methodology to a batch that feels like home and
sticks together, a b-school gives the
perfect glimpse of what stays in store when I finally come out of the sheltered
cocoon to the big corporate world.
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