Hello
I have just started my mba and already i feel lost. I am an extremely awkward person but i don’t have a problem with it. I deal with a pressing personal condition that has dictated my personality forever and i never developed the confidence to socialize and be vocal.
That being said, 2 years of mba just sitting inside my room would be a waste of money. I want to be able to talk professionally. Interact with people as far as our studies are concerned because it’s a student driven campus and i don’t want to lose out on good placement opportunities just because I didn’t “know” anybody on placement committee.
Had it been a purely academic course i would be fine but a significant portion of mba is joing committees and doing group projects. I want to be a part of all that. Today was the first day, we had to get pictures clicked for IDs. People of my section were interacting and i was sitting alone like an idiot. The funny thing is, there aren’t really becoming friends or anything. Its just social banter. How do I do that? The bare minimum. So i am not left behind. So i can at least say hi to my classmates if i spot them somewhere random and not walk straight ahead out of awkwardness. I don’t want to make friends. I just want to fit in.