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He is the prof who took our Leadership Development Program classes and is planning to take an elective for us on "Leadership Lessons from World Literature" in Term 8 of our course. He is probably one of the most well read persons I have ever met till date in my stint on this planet. All I want to say is "Prof. Upadhyaya: Thanks a ton for the wonderful LDP sessions you took for us. Hope to keep getting more opportunities to learn from you in the future too." To read an article written on him last year in rediff.com, click here . posted by Ram at 11:25 PM 0 comments  
3 out of 8 terms over. Gave the last two exams of the term today - Corporate Finance (taught by PBC ..... here comes the PBC talk again) and Entrepreneurship. Corp fin paper was multiple choice except for the last question. Lack of opportunity to write much in the exam (we had to just mark the answers) was compensated by the Entrepreneurship paper. It was an open book exam and we had been given a case yesterday evening to study individually. Questions in the exam were based on the case. The exam would be more of a torture for the person correcting our papers than for us coz people here have filled their answer sheets with all that they could find fillable. The TA who would be correcting the papers didn't miss the opportunity to come to the exam hall and request people to have some pity on him. After getting deeply affected by his senti talk, some people even took additional answer booklets !! Whatever I have written could be written once more within the same one single booklet I used. Wrists and elbows are paining like anything after 3 hours of non-stop writing. Am off to see the movie "Gandhi". Have to finish the LDP assignment which is based on the movie by tomorrow midnight (or might be day after .. have to check) utilizing whatever little time I get, with the business presentation workshop happening parallely. I feel that being an engineer gives one the ability to finish assignments whatever/whenever be the deadline. Heard this one a few months ago ...... apparently an engineer was given a bulky book to study and asked when he would be able to finish it .... he asked in return "exam kab hai (when is the exam)?". posted by Ram at 6:30 AM 3 comments
Two exams of Term 3 over (managerial accounting & operations management). Needless to say, my record at ISB of commiting harakiri in the exams remains intact ... .... yes, I did it this time too. Two more to go (Entrepreneurship and Corporate Finance) for the term to get over officially and for me to start doing the LDP assignment. Don't feel like exams are going on ... have somehow grown indifferent to exams, may be due to the high frequency of their occurence. Thats it for today ..... ta ... ta ... posted by Ram at 5:56 PM 0 comments
Exams tomorrow and day after. Then there is supposed to be a term break till Sunday but only for people who do not have their business presentation workshops and experiential learning projects (ELPs) lined up and I am not one of them :-( So the schedule goes like this: exams on Mon & Tue, the workshops on Wed & Thu, LDP assignment due on Thu, ELP till Sun and then Term 4 starts from Monday. Poor me ....... posted by Ram at 5:01 PM 0 comments
We had an additional session of LDP today where Prof. Rajeshwar Upadhyay taught us 6 steps which if pursued seriously can lead us to greatness. One of the steps involved writing in slips of paper, what you felt were good qualities in your fellow classmates and giving the slips to them. Here are some that I got in the slips given to me by others ..... every slip starts with something like "I like Ram because" and some go on to say the following: "sense of humor ... amazing duality - silent in class, brat outside" "he is humorous" "he is funny" "too funny" "silent class participation (CP)" "calm and quiet nature" "the serenity with which he sleeps in class" "you are a really great person to be with, always spreading smiles and happiness around" "he is always cheerful and can really cheer people up" "for his ever jovial nature and full of life attitude" "very helpful guy" "you are chilled out ..... laid back ..... funny as hell" "of his exceptional capability to create humor and gel into any gathering" "sleeping partner from the first term ... great guy ... always cheerful" "I like his funniness" "for his writing skills on his blog and for his sense of humor" (writing skills ???) "very friendly and has an easy attitude towards life" "humor, humor , humor again !!" "cheerful personality" "very accessible, has a jolly nature" "real silent performer ... has substance & it comes out at rare occasions when he does speak ... nice guy" ........... One thing common to almost all slips was "he is too funny" or "he is too humorous". posted by Ram at 11:59 PM 0 comments
