Present & Beyond!

By Anshuman Choudhary (MBA 21-23)

As legendry Raj Kapoor once said, “The show must go on”; our MBA journey resembles pretty much the same. With no hopes of attending college to little hope when the doors got open, we all drove ourselves through this ambiguous yet eventful journey.

Looking back at the peer to peer sessions, I believe they set the foundation of our batch’s core strength. With a gentle mix of (little) study and (lots of) fun activities, we got our knowledge transfer covered. The batch of 23 was so proactive, that, the online setup couldn’t hold us up from having our share of celebrations. Be it “Cake cutting-From-Home” or “Late-Night-Gang-Calls”, we covered them all.

Being the 90s kids, from the times of Tom & Jerry, the best part about us is that we were never the Toms or the Jerrys alone, but we always were the Toms & Jerrys together, and it is this togetherness that distinct us.

From winning case studies to organizing fantastic events, from covering attendance to discussing exam shortcuts the night before, from ugly fights to crazy nights, from sharing to caring, and from Aarambh to Adhyant, we have taken SIOM a few notches uphill.

And now, There lies a bigger challenge in front of us, an open sea, full of competition and opportunities, where we are on the field for ourselves, all alone!!

Some might disagree about being alone, and it even might be correct on their part. After all, we surely have such exemplary friendships, relationships, and bonding that we all can count upon. New companies, new colleagues, new environments, and new challenges, all along with carrying the legacy of SIOM, the task is humongous, but so are we!!

We didn’t stop when lectures were from 9 to 9, we didn’t stop either when 10 assignments had deadlines in the upcoming 2 days, rather we thrived even when we had multiple exams on a singleday; it was not just Student-DRIVEN in our case, it was Student-ACCELARATED!!

Personally, this push has and even will help me to take on more. And I thoroughly believe, that a few years from now, when we have our reunion, we all will rejoice about our progressions, not only professionally but on a personal level as well.

With this, I feel let’s brace ourselves for the extreme transition; one from meeting numerous faces numerous times to hardly getting to meet; one from studies and exams to projects and deadlines; one from let’s meet to plan to let’s plan to meet; and one from being students to being professionals!!

There will be unclosed stories, there will be unfulfilled desires, there will be a sense of underachievement, that being the present, beyond all, there will be a vast network of individuals, relation with a great set of faculties, and finally, that one person/bunch of persons, whom we will truly miss, but who will make the Bid-Adieu easier with the sense of earning the person into our lives. And in the end, time heals it all!!