The online lectures during pandemic have made me a more professional, punctual and confident person, says Mohini

I have been born and bought up in a family with people having influencer in business field, one of them is my father also and from my early childhood I use to see him working hard on projects on his own, and at a latest age it fascinated me quite a bit for what he was doing all the hard work, that was my first step toward the understanding of commerce field. And by listening to him how it happened, why it happened and how it affected the society, how it makes someone influenced. It fascinated me a lot over a period while I was having this talk with my dad and later this fascination of mine took over and I opted for commerce in XI standard.  And then in graduation I decided to continue my commerce background and did my graduation in B.com (Hons). However, now looking back at my time spent at university I am grateful for the routes it has opened me up to. B.com degree offers basic knowledge of economics, marketing, finance, accounting and many such subjects, I did research and gave time to myself and came to a conclusion to pursue PGDM. dual specialization and 9 months of internship are the unique reason that made me choose Lexicon Management Institute of Leadership and Excellence and I believe it was one of my best decision for entering in corporate world.

As I was going through my last year of under graduation degree, I made up my mind that I ll be opting PGDM for my masters, so I started my preparation for MAT from T.I.M.E coaching institute. As I scored good in MAT, I applied for D.Y. Patil, IBS, Lexicon MILE and RIIM. I went to a career counselor in Kolkata, she told me about Lexicon MILE, so I applied for this college because of the infra, placement, internship records were better than others. After applying my MAT scorecard in this institute my scorecard got selected and within 42 hrs. the admission team of college got connected to me and they told me about the admission procedure that I had to clear 2 rounds for the admission where they are going to analyze my decision-making mindset and communication skills of the student. So, in the first round they gave me a slot of 40 minutes where I had my interview and just after completing my PI, I got a case study on my mail which I had to submit withing 30 min. and finally after 24 hrs. I got a selection mail.

Well spending time at college is not my Cup of tea this year, as we are all facing the pandemic situation from last one year. We are spending our time in online lecture and the class I like to attend is Financial Management by Dr.Vineeta Agarwal because she engage us in a lot of activity during the lectures with fun and joy and second I like to attend Ms word certification class that is given by Chirag Sir because it's more likely to be physical class and it’s the base if we are in a managements Institute it’s the best that we have to learn so I like that. well I'm a core member of media and marketing committee of the college so this is my extracurricular activity, apart from studies we manage all the social media handles and website of the Institute and we are working on it to make it more attractive and as extracurricular activities our mentor of media and marketing community gave us tasks every week that we have to accomplish and after that we will get certificates and that will be added in resume at the time of placement. while my college experience has changed me as a person like I was not expecting this from myself during the pandemic time that online lectures will help me out in my professionalism, punctuality and managing time but our institute maintained the dignity and value of this course by arranging all the activities or assignments that has been given by the mentos but still we are up to date. I am learning every single thing on that yes it changed me a lot and I'm going to be professional soon.

Well, I haven’t planned something big for me but right now my focus is on placement that I have to crack interviews and have to get into a good organization, where I can work hard and learn new things, but if I will see a long term plan after getting settled I will be shifting to abroad I will be aiming for big organization and while that time I will gain experience so, Yes I want to be a settled and I want to be dependent on my own self. I want to make my country proud.

About the author

Mohini Shaw is a PGDM student at Lexicon Management Institute of Leadership and Excellence.

Note: The views expressed in this article are solely author’s own and do not reflect/represent those of Shiksha