We had the last two classes of Term 3 today - Entrepreneurship by Prof. Ramakrishna Velamuri and Operations Management by Prof. Sudhakar Deshmukh. For more details on the profs who taught us this term, please click here (an earlier post of mine). One thing that struck me was that the profs who have come till now from Kellogg are very down to earth and gentle people. Prof Mark Finn (Financial Accounting - Term1), Prof. Sri Sridharan (Managerial Accounting - Term 3) and Prof. Sudhakar Deshmukh (Operations Management - Term 3) are all so gentle that they wouldn't hurt a fly. Prof Deshmukh, probably the cutest/sweetest of them all, has been teaching at Kellogg for 34 years now !!! Thats 7 years more than the average age of our batch and much more than the time most of my batchmates have spent on this planet. The profs who came in to take the first half of the courses this term were on the average more impressive than the ones who took the second half. Prof S. Venkatraman from Darden who took first 6 of our Entrepreneurship classes was very impressive and I learnt a lot from his portion of the course. Prof Venkatraman started his teaching career in 1984-85. I was really surprised to know that he was the guy who wrote the business plan for Wipro Technologies way back when it was started and was one of the founding employees of the company. So many students of his are successful entrepreneurs in the US. Prof Ramakrishna Velamuri, who taught the next 4 classes had a style of his own. I personally felt that his case studies were more of reading stories than learning any serious new stuff about Entrepreneurship. We had a case study on Alacrity Housing, Chennai and he brought in the founder of Alacrity, Amol Karnad to class for discussing the case study. He did the same thing in the next case on Infosys Technologies too when he brought the head of Infosys, Hyderabad to class for the discussion. I have already talked a lot about PBC in my earlier posts and would refrain from doing so now .... hmm ... well .... let me just mention this ... PBC told us during our finance electives information session that we should consider our MBA over by the next term and we should think of the remaining 4 terms after that as a golden opportunity to put to practice whatever we learnt in the first 4 core terms. Exam time once again .... end terms scheduled for the coming Monday and Tuesday. Probably the longest exams we will give over a span of two days, ever since we came here. Almost all the exams are of 3 hour duration. There is a fight going on between my brain and the rest of my body right now .... some voice from inside says that exams are round the corner and I better study something and it appears the logical thing to do to my brain too ... but all other organs in the body say that they are damn tired and my eyes are almost closing. The warm, cozy bed beckons me .... here I come .... zzzzzz posted by Ram at 9:40 PM 2 comments
The people who make up D ........ 
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No .. no ... I am not refering to Normandy or the Second World War. We had our "Section D" day today. Our section T-shirts have arrived and they do look cool. Here are some snaps .... posted by Ram at 9:50 PM 6 comments
Near the reception area 
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Section T-shirt (back portion)  Close up view of the back of the T-shirt ..... contains names of all the students. posted by Ram at 9:47 PM 0 comments
(L to R) Prof. Bhagwan Chowdhry (navy blue shirt), Prof. Rajeshwar Upadhyay, Prof. Ramakrishna Velamuri, Prof. Sri Sridharan, Prof. Sudhakar Deshmukh 
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Prof. Rajeshwar Upadhyay, Prof. Ramakrishna Velamuri & Prof. Sri Sridharan (L to R) 
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Got this from a batchmate of ours ...... summary of one of the chapters of our Corporate Finanace textbook has the following - "This chapter is almost 100 percent theory. The theory is difficult. If you think you understand all the formulas, assumptions, and relationships on the first reading, we suggest psychiatric assistance". End-term exams are on Monday. Thats how life is at ISB. Exams almost every 2-3 weeks (mid-term or end-term). This term is going to be a disaster for me ... there is so much to study and so little motivation right now to do so. All right ... I better get done with at least the case to be read for class today. posted by Ram at 6:40 AM 0 comments
TV9 channel (which I think at least comes in the whole of AP) aired a story on ISB today in a program titled "Young Tarang" from 8:30PM to 9:30PM. Those who missed it can catch 'Life at ISB' next Monday ( August 29,2005) - same channel, same time. Moving on to other things ...... the Leadership Development Program (LDP) classes have been going on well. The faculty, Prof Rajeshwar Upadhyay, in my opinion, is an awesome speaker and I am truly impressed by whatever he is teaching us. We have also been seeing clips out of some movies and doing analysis based on them. Two movies that we have seen (partially) till now in this regard are "Saving Private Ryan" and Ram Gopal Verma's "Satya" (remember Bhiku Mhatre ??). Satya is one of my favorite movies, though I have seen it only once before and I had thought a lot about the movie and its characters back then. Same with "Company". But I had never known that even the "kallu mama" song in Satya had so much meaning behind each of those lines. Realized this only after attending the LDP class yesterday !!! posted by Ram at 11:58 PM 0 comments
