Days 176 to 183 - 17th to 23rd January 2011

Back after a looong break. Wasn't exactly a break though. Placement week for the seniors was on the whole of last week, so we didn't have classes and some of us volunteered for the process. I was in charge of batch handling, had to make sure that all the seniors were there in the designated classrooms before the process for any company started. That involved spending long periods of time in the class with them and sending people for GD's and interviews. It was a case study in human behaviour - how people handle stress, how do they react when their friends get job offers and they dont make the cut, especially if your boyfriend/girlfriend gets a job and you are still jobless. Essentially this was the week for which they took the CAT and MICAT two years back. It all boiled down to how well they did in the GD's, also there is no denying the element of luck that is involved. It's an emotional roller coaster ride for most of the people and people from my batch ahve already begun dreading our placement week next year. Volunteering took up most of my time last week. Though I did get time to go to the McDonalds at Bopal for a midnight snack (it's open till 1 in the night) and also to the coffee shop at Mariott for a late night coffee.

The past 2 days have been pretty action packed. Had to go to CEPT, which is an architecture college in Ahmedabad, to play a cricket match against their team. Their ground is huge!! Only two boundaries in the entire match and I got run out because I had never run so many runs in my life :P We ended up winning the match though, so it was all worth it :-) Today (23rd) there was a PGP1 v/s PGP2 match which we lost by 10 runs. By the end of it I realised that my legs still hadn't recovered from yesterday!

Apart from that on the academics front, we had a BM assignment to be submitted. The assignment was about tracking the brand communication of any product through various stages of its life cycle. I chose to work on Cinthol and while researching realised that we have an amazing collection of ads in the online library and that is just one part of the library. Need to start using the library more often! ;-) Also have a pre read for tomorrow's EB class which I started reading in the night and dozed off :D Will try reading it in sometime. Right now need to work on some content for Micavaani, they are doing a biweekly cricket show. Will get down to working on that and then come back to EB. It's back to the grind tomorrow, 9 to 5 classes for the first time - hope we make it to the other side!