No. This is not a blog entry about tea time at IIM-A!! I am trying to compare my remaining tenure at IIM-A PGPX with a typical late afternoon (nearing tea time) on day five of a cricket match poised for a draw. There is stark similarity between the two situations.
As I enter my fifth and last term in December third week, I almost feel like a player getting ready for tea (on day five of test match) and then enduring the post tea session of cricket, which will likely be uneventful and cool, with very little pressure to perform as long as there is no loss of wicket! The idea is to get some practice for the next match before retiring to the dressing room.
The fifth term of PGPX at IIM-A will have all “gyan” type courses; thankfully we are done with all the “rocket-science” type quant-heavy courses. Term five is designed to be low pressure (only comparatively; IIM-A rigor is well known) to let students focus on job hunting (the next innings?) and get all set to go to the dressing room (wherever the job takes PGPXers). The only thing we as students need to deal with are “slow deliveries” from professors (those last few courses) without failing any course, while focussing on the post-exec MBA opportunities. While the pressure on the players (PGPXers) will be seemingly low, they will be toiling hard behind-the-scenes to find a suitable job.
Hopefully like most drawn cricket matches, our “post tea” session will have no surprises in the form of either crazy quiz-heavy courses with tough deliverable schedules, or less-than-expected job offers from “selectors” (read: companies coming to campus for recruiting).
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After five gruelling days (read "five terms") of this test match, I hope it results in an emphatic win for this team and winning favors with "selectors" in the process. A lame draw would be bad !
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