Harsh realities
Venkat talks about the harsh realities of LIFE AT L
in his post "reality check"..It just brings to light the utter
truthlessness in certain myths we have been fed over the
years..
You join a school and you heare your teacher say
slog when you are here ,so that later you get into a good
engineering/medical college and life after that will be full of
roses..Enter a professional college and the realities blow you
apart.Survival becomes a big issue in a medical college.
Survival in an engineering colllege requires a different set of skills
none of which require you to be hard working,intelligent or smart.
Here people worry about maintaining a good percentage ,so that
some software company suffer the ignominy of recruiting us.
Once inside a software company, you have exit tests to worry about.
Performance improvement programs cause little more than a headache.
Not long ago ,I heard "When we are talking of MBA ,we are looking at
the next 50-60 years of our career.No retirements..so a good b-school
and you have taken care of the next 50 years.."
Once inside a b-school, its again a question of survival..
I wonder where this will end ?I would like to imagine
life without these necessary evils..While these balances are necessary
in life ,what is painful is that more often than not, people
incharge of these checks are not qualified enough...
Venkat says cracking CAT is a childsplay
in comparison to Life after that...
My immediate worry is to excel in that childsplay..
As the countdown in PG says only 78 days to go..............................
in his post "reality check"..It just brings to light the utter
truthlessness in certain myths we have been fed over the
years..
You join a school and you heare your teacher say
slog when you are here ,so that later you get into a good
engineering/medical college and life after that will be full of
roses..Enter a professional college and the realities blow you
apart.Survival becomes a big issue in a medical college.
Survival in an engineering colllege requires a different set of skills
none of which require you to be hard working,intelligent or smart.
Here people worry about maintaining a good percentage ,so that
some software company suffer the ignominy of recruiting us.
Once inside a software company, you have exit tests to worry about.
Performance improvement programs cause little more than a headache.
Not long ago ,I heard "When we are talking of MBA ,we are looking at
the next 50-60 years of our career.No retirements..so a good b-school
and you have taken care of the next 50 years.."
Once inside a b-school, its again a question of survival..
I wonder where this will end ?I would like to imagine
life without these necessary evils..While these balances are necessary
in life ,what is painful is that more often than not, people
incharge of these checks are not qualified enough...
Venkat says cracking CAT is a childsplay
in comparison to Life after that...
My immediate worry is to excel in that childsplay..
As the countdown in PG says only 78 days to go..............................
posted by Ram at 11:58 PM
5 Comments:
Nice to have you back after a really long time.
Probably the only time you have less worries(not none!!) is probably after you get retired. Till then..its a tough life and Darwin rulez("survival of the fittest!!)
it is really good to see you back blogging.
for some people CAT is childs play and for some it really tuf.
as far as CAT goes the fittest will survive.
if you got time plz visit my blog
strikehot.blogspot.com
All this uncertainity gives us this kick..
All this struggle all day makes life worth living..
Good to see you back on the blogosphere !
Just browsin thru
don't take CAT too seriously dood
Its an exam after all, people tend to forget that.
awesome., so you are back online.. good. that one silly crap of an incident would not get you down. :)
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