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 !!!

Week 16 - Hectic as expected

A hectic week full of assignments and submissions...
This week too was the usual... we were running around to meet the deadlines and were definitely enjoying it .. though we are used to it but so are we to use expletives describing our misery ....

the weekle posts are getting smaller and smaller because the delta in eperience from a week to another is reducing.. every week has an assignment lineup to be finished ... every class has a case or 2 to read and analyze and prepare and discuss and note bulleted points and take printouts and carry them to class and do arbit CP and come back and take out the course pack to read next day's case and the vivisious cycle continutes ...

This weekend is last before the end terms and i m actually having a terribly time ... I corp fin class I feel i am at/ a 5 star hotel... where does one pay 5000 to sleep for 2 hours :-)

OPMG is fun and I should be able to pull it off to an A- easily .. similarly MADM ( worst subject at ISB till date ) .... i hope i can run tha extra mile to make my grade sheet look a bit better ...

For Term 2 grades of 3 subjects are out ..
DMOP = A (Finally I broke the A- jinx)
GLEC = A- ( despite scoring 91.3% marls ; B ranged from 84 to 90.6 and A started from 92.9)
(I have a silly mistake to mourn upon , in one submission 1 page was not printed properly and the cost of not checking is 1 grade .. this is the 4th subject in which I missed an A grade by < 2 marks)
MKDM = A- ( Jinx is back)
CSTR - I am not expecting A.. so A- it will be ...

End terms preparation eed to start but there are 5 assignments which are due this week ..

GodSpeed !!!

Week 15 - Transition from chilled to spine chilling !!!

Enough of chilling around..
this week was chill till the weekend and then came the supe duper hectic weekend ...

i had 9 activities to complete over weekend but ended up finishing 3 , postponing 2 and dropping 4 of them..

end terms are around already and way too many assignments to be finished before that ...

its only going to get worse for next 2 weeks ..

sorry for the short post !!!

Week 14 - Chilled one too !!

It is proven. It is fina. Term 3 is not at all hectic as term 1 or term2. Or is it that we have become efficient. Naah !! its definitely the former.... The only reason term 3 is chilled because there is no midterm in 3 subjects.

This week was similar to last week.. chilled week , chilled weekend and then jam packed sunday.... Sunday demanded time for assignments. :-)

I took part in few competitions which could have made life tougher.. but none seemed to attract me finally or have deadlines later... Lets see how they go finally...

Corp fin midterm is round the corner. Gotta start studying.

13th Week - A chilled one !!

A chilled one? At ISB ? You serious ?
And still weekly post on Monday and not on Sunday... Well yeah!!! Everything is true... Term 3 seems coolest (till now).. First class of term 3 on monday and many were snoring ... Not me .. I slept on wednesday in the same class :-)....
I liked the profs of term 3 as the best lot till now .. the core prof for me is still Mohan sir but the overall total of term 3 profs is higher than terms 1 and 2...

Term 2 end terms marks are out and i hv realized getting above average is not very.... i m actually hoping a better term than term 1 .... max i m expecting is 2 As and 2 A-'s... hoping for the best ...

Term 3 subjects are interesting too... 3 subjects do not have any midterm ( which gives us a 6 week long break , leaving aside the assignments which are 3 every week) and 1 of them does not even have an end term... but there is a bad news too for folks like me ... 3 subjects have CP marks at which i m pathetic at best ... always below average in CP u see.... so even if I do decently in end terms i would end up as A-....

Monay classses started ( so did the sleeping ) ... Tueday another 2 subjects introduced... wednesday a submission .. thursday classes and fun ... friday LDP and fun ... Saturday fun and Sunday assignment ( precisely the reason why i cudnt write my weekly chronicle on Sunday) ...

Thursday was sports day of A11 ... we played cricket , TT and carrom till late night ...

Sunday ended with Kargil Diwas being celebrated at ISB ... it was a humbling experience to listen to the stories of the 527 great men who made the ultimate sacrifice so that me and my loved ones can sleep peacefully ... When the disussion went towards management lessons at army it wook away the emotion of day but whenever someone narrated last letter or valour tales of martyrs i almost my head bowed down in respect ... One good experience ...

Week 2 of term 3 looks chilled too ...

Week 12 - Term 2 anti climax but still quarter MBA ..

