Inside Out!

Just finished off the projects.The project on strategy was interesting and there were many learnings from that . However, the International Business project was more of a run of the mill type of report. Sridhar is working on the Finance project and I will get to see it probably on Monday. I think the entire group is worried for Finance project. This is the last chance for everyone to improve upon the grades, cos everyone has sort of screwed the end term exam!Today is the opening ceremony of Bejing Olympics and surprisingly, I am not watching that. I think, this is the first olympic opening ceremony that I am not watching. I still remember fondly, watching the LA and Barcelona games opening ceremony, with awe and delight! I do not know, why such change in attitudes.

The class has really not been able to choose electives as they have wanted. Infact, the number of electives floated were quite less than what we expected for the final 2 terms. The reasons given were lack of time with teachers or no teachers at all or some administrative reason. Few people chased some of the teachers and when they agreed, the EPGP committee refused. This saw hectic activity amongst the students which translated into actions like giving representations in person and by email to the director and everyone concerned. But the end result was nil! We have to opt from optionals already floated. The committee final decided not to allow any teachers to float any new optionals. As far, as I am concerned I am ok with the optionals. I think, I have got what I wanted, but it would have still better if certain teachers like Prof Ganesh and Prof Chandrashekar had offered couple of electives. Few students are quite unhappy by the way the requests were turned down. But alas! Its part of life. You win some and loose some, you never won e'm all!

Feeling a bit light today after finishing off the projects. Officially, the 4th terms ends on the 17th August 2008. I have already seen assignments coming my way for the 5th term from some of the professors like our favourite Prof V.K Gupta! I will write about Prof VK Gupta in my next post. He is one of the stars of IIM Indore and I think he is the most liked by students not only for his knowledge but for many other things..........