It's been a long time since I last had a chance to write. Now that I've got my laptop, I can post more often. I wonder who told me that surviving without a lappy was possible. Actually without it, Life’s real hellish. It’s not possible to go to the Computer Center (CC) every time we need. Lappy is an absolute must here. Life has already started going crazy now. This is a place where you’ll not even find time to sleep if you let the work get to you. On the other hand, there are many people who don’t have any problems managing time too. It all depends on how much you decide to work. They weren’t wrong when they said that this was gonna be more rigorous than all other institutions. The Academic rigor is definitely greater here than other places (or at least so I think). Everybody is somebody here, and hard work or smart work may just be the thing that can set you apart.

Continuing from the last post, an excellent effort was put forward by our batch (PGP 24s) in “Parichay”. All the cultural events were awesome. Onto studies now, our batch has been divided into 5 sections. Mine is Section D. And incidentally, ours is the only section to have 6 subjects this time (17 classes in a week). Others just have 5 classes. After Midterms, we’ll continue with 6 and they’ll have to study 7. There are 4 full credit courses and 2 half credit courses. The full credit courses are Management Accounting I (MANAC), Quantitative Analysis for Management (QAM), Behavior in Organizations (BIO), and Economics I (ECO) where as the half credit courses are Legal Aspects of Management (LAM) and Communications (COMM). As of now, we have projects to complete in all of them. And nowadays we’re getting loaded with assignments. Quizzes in classes also carry weightage and they may come as a surprise too.

One term that everybody here tends to use a lot is Class Participation (CP). It is something that carries a lot of marks but also invites the wrath of many classmates. You may even get bumps for being an active CP making person. Arbit CP (ACP) is another thing that people tend to use a lot. It’s when a person wakes up in class and finds a moral obligation to speak up which results in a CP. Many of our batch mates have started perfecting this difficult art. Another term which is perhaps the most widely used in the complete campus is “Globe”. The technical definition is that this term describes the speech of a person who knows nothing about the issue and goes on and on with his gibberish. In other words, Globing is an art of speaking about something giving the impression that you have researched on the topic all your life where as what you’re talking is complete crap. So globe is what happens in most of the informal meets, in GDs and even in meetings. The outcome is always nada. So if one is adept at this art, one can globe his way to glory no matter where one is. Now, I’ll end this globe here and try to complete the MANAC Assignment we have to submit tomorrow. Catch ya later !

It’s been almost nine days since I last posted. The schedule is going pretty busy right now with classes beginning with full flow and assignments and presentation dates beginning to pour in. As was expected, the induction turned out to be a big hoax. The night of the presentation, the council members announced the name of the people who were not to be allowed to participate in any committee, people who were not to be allowed to choose the specialization of their choice and a few people who were not fit to be studying in IIML. As soon as the list announcements were complete, the seniors burst out laughing and declared that it was all a hoax. The council president took a lot of bumps thereafter! That was that and the induction was over.

We had our first Insti Party a couple of days after the induction. It began around 10:00 pm and went up to 2:00 am. Haven’t been to anything like it. The atmosphere was absolutely rocking. The music, DJ and the enthu around was fantastic. Free drinks (includes everything) were being served outside the hall. People were dancing like hell. Towards the end, people were drunk and exhausted and were moving like complete fanatics to the rock music that was being played. I saw a couple of them pass out and being carried away to their rooms. Overall, it was a fantastic party with moving bodies, drinks and smoke all around. Because of my aversion to alcohol and smoke, I enjoyed the party less than most of the people around, but still the music made it all worthwhile. Well, 2:00 am was the end of this first Insti party !

The classes began from the next day. The attendance criterion mentioned earlier holds strictly true in every respect. We can’t even think of bunking classes when we wake up in the morning. Besides, one thing that is quite strictly followed here is punctuality. A class timing of 9:00 a.m. strictly means 8:59:59 a.m. or in some cases, the time at which the faculty walks in (which normally is at most 3 minutes after the scheduled time). After that, no one is allowed into the class. Alright, I’m gonna finish with this later. We have “Parichay” (The cultural program organized by juniors) today. Will talk about classes in detail later. Ciao !