Sachin

Round I

2006-04-22T06:02:00.000-07:00

I knew the interview will not last more than 15 min or at the maximum it can stretch
upto 20 min.
I entered the room in the most possible polite manner. Thankfully the dampers were
working well enough so I didnt had to do much.
There were 3 persons in the male. One of them was HR head, others two I dont know.

Since this was my first interview in my life I was quite nervous because by now I
was very serious that I dont want to miss this company. No matter what happens they
will find very hard to reject me.

The question-answer session started.
"Tell me something about urself " I gave a long history about myself. My
family,spoke about myself. May be I had given a 2 minute speech.

My nervousnes was very much evident in the brief speech of mine.. so the HR head tried to allay me and asked me was it my first interview and asked me to calm down.. All this did calmed me down.

"What are your favourite subjects?" "IC Engine, Automobile engg, Referigeration and Airconditioning engg" I was waiting for this question. I blurted "IC Engine". They asked me a few questions about IC Engines.. like Volumetric Efficiency, Otto & Diesel Cycles and operating principles of engines.. which I answered quite comfortably...

Then they asked me few questions from Production Engg.. which I answered but not all were correct... Clearly Production engg was not my cup of tea... finally they asked me few more general questions about current affairs .. well thats it.. all done in 20 min.. first interview of life..

After interview left for room and honestly was not sure to get through but sitting in room along with rooms was quite taxing so decided to go to Placement office.. so after around 1.5 hours when I finally was around Octagon .. A few of my batchmates ( Vikas jain .. dont remember who else..) were looking out for me to tell me that I am thorugh it.. well I must say I was shocked..

I went and had talk with HR person who I learnt was Rakesh Gupta ... He told me to prepare on Production engg for the 2nd round of interview... which was slotted to be conducted on 19th Aug... Not much time.. but I guess just enough to scrap through..

Remaining some time later..

Placements during engg

2006-03-29T05:48:00.000-08:00

10th August 2002 4:00 p.m.: Infosys was in the campus yesterday. It had given the students a reason to cheer up. It had recruited almost 43 students.. and in a single day placements figures had gone up by 75%. The going was not so easy as the software companies were still coming to terms with the tech meltdown and it was getting reflected in the placements.
For him the newst was that there will be a hardcore mechanical company on 13th and there will be no shortlisting based on the BioDs. Finally he fancied his chances. Till date 2 companies had visited and he was not shortlisted for either of them, not even for the written. Anyway he knew if it comes to written then its going to be easy for him, relatively. Then there was another element that papers reached to the campus before the companies After all only 6 guys had got placed and if the class rank was considered he was ard 30 in a class of 56.

12th August 8:45 pm: Speaking to his friends; he discovered that this company has a rule of no Past arrears. The road seemed marginally better now.

13th August: As usual classes were deferred..bcoz of placements. Pre Placement talk started ard 9 am and continued for almost half an hour. An interesting point was made by the HR head "People who are interested in going for higher studies my not sit for the company"
Then the written tests started. One after another.. It continued... 5 papers in all.. One paper at a time and by the time the ordeal was over it was almost.The papers were pretty easy and in fact he was the first one to finish them.
So instead of going to Mess for a messy lunch, he settled for Cant(have it)een lunch. His name was 7th in the list which meant he had a little over 2 hours for the interview.
The easier part was done. Now the intervew which meant lot of technical questions will be asked and this was not going to be an easy thing. Till date he had covered only 3 subjects for placements - IC engine, Thermodynamics and Automobiles. Fortunately for him, it was an automobile company and had come to campus offering roles in Marketing and Production.
He went to room and half of the wing had turned up to his room. Some had come to teach him, some to give him tips for interviews, some to help him in getting dressed while others merely to watch some kind of drama. In the college when a guy used to go for interview, his friends used to turn up at his room and used to make sure that he is dressed as if he is going on his 1st date. One of his friends, Vineet turns up to check the dress and was not quite satisfied with his outfit and went out to fetch a shirt and came back within 10 min with a white shirt. It was not in a good shape so he ironed it for his friend. Then he said that he has been bringing good luck to all the guys whosoever got his shoe laces tied up by him. Very good.. why would he mind it.. So around 4 pm he left for the placement office and surely enough he was accompanied to the placement office by a few good souls like Sarit, Vineet..
When he reached there he found that there were 2 guys before his turn comes. 2 guys means at least half an hour more to go ..
Sitting peacefully and waiting for his turn to come is something he never really had learnt.. especially when guys around him are trying hard to mugg the fundas...and within 15 minutes shirt was already crumpled.Vineet was disappointed and made no efforts to hide it. Not to disappoint his friends much; he finally sat on a chair to wait for his turn.

