Fresher’s Frenzy

It has been a frenzied atmosphere here in the SCMHRD campus for the past few days. The reason being the impending fresher’s party and its traditional protocol where a junior has to ask out a senior out.

Well, most of this is arranged by the dealmakers, where you may ask a friend of yours to make sure that your junior sweetie asks only you out. So this has kept most of the people busy here. Oh yes, yours truly still hasn’t been asked out which is an indicator of the popularity levels I command

On the studies front, nothing much is really going on…we shall be visiting Khopoli today for our rural marketing project

Outsource your Interviews here!

Last week has been fun, while it has been hell time for juniors, but for us its been chill. Have had barely 2 classes in last 4 days. Am totally vella !

The various committee interviews are on, its been fun being a part of the selection panel. More importantly, its quite tiring too! I have been already a part of panels of two committees; shall be a part of the Marketing Club and of course Sparsh - The CSR Cell.

Its a full time business for vella Ankur Mehrotra, to help friends out and fill-in for the interviewing sessions. The wierder part is, I get to see same interviewees across committees; and try to be different in my approach towards them!

 

Back for the Second

Returned back to campus day before. The new batch of students is in, running the way we did last year. Cursing, cribbing and wondering the relevance of the 7 work day week here at SCMHRD. I didn’t really interact with any of them; got stuck up with my laptop problems! It has conked off, doesn’t boot up.

Second year is relatively cooler than the first, just 2 classes today. Life is chill!

An Year hence…

Well, today is 1st June. Eggjacktly one year since we joined SCMHRD for our MBA. Was the year good? Well, I cannot really say. I did learn a lot of new things which I would otherwise never had, but I also had a series of unplesant experiences which did not really enrich my life.

Whatever it may be, I still had a good bit of fun, and am raring to go back from my internship here in Bangalore for my second year. A few tips for those who are making their final reports/PPT for Internship:

• Its not what you have done that needs to be accentuated; its what they organization should be doing.
• Find who is evaluating your work; try to guage what they might be looking for in the presentation. Its from their perspective that you have to work.
• Always give your contact and encourage the viewers to contact you whenever they need help; even after the internship.
• Don’t guess what you do not know, it helps to be honest about what you have done.

 

Summer Internship - Am a prankster!

Ring! Ring!

Me: Hello, is this Rakesh?

Rakesh: Yes, who is this?

Me: Hi, I am calling from the IT Support desk, we have checked our logs. You are using our systems against company’s policies.

Rakesh: (nervous) What did I do?

Me: You were watching a movie on Friday; this isn’t allowed. We have already informed your HR. Please come down to the IT Desk immediately.

Rakesh: (gulp….I am dead, its only a week since I joined) But the movies were already there. I didn’t copy them.

Me: (couldn’t control myself further)…dude, its me Ankur, was just messing with ya!

Rakesh: Duh, I always knew it was you, I was just playin’ along!

Me: Yeah, right!

This prank was invented by me; has been test on 4 people successfully by now! They moved us away from the rest of the gang; it was quite boring here so I started this prank. You gotta try it!

Multitasking

Okay, as a hotshot MBA I am expected to multi-task and not get bogged down with stress. But the absurdity of the situation is making me smile or even cry. Today morning at 10 AM, I was supposed to be attending 3 classes simultaneously. Courtesy, SCMHRD’s time scheduling.

While we are expected to cope up with the stress of 18 subjects, it the time scheduling itself which shows that the college isn’t able to manage these many subjects. The result being that today morning I was supposed to be in a Sales & Distribution Class, Competency Mapping and in Oracle CRM. I am no Hermoine Granger but this makes no sense, and I am not the only one.

The next three days have classes 11 PM, and we have a very important exam on the fourth day, I guess I may just flunk for the lack of time to prepare.

A Whole Lot of Leaving is going on…

Between today and tomorrow, I shall be witnessing the mass exodus of our seniors from SCMHRD. Its strange to realise that by this time next year, I would have also packed up my bags, and may go regretfully to home.

Why regretfully? Don’t I want to pass out of college and prove myself in the Corporate World? Surely, I want to make my mark, but having seen the Corporate life for 2 years. I guess prolonging more days at college and being careless/carefree about my work and get away with it. Or lech at girls, doze off in class, or bunk class at times…well, you don’t get to do all this in the Corporate World.

Anyways, its 1 year, and I better make most of it!

Admissions - A revelation

The SCMHRD admissions week is over, triumps and failures for around 2000 candidates. Their future is now dependent on the results, which may just change the way they are today. Two years may catapulate them into a managerial future striving to achieve corporate success.

It was fun for my friends to be a part of the team that managed the whole process. They had their tidbits of how cute some candidates were, or how dumb were the questions at times. However, they all took care that no query, no matter how obvious it seemed, was left unanswered.

Around 2000 candidates came down to Pune for GD/PI, only 240 shall finally make it to the MBA course. Pagalguy was flooded with the GD/PI experiences of candidates. However, they should now know that one of the panelists was smart enough to check out Pagalguy after every hour on his blackberry and see the responses. At the end of the day, they could also have a nice laugh about it!

Yikes

The alarms are ringing, there are a few subjects which need immediate attention! Spanish and Financial Management being two of the list, if I don’t do much I may definitely flunk and end up repeating them.

The reason I am scared of failing is just because I cannot bear to study them again! My key worry wouldn’t be the subjects, but my lethargy. While there are no distractions, there is little motivation to constantly put in efforts, its like whats the point of slogging my butts off? At times its so irritating to see people weep for one additional mark here, as if there is nothing more significant in the world for them.

Its competition in the truest literal sense, but is it relevant?

SCMHRD Admissions 2008 - The Process

Okay, here’s some insight into the admissions process as it shall be in the coming week for the GD/PI candidates.

You would have two rounds of GDs, which could last totally around 50 minutes to an hour. The GD group would have 9 candidates. After that, the results of the GDs would be announced and the candidates shortlisted for the interviews would be asked to stay. The interview panel would take an interview of around 15-20 minutes.

Overall, a process should take approximately around 3 hours from start to finish.

I shall be also a part of the process during some of the days.