Week 26 - Taxing Max

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Week 25 - Post Interval action

I should probably change the blog posting day to wednesday.. That when i usually post...
(though a week later at some times) Last 2 weeks were great. Term 5 has blowm a lot away. The subjects were finally finalized after all that bidding first week of classes and at the end of 2 weeks I have already lost interest in 2 subjects MKSV and BBMK.. Way too slow .. non engaging profs...

Topic and content matter .. Profs matter more ...

The thing that deserves mention is what makes this term different .. Different study groups and
so it requires a hell lot of coorcdination .. I was lucky to have formed groups with few new people ...

Another is competitions .. Its like at every point of time somewhere some comopetition is being
launched and people have suddenly realized we need atleast one on the CV.. And that makes
sense .. Plus it is a welcome change ... though life becomes tiring , some thinking out of the
box , some designing , some formatting .... and all at the cost of pre-reads :-)

The good part for me in term 5 .. No Mid term... and only 2 end terms ... Bad part, lots and lots of assignments and projects ... and high weightage end terms..

We have weathered 4 terms .. 4 more to go ...
Focus is changing .... Gotta foocus !!!
Hopefully :-)

Week 24 - Biggest term break ever !!!

Core terms are over ... Before the grind begins for electives there was a break ... 10 days.. 10 well deserved days .. and I just had fun ..

Slept and Slept and Slept ...

Week 22 and Week 23 !!! Twins ??

Sorry. I know I m combining 2 weeks details into one but then I will try to do justice.

Weel 22 was crazy. We had 5 nightouts (almost) in 7 days and our eyes were actually drooling about bed. We were just done with the mid terms on the weekend and so the background of not sleeping is all set already ( given that you all know i study only on last day, no matter how much i hate myself for that).

On monday after classes I went to SRK's place to do something about the BTC corporate challenge but he was not well so after trying and trying and not getting anything done I left after an hour . Kind off disappointed I was. But then thats ok. He too had slogged hard for midterms and was tired too.

Tuesday was the deadline for DConstruct a competition we were interested in so me , shouvik and deepu puled off the whole night ... making a 6 slide PPT. We actually started for that competition at abt 10 and sat till 6 in the morning.... We made 6 slides of PPT but could not really format them nicely so it was time to fall back on SRK "the great formatter". We called him to wake him up and he surprised me by saying that he dint sleep and has completed work on BTC corp challenge thing. I was smiling ear to ear. What a pleasant surprise it was.

Anyways we submitted Dconstruct on Tuesday (almost another night out) ( got rejected next week). Submitted the BTC thing on wednesday ( will be rejected on national level but we hope to qualify for round 2 of BTC corp challenge)..

Thursday was another competition but we finally dropped it knowing that it was way to open ended and that pure gyaan which will be selected for round 2 cannot be given in a day.

So wednesday we started working on 2 humongous assignments .. SAIT and GSBC and actually finished on sunday .. All plans of preparing for end terms starting next thursday went down the drain ... So did the sleeping plans before starting the end term prep...

This was week 22 for me.

Week 23 started with we submitting the 2 assignments and starting for end terms with continued sleepless nights ...a few more of them and we were done with end terms of term 4.

INVA was breeze , MGTO wowed everyone , GSB stumped everyone and SAIT too was ok ...

Anyways that calls for intermission of the ISB chapter with core terms and electives round the corner..

The weekend was planned to be spent in Bangalore with the gang but then flood in south caused the buses to be cancelled and thoe plans too bit dust ...

Anyways we had fun here...

week 21 - Why oh Why ?

week 21 - midterms for 4th term...
INVA was ok but paper was tougher based on what was taught in class...
SAIT and MGTO are the reasons behind the subject of the post .. they were test of ur writing speed and how much can u reword same fact again and again ...

I hated the MGTO paper specially ...we expected 4 questions and we had 10 questions...
midterms were sat and sun and we had classes till friday ...

i felt like signing off from ISB ...

Next week is comptition week .. ( i say this bcoz it is already wednesdayof next wednesday ) ...
stay tuned ....

Week 20 - Already forgotten !!

It is thursday and I m posting my last week.. I honestly cant recall anything right now ... the classes were boring , prose conferences continued , takeaway tending to zero .. etc etc ..