( To be concluded..)

Sleeping in Class !!!

2006-01-31T21:41:00.000-08:00

Typically in any of our instruction hours.. close to 5% are perenially sleeping and the total no. of students who take a nap or two or sth more than that wppuld come to a peak of almost 50%.
There is a major competiton among who will be the top most sleeper in the class. Some of them who r leaders in the pack are Sayan Sircar, Aswin Mani, Kabra, Mohit, Gaurav Mittal, PKT, Amitava,Vikas Iyer and myself. Off late we find even our CR sleeping in Operations class.
AS usual there was a mid term test of finance paper today and we were all preparing for the paper. We were told u study up to whatever has been covered till date. So Happily I studied and since there was a paucity of time, towards late in the night decided in the usual funda of selective studying. In tahat I took the last set of ppt which was given to us by Sir, and took up the last topic as per ppt and studied it properly. ALso glanced into the last but one topic as well,but didnt do it properly enough.
Next day morning, i.e. today morning when the paper came in my hands I saw that the last question was the topic which I had covered with a "glance".
As expected this question I messed up and this particular question along had a weightage of almost 50% of the entire paper...
Like me most of us had not studied this topic, for various reasons.
After the test I had a shock of life time when classes started again and I found that I had covered topic which was being taught after the test..

How I had wished that I had covered the topic prior to that one; then my strategy would had worked and i wud have been a happier soul !!!1

Techfest in IIT

2006-01-26T05:59:00.000-08:00

Last weekend was the Techfest weekend. It was held over 3 days and various copetitons were held in it. Some of the most intersting ones were the Full throttle(in which cars had to dart over a distance of almost 15m. The best timing I saw was 9.2 sec) GRIP.

The event which attracted my attention was the exhibhition by Indian Air Force. On display were Pechora SAM ( Surface to Air Missile) with its entire set up i.e. radars which detect the enemy aircrafts then another one which helps in locking the target and guides the missiles, the launchers and other accessory items. Also on display were Shoulder fired heat sensing missiles - IRLA.
The pics r uploaded at http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=2113353644..

njoi

One night @ call centre

2006-01-22T05:24:00.000-08:00

An excerpt from the book

"A bad boss is like a disease of the soul. Ig you have one for long enough, you get convinced sth is wrong with u. Even tho' u know ur boss is the loose and u start doubting urself and that is when confidence goes..."

I read the book this weekend... was not really a griping ones.. otherwise i wud had finished in a single sitting...
There was much hype among my frends.. so it was very much a disppointment. A real let down after the author's 1st book "Five point someone"... or did I build up high expectations without reading any review..

In fact that is the only chapter in the whole book which I read twice.. In fact it is the most dramatic one... Kind of Hindi movies when all kind of suprenatural things happen and hero/heroine gets out of all the problems.. when all of a sudden,at a nowhere place,the protagonist finds himself along with his friends is facing death gets a phone call;
tho' who was this GOD the author reveals at the end of book but ends with another mystery.. If u r unable to crack it.. I will be able to help u..
If asked to evalute the book I will not give the book more than 4 out of 10.

(pls note this is my personal view; just like any other entries in the entire blog. Others r entitled to their views)

My friend's dilemma

2006-01-13T11:24:00.000-08:00

I sensed sth is amiss... The moment she tried to say sth but was searching for words but cudnt... Never short of giving anyone a earful dose..
Mind was somewhere else but had little option to be there physically...

