As a student with prior work experience, for me my tenure at IIM Lucknow was far more dear than it would have been had I landed here straight out of college. I was aware of the hefty demands of a corporate job, I valued the student lifestyle here all the more. It’s impossible to count the number of occasions where I’d walk out of class intending to go to my room to complete some work, and would instead end up spending hours on the way meeting people, talking about random topics to even life philosophy. The body-clock and sleep cycles were re-defined and re-adjusted to the B-school clocks, the timelines adjusted to the XX:59:59.
B-school life teaches you to handle ample pressure-so much so that by the time year 2 rolls around, everyone is a pro at juggling assignments, quizzes, submissions and still find a LOT of time to chill. Yet, ask around, and most people would say they almost never found time to stay as much in touch with the friends outside as they would have wanted, because that’s how B-school life is-it is a world of its own, which sucks you in, makes you one of its own and leaves an everlasting mark.
If I begin to think what all will I miss, I would be lost-there is just so much that can’t even be listed. The beautiful, huge, green campus which has been a subject of admiration and through whose roads so many discussions have happened over walks. The hostel life, which, I’ve been told, is far different from the undergrad hostel life because there is just so much more happening in any given moment in a B-School. The friends-with whom I’ve seen the super pressure to the super lazy days. The classes, where we’ve learnt-not just from books and professors but from a lot of neighbor discussions. The mess-which is simply unimaginably awesome here, especially the night mess which has been everything from a savior for the lazy dinner-skippers to a place to socialize for the late sleepers. The time in Europe-which helped me know my own self so much better. I realize I’m rambling, but that’s what happens when memories flow faster that you can process them into words.
All in all, I’d say, if my time at my undergrad school shaped me, my time at IIM Lucknow taught me that limits are to be tested-by pushing me to my limits and making me grow further.
B-school life is ending, but the journey has just begun.
Adios amigos! Till we meet again!
Here’s PGP30289, signing off-Branded for life!
Picture Credits: Right Angles-The photography club of IIML's Facebook page
(This article is written by Swati Thakur, a supposed economist, proven day-dreamer, self-certified poet. She is a PGP student at IIM Lucknow, batch of 2016 and is the Creative Head and Core Coordinator of the Media and Communication Cell at IIM Lucknow.)
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