The first!

After having craved for months to write something, I finally have sneaked some time to post a blog. One question that might prod many inquisitive minds is why I created a separate blog with IIMI in the title? Well, by no means is it an attempt to brag. This is just to highlight the step-up(or down?) in my life ever since I entered this place, to underline the fact that life here  deserves a separate account for itself, with the kinds of challenges and rewards it offers.

Moving on..

Its been three months now at IIM, Indore and surprisingly, it does not look so. With days and nights merging into one another, its hard to believe that its JUST been three months.You seem to have gone through so much, drudged so hard..it cannot be just three months! But it is. What has been so far was just one-sixth of all that this place has to offer. I cannot just imagine what I am have subjected myself to and why!

Challenges find you everywhere and so do they here. The interesting aspect is that they come in such varied forms and attack you on such unguarded fronts that you seem to stagger in your resolve. Talk about the academic pressure- highly engaging schedule with classes, assignments, quizzes topped with intimidating competition and consequent tussle for results take your sleep away, and they do that with a smirk. Added to that, the environment you experience, the people you interact with, the dynamics you witness-all  appear to have undergone a significant change from your just-past life. At times, it takes a psychological toll on you. Your belief, your resolve, your determination seems to be slipping away. You might get nostalgic, you might feel disillusioned, all that might fill your heart is despair. That is what this place teaches you to master. You have to get back! You need to rebuild your resolve. It becomes imperative to hold your belief, maintain that efficacy and fight back. You need to learn to manage yourself.

Challenges take many other forms and they find you at every step, no doubt. The essence remains the same throughout. One has to learn to manage oneself on all fronts. One gets to explore one's strengths and realize one's weaknesses. How one tackles these challenges is one's personal choice, one's individual rule of prioritizing. There are trade-offs and one has to learn to align them with one's goals. It might get frustrating but it teaches you a lot. As one might say, no life experience goes waste.

This was the essence of past three months at IIMI.

Looking forward to  more frequent and more detailed posts henceforth,

Signing off,

Ankita.