Its now a different feeling altogether. My new job has begun; rather my job has begun. After 2 years of a memorable student life at NMIMS, I am back to what most people do throughout their adulthood - do their job, earn money, go through their routines etc etc. I am now a part of all this and plan to be at least for a considerable period of time :) . Its been just a week and there are mixed thoughts. Sometimes, those student days seem already so far away, and sometimes it feels as if , it was just yesterday that I even landed up with the offer to join NMIMS !
Suddenly, the thought dawns on to me. My student life is done and dusted! I am never going to be a student again, never going to sit in the classroom, no more dozing off in those boring lectures, or studying for those namesake exams, no more classroom level ppts, or the googling efforts to make those in the first place. There is nothing of that sort now going to happen unless of course i require to do it in my professional life. Student life is a very unique thing. While in that phase, we normally keep on cribbing about the professors, the home assignments that they give us, the boring lectures that they deliver, the studying that we need to do, the exams that we need to appear for, the academic submissions that we need to make and so on. But interestingly, and I have observed this more from my post-engineering experience rather than post-MBA (Since its been just a few days since MBA was accomplished (?) ), it is these small things itself that give us the fond memories which we keep on reviving time and again. The camaraderie we shared with buddies, those anxious moments when we had to complete an assignment within the stipulated deadline etc. Those deadlines now seem very childish. A moment here and there, a mark here and there, or a grade above or below, does it really matter any more? What remains behind is the memories and the good time spent together..and then isn't that what is really important? Life is more than the marks, more than simply earning money; developing good bondings and having a good time is more important. This is not to say that we do nothing and just while our time away :D
At the time of convocation, while enjoying the moment of glory, the moment for which I strove and yearned for almost 3 years - right from preparing for the entrance exams and followed by the 2 years of actually doing the MBA - a simple fact of life crossed across my mind. I am sure most of us will agree with this -
There are certain moments for which u strive so hard, make so many sacrifices, and pray to time to bring them to you all so ever quickly; but when these moments do arrive, you actually want the time to stop then and there !
The Convocation was surely one of these things :)
Suddenly, the thought dawns on to me. My student life is done and dusted! I am never going to be a student again, never going to sit in the classroom, no more dozing off in those boring lectures, or studying for those namesake exams, no more classroom level ppts, or the googling efforts to make those in the first place. There is nothing of that sort now going to happen unless of course i require to do it in my professional life. Student life is a very unique thing. While in that phase, we normally keep on cribbing about the professors, the home assignments that they give us, the boring lectures that they deliver, the studying that we need to do, the exams that we need to appear for, the academic submissions that we need to make and so on. But interestingly, and I have observed this more from my post-engineering experience rather than post-MBA (Since its been just a few days since MBA was accomplished (?) ), it is these small things itself that give us the fond memories which we keep on reviving time and again. The camaraderie we shared with buddies, those anxious moments when we had to complete an assignment within the stipulated deadline etc. Those deadlines now seem very childish. A moment here and there, a mark here and there, or a grade above or below, does it really matter any more? What remains behind is the memories and the good time spent together..and then isn't that what is really important? Life is more than the marks, more than simply earning money; developing good bondings and having a good time is more important. This is not to say that we do nothing and just while our time away :D
At the time of convocation, while enjoying the moment of glory, the moment for which I strove and yearned for almost 3 years - right from preparing for the entrance exams and followed by the 2 years of actually doing the MBA - a simple fact of life crossed across my mind. I am sure most of us will agree with this -
There are certain moments for which u strive so hard, make so many sacrifices, and pray to time to bring them to you all so ever quickly; but when these moments do arrive, you actually want the time to stop then and there !
The Convocation was surely one of these things :)
