Clash of IIM’s

Two of the IIM’s vying for me to such an extent that they have scheduled interviews on the same day, same location and all. Indore gets a headstart of 1 hour starting from 8:30 AM.

Couldn’t these institutes get together and come up with a solution that will prevent these things. With the IIM’s declaring that they will go online from next year, couldn’t they use some of the IT infrastructure that would be coming into place to manage a small thing as this. And I am not alone. Very many people have got clashing schedules this year. I might be the only one who won’t try for a change. I might just get lucky and manage to attend both at the cost of one this way. The administration process as a whole is ridiculous but they get away with it because there are about 300,000 people trying to get into those institutes, or at least filling the forms every year. Can’t they have a common interview panel and a defined set of criteria to choose students. But I guess they dont have to try because the numbers are in their favor. Also the way they pick students, they are already picking those that will succeed. I mean if they hold the admission and convocation together, it won’t make much difference to either the people going in or the companies recruiting they. They just intend to give them a free and cozy place to stay for a couple of years so that they can extract their pound of flesh later. Or maybe they do add some value and the day I realize that will be the day I start preparing for the interviews in earnest.

Just saw their schedules today. See for youself.

Indore Interview schedule

Calcutta Interview schedule

Annual Ritual

The annual ritual in question is CAT. I have been filling the form for the last four years. The sequence of events is mostly the same. Fill the form at the last moment. Somewhere between the exam and form filling, I find myself very serious but that last for only a bout a week and I fill no other forms. Then the exams come. After going through the exams I relax a bit. This is the best part of the ritual. I love these exams. The whole exam process, coaching coming out with different solutions and the stuff. One things to note is I am always relaxed during this part of the process. Now comes the scary parts. Yeah, you guessed it right. The results. I panic after the results. No not  because I have done bad, but because I have done rather well and have ended up with the dreaded calls. Now the same agonizing cycle. Reaching the interviews highly unprepared and flunking up all chances. Bunking interviews has also happened.

Now the thing wrong with this is that the circle should start earlier. I am not starving so I have  the luxury of thinking whether I want to do the MBA or not. If yes, from what all places. If having fun for 2 more years is the idea, why not in Europe or somewhere good. What good is doing MBA from India. Not that I might not have fun in Indian colleges but do I really want to do an MBA that badly. What I mean by the circle starting earlier  (if only a circle could start earlier), is that I should evaluate completely whether I want to do an MBA at all or it is just some seasonal hormones which push me to fill the forms and waste 1200 bucks at least and plenty of other things. Like this year, I missed the trip to Goa for which we were preparing so much.