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over….
Poseidon finally over…
And I have so much to share…but not the luxury of time…!
Sometime very very soon…
~a
PS: and oh btw…if you really want to know the true me…search for the comment right after ‘educatedunemployed’ in this post (really very funny…not to mention insightful)
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Life…!
~a
ISB…
Phew…!
Imagine this…
The advertising agency of Barista comes down to ISB because ISB has hired the same. They land here on Dec 9, 2005…in the evening.
Towards night…around 10pm…they are working real hard on the assignment. The brief is to make a kick-ass ad…like never before. And suddenly… “wtf…what’s this deafening noise…? Sounds like music…but what the hell is with the decibels man…!!!???”
They step out only to see that SV1 is hosting an Arabian Nights party for the alums, as part of Solstice. “Fine…its 10pm…this would probably run till like 2am or so. The deliverable is day after…! We can think about it tomorrow morning.”
The party ends at 6.30am…!!!!
Next day…same schedule. 10pm…high decibel…can’t work…deadline tomorrow…2am…party still on… “what’s up with these people…I mean…2 parties in a row…do they a concept of hangover here…?”…6am…almost coming to an end…7am…silence…!
10am…deliverable time…and the ad guys actually have an ad…!
ISB
Academics are what we indulge in…
…between parties…!
- I haven’t danced this much in my life…trust me…I am weighing a kg lesser…!
- No one has drunk this much in ISB before…trust me…everyone is a kg heavier…!
- No one has danced this much ever before…trust me…everyone thinks they are a kg lighter…!
Had such a rollicking time…its not even funny. It was one of those moments when I didn’t think of acads…or Poseidon…or placements…or any such shit. Just talked to alums…and had a blast. Total blast…
Looking forward to Poseidon…!
~a
finally…!
Finally…!
Life since last Thursday…(and my last entry) has been quite amazing. Its moving at the speed of light…things are still pretty much dark at times…and there is so much of stuff happening around that even excel sheets are not working as part of an organizing strategy…!
Had gone to TAPMI for the Young Business Leader competition. Now at 25…I wont call myself exactly old…! But then once you go to other b-schools…you realize you are of the prof’s age…(well…even we have someone like that for our private equity course this term…will talk about him later)…and people kind of get intimidated that I come from a school with average 5 years of experience.
But then…its only time before they realize that this individual is not quite what you believed him to be. For one…he randomly smiles at every other person on the street…is painfully cordial…and doesn’t quite bring much to the table…!
I can surely say that the amount I learnt those 3 days at TAPMI…was much much more than I could have possible given back…no matter what my past credentials might indicate…!
The 3 days were rigorous. It surely wasn’t anything I expected, when I left. We slept for all together say 5 hours…and we were working…and I mean…seriously working…throughout this period. There were team games, individual games…games that simulated the right side…and the left side.
- ad making
- debate
- negotiation
- trading simulation
- business plan presentation
- obituary making
- designing of a business game
- interviews with the director
- quiz
- trekking
- psychometric tests
we went through this all…! Made awesome friends…very very smart people…all of them true business leaders…or almost on their way.
In the end the IIM-B guy won. And he truly deserved it. Extremely smart chap…very confident…awesome inter personal skills. I gave him a special invite to Poseidon…lets hope he makes it.
Doesn’t it happen to everyone? When you come back from a vacation…you feel dreadful. Cause life…and not a very comfortable one, that is…is waiting for you. Hands on the waist…giving you that “you thought you could escape me” look…
That’s what happened. Monday was a strong reality check. Assignments, missed classed…Poseidon overload (though I have to admit that G did a breathtaking job of handling my responsibility while I was away)…and what not…
Have managed to get back to rhythm…
Solstice is happening this weekend. That’s out alumni reunion. Last night was the party…and as always A did an outstanding job of it. I see a lot of dedication in that guy…and his hecticness (similar to P’s) is somehow very catchy. He is a kid though…and its very easy for him to get swayed by his own ideas. Nevertheless…he is surely going to kick some mighty ass in the future…! I would love to work with him one day…
Anyways…so…alumni…! Quite a few of them have turned up. 176 in all. The campus is lively…and its fun to see so many people all around. This makes me look forward to Poseidon…(with the added selfish motive to get over with it asap…!!)
Term 6…! Awesome in terms of the profs…and the courses are rocking too…
Financial Engineering.