Then seeing her goofing up couple of times cudnt control and asked her for a coffee... Not that I was jobless but I cudnt wait till lunch hrs..She declined, as expected.. This is not normal, she never said no for a coffee.. not that coffee was gr8 but it was more of a time pass session for her .. suspicions got confirmed ... Gotto pull her out... With no other option, I got back to my work... and within 5 min.. she came to me and asked whther I am still interested in coffee... Whoever said I was intersted in coffee.... was kidding ard.. I was more interested in her.. or rather my failure for being unable to read her today..

So we went.. The usual eyebrows were raised but by now these eyes were quite used to it..
I filled a full cup today, instead of usual half, knew that its going to be a long break...now she did she realised and asked how come today a full cup... I didnt want to losse focus.. so just smiled...
Started with a few general remarks... but knew she wanted to tell sth and thats why she has come..

A little probing revealed that she was being pressurised by her parents to get married and settle down... Pity.. waste of talent.. Loss of India .. gain of US..
The guy worked for a Fortune 50 company in US and will be coming to India see her in a week's time...
The US-Canada craze , I had thot earlier was limited to Northern staes of Punjab & haryana only.. didnt realise that moving up in value chain , in whatsoever manner is a common feeling shared by all humans.. More so if ppl feel that they want to declare .." me too" or " Mine too" is settled smwhr in a place which is thousands of miles away ..
She had a brilliant future ahead and was really doing well and was due for confirmation as her training period wud be getting over in a month's time..

Tried to console her but cudnt, she was deeply hurt by her parents.. Even she didnt expect her parents to come out like that .. is the NRI ( not required Indian) so important ??
Tho I have nothing against NRIs but for the sake of greener pastures, if u can leave ur parents, ur famaily, ur country and everything that u say that was urs.. dont command a great respect from me...
they r willing to adopt a phoren country but will marry a desi girl.. and have ABCD kids..
Me feel that u owe a lot to ur country and shud be here to serve it for a major part of ur life, bcoz now opportunites r there in plenty, not like the situation that used to exist till a decade or so ago...

The girl, a happy bird feels her independence is lost..?? can u cage a bird?? yes.. but her spirits .. certainly not.. but what is a bird if it cannot fly around..??

Certainly she can say no to him .. but what if she really says no.. what will they say "itna achha ladka badi kismet waalon ko hi milta hai" or "iska to deemag kharab ho gaya hai" or i dont know..
May be the liberalisation of our society from these ideas is still a few generations away.. certianly the girls need a lot more self determination and decide on her own what is rite for her and what not..

Dr. Pratap Reddy

2006-01-13T09:57:00.000-08:00

One of the interesting part of curriculum in SOM is Leadership Lecture series organised. In this course students froma grps and study a leader and then invite him to deliver a speech to have a first hand course. This is the only college, I have been told, where it is being done regularly, and that too for over 6 yrs.

So,this Monday we had the privilige to meet and hear Mr. Pratap Reddy, head of Apollo grp hospitals. To say that he is a great person will be an understatement, he had left his successful heart practice in US and had come back to India following his father's wishes. The Apollo grp of Hospitals chain that he had started in 1983 is now the 3rd largest chain in the whole world. He has set up hospitals in quite a few countries like Bangladesh and few African and central Asian countries (dont remember..). What makes the achievement greater is that worldclass healthcare is provided at extremely low cost and this entire chain has been created by fighting against the gret Indian bureaucracy, where still after 15 yrs of liberalisation, ppl think twice b4 starting a business of their own. He did it. There were laws in those days in which items imported required spl licences and spl permissions. Such requirements were there even for life saving equipments.

He said that he started the hospital after being moved by the death of a young man,because of heart ailments,who cudnt afford to go to US for treatment. Its not often one comes across a person who gets affected so much by the death of a person not related to him.

He wants the Govt to introduce quite a few measures and if those r really being implemented then i think his dream of India becoming a Health destinaton will come true.He doesnt quite really beleives in medical tourism.

Lot of takeaways from such a geat person.
Hats off to such a great personlity....

