The JOKA spirit........

Last few days were very very busy for me.The CV submission time had arrived.And a CV submission at an IIM atleast at IIMC is not a joke.It is a marathon process where you have to create a master CV first highlighting every little thing that you have done throughout your life.You might feel that its unimportant but believe you me there are a lot of unimportant things that can be projected beautifully to appeal to someone who is to read your CV.

The master CV submission date was the 22nd of august.But that was just half the job done.Infact not even half.The CVs to be created here have to be one pagers where you try and cramp in as many points as you can in one page and still make it look great.Now the thing is that you might have awesome points but unless they come across as awesome, you wont attract a lot of shortlists.

The end term exams for the first term finished on the 11th this month and since then we have been after creating a final one page CV which would attract employers.And believe me its an experience.Sleeping at 4 in the night after you have met 10 seniors in a day to get their opinions.That is where the JOKA spirit comes in.And its an awesome thing.Seniors have helped me turn a nothing CV into a great looking one now(atleast I think so).These seniors were helped by their seniors.Now its upon us to uphold their faith in us and repay them with some amazing placements this year.

And believe me we will!!! 

Of teams and team work.....

I have been having some novel experiences since I have landed up at this place.For the first time in my life I am facing surprise quizzes,projects ,assignments and presentations.But the most enjoyable of all these experiences has been working in a team to create an analysis of the movie GUIDE for our Behavioural Sciences project.

Frankly when I was put into this team of 11 people almost 2 months ago now, I won't say that I was feeling very happy about what I would be doing with a bunch of guys I did not know.Also I thought that 11 is too large a number for a presentation.The group hardly met over the first 1 and a half month.We did meet once for deciding the movie where I am not sure how we reached a consensus on GUIDE which I had no idea about as I had not seen it.

Anyway this project was to contribute 20% to our overall grade so we finall decided to meet up like a week before the presentation.As we started to get to know each other better,I realized that these guys were a bunch of very talented people and I slowly started enjoying all the meetings that we used to have.We decided that we wanted to do a narrative intermingled with a role play.Slowly over the due course of meetings we started completing the content and finally today we did 2 dry runs minutes before the presentations were to begin.Our presentation took place today.And I would like to think that we did well.

You know this experience made me realize a few things about myself.None more important than the realization that I could be a part of groups and could contribute well.I had always thought of myself as a pretty individualistic guy and the one team experience I had had acdemically before this was not so great.But I must say that I enjoyed the last week spent working on the project a lot.I know this place will give me a lot of other opportunities to work in teams and now I really look forward to them.