Year after years, generation after generations, everything else on the campus comes to a screeching standstill. We call it the placement season. XL-culture manifests itself in its divine unadulterated form when throat cutting competition is lubed with pampering and support. Presenting the A-Z of this extravaganza which, invariably, makes some eyes well up with satisfaction while shattering some dreams forever.
Nikhilkumar Subhash Kashimpuria, the guy with probably the longest name on our campus. He is the pearl of the eye for almost all the professors because of all the intellectual questions he asks during the class participation (it is a different thing that his class mates pull his leg for the same).
All great things are achieved by strong teams. You assemble a galaxy of superstars but if they don’t form good team, one is left managing inflated egos and ordinary results. Inversely, one can have a bunch of average players coming together to achieve something great.
In a residential b-school campus, normal body clocks go awfully awry. Most students spend their hours immersed in assignments, case-studies, team-meetings and studying for surprise quizzes. Boring tasks such as dining, lunches, bathing etc demand time too. The first few months are often drowned by hectic schedules, intense rivalry for grades, killing deadlines imposed by placement committees all this while, one is trying to stay afloat in the classroom.
It was a nice and calm morning when my mobile alarm rang at 6:30 AM and the temperature read 10 Deg C in my wallpaper application. I was reluctant to wake up on a Sunday morning. But one of my senior’s words “It will be a great experience, DO NOT miss it”, echoed in my ears. In next fifteen minutes I was having tea with bread and butter in the mess. I was greeted by my friends from EcoBiz club who arranged this day long trek from Ladmawphlang to Mawphlang through David Scott’s trail. David Scott was a political agent to the British Raj, arguably an all-round bad boy, who left behind a hilly road in his name 180 years ago, that remains in bits and pieces even to this day. The trek was very exciting one for me, because it was a much needed moderate trek after my Jambughoda hill trek in Gujarat. We wasted no time and soon twenty eight of us boarded our SUVs and set out to Ladmawphlang.
SPIC MACAY IIM Indore Chapter organized its first ever international music troupe concert and western classical performance by the Trondheim Soloists from Norway here at the Institute’s auditorium, on the evening of Wednesday, 27th November. The concert had an overwhelming response with more than two hundred students, faculty members and other guests in the audience. As part of Virasat 2013 series, SPIC MACAY received the consent of artists from Norway under the SPIC MACAY-Rikskonsertene (concert Norway) collaborative project to perform in Indore.
Continuing our series on InsideIIM.com where we profile interesting creatures on the Joka campus. This is the fifth story in this series. Today, we meet a Chartered Accountant at IIM Calcutta.
Year after years, generation after generations, everything else on the campus comes to a screeching standstill. We call it the placement season. XL-culture manifests itself in its divine unadulterated form when throat cutting competition is lubed with pampering and support. Presenting the A-Z of this extravaganza which, invariably, makes some eyes well up with satisfaction while shattering some dreams forever.
Nikhilkumar Subhash Kashimpuria, the guy with probably the longest name on our campus. He is the pearl of the eye for almost all the professors because of all the intellectual questions he asks during the class participation (it is a different thing that his class mates pull his leg for the same).
All great things are achieved by strong teams. You assemble a galaxy of superstars but if they don’t form good team, one is left managing inflated egos and ordinary results. Inversely, one can have a bunch of average players coming together to achieve something great.
In a residential b-school campus, normal body clocks go awfully awry. Most students spend their hours immersed in assignments, case-studies, team-meetings and studying for surprise quizzes. Boring tasks such as dining, lunches, bathing etc demand time too. The first few months are often drowned by hectic schedules, intense rivalry for grades, killing deadlines imposed by placement committees all this while, one is trying to stay afloat in the classroom.
It was a nice and calm morning when my mobile alarm rang at 6:30 AM and the temperature read 10 Deg C in my wallpaper application. I was reluctant to wake up on a Sunday morning. But one of my senior’s words “It will be a great experience, DO NOT miss it”, echoed in my ears. In next fifteen minutes I was having tea with bread and butter in the mess. I was greeted by my friends from EcoBiz club who arranged this day long trek from Ladmawphlang to Mawphlang through David Scott’s trail. David Scott was a political agent to the British Raj, arguably an all-round bad boy, who left behind a hilly road in his name 180 years ago, that remains in bits and pieces even to this day. The trek was very exciting one for me, because it was a much needed moderate trek after my Jambughoda hill trek in Gujarat. We wasted no time and soon twenty eight of us boarded our SUVs and set out to Ladmawphlang.
SPIC MACAY IIM Indore Chapter organized its first ever international music troupe concert and western classical performance by the Trondheim Soloists from Norway here at the Institute’s auditorium, on the evening of Wednesday, 27th November. The concert had an overwhelming response with more than two hundred students, faculty members and other guests in the audience. As part of Virasat 2013 series, SPIC MACAY received the consent of artists from Norway under the SPIC MACAY-Rikskonsertene (concert Norway) collaborative project to perform in Indore.
Continuing our series on InsideIIM.com where we profile interesting creatures on the Joka campus. This is the fifth story in this series. Today, we meet a Chartered Accountant at IIM Calcutta.
