After three years of job, I was looking forward to the college life again. NITIE - God's own Campus gave a chance to fulfill my dreams. After three days of enjoying the weather, campus, Powai Lake and HiraNandani comes 17th June, 2013.
New class, high expectations, professors and what lies in store for us were the feelings among us. It reminded me of the Engineering days when emotions used to run high.
9:15 AM -- Thus entered a professor a bald and aged as expected. Suddenly he started opening his sandals and then distributed some globe balls and some other toys and asked us to play with it. Soon the balls started flying here and there.
This was Professor Mandi the Legend as we had heard from our seniors..........
Straightaway he told us not to open any notebook. No slide, nothing on blackboard. Is this what is management!!! Nothing like Engineering!!!
Professor Mandi taught us the usefulness of writing blogs. I am not a big fan of blogs but he made us realize that we the elite students of the country can educate millions of children through blogs.
Be it your experience, your learning anything....... We the blessed ones should make use of the technology to the best possible extent. Mankind is progressing, technology is progressing but is it reaching out to millions of poor??
Then we calculated our opportunity cost for doing MBA. It came out to be enormous. He he gave us a figure that I am spending Rs. 2500 daily for MBA. OMG!!! Big figure. Hope I get a really good placement.
He emphasized on the fact that we need to earn side by side. Aaj ki Roti... Aaj ki Kamai!!! To Earn and Learn.... Socho Becho... Becho Seekho... Seekho Socho!!!
Then in the second lecture we sang one of my favourite song from Pink Floyd. Imagine singing in the Class.
It taught us a lesson that we should just not be another brick in the wall. Innovation is needed for this great country to progress and we should take the initiative. We should not be Job seekers but Job providers.
I hope that other classes are like this where learning can be fun!!! Looking forward to the next class.
Enjoy God's own Campus....
Interesting read. Liked the pics that you've posted.
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Deletei want the students to go beyond.. Learning and earning.. I call this as " Learning by Earning"...
ReplyDeleteAcadmic system help the student to realise money by the student out of what ever one is learning in the academic course.. Electrical student must earn money out of electrical .. Literature student must earn money out of literature.. Electrical student making money of out of something other than electrical ( usually this is referred to as Learning and Earning ) is not acceptable..
This is Gandhian method of learning .. NITIE picked up it from Gandhian learrning called Nai Taleem..
nicely done Arjun.. kudos to you.
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