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▲ 2 r/ISB_Aspirants+1 crossposts

ISB PGP's Essay 1 is asking something most applicants get wrong.

Essay 1: Contemplate situations that have shaped your personal journey ... taught you about your strengths and weaknesses ... shaped your personal and professional journey. (400 words)

The prompt asks for "personal journey" first and that word personal is doing a lot of work.

Most applicants lead with professional stories. Instead, start by rewinding to moments that revealed your strengths and weaknesses — not a list of positives and negatives, but actual situations that speak for themselves. Then lean in to talk about takeaways through a professional lens.

A few questions worth sitting with before you write:

  1. Which core values do your strengths connect to?

  2. When did you first develop them? (The earlier, the deeper they feel)

  3. How are you actively applying them right now?

  4. Where do you want to take them next?

Weave the above insights into the essays with crisp examples wherever possible. Own your weaknesses with honesty. Show what you are doing about them.

Working on ISB essays? I mentor MBA candidates; drop your questions below!

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u/Knitting_Narratives — 14 hours ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 54 r/Embroidery

Added a burst of colours on a pair of jeans using basic stitches

This project includes chain, satin, lazy daisy, french knots, rolling wheel, and leaf stitches that I had just practiced on a handkerchief before moving to this. Found a brand of white gel pen called Brustro (available on Blinkit) that was extremely useful in drawing the design.

u/Knitting_Narratives — 1 day ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 105 r/casualknitting

Old-world scarf made from a YouTube Pattern that reminded me of my school days

Hey folks! Here’s sharing a super comfortable and super easy to make tie-up scarf the pattern of which I found on YouTube.

I knit all the way up to ~7 inches with 12 cast-on and then increased stitches every alternate row till I reached the breadth I wanted and then decreased all the way (alternate rows) till there were 12 cast on left and knit the other end for 7 inches. A tip: use stitch markers to note transitions of the beginning of increases and decreases. Please check the link for exact instructions though (Search Indian style scarf and you should find it).

I used Vardhman Magnus (India) bulky yarn on size 4 needles. Around 1.5 skein was enough. The project was quite fast to finish, within ~2-3 days.

This is me wearing the scarf evidently happy with the outcome :-)

u/Knitting_Narratives — 2 days ago
▲ 30 r/tea

Anyone else who prefers drinking tea from saucer (rakabi) or a bowl?

Rustic though it may be I find drinking tea from a saucer so wholesome. Nothing else satisfies the tea bliss as drinking from a saucer or a bowl. I rarely see people using saucers now, even in the privacy of their homes. Growing up, my grandmother and I always drank tea from the rakabi (saucer) while others preferred cups. Share your favorite tea mug as comment!

u/Knitting_Narratives — 2 days ago

My first project for the back of a silk jacket

Hey folks! Got this design hand-printed and then works in very simple stitches to the best of my capacity. The reward was to finish the project - anyhow - because it seemed so ambitious. I have started embroidery only end of 2025 so please be gentle with critique 🙌🌸

u/Knitting_Narratives — 3 days ago

Merino wool muffler as gift in 2 by 2 rib on 4 mm bamboo needles

Knit this muffler in 2 by 2 rib. It measures around 78 inch by 24 inch. The wool was sourced from Magic Needles (India) and knit on 4 mm bamboo needles. It has an incredible drape and is very warm. I made some mistakes but the plain black expanse was forgiving.

u/Knitting_Narratives — 3 days ago