Many reasons why IIM graduates should have all the fun

Many reasons why IIM graduates should have all the fun. Some of them are:
 

1. They have burnt midnight oil for a considerably long time so that they could crack CAT with very high percentile and then cracking the dreaded PI to enter the much coveted institutes.
2. After admission, they have had hardly any sleep in the first year and grossly inadequate sleep in the second year of their studies, just to keep pace with the things.
3. Attended all the lectures without any complaint even if they were boring. So that they could comply with the minimum attendance requirement.
4. Taken exams in very stringent conditions without cribbing. For instance, in some IIMs the CCTV supervision is in place. If you just turn your head, couple of folks would come from nowhere and take your answer sheet.
5. Gone through never ending 40 plus pages case studies of Harvard (and many other sources) full of irrelevant text, tables, charts, graphs and so on and presented a worthy analysis next morning, through PPT, Excel, etc.
6. Followed a multi disciplinary approach in academics so that they could understand the nitty gritty of readings, assignments, presentations, books, course packs, handouts, online materials, lecture notes, and so on; that too, before the actual class as part of the class preparation.
7. Put up with the idiosyncrasies of professors who are of numerous varieties - students friendly, not so friendly, and unfriendly. Sometimes, students have to study of their own as the concerned faculty is of no use. (Personal experience as a faculty :)
8. Kept abreast of developments in the area of interest throughout the time in their respective IIM so that they could crack their dream company in the placement season.

Why shouldn't they have all the fun?

By the way, there are many who are non IIM and still having fun too.

:)

-Ravi Agarwal