I am almost three months into my stint at SPJIMR, Mumbai and finally I have gotten some time to get back to the Alma Mater of my CAT journey(read PG
). These three months have been super hectic, with more running around and scheduling conflicts than Amol Palekar of
GolMaal (without the false moustache
).
I now come back to PG and realise that SP(we call it SP :happy
is not present on the "Life@" Pg thread. So better late than never, here it starts...
It's all about learning through actions at SP, and even after my Amol Palekar like confused situation, I have been lucky enough to find people around me who direct me like Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed the classic comedy.
All of what I said about life being hectic was definitely expected; I heard it happens in every B-School, more so at SP. But in between all the quizzes, assignments and group works, when I took a few moments to reflect about it, I found that life here at SP is truly special.
Right from the wonderful Fresher's Blast to the first month of foundation exams I was enjoying myself thoroughly even after the tough academic schedule, but as one of the Prof rightly pointed out in the class, when you have less time, you tend to ignore all those small things which brings joy to oneself (something which reminded me of a dialogue from another HrishiDa classic
Bawarchi).
For me one of the biggest challenges was in the form of knowing my peers. History had labeled me as an extremely talkative fellow, mingles easily with
junta kind off and here I found myself in a situation where I knew not a major chunk of my batch. And then came the PG Lab…
PG or Personal Growth Lab as we call it here is a part of the curriculum at SP. It was an amazing experience of four days at Lonavala (place famous for its
chikkis and hot choc fudge, right next to Khandala, a place made famous by the Aamir-Rani song). It involved theory sessions, personal development exercises and learning about one self. Boring…No it wasn't. All the exercises were carried out through activities where we were twisted and mish mashed into various teams, classes were placed in the beautiful locales of Lonavala
; the biggest challenges were not quizzes, but treks and assault courses; assignments were replaced by group games and plays, dances and song performances, all of which was gelled with our course on People and Performance. It was real fun and the best things which came out of it was that all of us became '
ek from
anek' (borrowing from the old DD campaign, I bet you remember that
). The feeling of togetherness which came has grown since we returned and the classes progressed, and we have developed better understanding of our peers which helps in tackling the numerous Group Works which forms our
Rozi-roti at SP…
It has been awesome, apart from Time Management you also learn the art of sleep management, learn to enjoy shifted weekends (at SP we have a Wed night-Thursday weekend). We've started watching movies in the morning shows (the 70 buck morning shows in Red Lounge all cuddled up in a blanket... ahaa
)
It’s late at night and I am a bit tired now, time for the favourite part of each one’s life here, SLEEP…
Keep watching the space, I am just a three month old baby.. Watch the kid grow...
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