Showing posts with label International. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International. Show all posts
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My Experience In France

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 0 comments


The intention of this article is to objectively record my personal observations during my stay in Paris as part of my international module at IIM Lucknow, and in no way to generalize or criticize any specific country or its practices.

I landed at the Paris International airport with tons of excitement, however, my first experience was not very pleasant as we had to wait over an hour to go through the immigration process because there was only one counter for non European citizens (who were around 80% of total present people) as opposed to a couple for EU citizens. It made me think whether the world has really become global in the true sense? I was not able to solve the puzzle of such inefficiency in one of the most developed & powerful nations of the world.

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Posted by Rajnesh Gupta

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A fortnight in Paris - IIM Lucknow students' international module

Sunday, October 3, 2010 0 comments

I got a chance recently, to go to the land of pretty girls, tall towers, large palaces and elaborately embellished places of worship. Partly because I haven't seen too many foreign countries and I was excited to do so, and partly because it was part of my curriculum at IPMX (1 year MBA program at IIM Lucknow) and I didn't have too much of a choice, I grabbed the opportunity with both hands.

Now, statistics suggest that it takes an alert person approximately 2 weeks to assimilate an alien culture, and co-incidentally, my visit was scheduled to last exactly 14 days. (Of course, like most other statistics you've come across, this one too, has been concocted on-the-spot, entirely with the intention of sounding convincing and knowledgeable about the point just made.)


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Posted by Mehul Goyal