The XLent Cult – Welcome to XL.

It’s been a long time now that I had actually written in my blog.
However, the hiatus is finally over and I am back with some more latest news from my life.
I had last thought of writing about my last days at office but somehow had called off the plan even after receiving a request from a friend of mine.
However I couldn’t desist myself from bringing this up here.
Let me give a brief background about myself in case you don’t know me.
I am a student of 1st year Business Management at one of India’s premier B-Schools.
The 1st few days here were pretty hectic and the daily chores kept me busy enough to have been actually able to delve into the campus culture here. Also the fact that I had been away from any campus for 2 long years didn’t make things easy either.
However the social human being that I am( in fact I had been amongst the most famous people of my college as well as at my work place), I slowly tried to gel with the people here, and it comes pretty naturally to me too as well.
Now moving back to the campus story here.
After those long sessions ( “sleepy”) the entire day by those “know it all lecturers” there would be our seniors to give us a toast past midnight as that’s when they would be free from their work. And yes to our agony, surely no junior ever liked to attend those mandatory sessions.
For me however things weren’t as cozy.
Although am a business management student here, am as well a part of the fellow program. My course work includes not only doing the regular 2 years MBA course but also presenting my thesis post the 2 years. Since most of the people thought we were expected to work on our thesis work from the 1st year onwards we( there are a few more fellows like me :) ) were generally not expected to be present in those night meetings.
However I made sure, I attended all these meetings even though I was least expected there.
These sessions by our seniors were generally very interactive and livened upto the expectations of many a MBA student, but somehow I wasn’t still feeling at home. I didn’t know why and I still don’t know why I had such a feeling. Probably there are reasons galore and mostly inexplicable as well.
However today is a little different.
I finally feel at home and I now can claim that I am an integral part of one of India’s most premier B-Schools.
Today , finally we have been officially inducted into the hearts of our seniors.
Though the event had very little fanfare w.r.t the outside world the final induction has left an indelible print on my soul for the rest of my life. And am sure that has happened with the entire batch as well.
Our seniors made this day memorable by not only successfully bringing forth the XLent culture (as I would say it ) that my insti boasts of, but also making sure that we imbibed it into our hearts forever. While I can’t put the exact events on the floor for every one to read ( ethics issues :( ) and neither shall I have been successfully able to put forth the experience in words, my description, I hope should have given enough exposure into my heart and the feelings that I am carrying with myself.
Long live XL and long live our Seniors.

XL Rocks.