Thursday, September 15, 2011

Decide first

In this very world there are multiple places where you get to learn real stuffs outside the classroom. One of such many places in a B-school.
When a boy or a girl in their mid-twenties start from his or her home with a bag full of emotions he expects to return with the same bag filled with fulfilled expectations. In most of the cases, Yes, he does. But the few months and years that he/she spends in a B-Skul turns out to be completely different than what he had expected. He gets exposure to multiple faces and facets of multiple events. He makes friends (or at least tries to), but fails miserably. This might sound weird to many who expresses his/her MBA days as some of the best days that he/she has spent. But conditions do apply. You gotta be bad and opportunistic, else the system will teach you to be that way. Yeah its good to be opportunistic in today's world, but the question that arises is 'where do you draw the line?'. Do you play the opportunistic game with your friends? With your family? The line gets thinner with every passing moment. You fail to make out what is ethical(also known to be stupid), and what is not(thats the opposite of stupid i.e. smart).
So there is a constant trade off between being smart and being ethical. Its a tough decision to take. Sometimes it fades out that particular purpose of getting into a B-Skul. You fail to decide whether you are here to learn or to cope up with the particular smartness that prevails in the environment. Nevertheless thats a learning too

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