My MBA life

Today I dropped my laptop!! My Rs.60,000+ HP laptop, it just slipped and crashed to the floor. I really had no clue as to what would happen when I started it up, but thank God, there were no signs of damage. It was Finance class and I was late, I was still panting from the long walk to class and in a hurry to get things set up I pulled my system and it just fell out of my hand. Everything said and done, no problems.
Apart from that, life is going on as it normally does in a b-school, assignments, cases, presentations, the rigour goes on day in and day out. After a point it all becomes so very natural. There is a mountain of work to be done.
QM-I is taking its toll on the whole class. We have a great prof. who'll go out of his way to ensure everyone understands the concepts, the onus is now on us to out in our part. I had actually started out on my MBA journey quite apprehensive about this subject. It doesn't seem all that bad now. Its all a question of mindset. If you want to do something, you just have to set your mind to it. No matter how tough it may seem in the beginning, you will get there.
Regarding the other subjects we have in Term I, Marketing I is Kotler and a bunch of cases. We also have a project submission left which reminds me that I still haven't completed my research on the topic. Finance is not an issue, this term atleast. Not sure about how things will be next term on. The engineers are finding the going hard as there is so much to cover. But from the way things are going, looks like they'll have an upperhand by the time the term is over. The challenge for the commerce grads is to not get complacent!!
OB-I is a paper we have no idea how to tackle. The classes are full of cases, and some theoretical application. We had a quiz a couple of weeks back, fared quite pathetically considering that it was an open book. The problem was that we had no idea what to write, there was just so much!!

Lesson 1 - The Value of Time!!

Why does a day have only 24 hrs? This is the dilemma of any mba student and most students doing a post-graduation. 24 hrs is just not enough.

A management course is designed to teach the essential skill of managing the resource in shortest supply - Time!!
Management = Manage + Men + T where "T" is Time. Essentially, MBA (or PGDM or whatever other name the course goes by) teaches the art of prioritising and getting the most done in the shortest time period.

Now this probably sounds like greek to a lay person, it did to me when I first heard it. But very few people actually realise the value of planning tasks beforehand. I wish I had listened to those talks on time management! But the truth is that you cannot adopt any pratice staight out of a book. Different people have different needs and you need to tailor those approaches to suit you.

The first thing that we heard at our induction programme at ASB was our course director telling us to plan our day. At that time, no one realised the full import of his words. But things are heating up here now. Sleep is becoming a rare commodity as deadlines become a regular feature. But that's the fun of a B-school exprience!! I am sure enjoying it!! :)

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i'll be trying out my writing skills here...been a while since i did any form of creative writing that wasn't related to academics. Am a little rusty, hopefully i'll be able to keep anyone who bothers to visit suitably interested to return.