“It’s Vijay’s call”, my dad said to me when I was sleeping like a log after running around to get admission in Jamia Hamdard Campus. I took the phone while my eyes were still closed but couldn’t keep them closed as I could see that my dream had come to pass!
I sprang up from my bed when he told me that the results were out and I need to go to NIPER Mohali in 2 days to appear for GD PI to get a seat in MBA Pharma.
After a few days I started my new life in a single occupancy room in the Campus Hostel. It was as if I was at the confluence of all the possible diversities of India. And I was simply loving it! Although I had many options but I chose to learn Punjabi and Gujarati.
This time fortunately all the subjects were interesting and as usual I used to sit on the front desk, ask questions and take notes in gibberish. I remember, one of the top scorer’s of my class asked me after the first semester exams about how my exams went and how many marks I was expecting. And again it was shocking for everyone when I was no where in the list of top scorer’s.
I went to NIPER without a clear vision. I had no interest in getting the top rank but in just relishing the experience of being there. Unlike many others getting a job was also not the reason although I was fortunate enough to get placed as soon as the placement season started. But soon I found something that was possibly the reason why I’d landed there.
I found that I really enjoyed intellectually stimulating conversations, HBR articles, tracking news of Pharma companies and further using them for discussion. I loved solving all the case studies which Angrish Sir used to curate for us and I believe he was one professor who had identified my interest before I myself could.
Once I went to him asking for more work and he gave me a proper project with PBTI Mohali and I worked on it with some of my class mates. Seeing my interest Anand Sir and Pooja Ma’am gave me the opportunity of being a part of an article which later on got published in a European Journal.
Except for sports and dancing, I don’t think there was any event where I was not involved. I used enjoy it all and I even used to win some of them. But deep inside there was something which was developing in me that I wasn’t good enough and God knows why am I getting these awards and recognitions.
Soon I was able to make some really nice friends we would roam around, eat, celebrate and as my friend had called after a tiring day full of running around to get admission I came back to home after getting myself admission.