Hey Guys,
I am sure all of you would be busy with your mock tests, coaching classes and would be eagerly waiting for CAT to advertise.
Words like RC, CR, LR , Quant, VA would have become an essential part of your vocab now and the coaching institutes would be doing their best in making you all adept in these concepts.
Thus, I would not delve into the techniques of the above acronyms. What i want to bring forward is the use of these concepts in your Post - MBA classes.
Lets take a long Jump...
By June next year, most of you would be joining some of the top notch MBA institutes like IIMs and XLRI. You would be entering into the domain which would polish your intellectual abilities to the utmost to craft out a world class manager out of you.
The above process is not an easy one. You would be required to make the best use of the grey cells of your brains.
The process used by most of the B schools is that of pre reading and case studies.
There would be umpteen tasks in your plates at a moment and you would need to prioratize and implement them. Here comes the funda of speed and accuracy would you all would be concentrating upon in your prep.
Reading is the activity you all would be most involved in - be it case studies, pre reading, class discussion on a particular topic. Here comes the funda of RC , LR and CR.
Projects would be an imperative part of your course, wherein data analysis and interpretation is the key.
Thus, the point I want to stess upon is that the parameters which the B schools test upon in their enterance examinations is not arbitrarily decided , rather, it is a true reflection of what you would be undergoing when you come to the other side of the fence.
Thus, be motivated and understand the fundas clearly as they would be your tools when you join an MBA college.
Best of Luck for your preparations and may all of you land up in the B schools of your preferances....
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Topsy Turvy and Thankful
3:00 AM go to bed
8:30 AM get up for a 9 o clock class
try to find sleep inbetween classes...
No..my final year exams are not going on...this is the routine of a normal day in XLRI...
It has been approximately 2 months...have got used to this lifestyle..but as they say - it is in man's nature to crib.
Sometimes I tend to find the *oppurtunity cost* ( yes, you got it right..i have Economics in this term ;) )of this type of a lifestyle and tend to ask a question to myself "Why MBA???"
But the fact remains that doing MBA from a top notch college had been a long cherished dream for me..
Even though we are struggling with mid terms, project submissions and always short of sleep, yet i want enjoy every moment here. I am living my dream and there is no point in cribbing about trivial things ( like sleep , buhuhu )
Will continue with my experiences in XLRI later, let me catch with some sleep right now ;)
8:30 AM get up for a 9 o clock class
try to find sleep inbetween classes...
No..my final year exams are not going on...this is the routine of a normal day in XLRI...
It has been approximately 2 months...have got used to this lifestyle..but as they say - it is in man's nature to crib.
Sometimes I tend to find the *oppurtunity cost* ( yes, you got it right..i have Economics in this term ;) )of this type of a lifestyle and tend to ask a question to myself "Why MBA???"
But the fact remains that doing MBA from a top notch college had been a long cherished dream for me..
Even though we are struggling with mid terms, project submissions and always short of sleep, yet i want enjoy every moment here. I am living my dream and there is no point in cribbing about trivial things ( like sleep , buhuhu )
Will continue with my experiences in XLRI later, let me catch with some sleep right now ;)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tyrst with MBA
MBA - Masters in Business Administration - these are the few words which have haunted me since the past three years of my life.
The series of mock tests, mock interviews, their results, mugging vocab, solving timed test papers..blah blah blah....i am sure all the MBA aspirants would be able to understand these feelings. These sentences would follow me like the puppy in the Hutch ( now vodafone ) advertisement...whereever i go, my saga of MBA preparation follows ;)
A typical cribbing conversation in one complete cycle of form filling -> preparing -> final exams -> results -> interview >- final results would be :
Me: Yaar, this is the last time i am writting the CAT exam. if this time nothing happens, i will continue in my field ( whereas i knew that CAT form filling is going to be an endless festival for me which i would be celebrating each year, hehe)
Me again: You know, XYZ has got admission into ABC (choice of words is not coincidental!), i have been preparing for so long but nothing happens. It all about Luck and no hard work!
Me again: I hate this job, this year i am gonna prepare for GMAT, enough of CAT now. CAT doesn't deserve me ( innocent me ;) )
MEe again:I will apply for executive MBA now..what is the eligibility criteria for that?
There are umpteen sentences i remember which I used to share with my noble friends ( Thanks guys for that).
But now, the story has ended. Finally i got admission into one of the reputed colleges in India and i am joining on 13th June.
As they say, it is not the destination which matters, rather the journey. My tryst with this journey has ended....have learnt a lot from it and value what i have got more so because of this journey...
Have loads of stuff to write about it, but finally ending it with the crux of what i have learnt from this - "Yes, luck does matter...but it is nothing in comparision to the hard work and conviction you put in to reach where you want to be!"
