What is triggering the next post from me is the IPL and more precisely, the fake IPL player blogsite that is making news these days. I dont consider that anything more than another hype-creator by the KKR management. If you notice closely, there is nothing really privy to the team that the blogger reveals. It cant be a player, no way.

Looking back in time - Part 1

This is my third attempt to blog consistently and i have a feeling i will be third-time lucky.

Its been a week past 18 months that i have been here at MDI and i feel it was just the other day that i moved in to Room 340 of Change Masters Hostel, MDI - an institute I had immense expectations from. Coming to think of it, i had a totally different picture of a B-school before my arrival here - a different picture of the academics, the pedagogy, the student-crowd, their maturity, the kinda professors - all in all, a different way of life in a top-5 B-school. I was under an illusion that things are near-ideal here. Thats what i learnt from the build-up to CAT and after.

I come here, I see ground realities. I see professors not of the standard i reckoned, academics no tougher than that of perhaps the IXth Standard, people having a defeatist attitude towards most things around them, and most guys just bothered about seeing himself/herself through not caring a damn about fellow beings. Perhaps this is a nice harbinger, perhaps this is what I will see in a cut-throat competitive world. Or, Will I?

The business textbooks dont motivate me enough, the money matters dont quite enthuse me. What am I here for? Why am i doing an MBA? I think I'd rather ignore the B in that coveted three-letter abbreviation, for now at least. Let me focus on Mastering Administration. Yes, I would have liked to enter the IAS if I could spend a couple of years studying with no income. Alas, I had to be practical. I had made an informed choice.

I thought there are more ways than one in which to master administration. And learning from rigid textbooks is definitely not one of them. I have done that aplenty and religiously in the past with a great deal of success. But, now i guess the time has come when I need to look at the larger meaning of life. And so I decided, with the cushion of having an fine academic record in the past, that I will now look beyond textbooks to acquire the skills that an MBA is supposed to equip you with.

I had made a choice. I decided I would try and gain as much as I can from practical work and learn from the experiences of successful personalities. That would be my way of life @ MDI.