Entry into the Virtual Portals of the haloed XLRI

It feels so good to be able to talk about something I’ve always pursued but which kind of eluded me for years together, yes I’m talking about management education and this isn’t my first attempt at it, in fact with each passing year I’ve kind of progressed from procuring application form, to writing entrance test, to paying the first installment but somehow none of these efforts culminated into certification.
Having previously dropped from management education in various stages, at this point I’m not too sure about blaming circumstances, my lack of commitment or a combination of both. For all you know it also could be the stars (at least my horoscope says so- “Ucch Siksha mein badha” -obstacles in higher education).

But surprisingly I’ve been relentless, with each failed steps my hunger for education has only grown not diminished and because of that here I am, all set to appear for the first set of end-term examinations after religiously attending classes for close to three months every weekend.

I write, so this blog ideally should have been up and running from the very beginning but then I was not too sure about the experience and hence now that it has been firmly established that taking up the PGCBM course for XLRI was the best thing that could have happened to my career in terms of learning, I’ve thought of putting up a chronicle of the experiences in the virtual portals of one of the top most management education institute in India.

So what’s my intention behind this blog; loosely put without any order of importance-
a) I’m a blogger, I need to write and I need contexts.
b) I found that the student’s community is really vibrant and a forum where we can discuss and share a few perspectives would be helpful.
c) Given that there is a time constraint and lack of face-to-face interaction, it was important to find a way out for putting forth our ideas and ruminating over them as a group to promote learning.

I’ll write about the most recent stuff and seek your opinion and at the same time I’ll go back and write about the earlier sessions too till we reach a point where the entire portion is covered. I’ve shared my story- what’s yours?