Types....

We all knew it was gonna happen … some of us were looking forward to it , some were mortally afraid … some worked their ass off in preparing for it … and some like yours truly are still waiting for that proverbial bolt of lightning to strike….
Placements 2006 is about to begin…. Pre placement talks are on full swing and the campus is crawling with who’s who of corporate world…. Just the other day , I was talking to a guy for a good half hour before he introduced himself as the CEO of MBT !!!! That’s one company I can say goodbye ….
However I am not gonna bore you with the details of placement process or whos slated to come to campus … All that information would be way too useful to figure on this blog …. Let me instead venture into a completely useless study of the demographic changes in the campus … I would then postulate an absurd theory on something which is totally arbit to begin with … We would then sum up our discussion with a hopeless executive summary which would probably make you
kick yourself for wasting all this time reading the crap that you read…

You see a wise man said “All men are Born equal” …. And that’s partly true … But in a B-School , equality is not a very popular concept …. Every person belongs to a Genere … It could be based on regions ..Ferrari for example the de-facto dictator for life of the Tam group… which I am told is in the process of starting its own version of the Skull and Bones society … They have even come up with a secret salute … When you see a superior , you fold you lungi up and flick our mustache (like Captain) … of course if your lungi is already folded or there are more than one superiors in sight , you could be in for some embarrassing moments …

Another divide is preferences for Jobs … Now this is quite interesting …. Of all the millions of different types of jobs out there , there are only a select few that MBA’s across the world want to make a career in …
The classification goes -

Consulting Types – The blued eyed kids of any B-school ..
Traits – Obsessed with Grades … Well every body is … but these are the people who actually manage to get them.
Their life is built around frameworks and matrices… Ask them a question , and you will be bombarded with data , hypothesis and theories before the answer (Which invariably is – IT DEPENDS)


I-Banking Types – Also known as Greedy Pigs… Their only objective in life is to squeeze more out of everything ….
Traits – Have difficulty explaining anything without the words – Risk , return and Beta … These extremely smart men and women go on to earn obscene amounts of money … It’s a different thing that they often sacrifice their soul ,
Health and sex life in the process… but all that’s too overrated anyways …

Marketing Types – Personally I have a lot of respect for them. Its takes guts to do what these guys do …
Traits – Can be identified by a syndrome Marvin calls “Verbal Diarrhea” … usually the most talkative of all the people in a gathering … I shudder to think what happens in the marketing club meetings …


IT Types – Lil wonder these are the most chilled out people on campus ..
Traits – Have a perpetual smile on their faces … Their day to day activities include watching T.V , playing computer games … and getting drunk before calling it a day … Although not the most respected of all generes , these people go on to live the most contended lives…

So there you are …. Those are the different types youd meet if you were to walk into the ISB campus … Personally Id stay away from the first 2types… Trust me they would gouge your eyes out for wasting their precious time asking directions…