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Ok this is the time of the year when academecia comes to a close... I am pressed to publish this blog now.. :p
I made an observation about one striking habit of many ppl - to bull**** (yeah i still follow some protocols in my blog.. :p) about their alma mater. My school does not have a sport field, no resident faculty, students make arbit cp, it is too demanding, it is very competitive, the library is big (I am not kidding, a library being big was posed as a defect by a friend), etc. I understand it is human nature to always think the other side is greener or rather to find fault with something when you grow close to something (be it relationship with humans or institutions or country).
This is done either a person is inherently attuned to finding fault or it is the compulsive behaviour to derive / build a "connect" with another person (so if the person is from another school, in order to please a person you may start bi**hing about yours.....). Though in the short term or in the initial conversation it might help a little (I don't vouch for it, still assuming this), what we fail to recognise two things:
1. By doing this, we are putting at stake the credibility of our education, talent, degrees, whatever.... An institution can build reputation only through collective efforts of its alumni spreading its brand. if the collective efforts of bad mouthing exceeds the efforts of branding, then we are wiping our own efforts in terms of time & money invested on our education, and making it invaluable.
2. the person with whom we want to build a connect, might not be free of complaints about his own institution, but if he is keeping quiet, he is being smart. :)
I do understand there could be some real pressing issues about a country or a school or any institution, but being part of it, we have a responsibility to positively direct our complaints into any tangible steps which we could take, else i would say "Sh** up"..
After all aren't things more beautiful, amusing, interesting and 'fun to be with' with their faults??
P.S.: This blog is in now way connected with my opinion on ISB alumni because they are all matured and smart and don't b**ch about ISB. :)
I made an observation about one striking habit of many ppl - to bull**** (yeah i still follow some protocols in my blog.. :p) about their alma mater. My school does not have a sport field, no resident faculty, students make arbit cp, it is too demanding, it is very competitive, the library is big (I am not kidding, a library being big was posed as a defect by a friend), etc. I understand it is human nature to always think the other side is greener or rather to find fault with something when you grow close to something (be it relationship with humans or institutions or country).
This is done either a person is inherently attuned to finding fault or it is the compulsive behaviour to derive / build a "connect" with another person (so if the person is from another school, in order to please a person you may start bi**hing about yours.....). Though in the short term or in the initial conversation it might help a little (I don't vouch for it, still assuming this), what we fail to recognise two things:
1. By doing this, we are putting at stake the credibility of our education, talent, degrees, whatever.... An institution can build reputation only through collective efforts of its alumni spreading its brand. if the collective efforts of bad mouthing exceeds the efforts of branding, then we are wiping our own efforts in terms of time & money invested on our education, and making it invaluable.
2. the person with whom we want to build a connect, might not be free of complaints about his own institution, but if he is keeping quiet, he is being smart. :)
I do understand there could be some real pressing issues about a country or a school or any institution, but being part of it, we have a responsibility to positively direct our complaints into any tangible steps which we could take, else i would say "Sh** up"..
After all aren't things more beautiful, amusing, interesting and 'fun to be with' with their faults??
P.S.: This blog is in now way connected with my opinion on ISB alumni because they are all matured and smart and don't b**ch about ISB. :)
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