Day 70 - 4th September 2010

And so it begins, the initial two months here were too good to be true. Today we got a taste of things to come over the next 3 weeks. The first bomb to be dropped on us was by the eco prof. who gave us a 30 page handout on pricing and asked us to come to class tomorrow with a handwritten assignment explaining each topic in our own words and also stating examples from the Indian context. Apart from that we also have a pre read for tomorrow's class. This is his way of shaking us up and ensuring that we study now at least, though I know for a fact that quite a few people who have been taking his subject seriously by going through the pre-reads before the classes. The second bomb to be dropped was by the FA prof, who announced a mid term on the 11th, one may think that there is still some time, but here is the list of things to be done over the next week
5th - eco assignment submission
6th - markops presentation
7th - rest day with companies coming for pre placement talks
8th - ID diary submission
9th- nothing (as of now)
10th - SSC end term!!
11th - FA mid term/ Prinicples of Management Assignment submission
The CT movie reviews also need to be submitted this week, plus there might be a surprise eco test as well.

Got down to writing the eco assignment in the evening. Never written so much in the past 3 years! Had to take a break to complete the MICAMINDS project proposal as well which had a 11:59p.m deadline. Working with the principle of just in time (JIT), we submitted the assignment at 11:57 p.m :-P Then had to get back to the eco assignment. Got done with it and have to start the pre-read now, hope it doesn't put me to sleep..

Day 60 - 25th August 2010

The entire day revolved around Markops - a marketing simulation game where you need to take business decisions and compare your results with that of virtual competitors. It's a pretty interesting concept, we completed 6 months of a 3 year plan today, the rest of it will be done over the next couple of days. Had another JIT experience today - although we were trying to work on it from 2 in the afternoon, the real work was began only at 630 with a 8 p.m deadline. Submitted the assignment at 745, which wasn't exactly JIT but still we weren't early birds either :-) Had nothing much to do after that, ended up spending the remainder of the day in my room, surfing the net and tracking the score of the India NZ match. Today seemed to be more of a rest day as compared to yesterday :-D