Lessons we’ve learnt already
The ISB teaches you a lot of important things about business strategies, finance and so on, but there are a few things you need to learn on your own. These are lessons that not only help us come to terms with our lives here better but also stand us in good stead going forward in life.
Here are a few such learnings that we have picked up already:
- We have learnt how to hold good, intelligent-sounding conversations on any business issue, overcoming minor obstacles such as lack of any actual knowledge on the subject. Jargon-dropping is a fine art that, when mastered, can make you the intellectual centre-point of any dinner-table conversation, and we are rapidly hurtling towards the Dean’s list as far as learning this skill is concerned.
- We’ve also learnt that this conversation-technique is no good when it comes to trying to impress women at parties and other random gatherings.
- It doesn’t matter how many ‘shortest path’ problems you master, you’ll never figure out the shortest path to the Lecture Theatre you are trying to get to, and will make at least three wrong guesses along the way. Mastering the shortest path to the 08 lounge is, however, an entirely different matter altogether.
- We’ve figured out the explanation behind the popular ‘ISB gives you only four hours of sleep’ legend that we kept hearing about, and it has something to do with the fact that typically, the duration of classes each day comes to roughly four hours.
- Starving, going on a green chilli diet, eating two-day old food, praying hard are all popular methods that are used to make Sarovar food seem like a tastier option.
- None of the above methods work.
- The grass is always greener on the other SV.
- The only deadline you can default on is the deadline to submit this particular article for the alum newsletter. No, wait....