Quarter 3 - Week 5

Time to give ourselves two and a half pats on the back... we just crossed the halfway mark this quarter. That means we have officially finished 2.5 quarters out of 10. THAT means we've completed a quarter of the course. one down, three to go!

Noneventful week this was, except for two tests - QuantMeth2 and Marketing. Tests have become a routine part at IIMB. Every week, there's something or the other the profs have to keep us active (or rather scared). Like we all know, grades don't matter to us. The only ones that did was that of quarter 1 - these grades determine our pecking order for the exchange programme. So whether we do good, bad, ugly... all's well.

Law - The guy's back! We started getting a peek into international law, and moved on to Fundamental Rights, the Constitution and Constitutional Rights. A little sprinkling of how the judiciary and the legislative have their squabbles, and how the legislative created a whole new section just so that the judiciary could not question their laws in THAT section. Apparently, recently the judiciary said "Ok, that's it... fun's over. You try that trick with us once again and we'll get you." I hear the legislative is trying to behave well now.

QuantMeth2 - He's getting a little more depressed Friday and Saturday after Friday and Saturday. We might just have one more session of his when we next have his classes, and we're all done. With him. For now. And forever, for his sake, I hope. Dont want to be the cause of a perfectly intelligent mathematician breaking down. Cant have that kind of statistics on my hands. We were studying stuff like Shortest Path Alg last week right, and the Transportation and Assignment problems...? This week, we did Non-linear programming. Or atleast the formulation of it. He says "You guys need to know (on reading an essay) WHAT the problem is? Solving it, you dont have to worry about(Meaning: You're too dumb to use awesome theories/algos). Excel and its Solver are there no?" So we are going through a course where the prof honestly believes that if we know how to formulate it, a reliable source will give us the right solution. Based on all the "Ask and you shall receive" and "Ask me the right question, and I'll give you the right answer" related fundas. Are we really getting that bad?

Marketing - Stuff about what "Customer Value" is all about, how you determine what means a lot to the customer, and then finally Diffusion of Innovation. Interesting stuff on how the customer is a "learning animal", you can not take him for a ride all the time. And more about how you should preferably stay farther from Entrepreneurs and more towards "more socially respected people". Apparently, the former dont listen to the market and feel its pulse, the latter is looked to because of their opposite nature.

Managerial Accounting - Solving problems based on all the fundas we've done before. That's it. Really. And i was paying attention this time! Math is really good, and the language of science. I listen when someone talks in my language! Most of the time, atleast.