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This place is like a goldmine of knowledge, how much one can take depends on the individual. The system teaches you importance of time and how important deadlines are (I lost a sub-grade once for submitting late by 5 minutes). Never before in my life I thought that 24 hours is less for one day, but then I also never realized how much one could work in 24 hours . This place gives an individual chance to find one's self worth and get clarity. The respect that one gets in society after mentioning the name of this institute is astonishing. But then there are negative aspects, like girls think that all guys in IIM-A are geeks (no, we are not geeks - ok, only a few are ), no wonder most of the guys in here are still single. It's just not an opportunity to learn academically but about so many other aspects as well. My collection of movies, books, music and an empty wallet speaks volumes of such opportunities to spend money on.

Also the lifestyle issues are a big problem. When one is used to sleeping at 3-5 am everyday, how can you blame that pour soul for trying to read a book at 2 am while traveling in train? I wish that fellow passengers could understand this conundrum.

But now for my batch the time has come to leave this virtual world and get back to real society. The two years at this place have been a roller-coaster ride but at the end of it, it is worth each & every second that I've spent here. The placements & jobs are only a small subset of the whole experience but what becomes of one's personality is the important issue.

The countdown to leave the campus has begun but lets hope that there is a bright future ahead for IIM-A's class of 2005.

Signing off as an IIM-A current student and signing in as alumni.

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* Contributed by -
Anuj Arora,
B.Tech. Elect. & Comm., Kurukshetra University,
PGP2, IIM-Ahmedabad.

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