Saturday, February 04, 2006
Too many things happening at too short at a time & need to be involved in everything and anything!! Still fighting to live with just 24 hours in a day!Been some time since I posted… PPTs came to an end… not all companies that come for placements give their ppts… so the final few days saw Patni Computers, Genpact, Morgan Stanley, Hero Honda, Essar Group, Chatterjee Group, TCS, Gati, AT Kearney, ITC, Fractal Analytics, JP Morgan, TVS Motors, Frigoglass, ITpreneur, Castrol, eBay, Sierra Atlantic, Accenture Consulting, Godrej, HLL, Atos Origin, ECS, Nokia, Tata Motors, Rabo India Finance, Citigroup, Ambit, ICICI Securities, Sanofi-Aventis, UTI Venture Fund, SUN Group & Covansys.
The last few days saw a flurry of ppts and given that we have mandatory attendance to make sure a minimum number attend each ppt, Proxy request mails were spamming in every nook and corner!! By the end of it, I got bored with quite a few ppts where they talk a lot about the same ol’ things… sometimes ISB alumni are part of the group which presents the ppt and still they give the same ol’ value of integrity, vision & mission!! Hope they learn what the target segment is looking for!
Lots of applications have been posted this week… everyday we have at least a couple of deadlines which are only gonna increase in the coming days… Expression of Interest (EOI) and Resume need to be submitted for each application and these take up considerable amount of time everyday. We had bid for the companies to decide the day in which the companies should be coming to campus, the results for the first 8 days came out today… Most of the day 1 and 2 were from the expected list, but one big exception was Infosys on day-2!! Kinda hard to believe it is tiered according to student’s preference… could be true… it is too hard to think thro’ ISBians brains!!
Even before placements end, we have been reminded by the ISB administration that we need to ‘evacuate’ this place by April 9th 14:00 hrs (!!) to make way for the new batch! With the graduation ceremony on 8th evening, I would be packing my bags from
More cheerful things… Professor Krishna Kumar who taught us Global Economics has been voted by the Class of 2006 as the Best Professor for Core Terms for the second consecutive year. Though I loved the teaching of Anjani Jain, Mark Finn & Robert Stine, I was pretty sure Krishna Kumar was my choice for this award… I don’t think I would have fallen in love with this course if it was for anyone else!! If I ever get to teach an MBA class, he would be my role model.
Coming back to the placement fever… I had a 45 min mock interview session yesterday… Given my bad history with interviews, I was happy with my performance… but there is always a world of room to improve… & the preparation continues…
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