Well your greatest nightmares come true when you are in a MBA college. Yes I am talking about being in a college on a beautiful Sunday. That's what happened to me last Sunday (2 days back).
Imagine a lazy person like me getting up at 7 am and heading for the college, yeah that's what i call a nightmare. Except if it was a trip like 2 weeks back to lonavala.
The occasion was interview rounds for the various core cells. The cells has been mentioned in my July 10th post. The process was long and the number of candidates made it even longer. The total was around 200, and the maximum were for IIPC :(
But its a worth a experience, isn't it. I wish they select me for the IIPC cell, because its new born baby and I would like to extend it even further.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Intro of cells.....
Arre baba, no cell phones. Its the committees I'm talking about. Those are called cells, and I think its the same for all the B-school's.
First of all it was at 2 pm and we did not had our lunch and so any moment of boredom would be very harmful for the committee members. So that was taken care with short and concise speech and 2-3 questions only.
The cell's being introduced were Student Council, Placecom, Alumni and IIPC in that order. Except for the first one all the others functioned in a similar way. The student council is the apex body and so was heading the other cell's.
I liked the way IIPC functions. Placecom is very general reaction for the others and they do hire 60-70 for their marketing activities. Details of IIPC are here and here
Alumni and IIPC has almost the same activities by which they interact with the CEO's and VP's. But IIPC is different because of their mentorship program. and Alumni arranges only parties (that's what they said in the ppt presentation)
First of all it was at 2 pm and we did not had our lunch and so any moment of boredom would be very harmful for the committee members. So that was taken care with short and concise speech and 2-3 questions only.
The cell's being introduced were Student Council, Placecom, Alumni and IIPC in that order. Except for the first one all the others functioned in a similar way. The student council is the apex body and so was heading the other cell's.
I liked the way IIPC functions. Placecom is very general reaction for the others and they do hire 60-70 for their marketing activities. Details of IIPC are here and here
Alumni and IIPC has almost the same activities by which they interact with the CEO's and VP's. But IIPC is different because of their mentorship program. and Alumni arranges only parties (that's what they said in the ppt presentation)
Thursday, July 09, 2009
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..
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..
Rajhdhani travel for 1.5 hrs....
Time: 12.30 pm
Date: 9th July, 2009
Venue: Somewhere in a corner of the 8th floor of a building beside NM college (that's what we call UPG building, or the orphan building for NMIMS 2009-2011 batch)
Please don't think that I actually traveled for one and a half hours. Its the WBC (written business communication lecture) I'm talking about. Woof the prof literally talked for 90 minutes as if she was drowning. I was experiencing as if I was sitting on a platform and Rajhdhani just traveled past my sight. This was felt during the entire lecture.
Not even once did she try to actually take a halt. Later on I realized that this will happen every Thursday.
How will you feel when you travel in a Concorde for 1.5 hrs? You will of course enjoy the experience. But this wont happen in WBC class. The speed will be the same, but the exception is that the Concorde will pass through the hell for 1.5 hours of its journey.
Date: 9th July, 2009
Venue: Somewhere in a corner of the 8th floor of a building beside NM college (that's what we call UPG building, or the orphan building for NMIMS 2009-2011 batch)
Please don't think that I actually traveled for one and a half hours. Its the WBC (written business communication lecture) I'm talking about. Woof the prof literally talked for 90 minutes as if she was drowning. I was experiencing as if I was sitting on a platform and Rajhdhani just traveled past my sight. This was felt during the entire lecture.
Not even once did she try to actually take a halt. Later on I realized that this will happen every Thursday.
How will you feel when you travel in a Concorde for 1.5 hrs? You will of course enjoy the experience. But this wont happen in WBC class. The speed will be the same, but the exception is that the Concorde will pass through the hell for 1.5 hours of its journey.
Monday, July 06, 2009
6th July, beginning of new day as a student life..
This day 3 years back I started my career in TCS with some new friends and some old ones.
Today I began a new career, but difference is in starting a new student life. Yeah I am talking about NMIMS. You will tell me what was happening then from the past 2 weeks. Well that was preparatory lectures. The actual lectures started from today. Here also I started the journey with all new friends. There are none of my old friends, but its always good to make new friends.
The first day was good. I mean based on the past experience of 2 weeks I expected it to be more rigorous, but it was chilled out. May be because the faculty members did not want to bombard everything on the first day itself.
But it already seems that the happy days are overs. Tomorrow itself we have been given with too many topics to study (in short too many bombardments). Lets see how it goes.
Time to go now. Will post all the events regularly. Take care.
Today I began a new career, but difference is in starting a new student life. Yeah I am talking about NMIMS. You will tell me what was happening then from the past 2 weeks. Well that was preparatory lectures. The actual lectures started from today. Here also I started the journey with all new friends. There are none of my old friends, but its always good to make new friends.
The first day was good. I mean based on the past experience of 2 weeks I expected it to be more rigorous, but it was chilled out. May be because the faculty members did not want to bombard everything on the first day itself.
But it already seems that the happy days are overs. Tomorrow itself we have been given with too many topics to study (in short too many bombardments). Lets see how it goes.
Time to go now. Will post all the events regularly. Take care.
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