IIM Sirmaur

JOURNEY TO IIM SIRMAUR

I am an optimist and love to see a jar half full of opportunities and tend to ignore the negativities. I was a confident and an active student in school, taking part in events but not compromising on my academics, thus creating an image of a sincere student in the eyes of my family, friends and teachers. I scored well in my boards and everyone was happy. This led to an expectation and out of the mounting pressure to choose a domain, I decided to prepare for IIT-JEE and opted science stream. I started dreaming about getting into a top notch tech institute of India. I gave fullest of my efforts into the preparation but couldn’t clear it and now all the eyes that looked upon me in expectations turned into eyes of disappointment. People around me started doubting my caliber and started advising me to opt a BSc course and not engineering. I started doubting myself but being an optimist, I pulled myself up and got into an engineering college. I was still satisfied with what I had achieved and yearned to excel at that place. I completed my engineering not with flying colors but managed to get some confidence back and that was very essential for my career and personal development. After my engineering, I worked in a company for 2 years to further nurture myself. My job was of a managerial role and so decided to pursue management in the best institute of the country, the IIMs. I prepared as much as I can for one whole year and the yield was an offer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur which I gladly accepted.