Part - I

Imagine a crack team of ace pilots, at a briefing before an extremely dangerous raid behind enemy lines. Although they are all confident that their training will ensure their success, they also recognize the fact that at the end of the mission, some of the people may not come back into the room.

This is very similar to the situation that exists in the waiting room outside the interview chamber during the placements. The pilots have donned business suits and campus placements are on at XIMB.

At XIMB, we believe that the two years that we spend here are essential to build up this competitive camaraderie in every student that passes out.

The competition here is intense. The unpredictable XAT, followed by the stringent scrutiny of the GD/PIs ensures that the students who get admitted here are the cream of the applicants. In fact less than 1% of all applicants actually make it into the final call list.

The admissions are only the beginning of two years of the toughest schedules that can be found in any B-School in the country. In fact the first term at college goes past in flurry of lectures, surprise-quizzes and presentations.

It is during this term that a student gets to build friendships, which go on to become lifelong associations. The wide variety of people that one gets to meet here is unprecedented. For example, the first week that I was here, I was wondering what I was doing in such a place. The guy sitting next to me was in the Limca Book of Records for being able to memorize and reproduce more than a couple of thousand binary digits (?!?!?!???!) in under four minutes. Then there was this girl who had done her Masters in Germany, another guy from Korea, some guy who was a green belt and one who was a Six-Sigma expert. One thing that I realized is that if you are looking for competition, well you will get lots more than you bargained for.

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* Contributed by -
Maloy Patnaik,
1st Year Student of PGP,
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.