Signs of impending doom
The last 3 weeks at ISB have been awesome. Full of parties and minimal academic pressure
Week 1: The first week was filled with memorising names and faces, partying like crazy and having the time of your lives. Sleep was at a premium, not that anybody cared. We had club presentations, team building events, leadership development programs, some lectures extolling us to pull up our socks or to hit the ground running.
And parties every night, sort of set the tone for my entire stay at Gachibowli.
Week 2: Pre-term!!!!, after a lot of begging and grovelling I was given the honour of being part of the pre-term classes. Had earlier missed the deadline of applying for the pre-terms, because of procrastination and then later due to non-existant internet in spanish villages.
On hindsight, I was better of without the pre-terms, Quant prof was aweome. Prof Shankar from IIMB. Rather than go through the motions, he made it his responsibility to create some interest in the subject with interesting anecdotes and trivia and made a dull subject such as mathematics quite interesting.
The same obviously cant be said about the other 2. Although I have been hearing reports that Introductory accounting was awesome in the other sections.
Pre-terms, werent taken quite seriously and most chose to extend the revellry into the 2nd week of ISB as well. The parties continued, the mispronounciation of names and the practice of calling people Dude, when one doesn't know the respective name continued.
This was an awesome week at ISB. No academic pressure, freedom to sleep over 10 hours, Its almost like a vacation ... awesome stuff.
Week 3:
ahem ahem ahem ..... the profs are awesome, they are giving an insane amount of workload, but somehow people havent really started buring the midnight oil. Maybe the assignments or the mid-term tests will sort of open our eyes to the task which faces us.
Meanwhile the parties continue, People continue to party till the wee hours of the morning convincing themselves that instead of partying they are actually networking.... well I am one of them. Studies or reading, as is commonly called here is still nowhere to be found. I have till date in my entire stay at ISB done about 4 hours of study.....
Is this b-school life, if it is. I am in love with an MBA. However, I believe that this is just the calm before the storm....
Or in other words, signs of impending Doom.....
Hope to survive to right my epitaph.
Week 1: The first week was filled with memorising names and faces, partying like crazy and having the time of your lives. Sleep was at a premium, not that anybody cared. We had club presentations, team building events, leadership development programs, some lectures extolling us to pull up our socks or to hit the ground running.
And parties every night, sort of set the tone for my entire stay at Gachibowli.
Week 2: Pre-term!!!!, after a lot of begging and grovelling I was given the honour of being part of the pre-term classes. Had earlier missed the deadline of applying for the pre-terms, because of procrastination and then later due to non-existant internet in spanish villages.
On hindsight, I was better of without the pre-terms, Quant prof was aweome. Prof Shankar from IIMB. Rather than go through the motions, he made it his responsibility to create some interest in the subject with interesting anecdotes and trivia and made a dull subject such as mathematics quite interesting.
The same obviously cant be said about the other 2. Although I have been hearing reports that Introductory accounting was awesome in the other sections.
Pre-terms, werent taken quite seriously and most chose to extend the revellry into the 2nd week of ISB as well. The parties continued, the mispronounciation of names and the practice of calling people Dude, when one doesn't know the respective name continued.
This was an awesome week at ISB. No academic pressure, freedom to sleep over 10 hours, Its almost like a vacation ... awesome stuff.
Week 3:
ahem ahem ahem ..... the profs are awesome, they are giving an insane amount of workload, but somehow people havent really started buring the midnight oil. Maybe the assignments or the mid-term tests will sort of open our eyes to the task which faces us.
Meanwhile the parties continue, People continue to party till the wee hours of the morning convincing themselves that instead of partying they are actually networking.... well I am one of them. Studies or reading, as is commonly called here is still nowhere to be found. I have till date in my entire stay at ISB done about 4 hours of study.....
Is this b-school life, if it is. I am in love with an MBA. However, I believe that this is just the calm before the storm....
Or in other words, signs of impending Doom.....
Hope to survive to right my epitaph.
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