We, at Center for Entrepreneurial leadership, are giving you a platform to discuss your ideas, brainstorm for new ones and find people interested in them so that you can float your own enterprise. Mr.Pradeep Sethi, a successful entrepreneur and a distinguished alumnus of BITS-Pilani will be guiding you through the Idea Café session.

The best idea gets a direct entry to the semi-final round of Conquest 2009.

Date: 18th April, Saturday

Time: 4pm

Venue: ET (2220)

You don’t necessarily need to have an idea to be at Idea Café. With all the other ideas floating around, we are sure you’ll hit on something of your own.

P.S recommended for those interested in Sparks New ventures, a new elective being offered for the next semester

cross posted at official CEL blog

The evening was perfect. The sun was tired but was still smiling fine, spreading its golden rays across the horizon. A pleasant breeze whistled past, stopping me from going back indoors. It was an evening on which I could walk endlessly thinking of nothing, just enjoying being lonely, something which happens so seldom when you are in your college. It was not too long or maybe it was, before I saw a young lad sitting by a small pond. He was staring into the water. He appeared too lifeless to ignore. I paused to observe him, waiting for the slightest movement. I waited…

The silence crashed all of a sudden, he shouted “Where am I?” He then got up and walked closer to me. His eyes were red and teary. He seemed to have been crying the whole day. He looked on …very helplessly. He wanted to tell me something…he tried muttering but his mouth was too dry from all the crying. He took a deep breath and managed to speak out, “I can’t find my reflection in there” and burst into tears once again and then ran away.

I stood still. I so badly wanted to go have a look at the water but I didn’t. What if I can’t find my reflection? After 20 years of my life and 2 years into a premier university, what if I still don’t have an identity?

The most unexpected and also the best learning experience was through my involvement in hardcore college politics which was by the means of active campaigning for Rachit. CEL recruitments and bootcamps were brilliant; (show me where else a group of 23 freshers raise 20k in sponsorship and pull off 3 mega events in 3 weeks). The failure of the highly ambitious E-Factor project was disappointing, however never discouraging(thanks mainly to Nakul, Chinmay et al). My first Oasis, my first couple of closed door sessions and decent compres in addition to infatuatuion completed my sem. And then there was a brilliant roadtrip which i embarked upon. (watch out for the details in my future posts).

2-2 begins….. GPA of 8, another try at Conquest, etc etc… oh boy!! here i go again, but with a little more optimism:)