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An MIS Graduate in the making…

Update: This is certainly not about me

• I do not want to code.
• I am not a technical person.
• I did not want to do an MBA.
• CAT is tough. My friends are still writing it, year after year!
• See, if I don’t want to do coding and I don’t want to do an MBA, then I am a good fit for MIS right?
• I am a fresher. I hate coding. I am an ideal fit for MIS right?
• I want to leverage my experience.
• What have I learnt? come on man…how can that be explained?
• I have ‘x’ years experience. So, I have a better fit as MIS professional right?
• I have ‘x’ years experience. But, what is the difference between me and that fresher? I am not able to find any.
• Infy/TCS/CTS/Wipro/XYZ sucks man! Who would want to do that shitty work?
• I want to be in a position where I can solve business problems.
• What exactly is a business problem?
• I want to be a Consultant.
• How do we get placed in McKinsey?
• No. I don’t want to do an MBA. I told you right?
• IT consultant? See, I have heard of these terms, okay. But, come on…what’s the difference? I want to be consultant. Thats all.
• I want to be a Business Analyst.
• See, you have Business Analyst position in Bank of America, Deutsche Bank etc right? I want to be in that position.
• Who knows! As long as it is not coding, I am fine.
• Who will do application development?
• I am allergic towards Data Structures and Algorithms.
• I want to do design, not coding.
• See, how can I explain how do I design? It is part of Life Cycle. I know Life Cycle.
• Systems requirements? Write something man. Whats the big deal?
• What methodology? All that software engineering stuff, I remember seeing in college. Forgot long back, dude.
• OOP was such a long time ago. I remember classes, objects. What? Virtual functions? Hey, thats a tough one, okay!
• I hate UML. Who wants to write all those use cases and diagrams?
• I hate documentation.
• I hate testing. Testing is for dumb people who do not know anything.
• I did a lot of testing during my experience. It was so boring and stupid!
• What is automated testing?
• My PL used to allocate all work and then waste his time on excel sheets.
• Is it necessary that we have to follow the scheduling that we did using MS Project?
• Oh, we used to do estimation. Some stupid excel sheet will be there and we will fill it.
• I do not want to do all this Information Systems theory. It is at such a high level. I want something practical.
• Why are you asking such detailed questions? You should focus on high-level concepts as an MIS professional.
• I want to take managerial subjects from the Business School only.
• Hey, they have so many prerequisites. I am not an MBA student. Why should I be expected to know all these?
• That course has project man. Who would want to do that? I am dropping it right away!
• The professor is a nut case. The course is a tough nut. I am dropping it right away!
• This course is so cool. Professor gives A to most of them it seems. Let’s take this one!
• You came here to study! Now, that a good one. Dude, everyone comes for the job. What learning you are talking about?
• Dude, who will apply for all these technical positions!
• I hate these companies which ask technical questions. I am an MIS person. They should ask me specific MIS stuff.
• They are asking such vague questions! “Tell me one challenging issue that you resolved”. How should I remember!
• There are not many positions for MIS folks man! This sucks!
• Case interviews should be okay mate.
• Oh, do they ask all of that! How should I know all that man? I am not a consultant right now!
• Man, this behavioral interviews! I hate them. I have no clue what they expect.
• We came in a bad time. It is just sheer hard luck!
• I thought I would be able to make the cut. Who expected things to become so bad!
• Only technical firms left. This sucks!
• Language? My company project was in ‘x’. But, I was not exactly working with the code.
• They are asking data structures man! Did I come here to again get back to coding?