pa para ra ra ra!!! it's exam time....... again
barely done with the navratra celebrations and in 4 days we have exams.... again!
this is crazy! it really is.... not that i thought things were going to be a cakewalk here but being in it is a totally different experience.
the past week i've barely slept more than 3 hours a night and only on 2 days did i manage to sneak in a nap between classes. its not like im getting any studying done either. all i have managed to do so far is just about finish my assignments.
let me illustrate by describing my day today.... looking at it technically (from 00:00 hrs) i began the day with one strong cup (glass?) of coffee to keep me awake the next 5 hrs. had a marketing presentation to prepare, followed by a capacity planning report. my comp was acting all weird so that effectively doubled the amount of time i took to finish my work. came back at 4:30 am.. tried to study for a while. ended up reading one page of macro. slept at 6. woke up at 8:30 thoroughly disoriented. rushed to class where (my luck) we didnt have to present our analysis (always happens when i spend an entire night trying to make a ppt look good).. rushed back between classes to complete some pending work. ran back up for the next class at the end of which a macro quiz is announced. No chance to study as we had another class in between. skipped lunch to try studying (stupid thing to do). bad quiz. came back half-dead. went straight to sleep. woke up 3 hrs later again disoriented. dinner followed by some work. went for a long walk after that. came back at 12. did the assignment for the next day. comp was even worse today. was taking forever. tinkered around for a while and got it fixed (i hope it is fixed!).... felt all cool about myself about doing it... and so celebrated by doing nothing for about an hour. realized there is a quiz announced for tomorrow. started studying. 2 hrs later im only one chapter down (and about a million more to go)
but i'm not complaining. i asked for this!!
happy days are here again!
its navratra season at IIM Indore and the festive cheer has spread all over campus!! there is a huge
durga pandal put up outside the mess (although the idol inside very unfortunately happens to be a
santoshi ma one! :D)
anyway, its a whole week of activities planned out with
durga pujas and
dandiya performances, rangoli making and
rosgolla eating contests,
lagori and
kabaddi matches, tug-of-war, pot painting contests, a big bengali dinner..... phew!!
last night my room was full of people making
ravan's heads!! it was a lot of fun drawing, painting, cutting... felt like i was a kid again...(though
prem bai had a tough time this morning cleaning all the paint stains!) later in the night we had a practice session for the
dandiya performance. well, it started off as practice but within no time it was a free-for-all.... it was so much fun! thats the great thing about
dandiya, you can dance and dance and you'll never know how tired you are. (its only when you go to your room and start working on your assignment that you realize you dont even have the energy to walk the one step to your bed... and so end up sleeping on your comp! :D... been there done that! ;)
this evening we had the
rangoli contest, pot painting,
lagori and i think
kabaddi is happening right now! and guess what!! my team won at
lagori!!!! woo hoo!! (little extra enthu that comes with all this festive atmosphere!) honestly, the last time i played lagori was perhaps 10-15 years ago... its like at B-school, i get to be a kid again!
anyway... have huge assignments due this week. we had yesterday free (a free sunday is a rarity) and just one class today.... it has actually spoilt me... i dont feel like going for any more classes now..... im fed up!!!! i only want to dance dandiya and play lagori all day! (:D hee hee!!)
anyway, summs have just arrived for another round of dandiya practice... gotta go!
happy days are here again!
lots of stuff
phew!
i remember being warned about second term before i got here. i didn't think it was possible to be busier than i already was... i should've believed them
this term is killing.
first there are academics, which are scary. i dont want to mention more here coz even thinking about it scares the hell out of me. in the past 7 days we have had 3 quizzes in fin alone. mktg too, 3 quizzes in 6 classes. in fact we started our marketing course with a quiz.
then there is iris, which is on full swing. visit
www.iimi-iris.com to see the stuff thats happening there.
then there are trips with my class to places like sitaladevi falls. stuff i wouldn't miss for the world (though i almost did!). it was awesome!!!
21 bikes. 41 people. 4 waterfalls. 2 flat tyres. 8 cups of hot tea (as we waited in a little shed getting a tyre fixed while it was pitch dark and pouring outside). 100's of photographs. A million memories.
then there was the need for speed challenge. This awesome gaming event conducted by the ITCom. it was such good fun. i even made it to the semi-finals!!!!! (and thats quite an achievement for me considering i played the game for the first time the previous day)
and amidst all that are the things we (or atleast i)
have to do to keep me going. long walks (our campus is beauuutiful!), movies (though i always end up falling asleep in the first half hr or so!), dinners (recently, we also went to this place called chokhi dhani, which is this recreated rajasthani village with food, dancing etc. was good fun), drives (namrata has got her car for a month. its party time in A-block!!!), cleaning my room (rearranged all the furniture yesterday to make it more study friendly!)
anyway.. gotta go back to the WIP (sad joke!)...
