Woooooooooooooooohoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
So here I am finally at ISB - the Indian School of Business! :) ...and I am loving the madness...
I wanted to have something dedicated to the ISB experiences for quite some time now...and here you go..i have a dedicated blog for my 51 week roller coaster ride to be!
This is the fifth day i have been on campus and the first time i get a chance to take a breather. There is just so much going around here and it is only the O-week...it's madness personified. Even that would be an understatement. But i am loving every bit of it.
Today was the first day of our sports meet that is spread across two days and I tried my hand at Volleyball! Yes, i hit that gigantic ball with my hands - never imagined i would ever do that; but gradually it's dawning on me that part of the ISB experience is to teach you to challenge your own limitations - personal or professional - like it had coaxed me enough to organize a terrace party at my house in Bangalore for 36 odd people. Ofcourse there was immense co-operation and support from my amazing batchmates :)
Saw the RC (Recreation Center) today. It has a serene pool that is 5ft deep throughout :). That's lovely, because can conveniently swim in it all by myself now. There is a nice badminton court as well - with wooded flooring.
We also had an extensive case discussion related to accounting today. With a really nice market simulation software. We had to do quarter by quarter analysis and allocation. That was stretched through the day.
There is an interesting event for the O-week - form a conglomerate of ~20 people. In our case it's groups - Ca, Da, Ga and Ka. We need to form a team collage with pictures from the Google hangout of all of us. That's because Ka is from the Mohali campus. Interesting no? :)
We also got our study group. I have bunch of dedicated, persevering folks in my team - glad! :D
One of them was into Investment Banking - a great help for the accounting simulation we had today...slowly getting an inkling of the tremendous feasibility of peer learning here at ISB. Totally loving it.
Got a chance to visit the LRC (the Learning Resource Center or the library) as we were using a small room there for group assignments. It is amazing! Spiralling staircase that emerge from the Atrium courtyard...Simply in awe..The next free evening i will certainly spend there.
What else..? Well housekeeping is awesome here - impeccable i must say. I am getting to make a lot of friends. We have dedicated wifi for both smartphones as well a laptops within the campus - which is such an awesome thing to have Just loving it.
The other most interesting thing i saw - there are cycles available across the campus. Whenever and wherever you wish, you may pick up and ride on it. Incidentally, they also have front baskets :). A visit to the local More store could never have been so much fun.
We are also preparing for the talent night - each vouching for a section trophy - mine is section G. I will go for the dance practice regrding that tomorrow morning at 7:30 in the atrium! And guess what, i have a theater artist as my classmate! Isn't that amazing ? :)
Also, heard a lot about the Honour Code of Conduct (HCC) from the seniors..the presentations made it clear it is pretty serious, We need to be very careful. It is very serious a business here at ISB!
That's all i guess, i got to go read a 25 page Harvard case for day after tomorrow and set my hands on excel..
Good bye until I come back to write again! :)
Best wishes to me and you too for the year ahead!
So here I am finally at ISB - the Indian School of Business! :) ...and I am loving the madness...
I wanted to have something dedicated to the ISB experiences for quite some time now...and here you go..i have a dedicated blog for my 51 week roller coaster ride to be!
This is the fifth day i have been on campus and the first time i get a chance to take a breather. There is just so much going around here and it is only the O-week...it's madness personified. Even that would be an understatement. But i am loving every bit of it.
Today was the first day of our sports meet that is spread across two days and I tried my hand at Volleyball! Yes, i hit that gigantic ball with my hands - never imagined i would ever do that; but gradually it's dawning on me that part of the ISB experience is to teach you to challenge your own limitations - personal or professional - like it had coaxed me enough to organize a terrace party at my house in Bangalore for 36 odd people. Ofcourse there was immense co-operation and support from my amazing batchmates :)
Saw the RC (Recreation Center) today. It has a serene pool that is 5ft deep throughout :). That's lovely, because can conveniently swim in it all by myself now. There is a nice badminton court as well - with wooded flooring.
We also had an extensive case discussion related to accounting today. With a really nice market simulation software. We had to do quarter by quarter analysis and allocation. That was stretched through the day.
There is an interesting event for the O-week - form a conglomerate of ~20 people. In our case it's groups - Ca, Da, Ga and Ka. We need to form a team collage with pictures from the Google hangout of all of us. That's because Ka is from the Mohali campus. Interesting no? :)
We also got our study group. I have bunch of dedicated, persevering folks in my team - glad! :D
One of them was into Investment Banking - a great help for the accounting simulation we had today...slowly getting an inkling of the tremendous feasibility of peer learning here at ISB. Totally loving it.
Got a chance to visit the LRC (the Learning Resource Center or the library) as we were using a small room there for group assignments. It is amazing! Spiralling staircase that emerge from the Atrium courtyard...Simply in awe..The next free evening i will certainly spend there.
What else..? Well housekeeping is awesome here - impeccable i must say. I am getting to make a lot of friends. We have dedicated wifi for both smartphones as well a laptops within the campus - which is such an awesome thing to have Just loving it.
The other most interesting thing i saw - there are cycles available across the campus. Whenever and wherever you wish, you may pick up and ride on it. Incidentally, they also have front baskets :). A visit to the local More store could never have been so much fun.
We are also preparing for the talent night - each vouching for a section trophy - mine is section G. I will go for the dance practice regrding that tomorrow morning at 7:30 in the atrium! And guess what, i have a theater artist as my classmate! Isn't that amazing ? :)
Also, heard a lot about the Honour Code of Conduct (HCC) from the seniors..the presentations made it clear it is pretty serious, We need to be very careful. It is very serious a business here at ISB!
That's all i guess, i got to go read a 25 page Harvard case for day after tomorrow and set my hands on excel..
Good bye until I come back to write again! :)
Best wishes to me and you too for the year ahead!
