GET - SET - GO

The acadmic session at XIMB began with a registration process, submitting our original documents, where original has different meaning for different documents, followed by the photo session and when i saw my photograph, I asked a question to myself "how could they this to me?" - may be thats the way i am (perception).

The following two days where at the xim were really a moral booster with all the concepts of leadership, team building, patience, excitement and lot more, i really thaught this would continue for the rest of the two years. I had never learned the names of so many person in such a short interval of time.

Some of the games that i really liked where Treasure Hunt, making an elephant and skid that wehave prepaered for our presentation for Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and our effort paid us as we have won for 'JUMBO' our elephant whose parts were drawn by our different team members and third prize for the skit.

Then came the long interactive sessions with our seniors, i think they will also agree about the 'elite' nature of batch. They are freaky about cleaniness and make every effort that we have had our bath. Still enjoyed that in the soaring temperature. In these sessions we came knowsome of the various 'Paramparas' of ximb, like the way we celebrate the b'day,'Sambandh','Parichay',the typical ximb dance - a lovely one and the unending JLT's.

Then came the nightmares long theory sessions that ultimately sleep with profs seems singing the 'loree'. The deadlines of completing the assignment though we have less of them as compared withthe seniors, group task, projects the list seems endless. But this is just the begining, only a tip of the iceberg.

A New Journey towards life - XIMB

Life is like a river that does take some sudden swift and turn, both knows how to move ahead overcoming the obstacles, and both knows how to make there way. After my Momentous moments at Reliance Infocomm, i too went a U turn, getting back to school after the job, it was a difficult task but that i had always aspired for.

My journey for XIMB started at 13-06-2005 through Hirakund express, this time i was fortunate enough to get a direct train from my home town as there is scarcity of trains from the region i belong Bundelkhand. This journey of mine was a different one as compared to when i was going to join my Engineering college in Bhilai, that time it was fear, apprehension, sadness of leaving the home, and excitement but this time i was purely ecasticity.

Fourtunately enough to find one more Ximbian on that train Gaurav Khandelwal, a fitness expert that we all used to call him. later i came to found out that there was one more Vinay Nayak in the train heading for the same destination XIMB. That was begining of the new friendship as the 24 hrs journey was enough to know some bits and pieces of each other.

You can easily found out when u are going to enter in orrisa, the soaring mercury will really make u cry, you'll hardly find any good stations in between untill u reach BBSR( BBSR station is good comparatively to other stations in orrisa and relatively OK on comparision with other capital city) - no offense to the orriya people. The jouney also become too tiresome if u hardly find a pretty face in such a long journey, hope so many of us would agrry with me.

After getting down at BBSR, my target was find out someone who can guide me to my future 'alma mater', i thaught people might me knowing about XIM as it is a prestigious college in this eastern part, with this preconcived thaught the taxi driver really dissapointed me when we asked him to take to Xavier, he was not knowing where in the hell this Xavier was, and we have to give the reference of Nalco house, later i can to reallise through my seniors that, people here in bbsr are fond of calling Xavier as 'Jhabier', i liked the way they called it and it added one more term of the oriya parlance in my dictionary.

Finally we reached our destination XIMB and registered for getting the room in the hostel, only to found out that i am among the early birds to reach there. My traumas of jouney where soothened by meeting some of the batchmates of the 'Elite' batch. Yes our batch is really elite with people from different parts of india with varied experience, language and culture all amalgating to form the base of 'Future Managers'.