"At the end of the day. the biggest takeaway for you from a business school would not be the academic gyaan from classrooms. Rather, it would be the network you build across three batches; the immediate (senior + junior) batches along with your own."
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Thus spoke a senior during one of the facchha interaction/gyaan session when I joined IIM Bangalore. Makes sense, and have seen some examples too during the summer internship.
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However, some of the junta around here has taken it in a slightly more serious colour - desperately trying to connect to all of their batchmates despite having absolutely no commmon ground for interaction with many of them - no common classes/friends/hostel/club activities - nothing. It started off with mass-friendship requests on orkut (My orkut friend list inflated by over a 100 on joining IIMB while I am on talking terms with barely a 50-odd junta). Then came the gtalk add-requests from people I have just seen faces of a couple of times on the campus, which I find fairly intrusive. And finally, the seemingly innocent queries / comments on bracket (IIMB messenger) regarding next day classes/exam syllabi, which could have been answered by someone in their own friends' circle as well.
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Not many do the last bit, only a handful of people come down to that level. Slightly ironical though; the same network might work against you if, in the process of building it, you tarnish your image :)
1 comment:
well said .. nice VT :)
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