A Trip to Matheran

2006-01-03T05:41:00.000-08:00

Matheran is a small hill station , abt 2 hrs drive from Bombay (oops.. Mumbai). I found it very different from all the hill stations which I have visited till date. Like..

1. NO motored vehicles are allowed within the town... U have to get on a horse or walk around to do site seeing.
2. An entry fee of 25 bucks to enter in the town... ( good way to keep the economy going)
3. Compared to others it is relatively thinly vegetated.
4. Typically all hill stations whether it is Kodaikanal or Munnar, all have point called Suicide Point.. no point is named so .. on the contrary there is a HoneyMoon Point..

some of the snaps which I had taken, are available at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sachinsharma/page2/

MI

2005-12-29T01:57:00.000-08:00

That's not Mission Impossible which I am going to talk about.It is about Mood Indigo - IIT Bombay annual fest. The organising of this fest will appear to an outsider nothing short of Mission Impossible. Wont add much details myself as I think I will not be b able to do justice with this kind of effort.Details abt the fest r avlbl at the link below.
http://moodindigo2005.rediffblogs.com/

This happened to be my 1st. 4 days of packed action. It happens to be the largest college fest in Asia.
I had been earlier to SAARANG, IIT chennai fest but that pales in front of this.

Don't feel like comparing FESTEMBER with it...

A forward I got..

2005-12-20T21:35:00.000-08:00

Ab to yehi hai dil ki duaayen
Bhulaane wale bhul hi jaaen

vajah-e- sitam kuch ho to bataayen
ek muhabbat laakh khataayen

dard-e-muhabbat dil mein chuppay
aansu kaise chuppay

hosh aur unki diid ki davaa
dekhanewale hosh mein aaye

dil ki tabahi ab tak nahi bhule hain ham
dete hain ab tak duaen

rang-e-zamaanaa dekhanewale
unki nazar bhi dekhte jaae

shugl-e-mohbbaat ab hai ye taskeen
sher kahe aur ji bahalayee

Bangalore

2005-12-16T10:28:00.000-08:00

Or shud I write as Bengaluru ..

I has spent almost 4 months in Hosur in 2003, ard 40 km from Bangalore ( I will continue calling it so as I feel more comofortable doing so) and had some of the best time in Bangalore. Bangalore was a kind of a dream city when I was in college.

I dont know what has happened ... but of the late I hear only bad news abt Bangalore..
first the traffic jams, images after heavy rains, then my friend losing his bike, then Narayan Moorthy incident, then the incident that took place with a software engineer at Bangalore railway station and now this inicident...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1334956.cms

Well i think merely condemning this incident is not the soultion or saying that an incident of this nature is not uncommon for any big city.. bcoz I feel it brings bad publicity to bangalore and only damaging its tarnished image. The government shud bring the guilty to book even for the other incident.

Humane face of Indian Railways

2005-12-15T09:05:00.000-08:00

We all have heard,seen and experienced the various deficiencies in the so called our system. Indian Railways are very much a part of such system. It touches our daily life either thru locals, or the long distance trains ferrying ppl across the country or as a transporter of so many basic commodities required in our daily life,is very much a part of the system. So its not unusual to find faults of such a big organisation.

I had a very very different experience when I was returning to college from my home. I had boarded the train ard 10:15 on 3rd night. As soon as I boarded I learnt that a fellow passenger,aged no less than 65, in adjacent seat was not well. I could feel he was running a temperature of no less than 102F. Meanwhile before train left the station, another person who was travelling (not with them) left a message with Station Master to arrange for a doctor at next station. To be honest enuf i didnt expect to see any doctor at next station which was due only 3hrs later. Surprisingly at next station which happened to be Jabalpur, as soon as the train stopped a railway TT, a guard came along with a doctor. The doctor examined him. She came fully prepared. She measured the BP and also suggested to him that if he feels really weak then there is an ambulance waiting for him which can take him to a hospital and he may restart the journey later. But the old man decided against it and finished the journey and came all the way to Bombay. I forgot to mention that the doctor charged only 5o bucks to see him.