Just a few submissions here and there .. I liked the MGTO classes this week.. The professor is cool .. Louis Martin .. The subject souns relevant but then again it is more to be learnt by practical experiences ... Fun, nonetheless.

We had AIKYA launch last week .. That was interesting ( accompanied by delicious dinner) .. We have an AIKYA family now and they are renowned and settled businessmen of Hyd... It was sure fun ...

More later... Too tired to think ..

19th week - A term break in itself

This was one hell of a week ... No, not assignment wise but by the fact that this had varied emotions everyday ... day 1 and day 2 we had first classes of all 4 subjects and it felt like we are in some kind of prose conference ... no subject was interesting ( except INVA the only saviour) as none was quant ... not that i m good in quants but the fact which troubles is that i m bad in non-quant subjects ...

Wednesday wass the same ... Thursday we heard the news of sudden demise of Andhra Pradesh CM Mr YSR Reddy and ISB inrespect cancelled all events for the week including thursday classes..

so we had holiday on thursday , fri , saturday and sunday ... this was a term break .. isn't it :-)

watched lot of movies completed the only assignment due monday .. wrapped the week with another movie 2 dinner outings ( ok 1 dinner and 1 ice cream outing) and a pizza day in between...

Was fun but now the season of competition is here .. ME and Deep also tries hands at writing a paper but could not come up with something concrete ...so dropped teh idea.. it was better to participate nicely in few competitions than just participate in all ...

lets see how week 2 of term 4 goes.. we have 2 extra classes 1 tonight and another on thursday ..

Profs I miss !!

I posted abt Mohan Sir and Prashant Sir but have not posted abt any other profes since then...
I need some energy and time to post abt a few more

Prof Jagmohan Raju
Prof Bhagwaan Choudhary
Prof Suren Mansinghka
Prof Ram Bala
Prof Sumit Kunnumkal

Each one of the above helped in groom ...
More on each one later ...

I wish I could add to the list in term 4 kicking off today ...

Week # 18 - Doing nothing is fun too ..

Wooohoooo ... Term 3 is over ... The toughest ( as ancestors say) is over ..

Ok ok .. lets go chronologically ...
Monday was exam day .. CorpFin came and took all of us with a storm .. people say that anyone who said that he knew answers to most of the questions is bluffing ... forget most the same statement was for few questions too.. I myself found as many as 4 true statements when the question was "Which one is true" :-0... In Corp Fin we say " All is well that ends"...

Madm was long and boring .. i hope i did ok in that .. an A (Howzzzat) will make me happy .. but not sure .. i always keep some space for probability and my silly mistakes.. lets c whats in store ..

Operations was bad.. i made lotsa silly mistakes .. fortunately few were in last step of BIG numericals.. lets c what happens ... an A- would definitely hurt ...

Then came the term break.. I slept on tuesday and i woke up on friday.. i actually dint step out of my studio for 2 days .. i love doing nothing ... I saw a few movies which were pending for years now... "The Shawshank Redemption" needs a special mention for sure .. GodLike movie with an eternal message of hope ... few dinners with wifey and friends and thats all..

i m penning this on monday 10:30 AM and have a class at 1:45...

Term 4 is shouting " here I come" ... it is a short term... will be over in 33 days flat ... end to end .. so lots of classes but assignments are fewer this time .... more focus on individual performances.. exams have a higher weightage .. i hope to not-commit any silly mistakes atleast this time ...

Quoting Andy Dufrense (from The Shawshank Redemption) -
HOPE IS A GOOD THING... IT PROBABLY IS THE BEST OF THINGS ...

Week 17 - Fatigued by exams !!

I have started disliking it ... Specially when I dont understand what's going on .. Corporate finance was one such subject in which I could not understand a thing .. the worst part , exams were conceptual , the best part noone knew the concepts. Sure there were gods and geeks few and far in between but it remained, for a change, land of mortals ...

Last week went into finalizing the Entrepreneurship report. Thanks to Arvind, the CEO of Reverie we did manage a decent report. Hopefullt grades would reflect that ... Apart from that not much to do , just 4 assignments ... In retrospection 4 assignments a week now sound kind of chilled .. There was panic as end terms of MADM and OPMG were carrying lot of weightage given the absense of mid terms in these subjects ...

More on End terms later.. This term break is not free as there is a lot of backlog on ELP which we need to cope up with ...

GodSpeed !!!