All weekends@ ISB are almost of the same kind. Be it rains, sunshine, exams, no exams, term breaks, no term breaks, assignments will always be there. Number of assignments will be 3 with a standard deviation of 3 with 100% confidence ..... the only thing is that it very rarely might fall bellow three. Ooops ... what is happening to me .... when did I start talking like this? This weekend is no exception. The closer we are to the exams, which I am reminded are coming up next week, the more is the burden of assignments felt (as we are doing just now). There are some who start doing the assignments (to be submitted on Monday morning 8:30AM) on Thursday or Friday itself and there are many who start it only on Saturday or Sunday. It then becomes a race against time but then we have somehow always performed better when democles sword is hanging above our heads. Whatever I am writing is somehow not making sense to me .... have already done overtime .. I mean its almost midnight and I sleep very early usually .... signing off to bury myself in my warm, cozy bed .... see you tomorrow .... zzzzzz .... posted by Ram at 11:59 PM 0 comments
Am I obsessed with PBC or what ? Today was the first time in three classes taken by PBC that I followed every single word that he spoke (at least think so) and am really happy about it. He seemed to be in awesome form today. Even cracked some jokes in class ..... so here goes some PBC humor: Scene n: Everyone settles in after the 5 minutes break (usually given halfway through a class). G lifts up his hand to ask a doubt in a set of equations that PBC had written on the board before the break and says something like this: "Prof, I had a doubt in what you had written there" and points to the board. PBC had wiped the board clean in the break and so turns around, looks at the board and says: "Its all very clear ... you shouldn't have any doubt" Scene n+1: We all have name cards in class in front of our desks and some prankster has interchanged those of NE and NI. So PBC takes a look at NE and the card on NE's desk and says: "I don't think you are NI" and then looks at NI and says: "Do you want me to think that it is NE who sleeps in class all the time?" :) :) The entire class bursts out laughing. posted by Ram at 9:13 PM 0 comments
Class no. 1 of Corporate Finance taught by Prof. Bhagwan Chowdhry (hereafter refered to as PBC): Scene 1: TA enters the class, keeps a bunch of handouts on the table. Students walking in take a handout each and go to their respective seats. Scene 2: PBC enters with his own copy of handouts, keeps it on the table next to the pile of handouts of which very little is left now .... starts addressing the class. A students walks in, takes PBC's handout and comes to his seat. Scene 3: PBC turns back, finds his handout missing and launches a search for the same. Mission successful .... handout found ..... returned back to PBC. Repeat Scenes 2 & 3 some 2-3 times. Class no. 2: Same story gets repeated. Only difference ... the mission isn't successful .... PBC says that he has written something in pencil on the last page and no one in the class is able to find the handout that has PBC's writing !! Class no. 3: Hasn't happened yet .... but I can bet the same old story is going to get repeated. -------------------------------------------- Campus talk: PBC asked us to attend finance classes in the core terms in case we fear finance and certainly take finance as a major (????). Students who sort of fear finance go to PBC's class and their fears turn into nightmares. That's all right ... kind of expected ... isn't it ..... but what about the students who love finance and want to major in it? Well, they also attend PBC's class and their love for finance is on test. Result: Fear has crept in some. What next? Attend one more class of PBC's and decide to stay with IT. posted by Ram at 8:40 PM 2 comments
Just came back after attending a carnatic classical vocal concert by the famous Malladi Brothers (Sreerama Prasad and Ravikumar) at "Sundarayya Vignana Kendram" in Baghlingampally in the city. They sang well though I thought they were not probably in peak form today. Really enjoyed the evening. Here is the list of songs and accompanists for fans of Carnatic music: Accompaniment: violin: peri srI rAmamurthy mridangam: d.s.r. mUrthy morsing: g. satya sAi 1. varnam (sAmi ninnE) - srI - Adi - karur dEvudu iyer 2. entarAni - harikAmbodhi - Adi - thyAgarAja 3. nI madi challaga - AnandabhairavI - Adi - kavi mAtrubhUtaiyyA (?) 4. parandAmavati - dharmavati - rUpakam - m. dIkshitar 5. teliyalEru rAmA - dhEnukA - Adi - thyAgarAja 6. urakE galgunA - sahAna - misra cApu - thyAgaraja Had to leave at this point to be back in ISB. ISB is located at the outskirts of the Hyderabad city and going to and coming back from the city takes a lot of time. posted by Ram at 11:30 PM 0 comments
Spouses & Family Association @ ISB organized "SAWAN MELA" yesterday. Some pics from the same ..... 
