11:59:59PM-the most ‘deadliest’ time that every student at IIM Raipur fears of. That’s why it’s termed as a ‘deadline’. I could never understand what good these faculties can make by saving just 1 sec. They could simply mention 12 midnight. So how a day at IIM looks like? Each day here is loaded with academic sessions which have presentations, role plays, assignments, case pre-reads, quizzes and what not. You have to stretch and expand yourself for meeting the expectations as well these ‘dreadful’ deadlines. Meeting deadlines is one of the challenges. However, managing it and getting accustomed to it in the initial days of joining B- School creates a lot of physical, psychological and emotional effect. . The most important learning @IIM is probably how to set priorities and lead a balanced life. To sum it up, Life@iimraipur is set around deadlines and one realizes this when he /she is here. Yes it is this IIMR which teaches you the value of time and oversleeping might be a crime! It’s where from the clutches of vicious deadlines you strive to get freed, ‘Attendance is mandatory’ is yet another phrase that has become a cliché. Even if the mail doesn’t includes this phrase people take this as a by-default statement. Attendance of 16/20 classes has to be made to avoid grade drops. Here Students even maintain an excel sheets to keep an eye on the number of missed classes.
That is what a typical day at IIM Raipur or for that matter at any B-School is like. Starting your day with rigorous presentations, attending sessions where you almost fall asleep, preparing for quizzes that might happen any time soon, doing pre-reads, meeting assignment deadlines that seem to be way too unrealistic at times and if there is still any left in hand then utilising it for networking and acing different competitions. Yes, that is what one goes through during this two year course but as tough as it may seem, the hard work that you put in during these two years prepares you for the challenges that lie ahead in the corporate world. Similar to what is desired of a sportsperson, where one toils day in and day out and at times is asked to get the best out of his team-mates in situations where he, himself may not be able to perform at his best is desired of a manager as well and you learn to do that and a lot more from all of these group tasks and assignments and intense pressure-cooker kind of situations that you face here. But then sports is a metaphor for life itself and in our context all of us are nothing but ‘Corporate Athletes’
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