I am sharing my Statement of Purpose for IIM Bangalore, which will tell you a lot more about me.
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So right from the outset, I would like to say that I don't claim to be the brightest of minds wanting to get into IIM Bangalore, what I do claim is to be the part of a handful of those people who have struggled the most to reach a position of writing a statement of purpose for admission into a coveted institute like IIM Bangalore. Let me make things more lucid.
In 2012, I was on an internship with a social enterprise which sells devices running on renewable sources of energy, in villages.
So I was in villages, generating awareness about our organization by conducting road-shows.
That was when the accident happened. I fell down from the terrace and my head hit against a couple of bricks.
So I was immediately rushed to AIIMS. If I would have been even half an hour late, I wouldn't have survived. I underwent two brain surgeries to remove the clotting from my brain. My skull was removed for two months before the third operation, to allow the swelling in my brain to subside. I was on a ventilator for which they drilled a hole through my windpipe. I couldn't stand up or talk or even change sides on the bed while sleeping. In the initial phase I couldn’t even eat, all I could intake was a liquid form of food. I couldn't even hold a spoon so my mother had to spoon feed me. I couldn't speak because my trachea was drilled through earlier. I couldn't even stand up. I had to go through rigorous physiotherapy.
The physiotherapists said that it would take at least one to two years before I can join back IIT. I joined back college in three months and completed my degree with the same grade point as I had before the accident and got an international research paper published in my name in the final semester.
My outlook towards life has changed drastically after the accident. I have started valuing time, people and money a lot more. I have started blogging, have been a sub editor a fashion magazine and have been a feature columnist in a national weekly. I haven't started fearing death. I believe that death will grace me with its presence when it is meant to. If I have to go to some village again for some work, I won't hesitate.
After the accident, I haven't skipped gym even for a single day and am in the shape of my life and that too when after the accident I can't even run.
The reason why I want to pursue the Post Graduate Programme
I feel that I am quite an intellectually curious person, and working at a consulting firm acts like fodder to my intellectual curiosity. I will get to work on a diverse projects and interact with top notch executives of big firms so I will get to learn a lot from them.
The best part is although I have written such a long statement of purpose, but after the accident, I can't write manually, and I scribbled to get the answers for the quantitative questions in CAT.
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The interview process after this was easy, except for one answer of mine.
They asked me the regular question "What after MBA?"
I calmly replied "Well, sir, I don't know that, but all I want is if five years down the line, people type the first three letters of my name in the Google search window, my full name should be the first suggestion that Google prompts, and not in a
I thought that I had left them spellbound, but then I had forgotten that it was an interview panel of IIM Bangalore which I was facing.
They outsmarted me instantly, by pointing out that google search suggestions depend on the IP address of a particular computer, on my past search history and also that I could buy the rights to get my name as the first suggestion.
Well, I guess MBA will teach me a lot more ways to maneuver around the statements.
I forgot to tell you that I got an acceptance letter from IIM Ahmedabad too, so I didn't join IIM Bangalore.
The ironic part is that, my accident happened on 15th June 2012, and exactly three years later, on 15th June my MBA life began in the best B schoolof
I forgot to tell you that I got an acceptance letter from IIM Ahmedabad too, so I didn't join IIM Bangalore.
The ironic part is that, my accident happened on 15th June 2012, and exactly three years later, on 15th June my MBA life began in the best B school
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You can read the international paper at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212827114001796
You can read an article of mine in the Indian Economist
http://theindianeconomist.com/step-ache-din-scrap-collegium-system-appointing-judges/