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Art by SFA ... 
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Aish ko bindi lagao 
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Drawings/paintings by spouses, kids et. al. 
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Sarovar team 
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We had a flag hoisting ceremony today morning. The Spouses & Family Association (SFA) is organizing "Sawan Mela" today from 4PM onwards. Proposed attractions at the mela are handmade art & craft items by spouses, game stalls, food stalls by spouses and Sarovar, mehndi maker, Moods at ISB competition cum exhibition etc. Kudos to SFA for all that they are doing here !!!!! Here are some snaps from the ceremony in the morning ....... Dean Rao hoisting the national flag 
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Security Staff salute 
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The National Flag 
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Went to the city yesterday along with a batchmate of mine who wanted to buy a blazer ... went to a place called Paradise which I am told is famous for hyderabadi biryani. Bought a few classical music albums of the singer T.M.Krishna whose music I am mad after these days. Have all his audio releases back home in Delhi which I had to leave back along with my collection of 1500+ cassettes when I came here. Chilling out since the mid-term exams got over ....... but no independence day for us tomorrow as we have to submit the LDP (Leadership Development Program) assignment, which is a write up of 2500 words, by midnight. We also have to decide on our electives and submit indicative bids by Tuesday. Also to be completed before Tuesday are the applications for projects and for the second installment of the mammoth bank loan I have taken. So many things to be done but it all looks so normal these days. When we had come to this place and the first few assignments rained down on us, time was very tight and we badly felt the need for more time. Have we got habituated to all this stuff? Maybe we have realized that what is required in this one-year roller coaster ride is to hang tight and learn from whatever we are able to observe around us. posted by Ram at 10:00 PM 1 comments
Now thats not another word from the Toyota Production System we have been learning or hearing of in our Operations Management class. Harakiri is precisely what I have committed in the OM mid-term paper yesterday ... messed up everything even when I precisely knew what was the right way to do things ... these days there is neither the desire nor the motivation to crack exams. I really went to the next exam with a positive frame of mind expecting to do well as I had really liked the subject "Corporate Finance" and the way Professor Rangarajan Sundaram taught us (though he did start traveling at the speed of light in the last class and was over with everything before we realized anything). So what happens next? I am kind of trying to apply whatever I learnt and whatever I could manage to get into the single side cheat sheet (which we were allowed for the exam) and within 5 minutes I see people looking around here and there. I think "may be the paper is going to get tougher as I progress along". Then suddenly the TA comes with a few corrections in the paper and before he starts speaking about the corrections, the students start telling the TA what is wrong where .... and I am like mighty impressed. Then in flat 15-20 minutes time, about 15-20 people have finished the paper and left the examination hall and I am left thinking whether I am the only fool left there still struggling with the paper ..... I mean I am stupid but never expected that someone could solve a decently tough paper in just a few minutes and walk away. Then I come out and get to know that the questions have been picked up from last year's paper and most guys knew the answers beforehand and were refraining from doing calculations in the fear that they might change their mind and mark something wrong !!! posted by Ram at 11:56 PM 2 comments
We have 2 mid-term exams today ... the drill will start at 10AM and should end at 4PM. Would have completed 2.5 terms by then. Meanwhile, here is some real good stuff I got in my e-mail .... it is in Hindi (written in English) and translation to any other language kind of dilutes the intent behind it ... so apologies to those who don't understand Hindi: ---------------------------------------------------------- SOOCHNA: Agar aap bus, train, plane ya kahin se bhi aa jaa rahe hon aur kisi mahila/larki ke hath mein phool, dhaga, chain ya chamakti hui koi bhi vastu dekhein to turant wahan se bhag jaye.Ye vastu RAKHI ho sakti hai. Apki zara se laaparwahi apko BHAI bana sakti hai. Purush hit mein jaaree. ---------------------------------------------------------- Lot of stuff left to be studied ..... ta ta .... posted by Ram at 6:00 AM 0 comments
