360 students .. 1000 points .. and mayhem! That was what today was all about!
There have been days here about which we have heard stories from seniors, but still the intensity dawns only when it actually occurs. We had our electives selection day today - and the frenzy has been unprecedented! Till last year, the choice was mainly dependent on the concentration of courses. This year, we had the added element of 'bid points' which made the whole thing .. well.. interesting!
Game theory was at its best - every student making his or her own strategy to get the courses of choice. Expecting a lot of people to bid in multiples of 5 or 10, the smart ones placed bids ending in 1s and 6s. The smarted ones, anticipating the move by the smart ones, put bids ending in 2s and 7s :D .
Every year, there are always a couple of courses which get into a massive bull run. This year, the courses in high demand were SBN - closing bid 302 (good course, chill exams) , MSD (great prof!) and AOC (ideal filler :D). But the show stealer was a course called FIRE - closing bid 364! - in which students would be taken to a resort for a week and have 6 hours worth of 'discussions' each day - and that's it! Ironically, this highest bid course was a half-credit one!
Without getting into too much detail, my own bidding strategy was OK. Fortunately I made a couple of important changes in the 5th round, failing which I would have found it difficult to get my choice of specialisation! I did end up losing three courses of my initial choice though. Atleast I was aware of it - unlike Chatur who realised the shortfall only on fortunately bumping into a group of friends at the mess!
Anyways, not getting everything in the first stage didn't turn out to be so bad. Did another couple of hours worth of timepass to the game to which many of us were now addicted :D . Took a couple of arbit courses..
What would be really interesting is to think - one year down the line - was it really worth the 8 hour (10pm to 6am) fiasco?! I may not be sure of that even then, but one thing, it was surely a fair bit of fun :D
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