Week 30 ... The term break that never was ...

The week started with same old boring end terms .. MKTR and MKSV in 2 successive days .. both text books opened night prior to exam ...

The subject was my facebook status for 5 days ... It was a term break of 5 days with 5 things to be done

1) MKTR assignment:- Perhaps most interesting of all. Involved diving into 7000 records of data and analyzing the car preferences of middle class Indians ... I ended up doing nothing in this project for 2 reasons a) SRK was best person to do this because of his SQL server skills b) I had otehr assignments to complete because SRK was busy in this

2) MKSV Assignment :- Again a report , pure dil se stuff, we search we search we google we search again and then from many searched PDFs we jot down stuff which we dont understand ( expecting that TAs and profs will understand and will bless us with marks) Sure there was analysis part too. but then worst part is to collate the work of all group members .. worst bcoz that made me the only person to have read all BS and then make a coherent flow from 4 5 incoherent repetitive stuff... MKSV was less onerous because the group was good overall ... Lets see...

3) NEGA Assignment :- I liked this one too.. NEGA was one good subject in which we finally came to know of some concrete concepts which helped us structurally analyze incidents of our life too ... good stuff.. a thumbs up from me ... Assignment was a tad lengthy .. again a good group member chipped in to ensure we put up a decent show ..

4) BTC corporate challenge:- 3rd round was Deloitte ... we thought we would do it in a night but when finally sat on the last night we ended up doing nothing till 2 AM ( the deadlined was 7:30 AM) .. we did put some gyaan but the outcome was not up to our expectations ... a bad third attempt will eventually wash away the hardwork of initial 2 rounds ...

5) HUL - We did not send an entry because we started on last night and realized it needs a 2 minute AVI file so we were already short if time ..

Apart from that we played monopoly a lot of times..So much that I am bored of it now ...
But was great fun ...

Rest is ok..

Have applied for Mck and ATK .. not that i will get a shortlist ... it is just a ritual to apply to these companies ...

Week 29 ... The lucky me !!

Week 29. One week which had a few good news.. Well nothing really important but then whatever we get in this rollercoaster year is a bonus..
The news was postponement of a few assignments which if we had to submit would have ended in blunderous submissions... Solely for the lack of time as u might know by know ... At least I know ..

there were reports for BBMK MKSV NEGA, presentations for BBMK and MKTR ..
Good fun ... NEGA was probably last week ... We knew for long that we will need to write these reports but then we always wait for last day .. voluntatily, if not involuntarily :-)

Anyways, MKSV and MKTR have been postponed so more abt them next week ..
BBMK took most of the time .. what I hate most in electives is that we finally end up dividing work in group assignments .. so learning is somewhat different for everyone ( if there is any) ... Plus there is extra load of managing multiple groups ...

Grades of term 4 are out .. and so am i ( from list of top 100 ).. As usual I missed 2 grades by a margin of less than 1 mark .. This took total toll to 7 grades (after not counting 3 subjects in because I had to account for 3 in which I had been lucky) in four terms .. Had I been on other side of luck in these 7 i would have got a scholarship .. but thats ok .. i am here for the holistic MBA experience you see ...

The bad news is that all postponed assignments are due next week (which is the time when I m typing this post) so that will take away the term break ...

BBMK presentation was good .. Great job overall.. However I dont like to have freeriders... thats beyond my control though ...

Another expected bad news was the rejection of my first job application ( A D Little) CGPA , Relevant Experience , Extra currics I had none of these ... just the guts to apply, or shamelessness if you wanna call it :-)

Keeping up the spirit I have applied for McK too.. with a CG of 3.53 .. that is a suicide .. but I have 60 of themm After Mck and ADL it is now 58 ...

Hoping for the best :-)

And yeah, cud finally find time to jot down this post in this hectic term break (where I have 3 assignments and a competition) because I am the only lucky b*****d (out of 570) whose house is without power ..

I hate life at times ... rather most of the times ...

A typical day... Shouvik style

Blatant copy paste from Shouvik. He is just so awesome.

