Being a part of the Impact team @ NITIE has been an exhilarating experience! More so because many hundreds of people who aspire to be amongst us here or for that matter in any top school look up to us. There is this certain aura that is present which makes people in a b-school seem out of the world to those who arent.
The heydays of Impact are the 4 days of GD/PI on campus where a bunch of more than 800 students vie for a 100 odd places in college. So many questions, so many doubts, so many aspirations! It seemed as though a few of our statements could possibly change their decisions and hence the course of their career! It instilled in us a greater sense of responsibility that made us more careful and more empathetic to the varied situations of the aspirants and their vivid descriptions :)
The better part ofcourse is the Induction season once the new batch lands on campus! Now the eyes are a bit less starry but full of questions none the less! The questions though now vary and veer towards profiles and jobs and studies and on the lesser side proxies mess food better cell connections! Everywhere and anywhere there are juniors smiling and saying a hi! Many many more people know you and respect you just because you are a solitary year senior to them in a b-school! So we have all the rights to give as much gyaan as possible (Gyaan is and will always be any MBA's forte! :P). They aspire to be in committees and contribute to the college! We aspire to get the best candidates to our committees and I am dead sure that a lot of wrangling over a few juniors (especially the girls) is going to take place over the nexr week!
Yes next week! Will be the most critical for all committees as they choose their future batch over a 4 day sessions of interviews and double interviews and shortlists and what not! Will leave both the batches tired but definitely excited! I for one am looking forward to seeing a bunch of juniors answer our questions diligently and trying to be one of Impact!
But all said and done borrowing from one of the famous ad lines...
"Buying a house-15 lakhs, Rajinikanth's fees in Sivaji- 15 crores, meeting a bunch of juniors at any time of the day or night - priceless"
6 months more in this campus! Intend to work hard a lot! Party and booze a lot and emerge out with a satisfaction of having contributed in some small way to the college and guided several younger and impressionable minds to their own paths! No doubt involves a lot of hard work and compromise on your own time! But as always its a "Game of quid pro quo - you give some, you take some"
