My last post from this room :)
Bye room.
Bye blog (for 2 months).
Day 270: 31st Mar, 2010 - 50% MBA :)
The days were long
Yet so short seems the year
The first day memory so fresh
Yet the last day is here.
It's time to sit back
Let out a small sigh
And to one super fantastic year
It's time to bid goodbye.
What a great last day of the term! Too many interesting things. Since I am in the exam-mode, let me list them out point-wise.
- Almost made to wait outside the exam hall for 30min, as I had to walk into the washroom which cost me a precious 10 seconds. Fortunately, we were allowed to get in.
- As I said, I almost pulled off a night-out. Still allowed myself sleep for around an hour in the morning. Drank the red bull on my run to the PGP block. (I should have drunk it 5 min earlier no? May be I could have flown to the PGP block then :-p)
- Super short paper. The first part - true/false - was completed pretty quickly by me (speed and accuracy being unrelated). There were 6 more questions to be answered - writing single side answers for each of them would probably let me come out of the exam hall first - and that was the target I set for myself. As I was in my last answer, Shantanu got up and left the exam hall first, making me extremely jealous. I quickly completed my answer, and left the 3 hour paper in 1hr,5min - my personal best :D . Guess the Red Bull wasn't really needed :-p
- Was going with Shreyas to Brij ki Rasoi. Just as I was admiring the digital tachometer of the Pulsar, especially the part which indicated petrol by showing a small fuel-station symbol next to line. And then suddenly the bike stopped. And that is when I realised I wasn't actually reading the symbol correctly! No petrol.. and the bike was already running on reserve. Got a local fellow to give me a ride to the petrol pump and back.
- Many (temporary) farewells - Dixit, Tarun, Saurabh, Ashish, Shruti, Komal, Shreyas and quite a few more ... Truly temporary as I would probably bump into quite a few people during my internship! (Almost half the junta is headed to Bombay :D)
- Went to C2C with Ghate, Sud and AdiJ. It was a really nice place - am quite surprised how I have never been there in my one year of stay!
- Had Walls' Feast icecream after ages from a roadside Walls' fellow.
- Went to the terrace of the PGP block! The campus is SO beautiful.
Went to the INDEX room to collect the RSC docs left by Riza and ..well, just for the heck of it. Back to my room - my last night here...
Am a 50% MBA now :) Wow!
Day 269: 30th Mar, 2010
Wrote a loooooong MIS paper today. Must admit it was an interesting open book exam; you had to do your bit of work to get the answer required.
Since most of INDEX core is leaving early tomorrow, we had a pizza session in the INDEX room. Finally got Vanki (or rather Saurabh :-p) to come out with the little secret :D
Last paper tomorrow - HRM. It must suffer being the casualty that the last paper turns out to be. Even more so considering it is the last paper of PGP1! Am not studying anything at all! Even went to the mess twice - once for celebrating Venkkatessan's and Bugger's birthdays (badly beaten!) and then once again to meet Dhamdhere and Maanas. It's now almost 4 and I have kinda yet to start. Am going to pull an all-nighter today (rather tonight). Have invested in a Red Bull to keep me awake through the paper tomorrow :D
Day 268: 29th Mar, 2010
Want to know how to incur the wrath of 130 of your batch mates? A perfect setting - an open book (book, notes, printouts, etc etc) MIS exam - basically something which you can survive without much prior input. But then Mr.I-am-so-smart sends a mail to the prof which says
"Sir,
As it is an open book exam, why don't you allow laptops? Otherwise students take a lot of printouts and paper gets wasted."
He goes on to give this amazing statistic
"Even assuming each of us takes 100 prints (why would you!), it will be 13000 prints. blah blah"
Now no problem with the intention of the mail. Except that games are not to be played at such critical junctures.
Pat comes the reply from the prof
"Mr.suddenly-conscious-of-the-environment (or is it Mr.you-just-finished-your-print-balance?),
No, LAPTOPs are NOT allowed."
so far, ok, but, it didn't stop there..
"But just to make things simpler, let's NOT have anything apart from the book i.e. NO printouts."
And this came at 10 in the night when the world was just heading towards the Computer Center to take prints! Needless to say, all plans go haywire. 2 sections full of angry people. The guy would have been lynched.
Fortunately, our CR's negotiation skills came to the rescue! And the prof agreed to the original clauses. Normalcy, you are most welcome!
PS: Just a note about the SCM paper - ctrl C, ctrl V :D
Day 267: 28th Mar, 2010
A day of celebration for around half the batch today. We had our FM2 paper today - which, for those anti-fin junta, would happen to be the last paper they would ever write in Fin.
Now, FM is one of those subjects where you have to read up something before the exam. But I woke up at 10.40 in the morning. And that too thanks to my wingie who walked by! And I didn't even realise exams were going on when I woke up, just wanted to continue sleeping :-| .. And usually the paper takes up all your time (and leaves you wanting for more). But, "the great ME" finished the paper a good 35min before time. But also, in no way is it supposed to indicate anything about the performance :-p
In a way done with my exams. The remaining line up is:
SCM - open book
MIS - open book
HRM - even an open book won't help :-p
So I went and played some badminton today. (Haha.. excuses!). Didn't enjoy it too much, partly because the energy was missing and partly because I lost :-p
Prepared better for the open book exam this time. Went to the CC and took all printouts one day before! super improvement ! :D
Day 266: 27th Mar, 2010
Funnily enough, I suddenly realised it's been many many days since I ever mentioned running for breakfast. Well, that's partly/mainly because even that's a give up case now. Today, finally, I went to have breakfast - must be around after 2 weeks! :D
Funny supervisor we had today. Innovative way to keep indicating the time - he was burping every 5 min!
Had a limited open-book MM exam, in the sense only one book was allowed of the two books we had. It now seems (after the exam) that we should have been allowed the other book instead of this one.
Day 265: 26th Mar, 2010
Boring ADA paper. Finding it tough to motivate myself to spend 3 hours in the exam hall... The questions were pretty similar to a question paper discussed just 45min before the exam, but the little difference was all that was required to make it.. well.. undoable!
Indi room allocation @ the mess. For a change, didn't get a bad number in the random list generated.. "lucky number 7" !
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