Day 297 - 23rd August 2011

Back to a full day of classes after a long time! Had two SBM lectures in the morning. They were the last set of lectures for the course. We mainly discussed brand extensions and under what circumstances do they happen. A lot of examples were also given by the prof. and I have to admit I wasn’t aware of a majority of them! Had a 2 hour break after that during which I managed to get some clothes washed, the sun came out after a long time today, ideal time to get clothes dried :P

Had our first set of lectures on sports marketing today. The context was set by the course today by the prof, the same person who helped me out with my summer internship at FIF1. The topic of discussion mainly revolved around what makes sports marketing so different from marketing of other products. We also have some good visiting faculty lined up for the course which is something to look forward to. FIF1 work kept me busy post lectures. We will be conducting speed nights at MICA and IIM-A, had to set up the branding for that on campus and had to also go to IIM-A to hand over their branding, Rajat also came along to help with that. Came back to campus by 945, mess food didn’t look too inviting, so Chota it was! MQC had the India Quiz in the night, not a topic that I am too comfortable with, not that I am a champion quizzer :P Got done with that at by 130, too tired to do anything after that, will crash in a bit.

Day 293 - 19th August 2011

Woke up at 12 today! This was because the CC class was supposed to start only at 430. Took care of some MCSA work until then. Today's class was a case study on Kashmir, the chronological order of events which has led to the current situation. Realised how history textbooks have been distorted to give us a different picture about the Kashmir issue. Class went on till dinner time after which there was a movie screening. Today's movie was The Magdalene Sisters, based on true stories of Irish nuns in the 70s. It took a dig at how religion is misinterpreted to commit atrocities the world over.

The movie got over at round 1130 in the night. Tonight was also the first night of the MICA Quizzing League - MQC. Made a last minute team with Manu. Today's was a brand quiz. We missed out on the cut off for the finals because we wrote one of our answers as Surf instead of Surf Excel :P Got back to the room after that and was watching some old cricket videos on the net. Will call it a day in a bit, have our last class of CC tomorrow.

Day 66 - 31st August 2010

After clocking in 2.5 hours of sleep the last thing you would want to hear in the morning is that there is an economics mid-term test in the afternoon! The eco prof. eventually did live up to his reputation, he announced the test when we least expected it. Had two lectures before the test, most of the class bunked those lecture because of the sudden turn of events :-P I headed to the library to study how much ever I could of eco. The test was supposed to be open book, but the seniors had told us that it really doesn't matter whether we carrying the eco text book would be as useful as carrying The Fountainhead for the test.The second bomb to be dropped was the paper pattern, it was a multiple choice questions test, 70 odd questions in 60 minutes with the following marking scheme -
+2 for a correct answer
-0.5 for a wrong answer
-1 for not attempting a question :-|
Had no choice but to guess for questions I didn't know the answers to(and there were quite a few of them). The paper was totally based on eco concepts and would definitely be a little tough for first timers. Nonetheless felt relieved at the end of it that at least we were done with it, no more living in the fear of the most dreaded surprise tests!

Went out to the city again in the evening. Wanted to get out of campus, so accompanied a couple of friends who wanted to do some shopping at ISCON. I kept myself occupied by playing 12 overs against the bowling machine at the mall. :-D Got back to campus in time for dinner which was really good! Soup,pasta,pizza and ice cream and each dish tasted the way it was supposed to taste ;-) After dinner worked a bit on the MICAMINDS project and wrote one more movie review at the library.

In continuation of friend of the day, today's spotlight is on -

Zoya Singh aka Fruit Loops

The other half of 1,Parijat, she has been my quizzing partner at the MICA Quizzing championships (MQC). Met her as well during the ice breaking session alongwith Geeko. She doesn't actually have a nickname but she did come up with the name Fruit Loops for our quizzing team. She is extremely proud of the fact that she is 5 feet tall and has already decided that she is going to name her kid Peter Pan :-) Another interesting thing is that we both dislike similar things and indulge in similar loser habits!

Fruit Loops - hope you haven't forgotten about the 'event' you are supposed to 'plan' for towards the end of October ;-)