Mirroring while in Mumbai
The Mumbai summer is teetering to an end. Felt refreshing to see the first cloudy day of the season and the first light drizzle. I love dark, gloomy, cloudy, rainy days... & monsoon at MICA last year was a filling-up-the-senses experience.
Speaking of MICA... it's almost been a year there & it's been one of the most eventful years of my life. So much has happened in what seems like just a few months.
Here's a look-back at Year 1, as I get ready for Year 2.
Acads: Starting with Acads, coz that is the underlying motive for going through the CAT rigamarole & getting there.
It's been an average. For the second time, (first was graduation), grades didn't matter at all. Struggled through some courses (Micro & Macro Economics, ManAcc, BBF 1)
Enjoyed a few (Intro to Mass Media, Marketing, Media planning, Strategic Marketing, Brand Management, QT, & whatever it was that Prof Mathew taught)
Slept through some (Research Methodology, Social & Developmental Communication)
Some were ruined by profs (Direct Marketing, Event Management, Services Marketing, Advertising)
And some were utterly laughable (Production Techniques in Communication, Strategic Management)
About 20% of what I learnt helped me during summer internship. But the best part of being in B-school is the network - the friends that you make, which really enhances the summer experience. As I was discussing with a pal from another B-School yesterday... it's only when you talk to other summer interns that you realise the sum total of your own learning. Benchmarking is for life. :-)
Non-Acads: This is the high-point of the whole year. Did things that I most love doing - quizzing, travel and even more quizzing.
Enjoyed layouts & page designs for both issues of Black Coffee. Though content-wise, the mag could do with a little help - both editions looked good ;-) - especially "Get Shot"
Touring B-School fests... Did ISB's Poseidon & IIM-L's Manfest. Also Chaos. Played online at MDI's e-blast, IIM-B's Vista, XLRI's Ensemble & NMIMS' Euphoria ... will be on MICANVAS core committee this year. Definitely want to do ISB & IIM-B this year. Tata Crucible in Ahmedbad was a good experience too.
A lot of campus activities. Sankalp - the theatre festival - was 3 days of total excitement, gossip, hard work & holiday. Alumni meets came and went with no real memories except wild parties. Freshers', farewell, watching, appreciating or sniggering at Spicmacay programs, MICAday celebrations - god, the year's been quick. Living arrangements during MICANVAS - now there were some revelations :-)
Getting out of Ahmedabad... Didn't go to Diu - absolutly MUST this year. But came to Bombay thrice, Delhi twice... and of course Hyd & Lucknow.
Getting out of campus: Invariably using the excuse of having to buying something vital - and ending up watching movies at FR & Wide Angle. Saw practically everything from Mujhse Shaadi Karogi to Dhoom to Black. Eating out at McD's, Upper Crust, Pizza Hut, US Pizza, 4/11, Sankalp, Four Food, TGB, Havmor, Coconut Grove, CCD... and good old Plati & the pao bhaji place in Bopal. Discovering the DVD store at Judge's Bungalow was a bonus... ended up watching all the classics that I'd always wanted to.
Hostel life: First time... and what a first time it has been. Yes, probably a list of things that every b-schooler goes through... nonetheless - very memorable.
A scary first week, a setting-in second week, a making-friends third week and then 40 weeks of madness, late nights, birthday celebrations, feverish attempts to study, meeting deadlines, gossip, watching Friends, Sex and the City, Southpark, Seinfeld, late night walks, the monsoons, the acid bugs, the mid-morning & midnight visits to cantenn, the freezing wintry nights & warm wintry nights.
A lovely year. Looking forward to another.
Speaking of MICA... it's almost been a year there & it's been one of the most eventful years of my life. So much has happened in what seems like just a few months.
Here's a look-back at Year 1, as I get ready for Year 2.
Acads: Starting with Acads, coz that is the underlying motive for going through the CAT rigamarole & getting there.
It's been an average. For the second time, (first was graduation), grades didn't matter at all. Struggled through some courses (Micro & Macro Economics, ManAcc, BBF 1)
Enjoyed a few (Intro to Mass Media, Marketing, Media planning, Strategic Marketing, Brand Management, QT, & whatever it was that Prof Mathew taught)
Slept through some (Research Methodology, Social & Developmental Communication)
Some were ruined by profs (Direct Marketing, Event Management, Services Marketing, Advertising)
And some were utterly laughable (Production Techniques in Communication, Strategic Management)
About 20% of what I learnt helped me during summer internship. But the best part of being in B-school is the network - the friends that you make, which really enhances the summer experience. As I was discussing with a pal from another B-School yesterday... it's only when you talk to other summer interns that you realise the sum total of your own learning. Benchmarking is for life. :-)
Non-Acads: This is the high-point of the whole year. Did things that I most love doing - quizzing, travel and even more quizzing.
Enjoyed layouts & page designs for both issues of Black Coffee. Though content-wise, the mag could do with a little help - both editions looked good ;-) - especially "Get Shot"
Touring B-School fests... Did ISB's Poseidon & IIM-L's Manfest. Also Chaos. Played online at MDI's e-blast, IIM-B's Vista, XLRI's Ensemble & NMIMS' Euphoria ... will be on MICANVAS core committee this year. Definitely want to do ISB & IIM-B this year. Tata Crucible in Ahmedbad was a good experience too.
A lot of campus activities. Sankalp - the theatre festival - was 3 days of total excitement, gossip, hard work & holiday. Alumni meets came and went with no real memories except wild parties. Freshers', farewell, watching, appreciating or sniggering at Spicmacay programs, MICAday celebrations - god, the year's been quick. Living arrangements during MICANVAS - now there were some revelations :-)
Getting out of Ahmedabad... Didn't go to Diu - absolutly MUST this year. But came to Bombay thrice, Delhi twice... and of course Hyd & Lucknow.
Getting out of campus: Invariably using the excuse of having to buying something vital - and ending up watching movies at FR & Wide Angle. Saw practically everything from Mujhse Shaadi Karogi to Dhoom to Black. Eating out at McD's, Upper Crust, Pizza Hut, US Pizza, 4/11, Sankalp, Four Food, TGB, Havmor, Coconut Grove, CCD... and good old Plati & the pao bhaji place in Bopal. Discovering the DVD store at Judge's Bungalow was a bonus... ended up watching all the classics that I'd always wanted to.
Hostel life: First time... and what a first time it has been. Yes, probably a list of things that every b-schooler goes through... nonetheless - very memorable.
A scary first week, a setting-in second week, a making-friends third week and then 40 weeks of madness, late nights, birthday celebrations, feverish attempts to study, meeting deadlines, gossip, watching Friends, Sex and the City, Southpark, Seinfeld, late night walks, the monsoons, the acid bugs, the mid-morning & midnight visits to cantenn, the freezing wintry nights & warm wintry nights.
A lovely year. Looking forward to another.
posted by DeepBlueSea at 23:29
1 Comments:
on of those blogs i would love to keep coming back to! :-)
cheers!
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