Damn Obelix. Spare ribs, pork with cumin, pork roast, braised pork. Barrel of beer. You do the math, the man had it good. I’m not one to deny a good man his cholesterol, but when I’m armed with a catapult and a kitchen knife and the solo wild boar in the ISB campus doesn’t show up, my anger’s on boiling point. Pardon the pun, but at this juncture, I’m pretty darned ‘bored’ to death. So I make a few calls to the few good women on campus. Friday night and everyone’s busy looking pretty. Cucumbers, mud packs, almond paste on their faces, so I’m perfunctorily brushed off.
That’s a long fall, brother. From intrepid boar-hunter to feeling like a fly. Optionless, I optimize the situation, dial the digits of a few close buddies. Half an hour and we’re all tuneless Mohd. Rafis, bawling our larynxes off, with bottles of Old Monk and Teachers losing their colour as the minutes roll.

Monday morning and I’m feeling blue. Not the pale ‘ISB logo’ blue but hardcore deep, deep blue. Armed with nicotine, caffeine and common sense, I enter the class. Everyone looks fresh. I wonder how. Figures and facts roll by, the Mensa club wannabes stretch their arms to dislocation point for a fraction of class participation credit. No love lost there, but some points leave me a severe sense of déjà vu. Didn’t the teacher just mention that point, or am I dozing off, again? Never mind. Evening, and it’s time for some club meets, some study group meets (Lehar Kurkure, Thums Up, Haldirams, cashew nuts, and the course pack), a spot of football, where I dodder like a rheumatic rascal. But the point is I try.

These days, I’ve been planning an arm-wrestling and beer-guzzling gig, not to mention posters for Kargil Diwas. Hands and tiny brain packed to capacity, I am bothered with a nagging suspicion that I’ll miss this place sorely. Now for some rumination on that as I head towards Goel’s greasy gruel on a perfect Sunday noon. Shalom.

Week 27 and 28 !!

My Bad... This the second time I am combining 2 posts in one ... but then it was beyond my control...
The taxing max week (week 26 , my previous post) spilled all over week 27 and then week 27 had its surprises for week 28 and week 29 now stares at us with 6 deliverables due in next 100 hours ...

Week 27 was marked with competitions ... The flavor of the season, as I have already posted in a recent entry, is competitions .. Core terms are over and no one bothers about grade now .... Ok ok ... I do .. but still significantly lower than what I used to be ...

few reasons for a change in mindset
1) My core term CGPS finally is all screwed up at 3.54 ... I could have done well and I should have done weel but then "plain unlucky" title is worthy on me ...

2) Core terms CGPA are more important for campus purposes and we now need to focus on getting some spikes in our resume .. Enter competitions and its a beeline to having a spike point to talk about ...

3) I now say .. I am here for the holistic experience and not just grades ... I am lying for sure but not 100% though .. i have learnt a lot here in past 6 months and remaining few have their ows agenda ...

Few good things happened with me though.

1) I applied for my first job. Arthur D Little. Its a consulting firm and I sttand no chance of shortlisting but then its a learning too.. If selected I get an interview experience ( They take as many as 5 6 rounds ) .. An interview experience because I will not stand more than a round... simply because our case prep group is still prepping for our first meet ... And I cant blame them .. I too am in same boat... If not selected then i will hopefully be more worried and hence more bothered thusr more serious about prepping ...

2) I was able to put in decent entries ( as I always think they are ) for competitions I participated in ... No good news yet though ... VCIC was one which we could not do even though the deadlines were extended... poor team I guess ..

3) ELP is kind of on track .. The client is liking what we are offering him .. Though an earlier meet with one of the marketing heads was disappointing all in all the client understands we are doing a good job given our constraints ...

And in the regulars

Classes are an eclectic mix of boring and interesting , zero to max take aways ...
As of now I m poised to get a poorer CG i term 5 than my average of term 4 .. but I am pulling my socks .. and you know I dont really start studying till last night ....
I am sure I will be able to manage ...

Plenty of assignments due this week.. Quite a few delivered in last 2 weeks ... 2 end terms next week along with 2 competition entries and 2 more assignment...

Rollercoater Ride it has been so far ... Literally

Week 26 - Taxing Max

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