28th July 2010

The worst possible start to a day.. Woke up at 9:05 a.m... And the realization dawned upon me that I'd missed my 9 am lecture :-(

Blame it on the weather.. Suddenly the weather has cooled a bit. Result: Dozing off while studying at night, shutting the alarm off, and sleeping again, and eventually missing lectures.. So much for the start..

Today was the day of MCN (that is Managerial Communication) midterm. Supposed to be an open book test for 90 minutes. No one had a clue as to what would we be tested on.. Had an unintentional 1.5 hr sleep before the exam.. Damn you weather!!

Exam.. Hahaha.. One of the weirdest exams I've ever given. The first question took the cake:

"Meenakshi, your 23 year old neighbor, excitedly comes running towards you and tells you that she's got a job in Hewitt. She has an athletic build, light skin, heart shaped face, small nose and full lips. She wants you to help her to select her wardrobe for her new office. What would you suggest her?"

I took almost 30 minutes to dress up Meenakshi. I gave her a very decent advice. But I felt left out of place when I came out and guys were discussing this answer. I guess we, guys just look for opportunities to give our frank advice. Some of the mind blowing advices which I heard.. (I wonder how Godfather would react looking at these answers ;-) )

"Wear dark lip stick because your lips are full"

"Dont wear dresses which would reveal your cleavage"

"Dont wear dresses through which your inner wear would be seen"

Don't blame us. We are engineers who are on our way, trying hard to be HR managers.. Don't expect us to be Manish Malhotras or Hemant Trivedis..

Anyways, "bakar"ed a lot later in the night, studied a bit for Lawyer's class. Here we have to study to earn our Class Participation points. How cruel can our life be? Some "Crisp"ing done as well.. Finally dozed off at 5.. zzzzzz

My Inspiration n my Guidelines..

This whole idea of blogging my MBA days has been inspired by mucchhad's "In the Gates of HelL".. So mucchhad.. "Yo my inspiration nigga!" I don't know whether I'll be able to match your regularity. But I'll try nonetheless.

I'll try to stay away from posting any sort of gyaan which I study in the classroom (i.e. "IF" I study any). As far as possible I'll try not to mention any names in the blog. All the people when they are to be referred, will be referred to by some indirect nicknames.

Ooh.. looks like I've been thinking too much about law. I'm actually framing rules. Looks like Prof. Lawyer is having an effect on me after all.

Anyways.. The blogs following this, would be my daily accounts. Till then..

Keep XLing.. \m/

A Quick Recap

As, I've already mentioned I am 1.5 months late to blog. So, a quick recap of things which have happened so far. As we are always advised in the B school to write things in bullet points,

• Got bummed out looking at my hostel room. I don't know why I had imagined a rosy picture of a hostel room. A point to note is my room's strategic location. It's right next to the toilet. Yep, it has its own advantages and disadvantages. Fell in love with the calm n serene nature of the college campus.
• The initial days can be very frustrating. A lot of people shaking hands, flashing their smiles around, as if there's been a leak of laughing gas, telling their names. You can't even remember 10% of the names you hear. So the first 1-2 weeks are dedicated to name sharing and smile flashing.
• Had to attend the prep course organized by the college. This was really helpful as it prepared me for the rigours ahead and gave me a clear picture of what I would be facing in the coming two years.. NOT!!. Also had to face... (well, let's not go there.. ;-) )
• As far as the acad life goes, done with 3 'okay'ish quizzes and 1 disastrous Economics mid term. Project work for different subjects is just piling up with the deadlines fast approaching (and here I am, making my blog :-D). Had some really nice lectures, some boring ones, some where I dozed off in the class and some (just 3) which I bunked (2 of them voluntarily).
• As far as the non-acad life goes, had 1 punch night, 1 wet night, 1 jesu night, 2 booze nights (out of which 1 I don't even remember :-P). Have had many endless 'bakar' sessions on the 4th floor of my hostel. For some strange reason, I've given a royal ignore to all the committees which float around here. And yes.. one wonderful experience at the village, thanks to the village exposure program of the college. One blog post would be dedicated to the entire "Village Experience".

Ok.. Enough of recap.. Wouldn't make my blogs too long. Two reasons for that : 1) I would get bored reading them later and 2) I'm an MBA student.. I don't have that much time :-P

Here I go..

Ok.. I've started writing this blog pretty late. I have already spent 1.5 months here. The thing is, life goes so quickly here. Bidding farewell to my dad and coming to live a hostel life for the first time in my life, this incident seems so fresh, as if it happened yesterday.

Well, that's why I decided to start blogging so that, at the end of two years, I shouldn't keep thinking 'what did I do in these two years'...

N that's why.. Here I go.. :-)