Day 375 - 13th January 2012

Friday the 13th today! Nothing extraordinary happened though, had to submit the rural report in the morning. As expected, there was a huge rush at the printing center in the morning and to add to our woes, the colour printer was giving problems.Took about half an hour to get a printout of the report. MCSA work took over after that. Had a meeting with the executive registrar and the associate director prior to lunch. Since tomorrow is Sankranti (which is a holiday for the staff) lunch was served at the
football field with a complete Gujju fare. Played tennis for a while in the evening with Shom. Since today was Lohri, Culcomm had organized a bonfire in front of Asoka with Popcorn and sweets being distributed. Punjabi music then tookover with people having a lot fo fun and dancing talent being showcased from some unexpected quarters :P Got another rest day coming up with Sankalp's theatre fest scheduled to happen over the next couple of days, should be interesting.

Day 374 - 12th January 2012

Had a late start to the day today which meant breakfast at Chota. Didnt have any classes in the morning, but the rural report is due tomorrow morning. Did a little bit of work for that before lunch. Post lunch had the second session advanced excel training. The session was on control structures and coding in macros. The session was really interesting and didnt even realise how 3 hours passed by. Played tennis for a bit in the evening after which had to get down to helping Sania and Apu with the rural report in whatever little way I could :P Kalkar wasn't feeling too well with a sore throat and he came up with this phenomenal medication of having Shikari chicken at Honey9. How could I have said no for such a noble cause ;-) Though the flip side when ever it is only the two of us who go out to eat, the food to bill ratio goes for a toss. Got back to campus by 9 and decided to go to the library for a change of location. Ended up watching videos on youtube and working a bit on my part for the rural report. MCSA work took over post midnight. Everyone seems to be up completing the rural report, something tells me that there is going to be a huge line at the printing center tomorrow morning!

Day 306 - 6th September 2011

Had the second day of the rural communication workshop today. Woke up late which meant I had to miss the first session, utilised the time to work on the LB assignment in the library. Went for the post lunch session which was on rural economics. It was taken by the same prof who had taken our ME course. A lot of interesting facts  came out from the session, he shared his own experience in rural research. He also explained to us as to we how we should go about choosing a village for our research.

After the session, FIF1 work kept me busy for the next 3 hours. Everyday I realise that there is so much work to be done with the finals just a week away! Post dinner had the first night of Khula Aasman by Sankalp which had 4 plays. All of them were excellent and were excellent to say the least, its amazing how people manage to practice so much and pull off such plays in the middle of all assignment submissions and examinations. Also had the pre rurals party to end the day which meant some good food before sleeping! ;-)

Day 305 - 5th September 2011

Had a full day of classes today courtesy the rural communication workshop which is a prelude to the rural communication project we are supposed to undertake in the upcoming term break. We were given an overview of the general social structure, dos and don'ts and what we specifically need to look out for while undertaking the project. Most of my day though was taken up by FIF1 work, with the national finals lined up next week, a lot of last minute work needs to be done! Didn't attend one of the post lunch sessions of the workshop since there was a lot of work to be done for which mails had to be sent and calls had to be made.

Lectures got done at 430 and for the next 3 hours had back to back MCSA meetings -

• Placecomm and the Executive Registrar
• Executive Registrar
• Placecomm and the Associate Director
• Associate Director
• Programme Office
• Deputy Registrar

Was totally exhausted by the end of it all. Came back to the room and continued with the FIF1 work, a lot of calls have to be made to all agencies to ensure that everything is moving on track. In the night met up with group members for the luxury branding (LB) assignment. For the first time am working on an assignment which has nothing to do with sports :P In fact I didnt even know what the brand that we are supposed to work on was! The only saving grace is that Zoya is in my group and luxury branding is a piece of cake for her :-) Got back to the room by midnight. Have another full day of classes tomorrow with the rural workshop, its been one helluva tiring day today, getting sleep should not be a problem!