My classes for the first three days of week start at 8:30 am. This means that even after negotiating with the watch and pushing it to the very extremes also, I have to get up by 7:30 am. The professor who takes the first class ( or rather cless as he pronounces it) might be a good man at heart but he seems a strict diciplinarian. If it is 8:30 then one cant enter the class after that and the attendance is gonefor the day. Believe me attendance is a big issue here. Not only u lose all that is taught in class if the attendance is less that 80% u have to repeat the whole year. Apart from this all professors expect the guys to read not only all that he has taught but also the things he will teach in the current class. If he asks u a question and u dont answer or give a educated guess regarding what the appropriate answer would be, there is a huge chance that u might be thrown out of class without attendance. The significance of the attendance cannot be undermined at this place.
Now where does this place me. I have three clocks including the cell phone all set at different times so as to coax and cajole me out of my drowsiness. However the fear of missing a lecture has till now disturbed my sleep much before the actual time to wake up and even though i sleep till the last possible nanosecond, I have to stop having this fear of getting up late and missing the lectures.
This fear psychosis might be due to a pretty bad incident in my college life when during my third year, a professor had scheduled his test early morning ( early morning bole to 8:30 am). As usual I had studying till late nite understanding most of the things and then I woke up at 8:50 am. I couldnt believe that I am missing a test and this is to say a lot coz i have never missing any god damn test in my whole life. I had to run helter skelter to reach the department and somehow did whatever possible in twenty minutes. The prof was good enuf to allow me in. Anyone just had to take a look at me to know what the situation was.I cant blame my friends or neighbours coz they did say they knocked the door heavily and thought i had woken up. The fact that I did pathetically due to lack of time is not that important coz doing well in tests was insignificant but that incident changed me and after that I have never been the same.
Guess until I get into the routine of waking up early on my own till then i would keep having these weird nightmares of missing classes :-(
Thursday, July 07, 2005
4 days into IIM L
I havent got a comp yet coz i spent an unusual amount of time in deliberating about what to get. finally i have decided. The school is not wifi enabled and I would like a equipment i am already pretty comfy with so desktop suits me best. I would be getting the comp by tuesday I guess. Its pouring assignments now that 4 days have passed. I still believe that its not justified to study till 5 am every day in the library. Guess some ppl have their motives skewed.
I can say that the place sucks coz the freshers here do spoil the party by continuously mugging up things that are just supposed to be analysed. I guess one need not learn the mathematics on how the histograms and statistical analysis came into play but these guys really think about putting in those three hours for every hour of lecture. I can only hope that three months down the line many ppl would be discouraged from really putting so much effort into such things. Its tough to keep 'enjoying' when u know that all the other guys seem to be building ur coffin. The place isnt spilling over with intelligent paranoids ( Thank god for that).
Quite a few guys are spending their time trying to get friendly with the female population. I did have a charmed life in bangalore but since coming back to lucknow I seem to have lost the touch. I rather prefer the relaxed company of guys nowadays. C2D ( refer five point someone) might come into the picture in a months time.
Focussed thinking does have its advantages. Actually I wanted to do some career prep after reaching here. First things first is that I decided to not try for lateral placements at all. I would focus purely on financial consulting. I wouldnt stick my neck out and say what sub division in this field. In all likely hood it might be something to do with the share market and stuff.
Committees here are pretty important and help the guys here to understand the nuances of managment much more clearly than one can ever imagine understanding from the book. I have thought about joining one. Initially it was placecom( placement committee), then manfest ( management festival) and now it is industrial interaction cell (the existance of a pretty damsel belonging to the senior batch in the committee is an added incentive). I believe I have a natural aptitude towards marketing but the job profile doesnt suit my interest. Maybe I can put some marketing also in the job profile I would finally want to get into.Rite now its fun dividing the time between playing either pool or table tennis or badminton. the latter takes a heavy toll as my fitness is not up to the mark.
Got to go now. This was written in a hurry. Next time maybe I might put some more humour quotient into it. nowadays the only humour I can generate is by making so called sexist remarks and commenting on the female anatomy. In IIM L I guess the first thing that happens to u is that the feeling of being harried keep lurking in some corners of ur brain all the time.
I can say that the place sucks coz the freshers here do spoil the party by continuously mugging up things that are just supposed to be analysed. I guess one need not learn the mathematics on how the histograms and statistical analysis came into play but these guys really think about putting in those three hours for every hour of lecture. I can only hope that three months down the line many ppl would be discouraged from really putting so much effort into such things. Its tough to keep 'enjoying' when u know that all the other guys seem to be building ur coffin. The place isnt spilling over with intelligent paranoids ( Thank god for that).
Quite a few guys are spending their time trying to get friendly with the female population. I did have a charmed life in bangalore but since coming back to lucknow I seem to have lost the touch. I rather prefer the relaxed company of guys nowadays. C2D ( refer five point someone) might come into the picture in a months time.
Focussed thinking does have its advantages. Actually I wanted to do some career prep after reaching here. First things first is that I decided to not try for lateral placements at all. I would focus purely on financial consulting. I wouldnt stick my neck out and say what sub division in this field. In all likely hood it might be something to do with the share market and stuff.
Committees here are pretty important and help the guys here to understand the nuances of managment much more clearly than one can ever imagine understanding from the book. I have thought about joining one. Initially it was placecom( placement committee), then manfest ( management festival) and now it is industrial interaction cell (the existance of a pretty damsel belonging to the senior batch in the committee is an added incentive). I believe I have a natural aptitude towards marketing but the job profile doesnt suit my interest. Maybe I can put some marketing also in the job profile I would finally want to get into.Rite now its fun dividing the time between playing either pool or table tennis or badminton. the latter takes a heavy toll as my fitness is not up to the mark.
Got to go now. This was written in a hurry. Next time maybe I might put some more humour quotient into it. nowadays the only humour I can generate is by making so called sexist remarks and commenting on the female anatomy. In IIM L I guess the first thing that happens to u is that the feeling of being harried keep lurking in some corners of ur brain all the time.
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