Agent Modan watches action packed TV shows, because when she was a young child she dreamt of being a lawyer one day.. Until ofcourse her parents burst her bubble and made the poor child understand that this was a dream that would probably never come true.
So poor Agent Modan decided to pursue medicine.. Except that yet again she wasn't really interested in kinetic energy, enzymes or the periodic table, this experiment turned into a lifelong scarring episode and Agent Modan survived it with THREE B's in all the pure science subjects. So quite clearly medicine wasn't an option.
Agent Modan switched to Humanities during A'levels. She found the right path, economics and psychology together intrigued her, she made up her mind, psychology it was, so what if she couldn't use the power of her speech in a courtroom, she could still counsel people, she could still save lives. But apparently the naive little (oops I got carried away) girl that she was she forgot that she needed to find a university that could support her dreams.
Dumb Dumb Agent Modan messed up her SAT's and missed out an opportunity to pursue a double major in Social Sciences at LUMS. Father Agent Modan refused to send his little girl to Karachi University and he forced her to run after a Brand Name. Thus started Agent Modan's journey at IBA, the premier business school in the country.
Agent Modan feels that a Business Degree holds no intrinsic motivation. Business is something that you develop as a skill, an education in Business is merely four years spend running after gpas and sacrificing every minute of a rather sorry life trying to find something that makes the resume look nice.
A Business Degree is not thrilling, it fails to retain attention, and as a student at IBA, Agent Modan feels the curriculum is pointless in several ways. My Business Degree has taught me to fight for the last minutest mark that changes my gpa. It teaches me that one does not need to be an effective teacher to teach at IBA one just needs meaningless degrees to prove competence. It teaches me that discipline comes only through arriving at class one minute before the bell rings, but that what the teacher teaches in class does not really have to be supervised. A business degree is eventually about survival of the fittest, keep your teacher happy, find shortcuts to earn marks, pull all nighters for the gazillion reports that one completes in four years AND NEVER BOTHER TO QUESTION YOUR TEACHER.. MIGHT IS RIGHT AND THEREFORE YOUR TEACHER IS ALWAYS RIGHT..
Does it help to study something for four years with such great disappointment and grief? Am I really learning anything at all? Does this education enrich my life, help me to develop new experiences? Or is it just making me weary of the ineffectiveness of education in this country? Do premier business schools justify their existence or are they still running as government run institutions behind fancy strategic goals? One wonders how this country will ever see financial prosperity if the future of business in this country is being bred in an environment that stifles creativity and simply reinforces rigidity, arrogance & the concept of might is right?
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