The NMIMS Chronicles

(The title may not be apt but I just had to have a killer title, I hope the article is too ;)
If you spend 3 years of your life anywhere, doing anything you are bound to make it a part of you (whether you like it or not).So goes with my 3 years at my college (NMIMS, of course).And as always everyone feels that their story is worth telling and better than the rest . So do I ;). Seriously though, my story is good...See...That’s what I am talking about. But I’ll leave it up to you to decide…
…Sometime during the summer holidays in Year 2007
I had been attending classes regularly for the BMS entrance exam (CCEE, I think) preparation. I got this leaflet about a new course offered by NMIMS (I have heard of NM, what the hell is IMS for?)
BMS entrance scrapped, holy s***
I had already screwed my 12th boards (thanks to the distractions in my life, especially this chic who sat right in front of me during the exam’s), that was my only opportunity (of not doing B.COM, I wanted to do something worthwhile) and I dint even get a chance to blow it myself.BMS cut off‘s were breaking records (as if they were competing with Sachin) and so there dint seem to be much light at the end of the tunnel.
NMIMS, my savior
After all had been lost, this was my last chance to do something in management (ok, administration) but it was not as easy as I thought it would be .No, not the exam, that was easy (I had prepared enough for the BMS entrance). I had been the last (or second last maybe) person to get the form (yeh, that’s me, I wait for the last minute…literally), then later that night (a Saturday) I realized that I had to send the form to Delhi… by Monday! That was the time God sent Blue dart to my rescue, who could get it to Delhi in a day.
Then came the exam which as I said, was not the problem. The personal interview went well too. My rank was 55 after all that, but I still dint make it in the first list (Damn you gujju quota) and I had no choice but to try other colleges.
A week later at 6 A.M
My friend calls me up, “dude, you got in to NMIMS in the second list”. I said what? A second list? Since when did I get lucky? God really wants me there (Now I understand why, it was more of a punishment, I must have done something real bad).I pay up my fees (later on, not at 6.02 A.M) after a lot of evaluation of...No alternatives as such...Just BCOM and that, and a slight chance of UPG BMS maybe.
Just the Beginning
Finally, I thought that all the bad was behind me now (actually, it was behind me, it never went anywhere) and from here on everything would be merry (I was so wrong).
Friends
1st trimester, not a single person I know (chances of that, pretty slim).But still, It started off well with everyone looking for friends who would fit their requirements, (so basically the skimming process). Where a bunch of people hang out and get to know each other .I also did a bit of that but was mostly pre occupied with my other friends. I was group hopping I think for almost the entire 1st year, by the end of it I had found the perfect match (and we have been committed since then haha).
Learning Experience, the lessons learnt.
After two and a half years at NMIMS everybody knows “The Secret” to studying at NMIMS. (Wish I had known earlier, I would not have been a two point someone).Its basically the usual “MUG UP EVERYTHING” and the good old “COPY PASTE” for projects. So the lessons I have learnt are more practical and life based rather than the one’s taught by our Prof’s. Don’t get me started on the Prof’s though, I might not finish. While we have been competing on our GPA’s (not me, I’m out of the race, was never in it actually) they all have been competing with each other on how bad they can teach, and so we haven’t got a clear winner as to the worst. But just to keep myself happy and not feel that I have wasted 3 years of education I can say that some were decent. (Like maybe 2…max 3).
Success, only after failure
I had got a re exam in my 2nd trimester thanks to some unhealthy Chinese I ate during the coldest night in Mumbai till date. And of all the subjects it had to be Eco, the subject which gives me sleepless nights a day before the exam or makes me sleep when I look at the book a month before the exam. I some how managed to pass my exam and it wasn’t fun. I would miss a whole damn year and I get the news about my getting promoted a day before the second year starts, so technically I got 1 day of vacation. As If that wasn’t enough I got a double bonanza a year later when I got 2 K.T’s in my 6th trimester and this time too it wasn’t because I deserved to fail. My internal marks had a problem (yeh, in both subjects) but I had to give the exam again and had to go through hell again.
“Time” value of money
Later if in my life I am blamed for not being punctual, NMIMS gets all the credit (or debit...I don’t get accounts btw ,I calculate my expenses so easily ,why do they have to complicate it so much) 1st of all they don’t keep fixed timings for anything. Secondly they have spoilt me so bad by not being strict that now I can never reach on time (even if I want to).
Now I can go on and on and on writing about NMIMS .But I haven’t graduated yet and so I have a lecture at 9 tomorrow (yeh ... I won’t reach on time, but still)
However they were, they were the best days of my life (summer of 09 ;)
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