2. The doubtful ones – The common misconception that is harboured by many a student in B-schools is that almost all the other students or at least a huge chunk of them are smarter than them. This might be true to a certain extent, but, can the people who have cracked the entrance exams with almost the same scores be starkly different from one another? Well, it is this inferiority complex that inhibits some students from performing to the best of their capabilities as they feel their views will not be respected and will be laughed upon.
3. People with different priorities – B-schools are known for moulding students into all-rounders. Apart from the regular classes, there are a lot many activities happening almost every day. Here, you have different sets of people who give importance to different things. This may be due to -
- Too much involvement in non-academic pursuits like activities of Committees, Clubs etc.
- Too much involvement in academically unproductive activities (you know what we mean!) – This group comprises of party animals, victims of excessive wanderlust and the perennially homesick babies
- Too much involvement in many academic activities, all at the same time. (Biting more than you can chew!)
4. The poor time managers – The one important thing that B-school life teaches students is judicious time management. These are the people who, even though have no intentions of free-riding, but end up doing so because of poor scheduling and the fact that they are never able to manage all things in time.
5. The hypochondriacs – These people are perennially sick. Every other time, they can come up with some new ‘imaginary’ disease to chicken out of contributing to group-work.
6. The ‘true’ leaders – They are true leaders in real sense as they end up doing nothing more than delegation of work amongst the group members. They feel they have contributed significantly by just ordering and not doing anything more substantial.
7. The Sleep-lovers – They are the ones who feel ‘sleep’ is the elixir of their life. They cannot compromise on it at any cost. But, believe it or not, almost all of us fall into this category.
There cannot be a thorough distinction between the different categories as overlaps may happen depending on the personality of the free rider. Most of them are glib speakers and can neatly wrap lies in a manner in which people might not even realize they are lying.
We all have adopted either of these tactics sometime or the other in life to flinch away from working hard. In the end, all that we need to learn is - Work & let others work!
- Venu Merh
About Venu
An Upantya Visharad in Hidustani Sangeet and in Bharatnatyam, Venu has been the epitome of versatility and consistency throughout school and college life. An EC engineer, she was a member of AIESEC & NU Tech where she managed various activities. She is a big Sheldon Cooper fan, loves micro blogging and working for stray animal welfare. She is currently a management student at IIM Kozhikode (Class of 2015).
Twitter handle - @foodasaur
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Comments
Mukund Kabra
Lol.. What about the people for whom learning takes place only outside the class rooms (Competitions)
29 Jul 2014, 02.55 PM