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In first year, when you feel liking giving up, seniors come and motivate you. They are like big bros and every dorm has a unique culture, which brings the respective dorm people very close to each other. But if there is wrong combination like mine, my name is Anuj and I'm in reality the Anuj of my dorm, i.e., the youngest, so can be the subject of their fun, but then that is the part and parcel of the game. We sometimes have inter-dorm cricket competition, which starts at 9:00 pm and ends at 4:00 am, but remember, classes are always ON. Sometimes, I feel that I'm living in some monument because no week passes by when we don't have some foreign tourist coming to campus and taking snaps, etc. Exams are very interesting, two exams of three hours each on one day, no PL system and last time we had a bumper prize. Two exams of three and a half hours and four hours on one day, and then talk by C. K. Prahlad, which all were too tired to listen to, although lots of Ahmedabad people were there.

My friends sometimes say that why do I tell all these things to outside people, but my reason is to motivate you people to have a peek into life in here and then study damn hard to get in. Then this system will make you study even harder to pass out. The expectations are different from IIM grads and so is his pay. Company expects something better from us and we have to deliver.

About this last year, this has been an eventful year for IIMs, especially for IIM-A, with CAT scam & the HRD ministry stepping in. We all are quite opposed to it, giving my example; I've taken an educational loan for studies but even then, I prefer taking loan rather than paying less fee. The reason is simple, we don't trust the HRD minister, he has a record of interference in academic decisions and that is the last thing we want.

I'm undecided whether to write another article or not. Have given you account of life here without using any jargons (always felt a strong urge to use them), you all must be tired of reading my articles now. So will decide to continue the series or not based on feedback, till then work hard and party harder.

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* Contributed by -
Anuj Arora,
B.Tech. Eletronics & Communications,
Kurukshetra University,
IIM-Ahmedabad.