After investing close to a lac of rupees on b school forms and interview expenses, finally I have joined IIFT Delhi. I was dying to take a break from my job and had it been any college (if not IIFT), I would have joined. But with IIFT, I was a bit happy as its one of the better known colleges in the country.
I joined here on 1st July and it has been close to two weeks now. Each of the past 13 days has been different in some way or the other. It is a batch of 159 people from all over the country. So, one thing that is for sure is variety. Moreover we have got guys from all sorts of fields, starting from IT guys to fashion specialists, from 11 yrs work ex guys to 20 yr old boys. It was this variety which I had been searching for so long. Although I have hardly known a little over 70 guys in the batch, but I am sure within a coupla months I will get to know all. The professors at IIFT are good. The workload is not as much as I had expected it to be, but I am enjoying the free time. The initial two-three days were great when the seniors conducted some PDPs (only IIFTians can understand what these "Personality Development Programmes" are) but because of a few problems they had to be stopped midway. I guess life would have been a lot different if they had continued. The meetings of Placecom and other clubs have already begun. I have decided to get into the quizzing, marketing and consult clubs. On the flip side the infrastructure here is not very good. A little improvement in the infrastructure can make this place a lot better.
Apart from other things I have decided to get back to quizzing and nurture my dream of first hand involvement in a theatre group, in these two years. Though my parents have strictly advised to concentrate entirely on my studies but I see no point in studying and getting great scores. I feel that its better to be an above average guy over here and enjoy, probably the last two years of father-earns-son-spends time. Hope my dad does not come across this.
See you..after a yr... :)
( My blog becomes alive once in a year)
