Majors are back

The most dreadful period of my stay @ IIT Delhi is back. Yeah ..its the majors. This time majors are no different but the completion of majors would jolt everyone into action. I'm talking about the placements that would begin from the next day of our majors.

So lots of things are at stake and cant afford to be complacent atleast at this juncture.

So guys its time to study and prepare for placements. Hope to blog and keep everyone as much updated as I would like to but then again, I hope you guys know what these tense and pensive period can do to anyone.

Chalo then ..let me end here and will be back after majors.

Wish me goodluck...ciao.

Back with a shiver !!!

The winter is back in Delhi and like everytime its shivery. Its almost the same every year but then this year its late by atleast a fortnight. Don't know much technicalities about its delay but I was quite happy with it.

The chill running through my nerves makes me even more lazy and unproductive (not that I'm otherwise when the weather's good). I really had a tough time clearing the dusty winter wear that I had stuffed in my closet.

At times I wonder if Delhi is actually cursed with such bone-rattling winters. Just imagine what exactly the winter does to a normal layman. To start off with

• It decreases the productive hours of work (coz most of the time you feel like cuddling yourself in a warm blanket.) Take care of the calculations and you'd realize thats a huge loss of business that could've been made by the city.
• It affects the transportation system (Halting of flights, trains, traffic on account of non-visibility due to fog). Just imagine the cost of the goods stuck on roads and trains. The executives who aren't able to do their business due to flight delays. That's quite a volume.
• It also encourages people to stay home which in a way affects the entire business the city usually makes.
• Increase of electricity consumption due to usage of electric room heaters (this would be huge to make up by the non usage of ACs)

Gosh...I guess someone can actually finish a doctorate by doing a thesis on the above calculations. I'm sure there must be some kinda models to do that..

I guess thats all I can post right now and time to wrap myself and feel cozy (see I'm already affected ;)).

Is Indian Economy Booming ??

Gosh..That's probably one of the peculiar questions anyone could ever ask me because...

Firstly, you'll end up forcing me to justify a fact that's quite obvious even to the dumbest person imaginable.

Secondly, you'll also have to bear the brunt hearing a lot of weird jargon, theories, matrices, analysis, graphs, facts etc. supporting the answer. Don't blame me, that's precisely why I would be paid after a 2yr stint of MBA education. (I might be generalizing a bit but then, it's still true).

Ask the question to anyone and you're bound to get the same answer in different contexts..For example,

• A stock broker might suggest you to have a look at the skyrocketing SENSEX.
• A railway person would suggest you to look at the number of people graduating from trains to flights
• A mobile phone vendor might suggest you to look at the evergrowing mobilephone connections.
• A minister might suggest you to have a look at the various investments that the nation is attracting in different forms.... And on and on

And to answer the question in my context, I would suggest you to look at the average compensation that is being offered to an MBA graduate at our campus.

Yes, its the placement season and this time its bigger than I could have ever imagined. The companies visiting the campus have hiked their packaged almost on an average of 20%. To top that, they've also increased the higher rungs of management for the MBA graduates which is quite surprising and welcoming (specially for the guys who have a rich workexperience to back).

Talking about booming Indian economy, it is also can be corroborated by the number of family-owned companies that are trying to look at corporatising their business and contemplating overseas operations at the same time. These companies have started right by looking to hire the right guys (The MBAs).

Today companies are ready to go to any extent to attract the right talent. For instance, today the companies have managed to fly its top management (besides its HR) to the campus to show flashy presentations backed by a professional video about the organization and also to have a high tea with the students for an informal interaction. To add to this, some companies are also bringing along its new recruits who had joined their organization in the previous year to get a different perspective. This is just amazing, something that I never thought to be a part of the entire MBA package.

If you ask me if I'm happy with all this?? I can shout at the top of my voice that I'm thrilled. Infact I feel very fortunate to be able to get out of a bschool at this time where the economy seems to be at an all-time-best.

But this had also left me confused, in a sense that, since all the companies other than IT are also promising a lucrative package, I now dont mind selling tractors or soaps or textile or technology. Almost every sector seems interesting and challenging but unable to figure out a clear criterion for selection.

So as of now all I can do is to trust my instinct and stick to IT companies coz that's what I've been comfortable with so far and can better relate under any circumstances.

That's all for now... Will keep posting more on the placements.

