A Bunch Of Brilliant Idiots At IIM Sambalpur

You don’t always need to be a marketer to market your requirements. Vikas, the fin-enthusiast civil engineer from UP, has proved this to me time and again. He has so well positioned his wants that the entire college is aware of them. The main reason for this is him being crystal clear about his aims. 1. XYZ ko college se hatao (Get XYZ removed from our college) (name concealed on purpose). 2. Mujhe girlfriend dilao. (Get me a girlfriend) 3. Mujhe pani pilao. (Give me water to drink). He despises the particular person so much that he wants them removed from the college. Most of his memes and jokes in the group are about that person. If he wants anything more than getting that person removed, it is a girlfriend. Though from experience, all his close friends can tell you that he is hardly interested in girls. Excel is his first and last love. Interestingly, he hates filling his bottle with water. No one has yet been able to figure out his strange aversion towards this activity, but everyone living on his floor is always trying to figure out ways to hide their bottles from this water-seeking guy. The best part is yet to come. The most amusing thing about Vikas is that he can crack you up at any moment of time. You are crying, you are heartbroken, you have failed, just go to him. You are sure to laugh!

Vikas’ room is often a haunt for the Gen X of our Group. Kangkan, who comes from one of the seven sisters (no, I’m not being a regionalist), is the guy with highest Work-Ex in the group. Perhaps this is what triggers his obsession with calculating the future value of anything and everything. He only does what he thinks will benefit him significantly, and that too after a series of KBC with associated people and what you may call a detailed professional analysis of the subject in consideration. You always get to hear phrases like “hamare zamane me nahi tha ye sab” (this did not happen in our times) or “kya fayda iska?” (what’s the use of this?) at least a hundred times a week from his mouth, but the good thing is that he is always ready to help you out with his experience in the corporate world. You may also consider him one of the sincerest of all experienced people of our batch.

So this is what my college life is all about. A bunch of brilliant idiots, (Yes, they are all brilliant. This is why they are in an IIM!) running behind projects, assignments, and submissions all day and night long, and yet not leaving out a single opportunity of adventure!

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If I get an opportunity, I would love to work for the Fashion and Retail Sector of ABG. With the shift of retail market consumer from the traditional method of belief to the modern method of analysis, BRAND has become the most important aspect of Apparel purchase. I have always been interested in the field of branding, and one of my summer intern projects at Dentsu Aegis Network was also based on ‘Branding of a BFSI’. Pantaloons was voted as 'India's Most Trusted Apparel Retail Brand' in 2014-15, and I am sure that the skills I have developed from my college and internship will help maintain the brand name.