first nightout! :D
seems rather impossible a situation for someone suffering from chronic insomnia... but last night (today??) happened to be my first total night out here at IIM I :o) i mean, there have been times (practically every alternate day in the recent past) where i've slept at 6 or 7 a.m. if only for a couple of hours, but i did catch some sleep... however, today, the fact that im awake at 8:45 a.m. after having had breakfast without having slept a wink.... certifies this as being my first night out! :D
had a party last night... considering the senior batch is going to be leaving campus in about 10 days, the culcom parties are being made more special.. the theme this time was 'angels and demons' which had all the men dressed in black and the women in white (rather appropriate! :oP what say!!) there was also this range of activities based on each of the seven deadly sins.. was quite interesting...
anyway, the party was great (as all the parties ehre are :o) danced till about 5 when i was almost the only person left on the dance floor.. then sat chatting with a friend for a couple of hours.... by then as it was already morning, we decided to go for a long pending early morning bike ride along the bombay-agra highway... was an awesome ride... got back to rau (the village near where the institute is located) and had 'poha and chai' at this tiny roadside place (another IIMI tradition that is followed after every early morning ride).... all in all, its been a brilliant morning...
now to go sleep.....
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exams should never be interrupted by holidays. you tend to lose whatever flow you've developed and then end up feeling too lazy to get back to it again...
precisely the situation i find myself in right now... two exams were followed by 2 long lazy holidays and now with a midterm and an endterm tomorrow... i just dont feel like studying at all.. :o(
on the brighter side, by this time day after, ill be done with all exams! (for now atleast)
however, things are beginning to get more interesting on the non-academic side. for one, the exchange program process will start soon and there's tons of groundwork to be done before that. it's a bit overwhelming actually, the amount of work that can be done and the responsibility attached to it.. and moreover it's gonna be for the first time that our committee is gonna be a part of the process... it's a little scary but at the same time very exciting!
guess i'd better get back to capital market theory and asset pricing models.... (phew! cant believe i'm using these words! :P)
test
front view of the academic block at IIM Indore...
basically, just testing to see how picasa works :)
summer times :)
my summers offer letter is finally here. though i dont have the project details yet (for those who don't know, i will be working with HSBC) i've been told that the posting is in mumbai. and that's pretty much all i've been thinking and talking about ever since! :D... m gonna be home!! :D
other things.... its exam time once again.. just got done with the Quantitative Techniques 3 endterm which was probably the worst QT paper ever... came back and slept out all my anger (:P) bad idea....... it's 6:07 a.m and i'm still wide awake... my body clock is so screwed up!
i've finally made the first draft of my electives for next year and very surprisingly i'm opting for maximum credits in Fin!... all in all it's a healthy mix... i think except for IT, have courses in all areas...
guess i've gotta try catch some sleep... have a paper tomorrow as well.. Managing Human Resources... (the most globe subject ever!)
will sign off with a quote from our MHR book..
'The first step in managing any emotional reaction is recognizing the presence of the emotion' :oP
nostalgia
early morning... could hear the birds chirping outside my window. the sound was so... well the only appropriate word here seems 'natural'... that it felt relaxing... i actually stopped my work to look outside. now, i'm someone who generally keeps complaining about the location of my room (along with everything else) coz the view is well.. that of a wall of rock and mud (the side of the hill that was cut to make room for this building) seperated by the road leading to the academic block.... but i guess the reason i dont appreciate my room is coz i'm never awake (rather, it's when i'm just about going to sleep) at the time of the morning when the sunlight slowly creeps up the hill and everything is so golden and beautiful... and then the sound of the birds...
went for a walk. it was breathtakingly awesome. the fields in the distance, the warm glow of sunlight falling on the buildings in the academic block and reflecting off the freshly painted road dividers.... for all that i'm going on about it, it's perhaps only the third early morning walk i've been on since i got here 7 months ago... what a waste... though, i can't believe it's been just 7 months, feels like i've been here forever.. then again it sometimes feels like it was only yesterday that i came to campus for the first time.
