An awakening...!!!

Last month we got an unexpected mini-vacation(courtesy... Swine flu). Almost everyone of us had gone home. We met our pre-mbs friends after a gap of almost 4 months. We had a time of our lives. Long chats, parties, nostalgia, all rolled into one. That’s when it struck me. Those fellows... chums... are not very different from the new friends I made here. Staying away from fellow trendsetters for just 4 days made me realise how much I love these guys. It is true ‘Distance is a great teacher’. When we are around 24/7 we don’t realise it. Every moment I was thinking of coming back to school. After returning, I realised, this feeling was same across the batch, Sparsh’s bday party was a testament to that.

Term 2 started with a bang. Never thought International Business would be such fun(Prof. Venky is too much...) and Uncle Bala teaching Management Accounting(He’s a master of his art). Coming back the grind started again. But I felt the difference. The group dynamics had changed. We always sat together as groups to solve the case studies. Now groups were sitting together as a big team, tackling problems, solving doubts. The better ones were teaching and guiding the lesser mortals irrespective of what groups she/he belonged to. Frankly this never happened before. We have become a family now. Like all families, we study together, party together, even fight together and once we are done fighting, we party harder.

I think this is what Dr. Rai wanted us to be. Humane managers. We are becoming ones. We are better at our subjects now. The business immersion’s in place. Many companies are accepting this new format of management studies. We have a green signal from various Brands for interns as well as working opportunities. Life’s on the move. Deep inside I feel, rather we all feel, that we are with a set of likeminded individuals. There comes a time in everyone’s life when she/he thinks beyond her/his personal accomplishments. I think we are doing well. We are still learning. Every dawn sees the end of a dark night.

That’s a small realisation I wanted to share with any and everyone. I now look at this college with a different view... MBS is no longer our school... not anymore... It’s a home away from home.

Bhushan Vishwasrao

Trendsetter # 30

A proud MBSite.