Those Days ....

Creation Date: May 29th 2009
Posted on: May 29th 2009

"Myself Manish Karamchandani, am pursuing Bachelor of Science from Maharaja Ranjit Singh college Indore and my ambition in life is to become a successful man" those were the cliche sentences which we would use for our introduction when we just completed graduation and were preparing for MBA. We would copy few of these ideas from listening to others or from reading some books (we never used internet to come up with the best introduction). If I think back about those days, am not sure what we were thinking ..our priorities, exposure, idea about life and experience all were so limited. We would mostly think and do what others around us would be doing and we would get quickly influenced by them. We liked catchy lines, Jargon, quotations and with our new craze of speaking a lot to prepare for GD and interviews we were busy reading newspapers and watching new channels most of the time, so that, in any of our discussions we can throw more and more facts and figures. Most of these activities were meant to show someone how smart we are and to feel confident that we will crack it, we will be able to prove the interviewer that we are smart enough to know everything about anything.

We never thought at that time how life would be after getting admission in MBA, would all this be still useful or we would forget about it and start enjoying our new group for next 2 yrs. I feel that was a turning point, when we started reading everything that we saw and we never realized but that became a habit, figures started attracting us and we would try to remember them, do calculations based on them and prove something based on those calculations ...as we always did in GDs. This habit still helps us in making all the important decisions of our life, although we are out of MBA but there is a GD always going on within us. Where we try to bring all the for and against and evaluate them to come up to a decision. If we don't rea, don't gather facts and figures we wont be able to produce arguments for in favor and against and wont be able to make the right decision. Each and everything that we learned at that time it be Maths, Communication skills, Vocab, Data Analysis, Presentation skills etc etc could all be used in different scenarios of professional life today. Whoever took those learning ahead in life will surely get success and would become a "successful man".