Business School: What's your best and memorable memory at International Management Institute(IMI) Delhi?

A post I had written on http://Pagalguy.com back in 2012 Well I started this thread, so I think its appropriate that I should share my experience.. I think I would write a post which is realistic as possible . My journey was a very ordinary one, a typical IT guy sitting in a cubicle .. working away on codes ,testing and onsite calls .. I always asked myself that after all the efforts of last 20 odd years is this what i have earned or should i do more with my life.. I thought about post graduation and so my journey began for CAT .. you can read that on my post of All I wanted to say about CAT.. June 2010 As it would be making it to a good b-school was a dream . I was really looking forward to change my life, happy to no longer be working as a system engineer .. though i was good at my work . But somehow ambitions are such that you are never happy where you are .. But i think biggest need was to separate myself from the crowd . I didn't want to remain one of many .. My aim was not about doing MBA just from IIMs but it was about doing it from a decent b-school , as i always thought the colleges are just enablers/facilitators and they were the means and not the ends.. I joined IMI in Mid of June 2010. We had a very good induction program where we were introduced to our faculties , about rules and regulations .. of course I still remember one line from Prof PC Mehra (the then Program director -PGDM).. Get ready for the grinding Grinding it was specially classes from Prof Singhvi ( Marketing Professor) , so many pages to read and cases to be read and analyzed . And most importantly they way his classes went . Sitting system in his class was alphabetical and cursed with my a letter name .. I was sitting in the death row ( yeah that's what we called the first row in his class) .. When he would ask questions to you , you better answer or else needless to say what can happen .. But then again we had 6 other subjects to prepare so it became harder and harder as days went by.. But other than classes we had a lot of fun , Counter Strike Matches , Eat Outs , long amount of time spend in bakars will always be memorable August 2010 Well time for our mid terms , I  had two mid terms on a single day , it was raining heavily those days .. I and My friend were about to leave for college when it started pouring in .. Within minutes roads were flooded , low visibility , winds made it impossible to reach college on foot .. But somehow we did make it drenched and the AC in examination hall made it worse and result was that I  got C's in both mid terms and my friend got D and F in his .. October 2010 Saw Companies coming in for summers , at IMI we have a rolling process so it goes on for a few months , By this time were in our second term .. I was a typical IT guy so didn't get shortlisted in many companies .. I thought it was just me or in my college but when i called up my friend from IIM indore , the trends were similar everywhere .. Finally I did manage to get a summer internship with Stan C .. But it was a long hard struggle but i was happy that i was changing my career path and was excited to work with a bank very different from an IT company On the PG front: Well suddenly I had become a important user ., I was taking care of admission threads online along with adcom.. Proud to wear the IMI badge and IMI signature was on a mission to make IMI better known to students , so that people do realize that we were what we did claim to be .. Summers 2011 By this time my 3 terms /1st year had ended and i was very happy with the kind of learning i had gained in 1 year .. I became a huge fan of Prof Dhamija and Prof Kathuria who taught finance and economics .. I decided to take up finance in 2nd year and i am sure many of my batchmates did so just because of these two legends .. Though i dont claim that all the faculties were good but these are special .. I dont know if people will believe it or not but i joined a MBA college thinking i would finally be able to learn from people who were brilliant and specially when my engineering college was not so great , An environment where you were laughed at if you spoke in English.. I wanted to associate myself with an organization known for providing quality learning .. My summer training started during the month of April-May .. I was given a research project and i was promised that all the data would be provided to me during these two months .. So i had a easier summer internships than many who were working FMCGs specially in rural areas and in the hot weather .. Somehow summer internships make a huge impact on someone's life ... Many discover that certain domain or field was not where they wanted to work in and many become more sure about their career path ... Well it was also time for many to give CFA examinations . I also had started preparations for CFA L1 ,but somehow i could garner the courage to do so much monetary investment specially after taking a huge loan for MBA .. I knew my limitations .. so read through the books to gain knowledge as i thought that was more important than the actual examination.. Well it was not always studies for me , i used to participate in a lot of competitions from quizzing to article writing and continued to do so till my last few days of MBA life .. I was offered to write for a website http://coolavenues.com and i pounced upon the opportunity to write and share what i knew .. During this time a puy offered me to work him on a start up called http://MBAWrites.com .. The