The series of mock tests, mock interviews, their results, mugging vocab, solving timed test papers..blah blah blah....i am sure all the MBA aspirants would be able to understand these feelings. These sentences would follow me like the puppy in the Hutch ( now vodafone ) advertisement...whereever i go, my saga of MBA preparation follows ;)
A typical cribbing conversation in one complete cycle of form filling -> preparing -> final exams -> results -> interview >- final results would be :
Me: Yaar, this is the last time i am writting the CAT exam. if this time nothing happens, i will continue in my field ( whereas i knew that CAT form filling is going to be an endless festival for me which i would be celebrating each year, hehe)
Me again: You know, XYZ has got admission into ABC (choice of words is not coincidental!), i have been preparing for so long but nothing happens. It all about Luck and no hard work!
Me again: I hate this job, this year i am gonna prepare for GMAT, enough of CAT now. CAT doesn't deserve me ( innocent me ;) )
MEe again:I will apply for executive MBA now..what is the eligibility criteria for that?
There are umpteen sentences i remember which I used to share with my noble friends ( Thanks guys for that).
But now, the story has ended. Finally i got admission into one of the reputed colleges in India and i am joining on 13th June.
As they say, it is not the destination which matters, rather the journey. My tryst with this journey has ended....have learnt a lot from it and value what i have got more so because of this journey...
Have loads of stuff to write about it, but finally ending it with the crux of what i have learnt from this - "Yes, luck does matter...but it is nothing in comparision to the hard work and conviction you put in to reach where you want to be!"
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Stop Running !
No, i cannot take it anymore.
Tell the seas to make less noise..
The pitch of noise is killing me
Ask the world to maintain the poise.
Everything is silent now
My voice is echoing all around...
The water is warm, the tides are low
Still rest is nowhere to be found.
I go to my friends,
I cry my heart out for peace to yearn...
No one listens, no one cares
I am again left restless with not a single concern.
Alone i am in the whole wide world
Running away from from one end to another...
I have to stop, i have to understand
That peace lies inside me, i have to discover..
Now i am relaxed,as i know the cause
Running away from myself was my fault...
I decide to get up, i decide to be calm
God is inside me,Thus, i have no harm!
Tell the seas to make less noise..
The pitch of noise is killing me
Ask the world to maintain the poise.
Everything is silent now
My voice is echoing all around...
The water is warm, the tides are low
Still rest is nowhere to be found.
I go to my friends,
I cry my heart out for peace to yearn...
No one listens, no one cares
I am again left restless with not a single concern.
Alone i am in the whole wide world
Running away from from one end to another...
I have to stop, i have to understand
That peace lies inside me, i have to discover..
Now i am relaxed,as i know the cause
Running away from myself was my fault...
I decide to get up, i decide to be calm
God is inside me,Thus, i have no harm!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Guilt
I can vouch that this is the most irritating emotion in the world - The feeling of GUILT.
It happens to me so often that after doing something, which i believe is right, this emotion pops up out of nowhere . A recent example is - My sister was about to visit my place at 6'o clock, and i was about to leave office at 5:45 PM, when suddenly my manager came to my seat and in his usual tone said "Mansi lets discuss about the XYZ issue". Now, what could i do..my sister was waiting outside my house and she did not even have the keys to open the main door...
Unlike a politically correct answer, i replied to my manager that "My sister is waiting for me, i cannot meet right now".
Well, he understood and left...but with his leaving came a stupid feeling of guilt in me.
I should have said that in a polite manner, i should have asked my sister to wait a bit longer, i should have this and i should have that. Thousands of sentences were comming to my mind, all wrapped in the feeling of guilt!
Logically thinking, what i said was right , but i could have handled the situation in a better manner.
Well, this may sound like a trivial example, but then a question arrises - Is being logically correct right or being politically correct right?
The advantage with the later is that in this option, we remain blessed as GUILT remains out of the scene...
It happens to me so often that after doing something, which i believe is right, this emotion pops up out of nowhere . A recent example is - My sister was about to visit my place at 6'o clock, and i was about to leave office at 5:45 PM, when suddenly my manager came to my seat and in his usual tone said "Mansi lets discuss about the XYZ issue". Now, what could i do..my sister was waiting outside my house and she did not even have the keys to open the main door...
Unlike a politically correct answer, i replied to my manager that "My sister is waiting for me, i cannot meet right now".
Well, he understood and left...but with his leaving came a stupid feeling of guilt in me.
I should have said that in a polite manner, i should have asked my sister to wait a bit longer, i should have this and i should have that. Thousands of sentences were comming to my mind, all wrapped in the feeling of guilt!
Logically thinking, what i said was right , but i could have handled the situation in a better manner.
Well, this may sound like a trivial example, but then a question arrises - Is being logically correct right or being politically correct right?
The advantage with the later is that in this option, we remain blessed as GUILT remains out of the scene...
