Quarter 3 - Week 7

Nothing makes you appreciate a subject more than an exam that is scheduled for it, and you have to prepare for, within the week. An event of togetherness, group therapy (yes, you heard right), shortkuts and finally enlightenment. More on this later. We also had the Vista fest going on this week at IIMB, and I must say it looked like a lot of fun (atleast to a spectator).

Law - This week included the finishing touches to Contracts, and we started off with Company Law. I dont know if it was because everyone was up studying the previous night for a scheduled test, but everyone looked ready to hit the pillows by the end of the second class. Still... interesting session... as far as I can remember... no doubt. Yawn.

Marketing - You know, I was so sure that I'd never fall asleep in this class. The first session we had a guest lecture by someone, who wasnt really introduced properly to us. He just came out of nowhere like the boss when you're playing Solitaire after seven hours of solid work (But I was working till now, honest!) and gave us a talk on Conjoint Analysis. He must have mouthed some three or four acronyms which for some reason he expected we understood (You're all MBA students right, I should probably talk to you in the bijiness-man-language even though you're still struggling with the spelling.) and we're all nodding like good ol' techie, marking down the acronyms we heard to reference and understand later, whenever we were awake.

[Disclaimer: Replace any 'we's with 'I's. Most of my classmates typically know the acronyms and were awake.]

The second session was held by our prof, who as usual was awesome. I don't want to keep saying this, it should be taken for granted right now that he is. He discussed how to go about product pricing, and then handed over a test (I just pray to God, choose my favourite option for the day, and randomly mark the test... while giving a little more visibility to my favoption) after which we began preparing for the impossible ManAcc test.

Managerial Accounting - This week (read: the four hours in the night before the test) was dedicated to the ManAcc test. It sucks when you've been distracted easily in this class, and your classmates have far more interesting things to tell you than the prof does. So when the shit finally hit the ceiling, you had all of our batch furiously exchanging emails saying "read this ppts, concentrate on that topic, solve this problem". Everyone had conveniently forgotten about the Marketing test more out of a popular unheld vote, because this one appeared to weigh in more. 35 marks, or 1/3 the final count, is actually quite a bit. Anyway, luckily for us, the subject IS easy to pick up, with a few keywords and catchphrases. You need to practice like mad, but atleast you can pick up the topic. Kind of wierd to know that the prof took 7 sessions to explain what we read in 4 hours, power of fear strengthens us I guess.

It's interesting to note that one of our classmates felt strongly enough about our decreasing enthusiasm, that he wrote something about it here. I guess we all feel like that a little lightly, but it's good to know that some of the guys really want to do something about it.

On the whole, it was a fun week with a guest lecture, the hullabaloo of a fest, and the surprise understanding of a subject even when we have been subject to a whole day's work at office.

We are geniuses.