Powerpoint and Excel are going to be your best friends. If they’re strangers to you now, try to get familiar with them before getting into MBA. Once your course starts, you’ll just keep pushing through everything and be knowing these two beforehand will save you a lot of time and end up being a great help for class presentations and competitions.
Learning opportunities outside the classroom are just as much if not more than the ones in the class. The learning curve is steep, you learn new things at an exponential rate and it gets difficult to manage all the subjects and keep track of what all is happening. Sometimes you’ll have 6 hours of non-stop classes on the same subject and sometimes you’ll have a month between two classes of the same subject!
Finally, know that MBA is the road, not the destination. Don’t think of this as the end goal of your life and you’ll be just fine. And in case all of this feels overwhelming and a little scary, it is. But the good part is you’re not alone and you will be having so much fun doing all of the things the campus has to offer that very soon you learn to ‘manage’ it. There’s a lot to do and miraculously we do it all and still find time for those spontaneous jam sessions in the night canteen. You need those to keep you sane in this whirlwind of the classes, the guest lecture sessions, the extracurriculars, projects, competitions, and evaluations.
Know more about Life at SIBM Pune and my journey to MBA here: Coffee with SIBM Pune
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