Day 60: 19th Aug, 2009

At the start of the post midterm schedule, if there was one subject that I seriously thought would actually be a 'cakewalk', it was ITC. But just 2 weeks into the course, I am sternly reminded that any such notions of 'ease' at IIM L are bound to be disabused.

ITC is Information Technology Concepts. Primarily, it is a course on Microsoft Excel. (So much for encouragement of Open Source :) .. but that is a different matter altogether.) I always knew excel had a lot of features that an average user doesn't even know about. But still, after 4 years of engineering, I thought I could confidently assume myself to become comfortable with that. Now, class after class, week after week, am hearing all random functions in MS Excel, and it suddenly seems to be even tougher than writing code for a microprocessor! :-S

Finished my final individual presentation/review for Manfest! The most important part of it was when they asked me to take the project screen up. That is when I saw that my name had been improperly written with a random space in between. I just HATE it when my name is misspelt. My name was even misspelt on the name tags that we got; I had to make do with a duplicate cheap quality non-laminated one :-( . Anyways, corrected my name , took names of a couple of people I would want to work with, and one with whom I wouldn't want to work with ;-) . No hard feelings, just plain fair evaluation though. Still, I felt wicked when I met up with that person later on and made casual conversation :-p . Done with it anyways. On to INDEX now...

Have the first post midterm quiz tomorrow, on MANAC. It is funny when profs say the syllabus is 'whatever has been taught in the last 2 weeks' and only then you try to recollect 'what' has been taught in the last 2 weeks :D . Anyways, couldn't do much today (sleeping away). Started reading in the afternoon, slept off. Started again in the evening, felt drowsy. I thought it is 'cos of the room. So went to the lib. Opened the book there and slept off again. Realised (or rather accepted) the factors were internal rather than external :-p . Didn't put in too much of a fight. Will think about it tomorrow.

Goodnight. Sss..ZZzzzZ..oo long..