A Day at IMT
Ghaziabad
- by Sanjeev Prakash *
A typical day at IMT Ghaziabad
begins at 8:00 am in the morning. For most of the people, classes start at 8:30
am. Most of the half hour goes away in somehow managing to get ready and not
missing that elusive breakfast.
Somehow I make in time for the first class just before the door closes promising
myself tomorrow I will wake up in time and have breakfast. Then for next five
hours I learn about Kotler, Porter, Drucker, etc., and how do we apply their
theories in the numerous cases we do everyday. By 1:30 pm, I am very hungry and
can't wait to get to the mess.
Going in to the mess for lunch
again and hoping today the lunch would not be that bad. (IMT has one of the best
messes in the country but the problem is how much mess food can one take?) Well
who can beat the inevitable and there is nothing new at the mess. One good
advantage of eating in the mess is you get to hear all the latest news and more
importantly the buzz on the campus. Nothing beats community eating.
Walking to the room after lunch,
one cannot help but notice the drooping eyes of your mates around you. From 2:30
pm to around 5:00 pm, IMT sleeps. There is literally no activity. Even
submissions and projects take a backseat at this time.
Around 5:00 pm, I wake up and
decide what to do now. I decide to go and play badminton. As usual, there are
quite a few people lined up to play badminton so I am lucky if I manage to get
in a game, meet a few of my group members at the court who inform me that we
have a group meeting for an OB project at 10:00 pm in Saumya's room, so I decide
to go to the library and do a bit of research. I get quite a bit of information
from the state-of-the-art library. Getting back to the room I decide to get some
studying done before its time for dinner.
After dinner, which was good as
there was chicken biryani, we meet up at Saumya's room and have a healthy
discussion on the current practices followed in organizations. This is the best
time to be at IMT. It is totally happening and vibrant and there is a lot of
noise and activity going around the campus. At around 1:00 am, there is the
usual power cut for around five minutes, which means we should break up the
meeting and signal the start of free hours. Now till 3:30 am all that I am going
to do is watch a movie. After the movie, I can barely keep myself awake so I lie
down on the bed and the best part of staying on campus is that as soon as you
touch the bed you are asleep, dreaming of the mega bucks you are going to make
once you pass out of IMT.
