Days 306 to 309 - 7th to 10th September 2011

Am clubbing these days together since this update is coming quite late. As much as I hate not being able to update the blog on a daily basis, the past couple of week have ensured that I havent been able to update the blog. Had the course on luxury branding on 8th and 9th. The day prior to that was spent preparing for the LB presentation that was to be made on the first day in class. Summer placement week was also going to start for PGP-1 from the 11th onwards. One of the girls from PGP-1 wasn't keeping too well so she had to be taken to hospital. The LB course was quite good, initially I had my apprehensions of how it would be, since the entire concept of luxury branding wasn't very appealing. But the visiting faculty who had come down to take the course was really good. He had woked with HUL, General Motors and  American Express before starting his own luxury consulting firm. He had a lot of good examples to share from his experience. He also shared with us the market entry strategies of brands like Mercedes Benz and American Express in India.

The course got over on the 9th. Had to pack since I had an early morning flight on the 10th. I was done with my classes for the term and had to be in Goa for the national finals of the FIF1 Academy finals. College reopnes on the 10th of October, so its quite a long break. Will be back to updating the blog once I am back on campus. Until then, adios!

Day 255 - 5th July 2011

Had a rest day today, so got back to the rest day routine of waking up at 1030 and having breakfast at Chota. Went to ISCON mall in the afternoon to pick up some stuff for the room. Also gave the bike for servicing, so basically took care of all the pending chores! Got back to campus in the evening and had to take care of some MCSA work (it may be sounding repetitive but unfortunately majority of my time these days is being consumed by MCSA work :P) Had to meet the registrar for internship related work. I have been given an extension until October and will be working part time from campus until then. He was nice enough to grant me permission for the same. After that had to meet an exchange student from Switzerland who is here for the first term of PGP-1. Had dinner at chota since the mess food seemed quite boring. Post that the MCSA work continued, didnt even realise when the clock struck 4 in the morning, guess my body clock has adjusted to the MICAn sleep cycle quite soon!

Day 234 - 18th March 2011

Had a study leave today courtesy the impending exams. They begin tomorrow with MDA being the first paper. Its a little intriguing that a subject which is so heavy on concepts on quants has only a 1 hour paper. That made a lot of people guess about the probable paper pattern. But knowing the prof. Im sure there is a major surprise in store. Spent most of the day preparing for the paper. A ppt was given for only one topic, for the remaining we had to scour through the notes and books.

The highlight of the day though was receiving the offer letter for my summer internship. I will be interning with Force India Formula 1 team this summer! :-) Had my interview 3 weeks back in Bombay. Got an unofficial confirmation last week and today finally received the offer letter. One more reason now for wanting the exams to get over soon!!

Days 75 to 89 - 11th to 25th September

Was on a break from updating this blog was forced for the first 10 days and voluntary for the next 5 days. We had our summer placement week from the second week of September and as a policy we weren't allowed to disclose details of any of the companies that visited campus. Thats why I couldn't post anything on the blog. Apu,Geeko,Fruit Loops and CR all got placed in firms of their choice and I am really happy for them. The only company I sat for was the one which had a sports marketing vertical but they did not have any openings in that department. I chose not to sit for any other company, will try off campus as well. The week was followed by term end examinations. Now in engineering i was used to a 3 week study leave for 5 subjects with at least a day's gap between two papers. Now imagine my plight when I have 8 subjects to study in 4 days - two papers per day! And that too some of the subjects were being studies for the first time. The paper that was really bad for me was FA, my engineering graphics paper (which I did not clear on the first attempt) seemed better than FA, so you can imagine how bad it must have been. Anyways can't do much about it now. But the highlight of the exams was the last paper - PoM, a 1 hour 50 questions MCQ paper which was completed in 2o minutes flat :D And most of the batch was out within 40 minutes. Left for Bombay on the same night, the reservation chart of the coach we were in looked like the roll call for our batch, at least 30 people were on the same train. Feels good to be back home, have been averaging 3-4 hours of sleep for the past week, so the agenda for the next week is pretty clear. ;-)

It's been a pretty eventful first term at MICA, met a lot of interesting people and looking forward to the next 5 terms. Apparently the second term is one of the best terms wrt extra curricular activities, looking forward to it. Will start posting again once I am back on campus on the 4th of October. Until then, Adios!

Day 73 - 7th September 2010

This is going to be a pretty short post. Have not been keeping too well, heading for a flu, as is the case with me it comes at the worst possible time. The workload just seems to keep increasing. Although today we did get a breather with the deadline for the ID submission being extended by a couple of days. Spent majority of the day at the, primarily to beat the heat. Ended up sleeping for a while as well. Tried to study accounts but just wasn't able to concentrate. Had a placecomm meet at 1 in the night, with the summer placement week approaching, things are going to pick up wrt placements. As for me, I need to decide whether I sit for the process or opt out of it and look for something off campus. After the meet tried studying at the library but couldn't get stay awake. Came back to my room at around 330 before calling it a day.