Ideas, essays, and reflections by Debashish Reang.https://reangdeba.xyz/https://reangdeba.xyz/iima-wu/https://reangdeba.xyz/iima-wu/> For some context, I am in Vienna as a double-degree student from IIM Ahmedabad. I spent the first year of the two-year MBA program at IIMA and am spending my second year here as...Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/kolkata_coffee/https://reangdeba.xyz/kolkata_coffee/Table of contents Introduction This is the second essay of my (*hopefully ongoing*) cafe review series. Of course, this essay is modeled after my Review of every cafe I've been to...Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/jaipur/https://reangdeba.xyz/jaipur/Sunny, beautiful, and generally walkable. That's what I thought about Jaipur. One of the most touristy cities in India, Jaipur is rich in history, culture, cuisine, and the people...Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/convocation/https://reangdeba.xyz/convocation/I've been writing this essay for quite sometime now -- I started writing it at a cafe like most of my essays, on different flights, listening to different songs, going through...Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/dd_iimawu/https://reangdeba.xyz/dd_iimawu/A few months ago, while coming home from work, a kid asked me in the elevator -- "Are you Korean?" I said, "No." Unimpressed, he returned a few moments later and asked, "Are you...Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/iimb-interview/https://reangdeba.xyz/iimb-interview/"Can you guys please go out for 30 minutes or so? And please be quiet." -- I said to my friends around 13:30 on 27th February 2021. That was the day of the interview. In addition,...Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/college/https://reangdeba.xyz/college/> Essay title stolen from here. I've just graduated college. It seemed only logical that I attempt to pen down some things that I wish I knew before starting college in 2017. Some...Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/iimpi/https://reangdeba.xyz/iimpi/> This essay is a collection of advice I would like to give to people for IIM interviews. As the essay's title suggests, the advice is for people "exactly" like me. I believe no...Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/s4_wu/https://reangdeba.xyz/s4_wu/My university life came to an end on a random Monday morning. That is such a strange feeling. I have never been out of "school" -- not since I can remember. Sure, "schools"...Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/vie_coffee/https://reangdeba.xyz/vie_coffee/Review of every cafe I've been to in Vienna, so farTue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/st/https://reangdeba.xyz/st/In 2019, I emailed a stranger after reading about their experience -- of backpacking across Europe. As the email makes plentifully clear, I really wished to travel to other...Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/s3_wu/https://reangdeba.xyz/s3_wu/Keeping up with the tradition, this essay is modeled after my Review of Term 4 courses at IIM Ahmedabad essay. I shall try to give you some background and then review each course,...Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/wu_ws22/https://reangdeba.xyz/wu_ws22/Music has a weird effect on me. Whenever I listen to a good song, it motivates me to write something. I'm currently listening to Nirbhau Nirvair from Qala, and I can feel the...Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/rp/https://reangdeba.xyz/rp/I recently (finally) collected all documents required to continue staying in Austria as a student, legally. Getting the paperwork in order took me months and caused a lot of...Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/iit-iim/https://reangdeba.xyz/iit-iim/When Prof. Carolyn R. Bertozzi won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, I thought, "Well, there might not be many of them, but I am glad they exist. Countless girls like my sister...Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/t4_iima/https://reangdeba.xyz/t4_iima/This article is modeled after Review of EE courses I studied at IITK and Review of every first-year course at IIM Ahmedabad. The review is very subjective. You should also know...Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/pgp1_iima/https://reangdeba.xyz/pgp1_iima/> **Disclaimer:** I started writing the draft of this essay on 3 Jul, 2022. Today is 30 Jul, 2022. It took me a few days to complete, mostly because I'm lazy. On the flip side,...Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/ee_iitk/https://reangdeba.xyz/ee_iitk/I'm a *Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering*. Yes, officially. I got my degree certificate along with the final gradesheet in December of last year. It's been a year...Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/iimabound/https://reangdeba.xyz/iimabound/A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay saying I'm Going to IIM Bangalore. I also wrote a LinkedIn post announcing my excitement about going to Bangalore. So, what changed? Quite a few...Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/iima-interview/https://reangdeba.xyz/iima-interview/> **Author's note:** I've been procrastinating a lot lately. I started writing the draft of this essay on July 6th, 2021. Ideally, it should have taken me only a few hours to...Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/iimbbound/https://reangdeba.xyz/iimbbound/> Actually, I'm Going to IIM Ahmedabad . I'm spending the next two years at IIM Bangalore. Yes, I never thought I'll do an MBA, but here we are. It is still technically unsafe to...Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/after-ug/https://reangdeba.xyz/after-ug/9 Feb 2025: It seems like many things can be done in this lifetime. I can see possibilities now. Hopefully it'll all work out. Hi, I hope you're doing well. When talking to...Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/cat-2020/https://reangdeba.xyz/cat-2020/9 Feb 2025: Things worked out well afterall. Hi, there! I hope you are doing well. So, it's official. I filled out the form for CAT 2020, hoping to try my hand at admission to IIM...Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://reangdeba.xyz/hff/https://reangdeba.xyz/hff/Are you well too familiar with the feedback forms that you get to fill at the end of the semester? I filled one of those towards the end of the semester for a course some time...Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT