Reflections Of Life

Parties begin!

Friday, July 29, 2005

The term begun this week and so the parties begun this weekend! Yesterday we had the section-B party and we had good fun playing and dancing, even though I am running temperature. Lots of talented people out here and we get to know only during some small parties like this.

As I said, there are lots of activities happening this weekend... talks by eminent people like Mr. Sanjiv Bhasin, CEO, Rabo India Finance Pvt Ltd who is taking a session on 'Careers in Corporate and Investment Banking' and Dr. K R V Subramanian, CEO of Ascendum systems talking about 'Business Opportunities and Challenges in eLearning'. Dr. KRVS was earlier Professor of Computer Science and Dean of Distance Learning at BITS, Pilani.

We have 5 courses this term and s week's classes are over...
Operations Management is taught by Prof. Sunil Chopra (Kellogg) / Prof. Sudhakar Deshmukh (Kellogg),
Managerial Accounting is taught by Prof. Sri Sridharan (Kellogg),
Entrepreneurship is taught by Prof. S Venkataraman (Darden) / Prof. Ramakrishna Velamuri (IESE),
Corporate Finance is taught by Prof. Rangarajan Sundaram (Stern) & Bhagwan Chowdhry (UCLA) and
Leadership Development Program is taught by Prof. Rajeshwar Upadhyay

I like all the courses this term except for LDP. People's opinions about this course on varied. This is just my opinion about it. I don't think the course is being taught in the right way. First and foremost, I can't relate what was taught in the first 2 classes to anything called leadership. In the first class, I could not decipher if I was sitting in a biology class or a spirituality class!! Second class, I was left with a feeling of sitting in a psychology class!! And I don't enjoy any of these at 2.30 pm for 2 hours.

I believe that it is a professor's ability to raise interest in the students. Any boring course can be made interesting by the way it is taught and it is not to be done by threatening. I strongly believe that a student's failure is equally attributed to the professor teaching the course. And I have seen many professors here who have the great ability and a few who don't!

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