Actually, that should be Leaving-campus Blues. Most freshly minted grads, including MBAs, go through this phase where they have just left their 'home away from home' and just got out into the big bad world. Could be for a job, in the case of some. Alien place, new colleagues, fewer friends.. you get the picture. And a boss!
No wonder, many get into a mini-depression- if not clinically- and wonder what happened. Songs like Koi lauta de mere beete hue din, start sounding loudly in their brains. Or if a Jagjit Singh fan, his ghazal -Woh kaagaz ki kashti wo baarish ka pani.
These are the Blues - true-blue blues. They don't match with the Reds, or Greens. They persist well into the first few months after the exit. So now you know how the U.K. feels after Brexit. Kyunki, har friend zaroori hota hai.
Why this piece? Because our MBA students are poised for their exit in a month or two, having placed in jobs that they had applied for from the Bangalore campus. Just empathizing. It happened to me in 1984, a long time ago.
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