A NEW JOURNEY

December 20, 2019 | Posted by BPR Team << back to blog

As freshmen, about to start an MBA, you’ll usually have many questions:

How will you adjust to a completely new city?
What will the language barrier be like?
How are the professors at the school?
Will you get along with the people there?
How spacious are the campus hostel rooms?

And finally, the most important question, will the college mess’ food be as tasteless as that at other universities, or will the food be good?

When I decided to join the PGDM program at the Great Lakes Institute Of Management Chennai, I was extremely sceptical about my life there.

However, as soon as I began my life at Great Lakes, my doubts were allayed. I had the pleasure of interacting with a friendly housekeeping staff who would go above and beyond to help me out. Even if they didn’t understand English and spoke only in Tamil, I never felt there was any kind of language barrier and was able to efficiently communicate with them. Also, they attended to all of my requests and did a great job cleaning my hostel room.

Our campus is very green and very beautiful with different kinds of trees, which are regularly cared for by the women from the villages that Great Lakes Institute of Management has adopted. The pure air, swaying trees and the beautiful butterflies that flutter around the flowers of these trees is always mesmerising. The serene sunset, which you can see from the academic block of Great Lakes Institute of Management, makes me believe in a supreme power that created Mother Nature.

Apart from academics, Great Lakes Institute of Management supports physical activity through campus facilities such as the well-equipped gymnasium, table tennis room, basketball court, and badminton and tennis courts. To reset after engaging in sports, we have a great canteen which serves delicious food – from North Indian and South Indian food to the delicious Baskin-Robbins ice cream. My personal favourites are the paneer ki sabzi and gulab jamun.

As for my fellow Great Lakers, they are great people. The amount of support, inspiration and motivation they provide is unbelievable. They, in some way, fill that void which stems from being away from my family. And like family, they are always there to share my happiness and sadness.

All in all, I would like to conclude by saying that studying at Great Lakes has changed my life for the better; I have been provided with many opportunities and have been fortunate to have an amazing support system of friends and teachers, who have helped me grow, create many new and wonderful memories and, in a short period of time, has become my home away from home.

Authored by Bhoomi Shah, PGDM 2021, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

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