website was about providing free knowledge giving articles to aspirants and it was totally voluntary basis . we requested b-schoolers to come and write for us .. and many did help us .. It was a successful journey we had about 200,000+ hits within 6 months .. But we could not sustain it so had to give it up finally by end 2011.. I hope i can do something similar in future ... Second year Well it was all about choosing the right electives , since i wanted finance so picked up a lot finance subjects but as advised by my mentor (senior) not every subject or every faculty was worth taking a subject .. So i did pick and choose a few in marketing , operations . And I am glad i did , marketing was always fun as you can actually think and come up with answers without actually going through text books . Finance subjects need a lot more hard-work and effort .. specially the projects and assignments... By this time we had also become expert sleepers or people who would listen to the class and simultaneously do stuff on mobiles or laptops... But generally a trend is that you typically start off from the first or second row and then you keep progressing further and further towards the back of the class There are moments when u cant hide , specially when your mobiles rings the class and every1 looks at you angrily for either waking them up or disturbing them in class ... One of my friend told me an incident when he had just downloaded a new game but he could not put off the sound and it rang and rang till he removed the battery from the handset one can only imagine what happened after that Talking about sleeping well Conclaves are the best place for many to sleep all day , No matter how hard you concentrate , a vision of a bed and a soft pillow will over take you resolution and take you to dreamworld .. specially it happens during winters .. Besides the sleeping fest conclaves are also a good opportunity to interact with the CEOs and heads of Big companies , sharing their knowledge .. But Only a few speaker keep their talks interactive with students and hence the sleep fest Well i am not talking about booze parties , as i am the boring types on campus who doesn't even drink tea/coffee which causes addiction :p December 2011 Well the most crucial period , the make or break period , the period where you play the game theory .. Which company to sit for , you have various theories such as where is the placement cell guy sitting , how many work ex guys are applying , how many guys with better grades applying ,.. what do they pay .. what is their variable component .. What do they ask in interviews and how to cross that big hurdle of GD I have seen many of my close friends having good grades and awesome profile not making it pass the Group Discussion phase .. 5th december was hell of a day 3 Big Companies lined up but i was only interested in one . The process started around 6pm in the evening with GDs taking place ... Not surprised to see but the entire placecomm cell was sitting for the process , we all knew that company and profile was good ,, Anyhow the big hurdle came "GD" 20 students in a group , i was exhausted by that time and i knew this would be scary .. But somehow i managed to squeeze myself through to the GD process and made it to final 10 for the interview .. I thought of it as some achievement since 70 were shortlisted for phase 1 and then 40 in phase 2 and finally 10 ... But it was still a loonng way to go i had to impress the panel of 4 :3 VPs and I HR head , They were firing questions at a nonstop rate ,, Why our company , why this role , why mba , what is leadership and many many situations questions ... I came out with a sigh of relief that it had all ended and finally i could just relax , well nothing liked that happened .. There were 9 other people hungry to hear about my interview , and sucked out every ounce of life i had .. After 2 long hours .. mind you very lonng me praying all the while "God please ajke baad ye suit na pehanna pade" .. Finally I guess god did hear me out and they selected 2 people and i was one of them .. I was delighted and sad that my friends could not make it .. It was hell of a day and finally it ended ... I felt a relief that i would be free from this placement process now , which tests the nerves of even the boldest and most courageous .... Since December 2011 Life has been relaxed with final two terms going past as breeze.. Life changes once u get placed .. as an outsider you watch it like an interesting drama and celebrate when your friends get through and support them when they cry and yes people cry even the most strongest specially when dreams are shattered . But as they say everyone gets what they deserved and so I am glad that life gave them their share of happiness Life @ IMI has been a pleasure filled of emotions, all night out assignments, CS nights, party nights, and various competitions that you proudly take part to compete against the best You get an opportunity to visit various b-schools and meet new people , My last trip was to IMT Ghaziabad for the Eny Quizzing Finals .. I thank IMT for being such great hosts and there are some lovely people very friendly in IMT... Though I had a different experience at IIFT: D but I thank them for calling us and making us part of their fest Life in a b-school is much more than Avgs or CTCs rankings, and once you step in a college you realize that Cheers and ATB everyone for their future PS: Please ignore the grammar issues. For more such posts   http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/all-i-wanted-to-say-about-mba-25068992