People took this with scared looks. I mean…history tells that 3 out of 4 suicides in the past 30 years have been financial engineers…! Last year’s stats told us that the work load would drive one to insanity…or…insanity…whichever comes earlier…!
Krishna (the prof) changed it all. He is god…no let me repeat that…HE IS GOD…! Absolutely outstanding…so awesome that I think I get a small orgasm every class (dude…whats up with your orgasms man…!!!). He makes the entire subject sail through as smoothly as we could never imagined. A total pleasure to be in his class.
Private Equity
Vinay (the prof) was the lyricist for Alanis’ ‘Hand in my pocket’…if you know what I mean. I had heard a lot about him from A, since he was A’s senior at IIT-M. he was an RJ for the Chennai FM…a state level cricket player…some governor’s medal recipient…and was technically the last person in the batch who could have become a prof. He is an assnt prof at Wharton…! And a smart one that is. Girls are falling over him…and he does (admittedly) have a personality that solicits the same. Oh…btw…he is a good prof too…! :)
Risk Management
Anurag is one smart guy. The course is very interesting and he makes it even more so…no exams…only 6 assignments comprising 1/6th of the grade each. Straightforward course…some bit of numbers…lot of thinking…! good stuff…
Managing in a global environment
Kevin reminds me of this typical lansing guy I would met at MSU. US village guy…very different from the usual American guy picture. He is a fun guy…and the course suits him a lot. He speaks very openly about the US…the rights and the wrongs. And engages the class in some very interesting discussions. Rather nice course…even though it falls in the ‘faff’ category…!
Life’s good…! extremely engaging…but very good…!
~a
HIC – cup
Term 6 has started…as expected. Its 3am and I have got done with my 1st assignment. The instructions on the assignment were:
- do not spend more than 1.45 hours on this assignment
- it should be 3-4 pages long
my side of the story was something like this…
- I started working on it at 5pm…took a dinner break in between…for 30 mins
- my 3rd page had just one statement… “and thus I recommend the Japanese inventory financing option”…which when translated means that after god damn 10 hours on this I figured how to write 2 pages…!
Anyways…
Have got all the 4 subjects that I wanted. 3 fin and 1 faf. All courses and the profs seem to be pretty good…atleast from their 1st class. Looking forward to a hectic and meaningful term…
Poseidon is my current crush right now…(ahem…! U know who…!)…and is taking quite a bit of my time. And its awesome fun. Managing so many events…people…their expectations…and how to get our expectations registered onto them. Its all an amazing ride.
Lots of troubles as well…but then dealing with them is the real challenge. You know its funny how people have a parochial view of everything. They think about their event…their club and their direction…while there is a complete set of people who have to look at the bigger picture. And dealing with all this is a tremendously learning experience.
Something really strange is happening to me today. it started at 11am…and hasn’t stopped till now. Bloody hiccups. And trust me…I have tried everything under the sun to stop it…
- started with drinking water (thanks to me)
- stopped my breath (thanks to me)
- lied to people (thanks RB)
- drank 8 sips of water without breathing…one at a time (thanks KS)
- closed my ears and nostrils with my 2 hands…pretty much how bully dinosaur would look when trying to scare baby dinosaurs (thanks GC…it did work…for 15 minutes)
- drank sugar and water mixture (thanks AP)
- and this is the best…asked people if they were born ulta (head first…!) and then touched their toe to my body…(and NO…IT DIDN’T WORK…thanks AG anyways…)
- slept down tired…really tired…this is worse than watching a ramsey brothers movie with all the jerks and all…!
Anyways…good nic…!
~a
isb without work…
At the risk of being stoned to death…I don’t think that there should be holidays less than 3 days at ISB. I mean…its all great when we get some 4-5 days…atleast people can go home and do something worthwhile.
But a 3 day holiday sucks…it sucks bigtime. I slept at 5am this morning…after finishing work on an assignment…got up at 9…and no…not for work. But for the guilt that how can a god damn ISBian sleep beyond 9am…! I mean…wtf…what has this year led me to…!!???
And then…I slide down on the chair…rest my feet on my table…put on some Yanni…and close my eyes. And after some 12 microseconds I feel I am wasting my time and I should be doing something worthwhile…such as designing the next big derivative structure for Goldman Sachs…!