When I was chatting with a fellow passenger about this incident, then he told me a few funny rules abt railways which no one really knows. At least I didnt knew. e.g. Its like a TT has the authority to not to charge a passenger for excess fare if the passenger by mistake or oversight fails to get off at his destination. TT can ensure that passenger reaches his destination without paying extra fare. Tho this is more an example of discretionary powers which authorities might be enjoying which we hardly see being practiced. if these are practiced then we are bound to see more misuse than helping an unfortunate passenger.

rest later

Dada dropped from Indian Test squad

2005-12-14T10:01:00.000-08:00

I was not really shocked to hear that Sourav has been dropped from the squad. To be fair with him, i reckon him to be a better ODI player than a Test match player. It was bound to happen sooner than later. tho' this happening now when he did reasonably well with bat scored 79, both innings put together, more than Dravid or Laxman or for that matter Gambhir( who has also been dropped) was like a bolt out of blue. He was brought in the team as an allrounder after his good performance in the domestic season with both bat and ball and surprisingly the so called allrounder was not used as a bowler at all during the match.
It would be really interesting to see whether selectors bring him back for the tough tour of Pakistan where he will be facing a charged up Shoaib Akhtar, who is currently giving lessons of facing fast bowling to Englishmen. I think if they do it then it will be a perfect finish to an illustrious career. Thru out his career he was never comfortable with express pace, so if they bring him back then I think that will be the end of his career, which i will not be happy to see certainly.But knowing his fighting abilities I know he will come back. now the only option left for him is to continue working on his fitness and produce a few more such knocks.. but knowing the politics in BCCI .. will that be sufficient ...????
To me he was the one along with dravid who was able to shatter the notion that dismissing Sachin means match is over, first as a batsman then as a captain. This I think has been his biggest contribution besides introducing the fighting spirit in the team, esp after the match fixing controversy. Tho' this is no way a summary of his contributions to the Indian cricket but they are the ones which make him stand out of the crowd.
Looking forward to see him back in the team.

To have or not..

2005-09-24T07:08:00.000-07:00

Some time back , i was chatting with one of my friends.. he was telling me abt his philosophy of life.. I always enjoyed gossiping with him.. of the various things which he told me the one that impressed was" To have a girl friend or Not" here goes ...
what is a girl friend --- asset or a liability..??
Spending resources with one - is it a Sunk cost or a recoverable cost ??? If u dont upgrade her to wife then is it going to be sunk cost..??
How abt the variable cost associated after a girl has been wooed over..?? is it comparable to the initial resources spent b4 the YES..??
How abt the Cost Benefit Analysis ?? against the Cost of all that goes behind chasing r the benefits worth..??
Some interpretations of the terms -
Benefits - will be emotional support, purpose in life.. etc... list is a bit too long..
Cost- time & other resources
Opportunity Cost -what u give up in a bid to acquire sth else.. like u have to watch a movie rather than watch a cricket match... or spending time doing things for ur career boost and focus on the greater glory and leave certain things to ur parents..

I think it all boils down to the point where u shud do the thing at the rite time..??
moreover no point in regretting afterwards.. and trying to do a COST BENEFIT analyis later..bcoz later everything appears kiddish.. but then there r some who enjoy the feeling to be in Love all the time .. kind of FEEL GOOD feeling or better still ECSTACY.. all and all it depends on which side u r standing ..??

thanks for ur patience to go thru this :))) .. i will try to do a bit more justice to this some time later..

