My Rustic Journal

We'll all soon be off, on another exciting journey, To a destination yet unknown. To be called Organization Trainees! With no inkling of what lies ahead, A rising anxiety in the mind, But excited as we are about new things that we may find! New people, new places, new traditions and an opportunity few people ever get. I' m sure it ll be an experience that none of us will ever forget! The aim is to explore better ways of doing same old things, But above all is, to explore ourselves to become better human beings! So here's wishing you all Good Luck, with your OU and OAC. With hopes to meet you soon After these Eight Weeks!! # We'll be off for our trainee-ship for 8 weeks from 31st May, 2010 to 24th July, 2010. We are supposed to perform two tasks - the Organizational Understanding (OU) and Organizational Action Component (OAC) This is my first attempt at writing a full fledged poem :)

Thoughts expressed here are those of the author himself and he will not be held responsible for any consequences, whatsoever they may be, emanating out of trying to follow him in his myriad endeavors! Lessons in hygiene that i have been taking from a variety of people keep ringing in my head all the time. Initially, there were moms and teachers who told us to not to throw our socks here and there after school and now, there are girlfriends who never mind giving lectures on how to keep your room clean. But, one just wonders, what if the importance of hygiene was twisted on its head to mean the importance of non-hygiene???            The idea flashed through my head during one of those discussions about field-work that are a common exercise in IRMA. Just to give the unaware a bit of light, field-work is a part of our curriculum here where we are supposed to live in a village for two months and come out of it alive. I mean, you have ...

Another few days went missing on my blogosphere. And this wasn't because I did not have anything to write but more because i was busy coping up with a new way of life called IRMA. So we are almost into our third week of classes here and there have already been loads of things to write down. Finishing off the boring acads part first... The profs are really good...sitting in class i sometimes imagine what wud i do if i did not know this....and 'this' here could be anything about human behavior, accounts, economics etc etc. The rural part of management keeps popping its head up every now and then and at least i enjoy it :) Though quite a few ppl here who wud like to end up in a corporate job after two years sometimes hate it. So talking about people... got a chance to meet quite a few of them. Met some wierdos and some extraterritorial species as well... the sex ratio is pretty normal for an MBA school (30:110) i guess. Haven't interacted with the girls much as we have...

This has to be one of my best experiences of giving an Interview (haven't given many before :D). But seriously, must be said that the Group Discussions and Interviews were very well conducted. And they don't give a damn to your certificates or how u dress. I went in with my floaters on and no one questioned me even once!!! PS : That said, not wearing formal shirts and trousers would be going a bit over the top! It all began at precisely 9:00 am when we got our name tags. We then had a briefing session which was followed by question-answer round where the director was himself there to answer our queries.I was very impressed by him :) One thing that everyone there makes it very clear right from the beginning is that MBA at IRMA is not something anyone can do...u need to have a feeling towards rural mgmt. We were divided into three groups (instead of 4) as attendance was low...just 28 out of 40. I was in group 1 so our Group Discussion started immediately. The topic given was ...