I hate this ‘biological’ clock I have got myself into…
Anyways…the exams went by good…options and futures was a really nicely set exam. Then in the night went for dinner…had an awesome time. It is K’s and A’s birthday today…so had a mass dunking session last night. Was great fun…! :)
As a side thought…you know whats the worst part about being a blogger and a writer…? Ok…firstly…when I call myself a writer…the definition does not go much beyond… ‘an individual who knows the English alphabets and can form coherent sentences (mostly) out of them…’. And I am such a guy. I have always found myself more comfortable expressing myself in word than in speech.
But then this is a public forum…and so much is happening in my life which cannot be shared. And that’s the dilemma. Do I write a separate note to myself…jst cause I have to write down what I am feeling…! Or do I keep this blog as the ‘be-it-all’…!
I will stick with the former.
Life gets hectic from Monday…have to get a lot of things done before that…
~a
accounting…and me…
The exams went well.
Financial Reporting was as straight forward as the prof had said it would be. But then…you see…accounting and me…we are like bother and sister…of different parents…! So…I am supposed to love it…because I am for god sake a fin major…but then I cant get myself to do so.
I mean how….how tough can it be to simply make a registry in excel…this is the money that went out…and this is what came in. and I am sure it started off being that simple. But then…the accountants had to do something…to avoid being taken over by martians…! And thus came accrual accounting…and accrued accounting…and accruable accruging accounting…! What the……
So anyways…it went fine. I had to mess up a bit of it…and gladly I did…!
Fixed Income today was good. This subject makes sense…so I guess it works for me…
Apart from that…nothing much. Have a nice 3 day weekend lined up…going out tomorrow night for a dinner…then working on some papers on Friday and Saturday…have an ELP presentation this Sunday.
Looking forward…to something except acads…!
Will see u soon…
~a
worth the hype
Exams for the 5th term starting tomorrow…
As I look back at these 6 odd months…I seriously question the intelligence of my ex-employees to have hired me. I mean…I was nothing back then…I knew shit…and I was no better as well. Today when I look at myself…I see myself not only talking intelligently…but also acting so…! I know so much…I have learnt so much…and retained so much…
B-school…somewhere down the line…is worth the hype…
~a
PS: oh…u know what…isb…somewhere down the line…is worth the ‘hype’…as well…
the practical prank…and me…
At times studying is fun…
I spend the entire evening…(if 4am can be called evening…!) working on the ADCF take home test. It was such an awesome experience. The test was individual…and i was scared if i would be able to pull it off. but then i did manage quite well…i guess. its like…you reach a place wherein you think you are right…and then you start thinking. from then on its just a matter of reaffirming…or strongly going against that…!
It worked well for me.
Another interesting thing that happened last evening was my ‘boy-gang’ playing a prank on me. well…technically…the prank was played through me…on other people.
I had gone to the 4th floor of the library to fetch my laptop cable. I come back after some 5 odd minutes…and that very instant I knew that these guys were upto something. I mean…their face said it all. I tried and tried to get it out of them…but to no avail…
And I then I get a mail…and holy sweet mother of jesus…these bastardos had actually sent mails from my account…to random people…
Hi,
I was sitting and thinking about the last six months…. And I have realised that I have become close to u…..more than I have been with any1 else in my life… i hope u understand my problems and compulsions. All I can say is if I did not have commitments in my life…things would have been different between us.
Keep this to yourself.
Love
~ a
And oh my god…some people fell for it. it was nasty…and (I admit) hilarious. Naturally some people were smart enough to realize that it couldn’t have possibly been me…!
To top it all…they didn’t tell me to who all they had sent the mail. And the smart MBAs that they are…they had deleted the mail from both the ‘sent mail’ folder and the deleted items folder…! So from then on…it was more of a wait…for 2 types of mails…
- “yah right…we believe you…”
- “wtf…r u serious…? I love u too…!!” (
But it was great fun. A ‘nice’ intervention…to the routine schedule…
Looking forward to the exams…have been studying all day…and the company is great…so a lot of work is getting done…
All the best everyone for the exams…rock ‘em…!
~a
shattered…is a small word…
Didn’t make it to Masterplan
Life sucks so bad…so so bad…!
~a
Congratulations to the ISB team that made it. Really happy for them. Wish them all the best…go rock the world guys…!
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