i still remember every moment of the journey, the feeling i had the first time i saw the huge entrance gates, coming up the long winding road to the hostel, seeing my room for the first time, setting up my room with mum, being thoroughly confused as to how to get around the different blocks (even a week after i got here), the massive sense of relief on seeing a remotely familiar face...
looking back, it seems so ironic. faces that were familiar and comforting the day i got here are far from being the faces that are comforting today. in fact, quite the opposite. people, who in my first week here i was sure i would never like or get along with, are the same people i know i'm going to miss the most in a few weeks.
it's down to less than a month to go now for our seniors to leave campus and people are getting nostalgic and sentimental all over the place. and for once, i can actually understand what it's about. today, i can't imagine leaving this place. for over 7 months, almost my entire life has revolved around these 192 acres and the people in it. and its only been 7 months.
for the seniors, who have spent three times as much time here, it's gonna be a hell of a lot more difficult.
well thats all the nostalgia i have time for right now. have a class in 5 minutes for which i have to run up this road behind my window, up a million stairs to the classroom for a 70 minute class on organisational dynamics and design....
nah... can't get myself to complain about this place today.. i love every bit of it :o)
change
why do people change?
i mean, i understand how change is good and change is important for evolution and growth and all that, but somethings are best left the way they are...
like faith in the fact that doing the right thing always works out in the end
like the desire to learn something new everyday, explore the world
like passion and enthusiasm towards work however irrelevant
like idealism and the belief that there can exist a perfect world
like the lack of hesitation in speaking your mind for fear of being politically incorrect
like the ability to be optimistic however dismal the situation might be
like being able to laugh and cry equally passionately
like the ability to dream big without worrying about 'practical realities'
i don't wanna grow up :o(
to blog or not to blog?
to be honest, i dont know what to do with this blog of mine. firstly, i've realised, there are not that many people who really care about what happens in the life of a 22 yr-old, single, MBA student anyway.
secondly, there is no real point to anything i write anyway... as the title very appropriately says... these are just random, vague thoughts... do not really discuss issues.. (or business topics as would seem appropriate here...) was debating on taking it off the 'blogosphere'... but then figured... heck! there must be other idiots like me (:D) interested in the happenings of others' lives.
so here goes... :)
three politically turbulent (:P) weeks on campus ended with the new SWAC being elected in along with the secretarys of the interest clubs.
(yours truly is honoured to be elected what seems to be like the first ever female member on the executive council of the SWAC in the role of the stepcom secretary :D).. went through some amazing periods of stress and emotional turmoil (i do have a tendency to exaggerate! :P) but at the end of it, i'm only happy for all that happened :o)
post that, its been parties galore. to be honest, i've actually gotten fed up of eating outside and seem close to craving mess food (shudder!!!)... here's a glimpse into my 'happening' (:P) life
22nd jan - won the election so treat at pizza hut
23rd jan - co-member on the stepcom (and strongest supporter! :) and me celebrate at little italy
23rd jan (yes a second dinner in the same night) - ePGP hosted dinner for the SWAC EC
24th - (after spending a day in bed with a bad stomach) dinner at mcdonalds
25th - long delayed summer placement party on campus
26th - rang de basanti followed by dinner from midway
27th - dinner with tanvis sister.... followed by the most eventful day ive had in indore.... included pushing a car up and down a parking lot, making three trips to the city in a rickety rickshaw late at night, losing my wallet... all this with strained muscles in both legs! :'( (that was one horrible day!)
29th - utsAha! dinner at sayaji
31st - culcom party (one fun night! :D)
1st feb - SWAC EC dinner at OPM den...
i do have in interesting social calendar dont i! :D
(need not be mentioned that my diet has gone for a toss and my poor lil' tummy is under a lot of stress!) :(
