Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Collection of books...

Imagine you carrying a 10 kg weight daily to class, what will you feel like at the end of day. This was my situation yesterday.
I got my first lot of books for Trimester 1. I just kept staring at the books until the librarian told me to take it and move out of the library. You must have seen atlas shrugged or LOTR books. Out of the 6 books which I got (yeah you heard it right, its 6) 4 were of that size. Its obvious that you will feel more interested in reading atlas shrugged pr LOTR then Marketing management or Accounting.

How can they expect us to complete such a huge set in a matter or 2-3months. This is insane. I hope the seniors can help us to find out some shortcuts.

Will surely wait for you guys to comment on this topic. I hope you can impart some suggestions and tips to this poor soul.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Saturday early morning fever....

They say when trouble starts to show up in your life, don't be relaxed by solving that one. Its just the tip of the iceberg.

For 3 years (when i was in TCS) never ever i had got up before 10, except for fun trips. Thats has been my record.
This changed dramatically today, only 5 days in NMIMS changed by Saturday morning habit. The record was left dumped in a thrash bin.
Imagine me getting up at 7.30 am on saturday morning, its like waking up lion deep inside his den.

No wonder I was sleepy in the classroom.. Good lord, Vidya Bhole mam energized us with her lecture, otherwise i would have dozing off in her lecture.

But they also say "A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all".
Hopefully I should be able to achieve this..

Cia again..

Friday, June 26, 2009

Flurry of Assignment...!!!!!!


There is a famous saying "It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep". Well here u can even be blind to spot the goat. Yeah, you can find 300 of them..
Exactly, I'm talking about first year students/goats..

This is nice little opportunity for the senior to start the official ragging.. You can't call it ragging in university terms, because NM has given permission to the student council to start giving assignments..

So a serious of assignments followed after the first day.
Some day we had to write a review of the book, which they expect to complete within half a day and someday we used to get a assignment to prepare ppt on a sector of Indian Industry.

After the second one we found that these assignments don't count under the grading system. This secret was revealed by none other then our own course coordinator..

Mind it I'm trying to complete my third assignment posted by my seniors, rather I would say the third time I'm getting ragged, while I'm writing this little post..

Enjoy.. Cia soon..

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Irony of traveling in Mumbai local trains during peak hours....!!!!!!!!!


Before the day (21-June-2009)

Nice polished shoes kept in the shoe rack (I do it once in a month, and it was more then a month that I polished my shoes, since I left TCS)

The Day (22-June-2009)

All dressed up. Completely in formals. With the full sleeves shirt, and of course not folded (which i have done for the first time in 3 yrs). Finished my small breakfast and left home in a rick.. Reached station, bought a ticket to Vile Parle. Approached the first train on platform 2.
Then what, Entered inside the compartment like some small rat finding a hole in the wall to pass by.. Mind I'm a 6 feet tall guy, but when entering local train compartment in the peak hours it doesn't matter.. U r screwed..
For the next 15 minutes I was standing on one foot.. Believe me it was very difficult to balance out weight on one foot.. But i got help from others, just set yourself loose and fall on others..Everyone does the same thing.. :-D

After i got down at Parle, what I see was my shining black shoes has been converted to white/grayish.. That's what I call the irony of traveling in Mumbai local trains..

Day after (23-June-2009)

Started wearing snickers.. :-D
Kept the grayish black shoe back in the shoe rack..

Monday, June 22, 2009

First day at my alma mater...

Date: 22-June-2009

The title suggests exactly what I'm going to write in this post. Must say hell of a first day in NMIMS.

I met all my first Mumbai meet friends at the gate of UPG and we went to the eighth floor for our initial registration.
Our vice-chancellor Dr. Ranjan Saxena started with the inauguration speech. Must say he is well organized with his ideas and thoughts as he stared only a new times in his written speech. He boasted some of the things about NMIMS which I don't want to verify because as it is I'm a part of this institute and i don't want to start thinking above -ve things in this great atmosphere..

Then the dais was hosted Dr. Chandan Dasgupta. Well it was a well prepared speech, a standard one explaining all the bits of pieces of academics.

Then it was the turn of Mrs. Varsha Parab. She completed a very short and sweet speech, which according to her was a dangerous one. But we enjoyed it and specially me, as I was about to doze off. She spoke just in time.

Then was the best part, LUNCH time. :D
After this we resumed with what we had left about half an hour back. There were many intro's on Library, Placements, academic admin and exam dept. But the best of the lot was from Mr. Ajay Poddar, who explained about the general admin. He almost killed us by laughter with his speech. The best part of the speech "We provide neutral food in our hostels". Yet to figure out what does neutral actually means.. :D

Then came the student council team, led my Rohit Kamra. My god his team might have been fed up with the number of Q's thrown at them. All my batch mates asked so many Q's that I thought they would complete their entire 2 yrs in one day.

Finally the speeches were done and we were back to the old building to make our I-cards. Well the number of students made sure that the I-card process wont complete in a day. We were back in UPG and in the class where we started our day with the registrations. We had to complete the case study, ya you are right case study on the first day itself. It was a IIM A case study. Discussed with my group mates for about 2 hours and then we left for the day.

I thought of changing the title to "Hell of a first day in NMIMS". But in the end I felt it was not as bad as a Hell.