I recently stumbled upon this comic strip from Grant Snider’s The Shape of Ideas .  It’s simple, whimsical, almost childlike, yet it captures something profoundly true about education, ambition, and the strange obstacle course we, somehow, voluntarily sign up for. And reading it now, during my whirlwind year at IIM Ahmedabad, feels uncannily personal. Hoops of All Shapes and Sizes The strip starts by saying: “To get an education, you must jump through many hoops.” At IIM A, t