Journey of Kalikkhetro (Kolkata)

While things are quite hectic here in course work from Monday to Sunday, with full of classes, assignments, projects and exams(with a rare glimpse of free slots).We always took advantage of our location and surely landed up in few nice places of national importance.

Victoria Memorial

 

Birla Planetarium

South City Mall

@ IIM C

Park Street
Although I'm not adding anything from our visit to park street, because to be very frank we haven't explored that much.
But few of the nice places to hang around are Bar-Ba-Q, Mocambo,Peter Cat, Moulin Rouge,Tung fong( Chinese) etc

Our Guru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoji_Shiba

My Infographic Resume

My Infographic Resume:

Some Laws that Newton missed out on...

Some Laws that Newton missed out on :-)

LAW OF QUEUE: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

BATH THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

LAW OF THE RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!

LAW OF BIO MECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.

LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Ref:  "Medha Ma'am (Vnitian)"

End of Term-I

" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of "
  - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Officially its over (odd 140 contact hours), we need to take a last exam of Regulatory National & International (RNI) on 6th June. First row benchers have already started comparing their grades :)
For them classroom is only meant to study while BB feel there is more in life than study study & study, BB strongly believe that one can learn more if one enjoy more. Few of them feel that girls like boys from back benches than from front bench.
But some how I've been trying different thing , I strongly believe that what you learn doesn't depend on whether you are first bencher or the last bencher. Its not true that only people from first benches would come up in life while the back benchers would always lag behind.I wish all the classrooms to have only middle benchers & no back or front.

Coming back to the IInd term it looks more hectic than the earlier one with 240 contact hours :-(

We also booked our tickets from IIM Calcutta to IIT kanpur & from IIT K to IIT Chennai for our Technology TERMS , as IIM C doesn't have the infra & expertise on technology aspects of the program.I was told by our chief Mentor Prof.Shiba that we are like 'diamonds' which is found in different areas and then those diamonds are processed from one city to another city to maximize its value.That is one of the reason that we travel allot from one campus to another in diversifying places.
As consultants always travel light....

Evaluation methods in evaluating the performance is done by max. three ways as listed below ;
1. End Term
2. Quiz (announced or unannounced)
3. Assignments
4. Class Participation
5. Oral Examination
6. Take home tutorials

Beside the hectic schedule of project work and home assignments we have started the process of networking.Placement Representatives have started a fantastic work of collaborating all the profiles and preparing interactive brochure for the program.

Over the last two months I've made few new friends and acquaintances. But I still feel like they hardly know about me and I hardly know about them.We are trying new methods of interaction !

I believe by the end of this hectic term we will be able to learn more & enjoy around the eastern part of this country.

Joyful Studying :-)

Symbolizing the Relaxing mood for few days....... :-)

Cricket match played against the PGPEX guys.

Exploring DIAMOND harbour :)

LP @ Ramanujan

Exotic food @ Mirch masala...Gariahat, Ballygunge Kolkata

And you give Yourself away...

Just because I laugh alot, doesn't means my life is easy.
Just because I've a smile on my face doesn't mean that something is not bothering me.
I just choose to move on,and not dwell on all the negatives in my life.
Every new chance/moment gives me the chance to renew anew...I chose to be that...."Unknown"

1 Year 1050+ Contact hours...Term-I is killing us...but Term-II looks more hectic.
Classes started with an Managerial Communication ...Understood the role of communication in actual industry.. I guess Managers can't communicate in vacuum.

1.Understanding of Logos,Pathos and Ethos.
2.Basic tools like Objective,structure and benefits of the M-strategy.
3.Presentation ,aspects of good writing and art of story telling.
4.As usual few HBS case studies..BCG matrix etc.

Then comes the FA.
>Financial Accounting --I'm really not understanding its tail from its head from
its front legs....Balance sheets, Income statement, Cash flow statements, Journal, ledgers and trial balances.
Then Prof. Manju's unique way of conducting the sessions and surprise quizzes...making it more difficult :) and as usual course project and class participation.

>Global Scenario--

Principle of global and regional trade Liberalizations, GATT ,GATS,RTA and TCF. by Prof Biju..I must say he has a very unique way of explaining this subject but VLMPians are smart enough to sleep with their eyes wide open in the sessions :-)

Which is same in Regulatory National & International (RNI)...

One term of Organisational structure and design is finished with lots of class participation and case studies,although the project report is still under concept planing stage.

 

>Decision Making tools--

Phir wohi kahani...Linear programming, regression analysis...with SS & SS again :) with lots of jokes(Real time Jokes) and practical applications.

 

>Managerial Economics--

Somehow scored a A grade in engineering economics but now it seems difficult in MBA.. http://gregmankiw.blogspot.in/

 

>Marketing--

The coolest sessions we have had.

 

I can proudly say till now having a 100% attendance physically...but mentally only God can tell :-)

 

I guess I had enough of boring discussion on my experience on classes and sessions and again sessions and again sessions.....

 

People continously saying that technical background guys like us do not need any break  but we desperately need a break to re-charge ourselves.

 

After a fortnight we got a break..which is like tasting a German beer in a KOLKATA dhaba in front of JOKA.

15 First Days at IIMC - Craziness (Learning Leadership)

I don't know from where to start.........the initial 15 days in campus had been one of the most toughest days.

We started from understanding the concept of BTM and FSDP and applied it four times as per Prof.Shiba in 6 groups.
One thing I realised that this course has started giving me lot of pressure by the end of the day,we are playing like a T-20 Match with DUCK worth Lewis on the head.
I'll try to summarize the events with the help of Photos, I really feel sorry .....but this blog is turning out to be a Photo blog rather than an story telling, as time in IIM C seems to be running out.

1.FSDP Exercise 1: We had no clue of what was FSDP, we tried and finished with lots of mistakes :)

2.FSDP Exercise 2: This time we improved :)

3.FSDP Exercise 3: Field visit - Gontermann Peipers Limited

4.FSDP Exercise 4: Visit to SPENCER'S Hyper Retail @ South City

Traffic at South City:

Good Bye day :