Its been two months now. Pretty late to blog on something that happened a couple of months back but hey! You cant expect a student to blog everyday of her life :) Well, times have changed. Things too. Life is no more mundane but hectic. A day of 24hrs seems to be very short. Lack of sleep and lot of work to do. This is the life of a prospective MBA and do you hear me complaining? Well, Hostel life doesnt seem alien anymore. I am living it every moment. Besides, what's better than living in a hostel in your hometown ? My college is compulsorily residential and I get to go home on weekends, meet my old friends and I realize I still belong here. Although, its kinda funny.. to be a hosteller in your native but what the heck! Cest la vie! :)
More about life at the hostel.. I was once upon a time, the most pampered kid at home. With an elder sister and brother in law on one side who would shower me with gifts and dad and mom on the other side showing abundant love and care, I was a spoilt brat. Lazy. Unhelpful. well, I will leave you with these two adjectives for the time-being. Today I wash my clothes,I eat on time (i dont wait to be coaxed) and I cant be any happier.. Hostel-life teaches you a lot of things. You start taking care of yourself, the most important of all. You are no longer under the cosy wrap of your parents. You are out there in the world ready to live on your own. My professor says "living in hostel is in itself a way of learning to manage things.. " If you are a people's person it is your calling. You get to live with people from different backgrounds and cultures. Our college is a heady cocktail indeed with respect to languages and cultures. The fun in gossiping that we do on those night-outs of toiling during exams, making maggi in the middle of the night and fighting for every noodle strand as if we have never seen maggi.. LOL.. it is just getting better.. Trust me, these things will never come back. The moment is ours.. to live and enjoy..
Moreover, I can relate to all these even better. Having worked for 2 years, my getting back to college life is like a trip to goa. A breath of fresh air. There are strings attached however. (read exams). :P
Transition from a techie to an MBA seems very enthusing. Albeit I learnt hard core programming during my work-life, all other things seemed stagnant. My outlook on life was very narrow. I now put my brains into every subject. As one of my professors often quips, MBA is a broader understanding of how things are while others delve deeper into one specific field. Learning management primarily teaches you to manage yourself first.
To brag about how good I feel,I can only measure it by saying how busy I am. Post-classes, not one evening do we have for ourselves. You have to be on your toes, literally! There are foreign students visiting our campus every now and then. Ongoings of contests and cultural fests and a bunch of seminars. And this is only a pie of the whole cake that I have started to taste..one of my favourite teachers says "lack of sleep testifies that you are an MBA student". I just seem to be in awe of this professor of mine. Well, he needs a separate blog for himself and I dont want to deviate from the topic of discussion at the moment. :) let me give you a peek into the fields of learning. I was once a hard core math kid but today, accountancy seems to get the better of me. we learn subjects ranging from Communication skills, Business Ethics, Statistics, IT (my cuppa tea) to Organisational culture, Behavioral aspects (a peek into human behavior) etcetera. Coupled with these are the innumerable assignments, surprise tests (Questions are as surprising as ever!) and presentations. Phew!! One bunch of googlies thrown at you.
Two more weeks and I will be done with my first term. Pretty fast-moving, I must say!
Squeezed in some time to write this. I had to write! There was this itch to blog.. Signing off for now..adios!
