REFLECTIVE WRITING- 1

Mentor: Mr. Shubhomoy Banerjee

PARV CHAWLA
IBM 2017,
20172176
I came to the university looking forward to a career in the business domain. I was always fascinated by
brand marketing and capital markets. In 12th standard, I aspired to be an entrepreneur. This is one of
the major reasons why I was thrilled to be assigned to a marketing professor for academic
assistantship. Professor Shubhomoy, my mentor introduced the course, guidelines, and framework in
our first meeting. I was asked to research articles about CSRs role or importance in businesses. An
option to find anything which came under the CSR related aspects in the modern era was offered to
me. I narrowed my research down to the current and one of the recent CSR’s link to business aspects;
After the submission, I received feedback on my research. An extensive discussion with the professor
enabled me to know his motive behind the project which gave me clarity and responsibility throughout
the task. In upcoming projects, I narrowed down my research to just concentrate more on a specific
topic rather than being all over the place.
Earlier when I planned to make a YouTube channel on modern business-related content and political
analysis connecting with business field, I had a discussion regarding this with professor Shubhomoy.
He asked me to give a write up of the script of my first video on government bank mergers which I am
yet to submit. I’m excited to get valuable insights of the professor. I am sure it will really help me to
produce better content in the future. The assistantship helped me grow as a person and I am hoping to
increase my bar of standards much higher. According to me, a day when one feels they have
succeeded in life is one of their biggest failures, because there is still room for improvement. The
mistakes will be worked upon to improve the efficiency and quality of work. I aspire to learn more each
day to keep me abreast with any measuring scale.
In the future, I might use this knowledge to enhance my research and marketing related skills. As, an
aspired entrepreneur, correct research is vital for every business and those methods I am learning from
Mr. Shubhomoy. I know there will always be times when I will be needing an expert opinion. For that, I
would need the help of my professor which I know he will be willing to do. Being a business student, I
am keenly awaiting to connect the current research concept to real-life business scenarios. I believe
that research is very important for any company and experience in this can help me analyze the
situations with more gravity. I also look forward to work on different kinds of tasks to develop more
knowledge.
The AA course so far had been about learning experiences. Through the whole experience, I was able
to learn and correct things from a professional view. In my opinion, this was a stepping stone towards
forthcoming experiences and a platform to train myself for the Real Business world.