Friday, August 7, 2009
School top ten
Everyone used to say that school days are the best days in one's life but i used to laungh at it when i was in school. I was just sitting at home right now when some of those days flashed in my mind. Wanted to share some wired things which i remember of my school days....
1. Test assessments to be signed by parents otherwise we will not be allowed to write the next test.
2. "Home work not complete" to write 100 times in school diary.
3. Bunking P.T. class in the lower common room.
4. Eating tiffin in the history class while sitting in the last bench.
5. Copying Maths assignment in the first period and getting a good in that assignment.
6. Standing at the back of the class if forgot to bring the Map in the geography period.
7. Searching madly for calculators in the other sections when maths test in the next period
8. Back calculating the readings in Lab copy.
9. verifying the answers in half a minute while submitting the test copy.
10.A bunch of students humming at the back of the class without opening the mouth and the teacher going mad by the sound.
All of us have our share of naughty things from school days..... but remembering thoose momets gives so much happiness later..... Missing my school days!
1. Test assessments to be signed by parents otherwise we will not be allowed to write the next test.
2. "Home work not complete" to write 100 times in school diary.
3. Bunking P.T. class in the lower common room.
4. Eating tiffin in the history class while sitting in the last bench.
5. Copying Maths assignment in the first period and getting a good in that assignment.
6. Standing at the back of the class if forgot to bring the Map in the geography period.
7. Searching madly for calculators in the other sections when maths test in the next period
8. Back calculating the readings in Lab copy.
9. verifying the answers in half a minute while submitting the test copy.
10.A bunch of students humming at the back of the class without opening the mouth and the teacher going mad by the sound.
All of us have our share of naughty things from school days..... but remembering thoose momets gives so much happiness later..... Missing my school days!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Girlish Act
Many girls will agree with me on this that we undergo some internal hormonal changes whenever we go out to shop! I generally go out to buy a menial thing like a toothpaste or bornvita and end up buying something which has huge integral multiple cost as compared to a toothpaste ;)
Same was the story some days back. I was in my hometown for the weekend and had to go out to help my sister buy some daily things as her hostel was about to reopen after the summer vacations. Had planned to go to Spencer for the shopping...Everything was fine and the things put in the shopping basket were all good when suddenly we passed through the electronics section. That acted as a catalyst for us. We looked at each other with a smirky face.In the shelf was a hair straightener,which we both wanted to buy since a long time.
At first we tried hard to resist it, but how could we not buy the straightener which has 6 attachments and 3 types of rollers free!! As many know, girls have some unexplained affinity for the word "free"!
We then started our brainstorming on whether we should buy it or not. We came out with wierd justifications for buying it,one of which i remember was "Noida's air is very polluted, we need a straightener to protect our hair from it". Now, how illogical was that. How can using a straightener help your hair against pollution.
Finally we bought it,whoppieeee and came to the house with our proud possession. But i had to come to the Noida that very day and my luggage did not allow me to keep it with me. So it is in my hometown only. I am waiting desperatly to go to my hometown and bring it with me back. I know i wont we using it much as
1. I would be too lazy to use it often considering the length of my hair.
2. Contrary to what we discussed above, using a straightener harms the hair as much as the pollution in Noida.
Some times i feel, i overspent to buy a thing i will not be using often, but sometimes we should pamper ourselves with the things we desire for long.
It will be sounding very girlish, but i m loving it :)
Same was the story some days back. I was in my hometown for the weekend and had to go out to help my sister buy some daily things as her hostel was about to reopen after the summer vacations. Had planned to go to Spencer for the shopping...Everything was fine and the things put in the shopping basket were all good when suddenly we passed through the electronics section. That acted as a catalyst for us. We looked at each other with a smirky face.In the shelf was a hair straightener,which we both wanted to buy since a long time.
At first we tried hard to resist it, but how could we not buy the straightener which has 6 attachments and 3 types of rollers free!! As many know, girls have some unexplained affinity for the word "free"!
We then started our brainstorming on whether we should buy it or not. We came out with wierd justifications for buying it,one of which i remember was "Noida's air is very polluted, we need a straightener to protect our hair from it". Now, how illogical was that. How can using a straightener help your hair against pollution.
Finally we bought it,whoppieeee and came to the house with our proud possession. But i had to come to the Noida that very day and my luggage did not allow me to keep it with me. So it is in my hometown only. I am waiting desperatly to go to my hometown and bring it with me back. I know i wont we using it much as
1. I would be too lazy to use it often considering the length of my hair.
2. Contrary to what we discussed above, using a straightener harms the hair as much as the pollution in Noida.
Some times i feel, i overspent to buy a thing i will not be using often, but sometimes we should pamper ourselves with the things we desire for long.
It will be sounding very girlish, but i m loving it :)
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