So many things occurred in the last month. The appointment of the cabinet of the new government in India, the failure of Indian cricket team at the world cup, the emergence of Fedrer as the 'all time greatest tennis player', the end of the M.J era, to the opening of the long awaited Bandra-Worli sea link, the presentation of the dismal budget by the FM and the slow progress of monsoon.
While all these diverse things were occurring, I've been having a great time at my new B-school at Pune. It has been a great and a wonderful experience so far here at my college.I've been really impressed by the quality of the students in my batch (their academic diversity as well as their achievements), the discipline at the institute (It is really like a school where attendence is taken in every lecture and the sitting arrangement of the students is predecided- something I only had in school), the attitude of Director (to keep everbody on the feet at all times with assignments), the welcome by the seniors at the Freshers party (where all the seniors dressed as if a fancy dress competition and made us all have a gala time), the ambience at the institute (I've felt like I am staying in isolation away from the city), and some faculty (I didn't like all though).The things worth mentioning are:
1. We had a test conducted on the very first day (commencement of lectures) on Financial accounting. (Most of us were ill-prepared) and got average marks
2. The outbound learning (A routine team building exercise which I enjoyed thoroughly)
3. The schedule - The schedule of the 1st month atleast was very gruelling which left no time for anyone to do anything other than studies. (I, however, managed to meet Vish, Shan, Ravi, Dhav once)
4. The academic rigour - The pace at which the things are taught here is very fast. (Infact, the school believes in the funda of learning and not teaching). So, we are made to self learn most of the things.
5. The Freshers day (Milaap)- It was one of the memorable events that I recall. The seniors dressed as if in a Fancy Dress competition made a grand entry into the institute auditorium in front of the whole junior batch. (The entry was really awesome - spectacular - wish I had taken my camera). For the first time after coming here (After nearly 1 month), I saw people dance, make fun and enjoy. It was a great change from the regular routine and a pleasant change.
6. The marketing assignments - There is one professor who asks the class to read the chapters from the book before taking lectures. Once we didn't read for his class. When he realized it, he gave the whole class a punishment assignment wherein we had to the write whole chapter on 24 A4 sized papers. It was the first time after school may be that I wrote for 5 hours continuously. The funnier part was that the marking scheme for this assignment was -10 to 0. The perfect assignment earned us 0 marks while any substandard work fetched us negative marks. Never heard about such a thing before.
There are a lot of other interesting things here though they are not that worth mentioning.
In short, the past month has been a sort of a roller-coaster ride for me and hope to continue doing well - both academically and extracurricularly.