To become a student again after selling Trucks for 2 years

2005-09-17T22:53:00.000-07:00

Y 2 craps in a day ??? and that too after 3 weeks of hibernation..
As trulyparanoid had asked me to share my views how it feels to be a student.. so here it goes..
well its kinda delayed but i think now i m in a better placed to out my views across after a term...
well no one in my batch having or not workex will agree that life outside was good.. but in my case it was exceptional..morning 9 to evening 6 ..had nothing to do in last 4 months .. or always found a way out of work... not that i didnt enjoyed.. but in my place had there been anybody else .. he/she wudnt had complained.... good and understanding boss who wud give enuf room for me to do my work.. was rarely pressed for deadlines.. i think i had really done some good work in my past to have such a nice person to really start my career... .. ( so i never missed them :)....)basically good ppl to work with.. but then y the hell did i quit..???
well it was more bcoz i knew whatever i do will not stop the career stagnation that comes in the firm...... or were some changes really had started to happen which were too late and too little to hold me back..dont know ????
Job was all abt freedom.. had liberty to walk out of office any time .. thanks to my work profile and come at any time.. ( all thanks to our good customers)... well didnt exploit it much but did it when reqd and occassionally after telling ppl as well..
well what else was good abt job..??? I think the days which we spent in Hosur were the best of my life.. earning.. no responsibility.. only training .. no answerability... lot of friends who had lot of energy ,fresh from college.. a very good Mentor , he happened to be retired Brigadier... extremely friendly,flexible and approachable..
i think i will miss those days sorely.. but i guess life has to go on.. can't cling on to sth beyond its utility period..
College is full of enthusiastic ppl.. lot of energy.. as i mentioned earlier 24 hrs are not sufficent.. had it not been IIT.. then it might have been a different story... everyday sth comes up.. and u cannot resist urself from attending.. well i will always IITs above IIMs on this front.. ok will continue later

Exams in a B- School

2005-09-17T22:13:00.000-07:00

Finally , i m free to breathe a bit more easily, the exams are over as well as all submissions. Term 1 is history and along with it goes OB, Mac Eco, Fin Acc, Stats in decision making and MIS. now what next is the question very much lingering in my mind... summers process has started...ok.. even i have to get placed... the 2 days holiday ( those happened to be Saturday & sunday ) between 2 terms makes u feel that life is really cramped out here....

yesterday it was a good evening .. climbed SAMEER--- a hillock out here within the campus.. was fun and challenging ... going up was tough.. it had rained just half an hour b4 we had started ... but junta persisted and SAMEER was vanquished.. the effort was worth for what we had seen .. took my breath.. can a Metro be so beautiful... was i day dreaming???? .. the beautiful lakes .. some claimed it was Vihar and others sth else.. dont know what they were.. we were not lucky enuf to spot a panther out there... tho' its said to be one of the preferred haunts of the cats... .. tho' slums were there...along with it music of drums and nagaddas ...it was last day of Ganpati puja.. ( reason y i didnt step out of IIT)

... nope i got evidence of it.. i will put up next time.. Poor Kabra... he was felicated for organising the trek...

coming down was fun... started raining...it becam slippery.. slipped couple of times..got a cut on my right palm .....

then it was war time.. played a couple of rounds of AOE... ah the good old college days.. LAN games are highly addictive.. pls keep away from them... :)

gotto catch up with lot of things in the outside world...

A busy week when I turned a year older

2005-09-02T08:01:00.000-07:00

It was a very busy last week..
Monday(29th) was my b'day .. it was a good on the whole and less painful as well .. got much fewer bumps than what I had expected..

then wednesday was another day when we got some more WORLD CLASS EDUCATION..something at least I think i learnt ..or it was refreshed .. DO IT RIGHT....

well life is now really moving the way a B-School is supposed to be.. cudnt finish it.. and then another week flew by..

Night life..

2005-08-26T05:12:00.000-07:00

Night life in IIT is very different from day life in the sense that u have the entire night with u to do what u have to do.. u can spend surfing or spend in the books .. or dancing ard like what I did night b4 last.. .. there was a SALSA workshop.( mother of surprise-- learnt a couple of steps). then last night played in TT match.. made a fight out of it.. 21-19.. but more than 2 years of rust was showing...

otherwise there are assignments and meetings always there for an event ..missing the movies.. life is really fast..
want to do sth for MOOD INDIGO.. but i wish i cud remain awake all 24 hrs out here.....

Test series in SOM

2005-08-24T05:29:00.000-07:00

Today we had 4th test( 3rd scheduled) in our SOM life... IT was MIS.. b4 this were stats, Eco, & OB.. noting much 2 write.. everything is relative.. ..