Confused :(

Confused as I am due to the various issues that are currently going through my mind, I seem to be using this as an excuse for my slothfulness. Right now some of the issues that are currently troubling me are...

• JLPT exam on Dec 3rd
• Major exams starting on Nov 27th
• Term paper submissions by Nov 15th
• Preparation for Placements
• CV building
• Guitar classes etc.

But the only things I'm able to do right now is to while away the time just thinking to do something about them and ending up doing zilch for the same.

We have an 'Alumni Speaks' event coming up this sunday where our seniors would come and share their perspectives about the corporate world and expecting some gyan for our placements.

Anyways let's see how i fare with the list of issues mentioned above. Wish me luck.

Telecom Party (Read as Tallicom)

Phew !!! What a party it was and the timing couldn’t get any more perfect. The party marked the culmination of the torture we had to go through for our minor exams (well ..actually I’m talking for others over here). Well first to get to the basics, this party was thrown by three of our friends who were from the Telecom group and who received scholarships totaling about 1Lakh from Bharti group for topping the Telecom batch.

First we had chose TSF(The Supper Factory) as our venue. The ambience provided to us was trashy and they didn’t have much of variety in the drinks they could offer. Disappointed we immediately left and reached another restro bar 'Storm' which was near to it and had no other choice to check it out as it was already 10.15pm. (Entry to bars stops at 11pm and the serving of drinks stops at 11.30pm).

To our amazement, we found an atmosphere of extraordinary languor greeting us despite its prosaic exterior. The prices too were very reasonable and with little time left before the bar closed, we got busy ordering drinks and dishes. And soon the entire table was filled with tequila shots, martinis, screwdrivers and shots. We didn’t waste much time in emptying the table either. With booze showing effect, emotions started running high and there was sudden display of new found solidarity and brotherhood. That was some treat to the eyes ;).

Too bad it had to end so soon ...

Three cheers for Tallicom ... Hic !! Hic !!

Minors Again !!!

Strange how fast time flies and am constantly reminded of it during the minors. Every time we have minors, I really wonder if I had learnt anything significant enough to be tested by an examination. But then the IIT system begs to differ with my views and so I am obliged to the system.

I better get my act together to hit a decent GPA this semester.

So guys again …. Wish me luck!!!

Guitar Lessons

This is one of my passions that is yet to be realized and can hardly wait for the day when I can strum away songs from my guitar. Here I think it would be appropriate to give some brief history of my tryst with guitar.

Class 2 - First time I was exposed to a guitar, prior to that I had only watched in television. This was when I felt and touched a guitar. Looked very interesting and appealing.

Class 6 - My liking for guitar had grown strong over the time and began liking all the songs which had a guitar instrument in it. I used to derive vicarious pleasure by trying to strum imaginary strings on badminton racket and cricket bat.

Class 8 - For some strange all the heroes in romantic movies seemed to have a fetish for the guitar and guessed that guitar was the key to click with the girls. But then I was supposed to be taking my academics seriously as I was entering a milestone phase of my education life where I had to make a choice of what I wanted to be in life.

Class 9 - 12 - Just kept postponing the idea of learning guitar due to lack of time and having too much of focus on Engineering Entrance Exams.

Graduation - Too busy having fun to even think of guitar.

Now soon after graduation after I had secured an admission in the MBA program of IIT Delhi, I had good couple of months with me to have fun before I was supposed to join. And on one fine day I decide to give it a shot. I looked up in the directory, made some calls and zeroed on an institute nearby my place.

Someone told me that you can master guitar in four months. Well since I had a couple of months, the least I expected was some level of comfort and skill to be able to play decent number of songs. But then I was wrong. After joining the institute I learnt that guitar was one of the toughest instruments to learn and master.

Soon after a month of effort all I could manage to play was a handful of kindergarten rhymes :(. And the return on efforts didn’t seem attractive and soon lost the steam.

But after reaching IIT I had heard some amazing songs like Hotel California which refueled my passion for guitar. Though I managed to get the guitar along with me to the campus, never had I touched it in the entire first year due to the academic pressure and occasional laziness.

This semester I have got an opportunity to learn guitar within the campus and have resumed or rather began my guitar lessons. This time I hope that I sustain myself through this and be able to play something by the time I pass out of IIT. This would be one of the precious things that I would like to take along with me after I pass out of here.

Till then...wish me luck!!!