MBA life can be very hectic and taxing but it is also an opportunity to learn and have an experience of a lifetime. A full time MBA in India is essentially only an 18 month course and it can all get over pretty quickly before you realise where all your time went. Here is a list that will let you make the best of these two years.
Conundrum was back in action his year with version 2.0 of their flagship event-- Guesstimate Knights. This coveted event allows teams battle out for the glory of being adjudged the top guessing minds of the institute. Guesstimate Knights 2.0, as it was christened this year, saw participation from as many as 56 teams exemplifying the enthusiasm among the students for the event. Guesstimate, as the name suggests, works on the principles of logic and estimation while integrating it with some amount of intuitive guessing. A set of conditions is provided and the participants, using logic and suitable assumptions to come up with an estimated figure. Students had to register in teams of two or three and had to clear a series of preliminary rounds to make it to the finals. The prelims were spread across three days with new teams springing up in the Top 7 chart each day. Finally, based upon the cumulative scores, 10 teams were shortlisted for the final round which was held at the IIM hostel at Khelgaon. The finals consisted of two rounds and featured Abhishek Aggarwal and Prateek Jaiswal, coordinators of Conundrum, as the judges. In the first round each team was given a different problem to solve within a time limit of 10 minutes. Post this they were supposed to explain the logic behind their guesstimate. The focus of the judges was more towards the logic and approach rather than the final number. This was followed by a common question being given to all the teams which was required to be solved within 15 minutes. It was a tightly contested affair with teams finishing quite close to each other. Finally, Team Simplifiers was declared as the winner with Team DNA and Team Silent Assassins bagging the first and the second runners up spot, respectively.
Informative, Thought provoking and sublime. These are the precise words that summarize the experience at TEDxIIMC held on 23rd August 2014. The event organized by TED and Systems Consulting Club of IIM Calcutta was held in the IIMC Audi which was full to its capacity with outstation attendance exceeding 500 students. The event was a conglomeration of talks and videos from some distinguished personalities from various walks of life. The theme for this year was Entrepreneurial Innovations, and true to the theme, the event started with a talk by Faheem Vora, the co-founder of ‘Be the Local Tours’. Faheem had cofounded the company with Tausif with the aim to show Dharavi in a different light. They changed the way people look at Dharavi, from a dirty slum to a locality with thriving businesses and diversity. Their underlying philosophy was that Dharavi is their home, and there is nobody better than them who can showcase their home to the world. They employ local college-going boys as tour guides, thus helping them fund their education.
On 27th August 2014, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, witnessed one of the most scintillating speeches ever thanks to the Ex-President & CEO, Industrial Solutions and Intelligent Platforms, GE India, Mr. Ajay Kumar.
Onam, Kerala’s rice harvest festival, marks the homecoming of the mythical king, Mahabali. Students of IIM Kozhikode dressed up in golden bordered traditional Kerala sarees and mundus to celebrate Onam on Sunday, 7th September. The beauty of the celebration lay in its secular fabric where students from different parts of the country and also the Foreign Exchange students, united to rejoice with equal joy and verve.
Learnings and insights have a strange way of coming from the most random places and at the most random times. An insight came to me the last week from a sprained ankle. The last week I fell due to a general lack of eye-limb coordination and sprained my ankle rendering myself unable to walk. An X-ray followed to ensure that it is not a fracture-thankfully it wasn’t and I thought that my ordeal is nearly over. But as the next day dawned, I realised that the ordeal hasn’t even begun. Doing almost everything on my own became a challenge, but the biggest one was going to class.
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MBA life can be very hectic and taxing but it is also an opportunity to learn and have an experience of a lifetime. A full time MBA in India is essentially only an 18 month course and it can all get over pretty quickly before you realise where all your time went. Here is a list that will let you make the best of these two years.
Conundrum was back in action his year with version 2.0 of their flagship event-- Guesstimate Knights. This coveted event allows teams battle out for the glory of being adjudged the top guessing minds of the institute. Guesstimate Knights 2.0, as it was christened this year, saw participation from as many as 56 teams exemplifying the enthusiasm among the students for the event. Guesstimate, as the name suggests, works on the principles of logic and estimation while integrating it with some amount of intuitive guessing. A set of conditions is provided and the participants, using logic and suitable assumptions to come up with an estimated figure. Students had to register in teams of two or three and had to clear a series of preliminary rounds to make it to the finals. The prelims were spread across three days with new teams springing up in the Top 7 chart each day. Finally, based upon the cumulative scores, 10 teams were shortlisted for the final round which was held at the IIM hostel at Khelgaon. The finals consisted of two rounds and featured Abhishek Aggarwal and Prateek Jaiswal, coordinators of Conundrum, as the judges. In the first round each team was given a different problem to solve within a time limit of 10 minutes. Post this they were supposed to explain the logic behind their guesstimate. The focus of the judges was more towards the logic and approach rather than the final number. This was followed by a common question being given to all the teams which was required to be solved within 15 minutes. It was a tightly contested affair with teams finishing quite close to each other. Finally, Team Simplifiers was declared as the winner with Team DNA and Team Silent Assassins bagging the first and the second runners up spot, respectively.
Informative, Thought provoking and sublime. These are the precise words that summarize the experience at TEDxIIMC held on 23rd August 2014. The event organized by TED and Systems Consulting Club of IIM Calcutta was held in the IIMC Audi which was full to its capacity with outstation attendance exceeding 500 students. The event was a conglomeration of talks and videos from some distinguished personalities from various walks of life. The theme for this year was Entrepreneurial Innovations, and true to the theme, the event started with a talk by Faheem Vora, the co-founder of ‘Be the Local Tours’. Faheem had cofounded the company with Tausif with the aim to show Dharavi in a different light. They changed the way people look at Dharavi, from a dirty slum to a locality with thriving businesses and diversity. Their underlying philosophy was that Dharavi is their home, and there is nobody better than them who can showcase their home to the world. They employ local college-going boys as tour guides, thus helping them fund their education.
On 27th August 2014, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, witnessed one of the most scintillating speeches ever thanks to the Ex-President & CEO, Industrial Solutions and Intelligent Platforms, GE India, Mr. Ajay Kumar.
Onam, Kerala’s rice harvest festival, marks the homecoming of the mythical king, Mahabali. Students of IIM Kozhikode dressed up in golden bordered traditional Kerala sarees and mundus to celebrate Onam on Sunday, 7th September. The beauty of the celebration lay in its secular fabric where students from different parts of the country and also the Foreign Exchange students, united to rejoice with equal joy and verve.
Learnings and insights have a strange way of coming from the most random places and at the most random times. An insight came to me the last week from a sprained ankle. The last week I fell due to a general lack of eye-limb coordination and sprained my ankle rendering myself unable to walk. An X-ray followed to ensure that it is not a fracture-thankfully it wasn’t and I thought that my ordeal is nearly over. But as the next day dawned, I realised that the ordeal hasn’t even begun. Doing almost everything on my own became a challenge, but the biggest one was going to class.
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