Being
excited about my admission getting confirmed in Universal Business School, I
started daydreaming about how life will be on campus. This would be my first
time staying away from home in a hostel managing things on my own. But soon in
mid-March the nation-wide lockdown was announced. At first I thought everything
will be back to normal by July but as time passed things got more serious.
This
did not affect the programs planned by UBS, the Pre-Program Activities started
off by Dean Digital Challenge, which allowed us to pen down a little note about
ourselves. On 6th April 2020, a webinar by Prof Vijay Tandon was
arranged in which we got to know about how our induction programs and classes
have been scheduled. We had a 30 days Induction Program started from 10th
April 2020. This included session by CEOs, business leaders, alumni. It gave us
sense of how being on campus would have felt like. By each passing day the
excitement of being on campus increased as well as the cases in Maharashtra. By
26th May, online classes began different modes of learnings were
introduced such as collpoll and e-library.
Classes
are virtual but learning is real. The first question that occurred was how is
it possible to interact on a platform without knowing or meeting my Professors
or batchmates. To my surprise we did managed to not only interact but also form
groups and do various group assignments and tasks. Slowly overtime the
frequency of the classes held were increased to every alternate day to daily
classes. Also the number of classes per day were increased from 1 to 3. I
thought being a first year
MBA student all the basic concepts of marketing, business and economics will not covered but to my surprise at least 2-3 classes were solely designed to tell students the basic concepts of each subject. Each student were assigned a mentor who helps them in acknowledging and enhancing their skills. Each student was given the freedom to select a club according to their interests. These clubs helped students to get to know students who had similar interests.
During
the whole pandemic UBS ensured to keep the students engaged with different
activities, assignments, presentations and competitions.
The
experience has been surreal it allowed me to learn, grow and be confident. It made
me realized the value of education and it can change one’s thinking from being
worried about my future in the beginning to looking for opportunities to grow. I
made friendship which I’ll cherish for life. Every Professor taught us
learnings are endless and Unlocked new possibilities.
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