Author Bio:
Snigdha Pathak (IIM Tiruchirapalli PGP 2019-21)
Snigdha Pathak is a second-year PGPM student in IIM Trichy. She has interned with GroupM Media India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore as part of her summer internship. She is a computer science engineer from KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, and has previously worked as a software developer with Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. in Pune.
Engineering graduate – 1.5 years’ work experience in IT – decided to go for an MBA
If I label myself this way, I’m sure millions of aspirants
will be able to relate themselves with me. As I was sitting down, penning my
thoughts about the famous question we get asked in all B-School interviews – “Why
MBA?”, I never realized the significance it’ll have on my upcoming journey.
I have grown to love this question over my one year at IIM
Trichy, as I found the brilliance of this simple, two-worded, seemingly
uncomplicated question. Now, a genuine answer for this requires patience, a lot
of self-introspection, and brutal honesty from us, towards our own selves. And
this one question is actually what starts our MBA journey before we even step
into our favorite colleges.
MBA isn’t a factory, just manufacturing the same kinds of
people year after year. MBA, for me, is embracing my own self. Because when we
do, we realize that we all have a place in this beautiful campus we become a
part of. And as we realize our own abilities, interest, and skills, our B-School
gives us the best platform to hone and own our skills in ways we could never
have imagined. In IIM Trichy, we have a place for dancers, singers, musicians,
painters, sports enthusiasts, and even for (of course) Excel nerds. Whatever and
whoever you are, you’ll have your own place here and you’ll be loved for it.
You’ll do things you never believed you had in yourself, and you’ll do so with
confidence, with grace.
With the diverse batches and the colorful people we meet on campus, who grow out to become friends you’ll cherish for life, you’ll realize that you have embarked on a journey that is about self-exploration, acceptance, and self-actualization. And this is the greatest gift my MBA journey has given me. It has taught me to be more of what I have always been and made me realize that this is what the world actually needs.
From the diverse, sometimes
seemingly innumerable workshops we have going on 24X7 on the campus, we can
choose whatever we want to do, there is always something for each one of us.
You’ll find that you can’t label a day good or bad – you’ll have the worst day
in the morning, which will be turned over completely by the night when you are
out with your friends or in an event by the cultural committee, dancing your
heart out. You’ll find that you have suddenly become this person who knows that
it actually is a fact that there’s no such thing as NO for an answer. You’ll
have the best of days, have friends you’ll cry with, laugh with. You’ll realize
suddenly that at 10 in the night, it’s just when your day has actually begun.
You’ll hate the impossible assignments you get, and while you curse everyone in
the entire cosmos for it, you’ll eventually get it done with your team, even
enjoy the whole process, and love yourself for doing the impossible. From being
overwhelmed to becoming this confident, prepared individual for anything life
throws your way, you’ll not even realize that you have changed. And changed in
the best way possible – that you’ve become a super-hero version of your own
self, just with the exception of a cape.
So, in the end, I’d only like to say this – prepare your Why
MBA well, this is going to be your anchor for the rest of your life. It’ll help
you realize what you have, and want to offer to the world, and what makes you –
you. MBA is a journey you’ll never regret, a journey that seems like one
package from the outside, but is beautifully carved out, somehow magically just
for us – for each one of us.
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