Prof Bhagwan Chowdhary is teaching us the 2nd part of Corporate Finance this term. The first one was taken by Prof. Rangarajan Sundaram. In his first few lines on the subject in the class, Prof. Bhagwan told us that in the total of five classes that we have, the first three will have very very little quant and the last two will then go on to involve much of the calculations. Having said that, he started explaining basic concepts and it was all flowing really smooth. For a moment I even thought of taking finance if all finance profs were supposed to teach this way. Just after some 5 minutes, he launched into a string of numerical calculations that paused in the 5 minute break, intensified post break and culminated with the clock showing end of 2 hours. Now if that was supposed to be "very little quant", then I wonder what the heavy quant in the last two classes would be like !!! Not that I am averse to quant .. in fact I used to love it when I was young ... but now that I have lost a lot of (mental) capabilities at work and become more mature, it kind of really gets difficult to follow things when they are done at a speed above my threshold level at an hour of the day when my brain has already signed off after facing some 6 hours of classes. Opinion of two of our batchmates along with students from other B-schools regarding necessity of work-ex for doing MBA has come in a lot of the newspapers. A portion of the article I saw in yesterday's Business Standard is available here. posted by Ram at 12:03 AM 0 comments
One of my section-mates "N" is leaving for London Business School (LBS) and we had a small farewell party for him on Monday. We gave him an ISB T-shirt signed by everyone in our section with lots of funny comments. He also got a special round of bumps from all the girls (or should I say ladies) in the section. Lucky chap !! Will miss him a lot especially because he used to sit just behind me and whenever he used to stretch his leg, he would accidentally hit my chair with it. This used to happen many times during each class and used to keep me awake, paying good attention to whatever the prof said. N, just rock on. You will do great wherever you go !!!!! posted by Ram at 5:45 AM 0 comments
Wondering what are these ? They are the names of temples ... read on ....... Prof. Rajeshwar Upadhyay tells us that there is a temple in Hyderabad called the Visa Mata Temple which is thronged by people who have to go to the embassy (US) to get visa stamped. Legend has it (is the process of visa stamping that old to call it a legend ... but anyway.....) that the conversion rate of prayers into visa stampings is extremely high. Who are the people who visit this temple? ..... IT engineers, engg grads seeking admission to MS programs in the US etc. Capt. Raghu Raman tells us that there is a temple called the pressure cooker baba temple in Siachen. Many years ago, pakis fired a heat seeking missile aimed at an Indian camp in Siachen. The armymen were sitting away towards the sides of the camp and food was being cooked in a pressure cooker at a distance from them inside the same camp. The missile sought the pressure cooker and blew it into pieces while the men were saved. In the words of Capt. Raghu Raman: "in a place where you do not know whether you will be alive the next minute .... in a place where you go out on a small mission to check if everything is alright and don't know if you will return back .... and if you return back and remove your gloves, you do not know whether your fingers would have frozen to death or you would be able to bring them back to life .... you do not know whether you will be back with your vision intact ..... you never know whether the next step you keep might send you hurtling down a bottomless crevice that is so deep that if a stone goes down, you can hear it hitting the sides but never hear it hitting the bottom ....... the only thing that keeps you sane and in control is probably your belief in god ... I mean you are already so close to god ... how much more closer can you get ....." (Apologies if I misquoted anything that the captain said .... I have tried to reproduce things to the best of my memory which is at times pathetic). So coming back to the pressure cooker incident ... this pressure cooker blew up and saved the lives of many of the armymen posted there. Since then, they have made a temple at that spot and continue to worship the remains of the pressure cooker there, in the PRESSURE COOKER BABA TEMPLE. The men in siachen stay in a bunker probably 5 ft by 5ft (guess so from the area shown by capt Raghu on the stage) ... 20 of them in one .... if anyone dies, you can't even throw him out coz he is one of you ..... no change .... no going back for six months at least .... no taking bath ... -40 deg C ..... a 8-10K salary with a siachen allowance of Rs. 32 per month, thanks to one of the huge-hearted defence ministers who doubled it from the earlier Rs. 16 per month ..... the only thing that probably brings a smile on their faces is a rare occasion when they get a letter from home ........ and the question the captain asked was ... "Why do you think they are there? Why do you think people serve in the Indian army saving the lives of people of their country when their families might themselves have no one to save them?" Some anwers given by people: pride of being in the army, patriotism, prestige etc ... The men from army in our batch got it right .... of course they got to .... the real reason is they do this all for their leader, the one guy who commands their platoon and for the honour of their platoon. There are people in the army from such remote villages of India that they do not know the concept of a nation ..... what they know is that they have a leader whom they are supposed to follow .... there has been someone doing this before them, they have to do it now and there will be someone doing it after them. So what is crisis ..... it is certainly not "oh .. my boss didn't look at me today", "i got poor grades in the exam" OR "oh there are so many assignments to be submitted" ... real crisis is probably what many of the armymen face out there and leadership skills probably are best tested in situations they face. In case someone wants to send a message to our people in Siachen, do write to: Brig. Om Prakash Cdr 102 Inf Bde C/0 56 APO. The captain says that every mail is read out to them !!! That said, I end my long post ..... time to go back to finish the remaining assignments ..... we are turning slowly into and will probably leave this place as OWLS. posted by Ram at 2:00 AM 1 comments
