Summer training

Well got selected in Bharti-axalife for summer training.Now enjoying the 2 months before the rigor of final year of MBA starts again.Nothing new for me since i have already worked before, but it must be a nice learning experience for freshers to be at office.

We had a nice HR-fun filled friday celebration once..it was nice to play some musical chair in office corridor.Have submitted my choices for major and minor specialization just now.I hope i have made the right decision.Doesn't matter anyways since i am just a tool in the hands of lord,he will do the best for me :P.Nice way to disown your own decisions huh :)

Phew:Placements

Well a long pending post i must say.Placements was one thing i wanted to write about, and now that even seniors have left the college..i guess its time.Anyways i wont write much about salary mean median and all that stuff..for that refer www.nmims.edu smart huh :P.Well wanted to avoid any controversy you see.

Placement is a big circus, and within this chaos there is amazing co-ordination.The IT team,food and beverage committee,you name it and you have a committee for it..Right from the Parking committee to company co-ordinators everything planned to perfection..so that none of the seniors miss out on their interviews. Hats off to the volunteers for their splendid work that they have done right from 5 am in morning to 12pm at night :) and coming back again the nest day early morning :).Lets hope we have an equally enthusiastic junior batch that will co-ordinate our placements next year.

Well for seniors it has been a tuff ride.Not getting shortlisted in your dream companies, your friends getting placed before you while you keep getting rejected in interviews.It needs a tuff chap to withstand all the emotional turmoil and stay cool. Too much rigor you see :P. While managing the placements handling seniors was another tough task, cant blame them for there occassional scoldings, i understand that it was all because of the tension...One could actually see the tension while the last few seniors were getting placed.Seniors breaking down and their friends trying to pep up their mood for the next interview.

I must thank the seniors too who on day 2 came to help out the junior volunteers,that really made the task easy.Wish all the seniors best of luck for future.

NMIMS flavour

well friends all this while i have been talking about b-schools in general,let me give you the NMIMS flavor.

Well Bumps was one thing i have already discussed,but having exams exactly during the holiday week from christmas to new year this was a first of its kind experience.I have never ever in my entire academic career given exams on a new years eve.

All friends have now taken a leave of a week and gone to stay with their family for a while.I am staying back because there is one important job of handling the placements of our seniors.I will write more about that in the coming posts.

Tomorrow i am going to do some go-karting..should be fun

chalo then
cya
ani

exams in b-schools

well for most part of mba first year stint (by now its already third trimester..you dont realise when exams start and when they get over)...the entire strategy depends on doing better than what others are doing.Its a tuff thing to do,when you are making a presentation yu want yur group members to score less than you , so that you get better grades.You just wish that somebody fails so that everyone gets a better CGPA

This relative grading is kind of wierd but thats how life is at B-school.In order to create competition amongst students,...people actually stop trusting.You can't even trust friends here,if you dont then they are not friends anyways right,thats the biggest disadvantage i must say.People can to any length to make sure one doesn't get ahead of the other, people are ready to pull down others for their own personal gain.

But thats life and since we are the future managers we need to live with it,thats how competition is in the corporate world right
ani

Attachment and detachment

What drives people to commit to someone?
What makes people to cheat?
What makes people who are cheated , to make a new commitment with the cheater?

I have not found the answers to these questions, because so far i have been living in an idealistic world, where i considered that a commitment once made should not be broken.

Repeated betrayls have forced me to now beleive that appropriate strategy to deal with such cases is to ,"Not attach with anyone,stay detached.It is a good safeguard against the pain".

There is a flipside to it too, "Whats life without taking some risk,...If there is no risk there is no excitement".So if you want to have a piece of some action,stay put,dont back out. Slowly you will learn from the cheater, all the moves and you will be safe.

So crux lies in experiencing detachment, and moving back to a "Detached attachment" where yu stop feeling the pain of detachment.

A very confusing topic,i am glad i tried
ani

The theory of bumps

The USP of my institute is i guess giving BUMPS in the quad(quadrangle area),so let me make an attempt to explain this theory of bumps in brief:

1) BUMPS are given on different occasions,....when its time to celebrate...and also when there is nothing else to do...

-its your b'day,you get bumps
-its not your b'day you get bumps
-you got summer placements...time for bumps
-you got extra large piece of cake,.....bumps
-you did not get placed,...bumps
-its your roommates bday,...bumps
-there is in no other bakra left...bumps (well i never thought that by the time i come back to finish this post i myself would be getting bumps ....)

2) Boys feel that girls never get bumps,....but i would like to assure them that they do...though in close confines of hostel rooms :p (and today even this rule was broken for a change by A-div guys :P)

3) A very interesting thing to note is the psyche of people who give bumps...they are supposed to be friends ....but they turn out to be worse than enemies at times :P...because they are the ones who conspire :)

4) Final ....People who give bumps give a hug (I don't understand the significance of this,I guess people want to make sure that the poor chap who got the bumps will have some mercy when its their turn to hit)....
And the poor chap gets a roasted a$#@ ..... :)...Bumps actually end up setting the a#$% on fire ....you feel like running away from the scene as fast as you can...but all you can do is just rub it gently while giving a smile :P....

well i can write many stories on this topic,...the other day we had a guest lecture by DC and before the guest arrived i guess 4 people got bumps inside the auditorium :)...

enough of this...I am yet to recover from the bumps i got last night :P

Dhongi Baba

Theres this aged professor in my college, my group was supposed to present today,we made a decent presentation,and got random marks for it. Theres this saying "You get what you deserve" and so i had to be satisfied wid my performance.This dhongi baba is all about performing on stage with some set dialogues that he has rehearsed over his entire career, a very respected man that he is,all i expect from this chap is some justified reasoning to his marking style.
Went to see "The departed" awesome movie with the twists in the end :).
Had two tests and a presentation today,we as in our goup decided once again to improve on the presentations...i think i am improving at presentation skills...lets hope i continue doing that...

Topic for todays presentation"Ban on dance bars:a call for greater sensitivity"