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I never thought that being placed would make me so jobless. I dont know whether its a good thing or bad, not even sure whether its a universal phenomenon but watever it is I am not comfortable with the feeling. One and a half years, all of us have been slogging our ass to get things done. Assignments, groupwork, Atharva, BrandScan, Episode and now forthcoming Speed, have made us like coins, worthless if not in circulation.

Being placed was no doubtedly the best part of this course. However, suddenly there is this feeling of not being able to do much. Till this time it was atharva, which after being a great successs is over and Reign will pass on to the junies. We are free, so as to say.

I hope I dont squander away all the time that I have. This last statement was made on a big big assumption that TAPMI will let us have time :).  

Hmmm I guess I have been thinking too much on having nothing to do. That could have been the reason of posting THIS after so much time :).

FYI: The palcement season was superb and I am sure this would beat last years average by miles.

When we all started in February, the excitement was high and so were the expectations. Frameworks, plans, blueprints and lots of gyan from the senies ( read Hisham, Anirban and Manav). And Animesh was also not far behind giving me insights and tips. I actually needed them. I was not continuing, I was new to the team needed to learn.

We started well ahead of time. The journey was long and this approach was required. Being in Manipal and then trying to get things done from the "other" world is not always easy and this year it was no different. The event had a bunch of youths (6 + 6 + convenor) and a lot of seasoned work to be pulled off.

Had our share of goodluck and ill luck. But the thing is that in spite of all this after 10 months of work, ATHARVA IS ON!!!!

7 days and the effort will culminate only to transform into a sense of satisfaction. Come december 1st. We are ready.

My MIP was in rural Uttar Pradesh. Largely in areas near Lucknow and Varanasi. I always thought why do we insist on calling our summers as MIP, management in practice. I will narrate some incidents that happened and in most cases I did not knew what to do or say.

Incident ONE

I was into a small village named safipur in district Unnao. When I started my conversation with this fellow, he was vey circumspect and was also amused (i think). He asked me what i was doing and the purpose of my visit. I told him "I am a MBA student."

He asked what is that and i replied that it is course in higher education. He continued,"You must have done your BSc?"

"NO!. I did engineering", I replied.

"Hmmm engineering is ok but then you must have done your Bsc", he retorted.

I was lost.

Now I know why at TAPMI we call it management in practice.