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Never Give Up-A College Dropouts' Journey!!

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     Ravikiran Randil (30 TRUCKS & CONTINUING) Padhai , Kitabe, Degree, …. Padhai, Kitabe,Degree…..  Oh, stop, please!! ☝️ This was my condition back then It all started way back in school when all my friends use to dream of becoming an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, and whatnot. But these dreams never even struck my mind. The only dream was to become successful.. successful  After school reopened, we friends use to discuss how we spent our summer vacations, some enjoyed in Mahabaleshwar while some in Konkan. Belonging from a struggling middle-class family my summer vacation was simple: playing with siblings or going to relatives place(Chatar-fatar)...       I still remember I used to ask my friends what was their parents' profession and the majority said that their father was a BUSINESSMAN and believe me or not Cheers to that word!! That's the day I decided that I will also be a businessman so that I will also take my kids for an ou...

Never give up - A journey to IIM Lucknow ( AKA hel(L)) through the forest of failures.

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Souv i k Mukhopadhyay, [INTERN at ANAR APP,  IIM LUCKNOW,  JADHAVPUR UNIVERSITY] Linkedin: (   Souvik Mukhopadhyay   ) “ We regret to inform you that you have not been selected …”   How many times have you failed?? Have you ever said to yourself that you are too old to try further? Have you ever said to yourself this is not a cup of your tea!   Moreover, how many times have you risen after having a great fall?   I have not been a very different person in terms of reacting to failures until I decided to prepare for CAT and pursue an MBA.   An engineer from a college with good repute, opting for MBA is not a very uncommon thing, but the journey of getting into IIM Lucknow ( AKA hel(L)) was quite enriching and challenging, that I thought to share with you.   In 2015, with a decent & satisfying job I appeared CAT ‘casually’ for the first time & landed with a score of less than 85 percentile.   It was 2016 when I took CAT...

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“ Ghayal toh yaha hare ek parinda hain, Lekin jo firse ud saka vahi aaj bhi  zinda hain ” FAILURE STORIES. Success inspires you, motivates you but Failure teaches you & Teaching is more imp than mere inspiring.. Exciting right? “Failures are the stepping stones to success.” We’ve heard this quote since we were kids. Everyone of us has dealt with failures in our lives. Does that make us less deserving of success? Absolutely No!! Our blogs will be all about the stories that will depict this quote. “Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures” Here, we will be posting such strings of failures which later became successes. From Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, JK Rowling, Robert Downey Jr & Elon Musk there are many people globally who failed once, twice, thrice...But there are many people around us who have turned their failure(s) into success. We will be posting the stories of the common people like you and me, the students who have faced hardships or the e...