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What comes to our minds when we talk about IIMs, XLRI, Jamnalal Bajaj, FMS, etc...? A community of world's leading business thinkers, outstanding peers, accomplished executives, salaries like non-terminating number series, slick professionals with their think pads, great professors with their management mantras, brilliant students exuberating self-confidence. Life at a B-school offers much more than all this.

A typical day starts at 6.00 in the morning by grabbing a pink business paper, analyzing the current business scenario. A quick breakfast at 8.30 in the morning, a strategy development session at 11.00 am, a canteen refresher meal at 3:00 in the afternoon while having a light talk with friends and professors, a presentation at 6.00 in the evening and a field survey at 8.00 in the night is just a glimpse of a peculiar day in a B-school. Not to mention that in between the available time, you would have analyzed Reliance Infocomm strategy, Bharti's deviation from its core competency, India's remarkable GDP growth, effect of the weakening dollar, etc.

Most prospective students know that the academic experience at a B-school is rigorous and challenging. It prepares graduates to succeed in managerial endeavor.

The pride of the Institute is over 4000 alumni, working in highly prestigious positions in Fortune 500 and top 100 Indian companies.

But that's only half the story...

B-school is a place that's stimulating, exciting, and fun. A place that has something interesting happening every day of the year. A place that encourages students to pursue their interests and explore their imagination.

From being an integral part of the Annual Paper Presentation in Business Conferences like Strategym, to writing a Business Plan for a start-up company, to helping a non-profit organization better achieve its mission, forms the part of day-to-day life in a B-school. The B-school experience is also about inspiring future managers to ask the probing questions and discover innovative answers as they develop the skills that they need to be leaders and architects of their own destiny.

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Brijesh Singh is an alumnus of Mumbai's Jamnalal Bajaj institute of Management Studies (Class of 2002). He has written regularly on MBA preparation. He is now Project Head, Top Careers and You (www.tcyonline.com), the leaders in MBA, MCA, GRE & GMAT preparation in Punjab.