This was the title of the talk given by Capt. Raghu Raman, CEO, Mahindra Special Services Group. You can see Capt. Raghu Raman's brief profile here and here. I had heard that this was probably one of the best, most well-received and most inspirational talks of last year and after attending it, I would say that it is probably the best I have listened to, till now @ ISB. Capt. Raghu had served in the Siachen and was trying to take us through what leadership is really all about. After seeing clips and snaps of the situations that the Indian Army faces in Siachen, I would venture to say that most of the decision making problems we face in our lives are nothing in comparison. Will try to post more on this topic soon. The semifinals and finals of the ultimate frisbee tournament were held on Friday and Saturday. My section (D) won the semifinals convincingly to stage a fight against Section C. The final ended in a draw (5-5). Couldn't be there to cheer my section as I was running high fever. Somehow managed to pull myself together for Capt. Raghu Raman's talk. Time to sign off and complete as much of the assignments as possible before the effect of Crocin fades away. Its the mid-terms this Friday :-( posted by Ram at 7:30 AM 3 comments
This was the topic that took more than half of today's managerial accounting class while it didn't probably deserve a discussion for more than 5 minutes ..... all this just because some over-enthusiastic people kept on sharing their views no matter what. The ultimate stuff was that after more than an hour of discussion on a chain of things that revolved around this, a guy suddenly puts up his hand and asks: "What is the death spiral?" Accounting profs here are true gentlemen. They are very down to earth and try to place themselves in the shoes of the person asking a doubt and try to understand what that person is not able to. They are very happy answering even the silliest of doubts that people might have and are very happy when people from non-accounting backgrounds answer any of the questions put up. Prof Mark Finn from Kellogg who took our Financial Accounting class was probably the first prof to receive a standing ovation for 3-4 minutes after his last class. Prof Sridharan, also from Kellogg, who teaches us Managerial Accounting this term is also of the same kind, though probably extremely appreciative of correct answers. He gets really happy when people even answer questions like "what is 2+2?" or "what is the average of 600 and 800?". A guy from one of the other sections was asked to compute the average of 400 and 800 by Prof Sridharan and it took the guy sometime to actually analyze and find out that there were no twists in the question and the answer was indeed straightforward !!! On a lighter note .... we had a corporate finance class yesterday and "K" from my section had a basic doubt. So here goes the conversation between him and the Prof: K: "Professor .. I have a basic doubt regarding the discussion ... what is the difference between accounting value and market value?" Prof: "I thought you should have learnt that in the Financial Accounting course in Term 1" Prof: " ... after a pause ... did you do Financial Accounting in Term 1?" K (with the characteristic look and in his trademark tone): "Yes .. but I did not do well". Then there is "P" who is famous all over the campus for his really "insightful" responses to questions asked by the profs. The other day Prof Rajeshwar Upadhyay said that he was looking for some really insightful comments on a topic and asked who would like to make one when the entire class started chanting P's name. Does P dissapoint us .... not usually ... he does live up to the expectations most of the times. There is a party being thrown by Section A ppl today ... has all the usual ingredients .. booze, pro DJ etc.. The huge speakers are right by the side of my apartment. Starts 11PM which means that the rest of the day is gone ... not that I would have done something great had the party not been there. posted by Ram at 7:30 PM 0 comments
Section A had their "T-shirt" day yesterday ... their T-shirt is designed on the lines of Superman's costume with an "a" at the centre in place of the "s". Some people were even wearing red half-pants over their trousers in true Superman style. There are lots of submissions to be done this term and case studies to be read eveyday. But there is a sort of relaxed attitude this term unlike the previous two terms .... or may be I am the only one relaxing, doing nothing significant and need to tighten up. Will think about it tomorrow .... sleep is taking over me now .... zzzzzz posted by Ram at 9:45 PM 0 comments
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