Miami fever...

Time: 2.45 to 5.45 pm
Date: 9th July, 2009
Place: B J Hall (The same hall where we had our orientation)

The first guest lecture for 2009-2011 batch. The professor's name was Dr.Vaidy Jayaraman. He teaches for the Operations & Supply Chain Mgt Department of Management, University of Miami.
The french cut mallu had a good accent and made us believe that he was indeed from Miami. His teaching method was good, but the problem was after the 5 hrs of lecture in the morning, no one was actually interested in this lecture. But we were forced to come as it was a compulsory one.

He actually started very well, giving a brief intro of OM and the first half hour was exciting. But later on he also did the same thing as was expected by a normal prof. Started to impart too much of theory. But the guy had a knack of giving examples at the right moment. Just when I was about to doze off, he started with Microsoft and McDonalds example. Then later on a couple more like Starbucks, GE, Dell, Sony, Toyota and some others. That made the session at least somewhat bearable. :)

Then why am I calling this a Miami fever. Well the reason is that every example was based on the same location, Miami. All the other local area events were also of the same region. Now you must have realized the importance of this topic title.

We left at 5.45 and reached college to collect some notes. But suddenly it started to rain heavily and we had to wait for one more hour in the college. Then half hour at the railway station and finally reached home at 8.15.

The Miami fever was forced on us and that cost us 6 hours. Very expensive but with friends around, you can always neglect the wastage of time.

Cia soon. Logging off. Bye..