Day 167 - 22nd December 2010

Today's CB paper was quite decent, not heavily oriented towards theory. Most of the questions were application based and fun to answer. After CB spent around an hour or so going through the IGD slides, really didnt expect anything good to come out of the paper. Testing theory for such a subject is completely irrelevant, should be more of a case based approach.

We got our schedule for the next term today. The batch had some issues regarding the time table with Prof. Mathew not teaching us any subject and some other concerns as well. The ARC had to meet up for that to discuss our course of action. We decided to call a batch meet to discuss some of these issues, was a pretty good response,hope something good comes out of it. After the batch meet, Mallu had packed Shikari Tangdi Kabab from Honey9 , so Mallu, Maushi,Kalkar and Kore shared the meal at Chota followed by some random discussions on how engineers are and how engineering jokes will never really be understood by anybody else :D In the midst of all this had to study AM and also work on the OB make up group assignment which I missed in class as I was attending the sports marketing lectures with pgp2(still dont regret it, SRT's brand manager v/s excellence in organizations - which one would you choose? :P). The mood in the batch is already pretty relaxed since we had studied for the AM test earlier and moreover it is the last paper :D

During the course of the day, spoke to a few senior ARC members, got some pretty interesting points of view. Will need to take it forward once we are back next term. For now the only thing on my mind is getting done with tomorrow's paper :P

Day 165 - 20th December 2010

Today's QT paper was an absolute disaster. It was a 50 mark paper with 100% weightage :-S And to add to it there was a problem on simplex linear programming for 30 marks! Had practiced a decent number of sums yesterday and was relatively confident of solving the sum, but then while forming the equations there was one condition in the problem which I did not read and that changed the entire course of the solution. Could not solve the sum completely but attempted the theory questions, should hopefully get some marks there. Came out of the exam hall and realised the mistake I made and also realised that the paper wasn't good for majority of the batch. Micamail was flooded with people asking for a make up assignment since having a 100% weightage for such a paper is unfair. Anyways lets see what happens. Didn't study much of DC, in fact I slept off for a while, read a few of the slides half an hour before the exam. The DC paper was OK, pretty much on expected lines.

Had to submit the Imagining India essay as well today, managed to write 3045 words! :D In the evening we got a mail which had a case study for tomorrow's OB exam. Finally a real life case for the subject! It's a good thing that we dont have to mug up theory for such a subject, because it is of absolutely no use. Read the case in the night and kept watching videos on youtube of SRT's innings. Was a pretty light day in terms of preparing for the exam, but its going to be exactly the opposite tomorrow when we have to prepare for CB and IGD. It's going to be a mugfest!

Day 111 - 25th October 2010

Had a 10 o'clock today so could afford to wake up a little late. The DC lecture had a major argument between a bunch of students and the prof. on whether divorce was a development issue or not. The prof. felt that it was an issue but majority of the class felt that the causes of divorce were development issues. It ended with no consensus whatsoever. IGD was all about power,influence and politics about the workplace. Got to some interesting facts about the way the Japanese and Europeans work. Was feeling extremely sleepy by the end of the lecture. Slept for a almost 3 hours in the afternoon. Woke up so that I could see a bit of the MCL game between Smokin Joes and Navy Square Cut, but the match was already over by then. Smokin Joes won by 92 runs.

Went to Bopal in the evening for a haircut. The road to Bopal is such a pleasure to ride on unlike how it was during the monsoon. There was a nice chill in the air as well. Tried to read up a bit about Ayodhya for tomorrow's Imagining India class. MICANVAS is 2 days away and things are now moving in full swing. Had a security meet in the night, this was for the concert on the 30th. A detailed security plan was shown to us. All the guys from PGP1 will be volunteering for security. We will also be moving in to senior hostels for the next 5 days. Have to pack for that as well. Will be going for another round of general sales tomorrow, not sure whether I will be able to update until MICANVAS is over, will try though!