LIFE AT L
Life works in mysterious ways. Its been more than a month now that I have been at IIM Lucknow and even though I have wanted to blog or write something almost every night, i haven’t been able to muster the will to do so. Everytime I look at the comp all my desktop shortcuts stare at me invitingly. Important among those are Caesar IV, Quake III, Warcraft III and of course dc++.
The temptation to play these is so huge that it takes all of my will power to just stop playing and start studying, making presentations, writing assignments, doing tasks, blah blah blah. But the biggest irony is that I am writing this at 5 20 in the evening just a day before the final submission of my law project(which btw is on mergers and acquisitions) waiting for my group mates in the computer centre.
Many times since I have been here and especially at night, questions pop into my head which I know have no answers. Like y am I here? What am I achieving out of life? Am I making the best use of this supposedly wonderful opportunity that has been granted to me? Coz since the time I have arrived, two things have been hammered into my head by everyone who has any experience of this place. 1)identify ur focus area. And work on it. 2)don’t rely on curriculum. Go beyond the curriculum. Use the library. Blah blah blah again.
My problem is that I don’t have a focus area coz I don’t know wht is it tht I want to do. Finance, marketing, systems, operations, IT. Absolutely no idea about any of these. I just want to take life as it comes. And secondly me and the library are as compatible as chalk and cheese (never knew how these two are different and still don’t).
Tho I come out of these deep psychoanalytical sessions pretty quickly, it leaves an effect. And there is no escape. I know that. Coz this has been happening to me since a long time. There have been similar thoughts loads of times during engineering but all turned out well. Hoping for the same here.
Now on to better things. Knowing that this is the first time I am posting from here, let me make it cheerful. This place is truly fantastic. A campus that I have always wanted, all the freedom in the world(not that I lacked it at home) and all the facilities that one can reasonably expect. In fact a few are beyond expectations….cooler in the rooms, pretty decent food, cleaning and washing services, my own room, a gym which is well equipped, a great sharing network , etc. I am loving every minute here expect for those above mentioned periods and few brief periods of home sickness and more than a few brief periods where I miss vami. Still that is not so bad coz we stay in touch quite a lot but nothing can beat the actual meeting and roaming arnd. This does not even come close to it. But the fact that it is atleast this much is smoething that I shkd be happy about.
I have found a few good friends. Know quite a lot of ppl in my hostel and my section. Am still pathetic with names and there are 281 students in my batch. Worst is when I forget the name of the person who is going to speak after me in our group presentations and I have to address him as my friend. Already happened twice to me.
The parties here are great if u r an alcoholic, good if u r not. I have had a drink in the first party and since then nothing. In fact I have already built a reputation as a non alcoholic. I usually hang out with 4 other ppl from my hostel all of whom are die hard non vegetarians and one is a non alcoholic. It is good for me as I get to order a special veg pizza all for myslf whenever we order from dominoes(25% discount for IIM students). Haven’t been to the city yet coz of transport issues but now three of those five (the three alcoholics) have got bikes and there r plans to go out after our mid term exams. And the best part is that both me and naveen(the other non alcoholic….IIT Roorkee…pulp and paper engineering….fresher) do not know how to ride a bike. We r going to learn soon so that we both can drive when the others are drunk.
Other than that life is pretty smooth here with all the regular submissions and other things going on. Its definitely more hectic than engineering (anything on this earth would be) but not a problem either. I miss being in Bombay tho. Nothing beats that. I have realized that now (happy vami) and more than that I miss all my friends and the mandir and other sessions that we had. Tho slowly everyone is disappearing and moving on with their lives.
One thing I do know is that wherever we r now, we shall always be friends and very good friends at that. Nothing can now break the bond that we share. Whether we r in us pune bhubaneshwar mysore wherever.
Boy am I going mad. I think it is because I haven’t had a bath since Saturday morning(today is Sunday btw ) and I need to freshen up. One thing I forgot….there r an awful number of insects here of all shapes and sizes but they do not bother me at all. I must have killed more insects in one month than I have in my whole life.
Anyways bye for now. Will write sometime later. Cant promise when but I will.
And I like hearing from all of u guys out there (the only ones who might probably read this blog) so keep writing. And have fun guys. bye
