Its Your MBA

Hey! Its Friday but it seems as if last day was Monday!

This is not at all an exaggeration of whats happening in my life. And I am enjoying it to the most- cos after all, its ‘My MBA’. The ‘orienters’ taught us some ‘mantras’ about Cranfield MBA:

It’s Your MBA- you have to plan it and execute it the way you want!
The more you put in, the more you get.
Don’t study, only socialise. MBA will help only for 1-2 years but the network you build will last forever.
Any score above 51% is waste of effort.

There were many more teachings but these were the prominent rather the funniest ones.

From Monday, our normal classes began and our teachers & faculty finally came into action. But the impact which our ‘fresh alumni’ made on us will last with me forever and ever. They were so energetic, cheerful and motivated people.

The classes are going on very well- faculty is great and all very experienced guys. There are lectures by professionals from various backgrounds in evenings (not daily) and I try not to miss any opportunity to listen to them.

On thursday evening, we had 70s n 80s night where everybody was dressed up in that attire. It was a fantastic evening. There were drinks, food n music and of course dance too. Great fun! We have many more such weekly events coming our way. And I am very eagerly looking forward to more of such get-togethers.

In between I try to squeeze out some time to play badminton. Even if it’s for half hour I do go, as the badminton courts are just a minute’s walk from my place and of course I love this game. There are many more opportunities to try various games and new experiences.

This week also saw ‘AT Kearney’ visiting the campus and giving a presentation on ‘AT Kearney Annual MBA Consultancy Competition’. This is a competition in which various European schools participate and the team which wins the European competition will compete with the American winner. In the first round, 10 teams from Cranfield will participate, out of which 3 will move to next round. From these 3, only one will go further to compete at European stage.

Our batch is full of active people and there were 19 teams which wanted to participate; ATK allowed only 10! So it was decided by our careers team that 10 teams will be screened out of 19 on the basis of a 5-minute presentation. My team includes Anil, Marina (from Russia) and Ugo (from Nigeria). We purposely wanted to have a diverse team and we gave the name of ‘Synergy Consulting’ to our team and our team has been screened through for the first round. Gosh…..what a great relief!!!!