Good days r coming to an end .. this weekend we will be getting world class education on Both saturday Evening 4-8 pm and sunday 8.30- 10.30 am..
generally i dont get the feeling to bunk classes but he is one person in whose class i feel i m seriously wasting my time...
GOD save us from him next term.. otherwise like Finance accounting.. Cost accounitng will go up in smoke
..
I think we r more in paathsaala.. in 4 hrs he managed to taught us how to make journal entries and liabilities side of Balance Sheet, .. he makes us take notes or dictations.. and repeat definitions like primary kids..don’t remember when I was put to such an exercise lat… I think may be not after second std….

something more abt SOM .

2005-08-19T03:06:00.000-07:00

AT times i wonder what i m doing here.. MBA or M. tech in Management,,,
to start with there is a course Mgmt In info system.. by the time I m thru with it .. I will be almost CS engineer ( almost) .. DBMS .. ENS .. IS .. Architecture... aur pata nahi kya kya padh raha hoon.. nahi sorry padhaya jaa raha hai..

phir ek aur jo hai Stats.. oosme tho tight hai.. lekin is baar jo bhi subjects hai padhoonga.. grades is not an issue for me..

the best is OB..Organisation Behavior in which as one of classmates had put " Sir sab kuch to aapke haath mein hai".. dont knwo what to say .. the Prof is able to keep us alert in his class in spite of the fact that it is xtremely boring subject. .. raat ko jab neend nahi aati tab yeh book padho..

econmics Prof. is good..

Accountancy .. the core faculty who was supposed to take classes is not welll.... so wen have a visiting faculty.. who is " imparting us with world class education to us" and to SOM from '97.. no ownder SOM is not considered for Finance ppl...

Another interesting feature is Diksha.. series of guest lectures by ppl from industry... so far 3 have been conducted..
difficult to say which was the best.. as each one was good in its own field..
1. VP- Startegy of Tata Teleservice.. (SOM alumni) very knowledgeable person..
2. Manager - Operaton Shakti ( HLL) - IIM A- guy.. he was too good.. not just excellent knowledge.. also an excellent orator .. i have not seen somebody like him.....
3. a VP HR- Wockhardt....good.. (another alumni )..

another one is today.. lets see..from Marico...

Freshers party

2005-08-09T06:31:00.000-07:00

The freshers party was held in Residence on sunday 7th , quite close to IIT.. on the whole it was an average .. thoda dance masti otherwise nothing mucht to write really abt it..
but weekend was quite hectic..sunday morning was Diksha session - a guest lecture from a HLL executive ... ( IIM A pass out).. it was a good exp...
but once nothing spectacular abt it..only the speaker was a good one.. prior to it on Friday there was a session by VP of Tata Teleservices.. which i wud rate better than the sunday's session.

rumours were there of tests lined up this week.. nothing has happened as of now.. but Friday there will be as ma'm has confirmed abt it,,..

Dell is a funny organisation .. they sent a LCD panel when the problem is with motherboard... incidentally all this happened after they called up to tell me that they wont be able to servic as it is having US warranty.. but whatever the case may be .. it is stil not working and i think it has to go to US for repairs..

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Post Deluge life....

2005-08-03T23:52:00.000-07:00

the 2nd week is on.. and now can feel some heat of the classes as assignments are coming up.. the rain gods are also now have decided to allow us see the Sun once in a while....
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but my lappy is yet to show signs of existence.. not even its eyes lit up .. when i press the power key.. The dell ppl have also said that they cant help me in India... isnt Bombay the financial capital of Inida.. and the ...
no but at times after the deluge I think the Dell has made a good decision.. Mumbaikars need to really ask a few serious questions to both centre & state governments..

The 1st week at IIT B

2005-07-31T05:38:00.000-07:00

the 1s week can be best described as a rainy week.. on Tuesday the 26th July, my 1st official it rained a record 95 cm here in Bombay... life was not thrown out of gear it was under water or with water.. tho' for us situation was not bad..