Term 2 end terms .... They came and they stormed me ... Upside down was the direction of my preparations... Well not that bad but they weren't good either ... Started with MKDM and it was more of gyaan subject .. I believe I did decent but then decent at ISB only gets you a B grade :-(
Then was the turn of economics in which we never understood a word in the class... all 10 classes were complete waste.... we slogged last night before the exams and puked whatever we knew on the answer paper... hope to do ok ... ( B grade Again ?) ... Then came DMOP ... .This was adrenaline pumping as my midterm marks were good and this could fetch me my first "A".. I did ok in exams and I am hoping for one :-) Compstrat was the longest exam i ever sat for .. 4 hours.. that too 2 hours of no answer sheet .. just reading and anlyzing the case ... and then last 2 hours for putting in place all the thought wandering here and there while reading the case .... whetever .!!!! as usual i was ecstatic after this on as i was quarter mba .. Well I hope (want ?) to get better grades than term 1 but not too sure as there was only 1 subject in which crisp and concise answers mattered and not gyaan ( which i m terrible at)..

Anyways .. tuesday night was games night with A11 going to AOE night... Wednesday was spent chilling out and I watched 2 movies ( desi ones) on TV which i really enjoyed with popcorns :-)

Wednesday night the term break pretty much ended because we were reminded of the compstrat devil called Project report which was due sunday and carried 35% weightage ... so we divided the work on wed night and disersed...thursday was afulld ay LDP which was completely wasted by the instructor ... I dint like any LDPs till now but this one was the worst ... I am not at all looking forward to other 2 which I have coming up in next term .... just want it to be done and over with ...

Thurday night we went for paid preview of Harry Potter and Half blood prince and I loved the outing ... good fun .. friday went in writing my part of compstrat report and saturday wsa agai nfun .. sunday submitted the compstrat report in huffle puffle and then went for a spanish dinner with smiley to end the term break and weekend ...

Term 2 takeaways:-
1) I can never study on time .. no matter how much I try I end up studying last night...
2)Less careless mistakes = very good marks... not that i dint know this but this time i followed this in DMOP....
3) Take part in everything possible... Possible is the keyword here... u cant do anything but put in your best on everything ... I applied for ELP and it got approved today .. so it was worth staying up till 5 in the morning drafting the EOI document...
4) Sun yaar .. Chill Maar

Term 3 is said to be the acme of workload in ISB and it has already started...
Details next week ....

till then...
Adios !!!

Week 11 - Exams fever Again !!

I m posting this after my end terms which finished an hour back ... I will keep this till last sunday as usual and to ne honest this can be shortes weekly post with just one word inscribed to the core. Preparations.

This is what happens always to me .. No matter how much I try , no matter how much I wish , i just dont succeeed in doing it .. It is not preparation ... It is timely preparation.. I always end up starting at the last .. Though till date i never short of time and I always complete my syllabus and have my head held high when I walk in to the exam room ( No matter how the results are.. I atleast feel confident) ...

Last week there were fewer assignments and now in hindsight i feel I could have devoted some more time for studies... But last week I did 2 things which I wanted to do..
I signed up for ICON project ( Internal consulting project) and submitted for an application for the same .. topic was same .. Improving alum relations .... We spent 2 nights doing that .. brainstorming and then drafting the EoI (expression of interest) ... was fun .. then got rejected ... i later came to know that our document was not beautiful... it was not formatted and neither looked embellished and jazzy ....

Another interesting stuff which took 1 whole night ( and hence next day) was drafting the ELP proposal.. project is very interesting and I am seriously hoping to get some good outcome ...

Lets see..
apart from that it was the original theme .. Preparations ..

Whatever....

Next week - term 2 end terms and term 2 take aways

Week 10 ... Craziness redefined !!

Phew,
I have a comp strat case tomorrow and more stuff to touch upon in other three subjects but I m still jotting this entry because I dont wanna b 2 late ... As it it i m sure week 11 entry will be postponed give the fact that I have End terms next monday ( Ya ya .. Again !!!)

This week was pretty much as hectic as last week .. But there was a difference.. Last week was hectic due to academic demands but this one was more profound and learning ( WTF?)
I was dead busy as I got involved in clubs and ICON and ELP in addition to our very own and regular ISB study assignments ...

We dint have many assignments during the week but we had 2 big deliverables due on monday
GLEC country report due monday night and DMOP case study due on Monday noon..

Proud to be the time manager I charted out a plan from A11 ( my study group) that we will finish these on thursday night with a maximum buffer of one day , in which case we will be done max by friday thereby enabling us full 2 days of freedom and emptiness ( in positive sense off course) .. Here is how it went .. We finished DMOP assignment on Monday 2 Am and GLEC report on monday 7 PM....

We had freedom on saturday and sunday but i utilised it in catching up with my sleep and pretty much lazed around ....

I thought in last term that i will be regular but guess that is never to happen ... I always was , always am and always will be the slog over batsman ... managing a decent score but never a century ..

And yes as predicted .. My silly mistakes cost me 3 A grades and I finally ended term 1 with 4 A negatives .. I missed A grade in accounting , economics and stats by 2 marks each ... God tried his best and compensated by making me A- in marketing where I was expecting B..

Still I am at loss.. But thats ok ... I knew life would go for a toss..

M having fun !!!