Category: ISB
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Last round of classes for Term 1
Last round of classes for Term 1 starts today. At 7PM tomorrow, I would have attended my last class of Term1. Its been over a month since I have been here and time has just flown by. We have exams on Monday and Tuesday – 2 exams per day. Have…
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Life is too hectic
Life has suddenly become too hectic. End-term exams are staring me in the face. There is a lot to study because of the heavy backlog I accumulated. We have classes this entire week too and then exams next monday. Assignments continue to take a heavy toll. Most of my time…
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Its cricket this weekend
After basketball, football and volleyball, its cricket’s turn this weekend. The first of the two indoor mini test matches today was won by Section B (against Section A). The match between my section (D) and Section C is going to start in a few minutes. A new Tamil movie (Sachin)…
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I got dunked !!!
I got dunked in the pool today ( @ 12:05AM) …. no it was not my birthday. I went in on popular demand. Everyone standing there either got dunked or went in by himself. We have a photo session tomorrow for the recruiter’s handbook. Have to wear business suit and…
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ISB ramps up student intake
To read the newspaper articles about this and the profile of Class of 2006, please click here. You will also find old press releases/reports at the same link.
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Sleepless in Hyderabad
Slept at 4:30AM today morning after discussing a marketing case study with my group. This is the longest I have stretched into the night (or should I say early morning) after coming to ISB. Looks like there are many more sleepless nights in store for me. One of my study-group-mates…
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Amit’s birthday …. photos
amit_birthday, originally uploaded by rramkr. Here is a photo of Amit cutting the birthday cake at 12:15AM after getting dunked 3 times in the pool. Will post the dunking photos in case I am able to lay my hands on them.
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Yet another busy weekend
This is another busy weekend .. an economics assignment, a marketing case study and a lengthy accountancy assignment. Luckily we don’t have to submit the accountancy assignment on Monday. The GSB president (about whose election I mentioned in the previous mail) got dunked yesterday. I wasn’t there at that time…
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We have a new president !!!
Election for the post of President, Graduate Students’ Body was held yesterday and the results came in just now. Happy to see that the candidate I voted for won. Kind of always happens that whatever I study doesn’t come in the exam but whoever I vote for wins the elections…
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First exam @ ISB
Came back just now after giving my first exam at ISB – the statistics mid-term. Will come to know how (bad) it went when I get my grades/marks …. till then “no comments”. There were many sleep-deprived individuals whom I met after the exam. I am happy that I had…
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Bid(ding) adieu
Before you start drawing conclusions from the title …. no …. no ….. I am not going anywhere. Two of the profs who taught us this term – Prof. Scott Ward and Prof. Robert Stine (both from Wharton) are leaving. They taught us half of their courses and the other…
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ISB Faculty
There was a question about the ISB faculty in the isb-pgp yahoo group today. My response was: “Faculty here are probably the best you can get in the world. Many of them come from Wharton, Kellogg, LBS etc and sitting at one place you get the best in the concerned…
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Chandramukhi and assignments
Rajnikanth’s latest tamil movie “Chandramukhi” was screened (by a student) here in one of the student villages yesterday night. About 15-20 enthu people, including me, turned up to watch the movie. There were supposed to be many more in the audience but I think the upcoming statistics mid-term exam and…
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