It finally Started

First marketing class....Perhaps my favorite subject....I always try my best to confuse myself by adding "perhaps"..Ewaz a stern looking Prof entered into the class and started off by "Dnt's" in his class, the usual one like dnt be late n ol. They came the assignment without teaching anything. But this "Guru of marketing" as ppl call him is a no nonsense Prof. We were told to go to one of the oldest retail store "Sarvayana", few world famous saree shops and few more branded outlets to observe the way they do their business and we were told to give presentation on any on the product. I was very happy for the fact that finally I got some seemingly fancy to do as otherwise I was too bored of orkuting and doing faltoo things. After our photoshot and group photo which perhaps was for the DoMS site we decided to go to TNagar to get some vital information today only. My eyes were dying to sleep but sleep is the last thing here. Walk of 1 km and then jam packed bus took us to our destination. Presence of a localite was of great help and hence without trouble we were at Sarvana store. This 7 story builing is inspiration for retails giants like Like Kishore biyani and ol. Perhaps this is the only store that is welcoming Walmart with open arms. There were few peculiar things about the store like ladies welcoming on the enterance, round billing counter, Hindi songs on few floors(rare in Chennai) , queues extending sideways n many more.

7PM

Call from a classmate informing that the interviews for the clubs start at 9 PM. We looked at each other and decided that having food should be our priority rather than this information colection spree....Rushhhhhh...Had foood..Came back at 9PM ..almost...My interview slot came out to be 12.30 PM....Now 40 mins to go..Feeling sleepy but here dey say that if u sleep for more than 5 hrs den u r missing out on something...Bull!@#!@#...

Perhaps we are stretching ourselves beyonds the limits only to reap benefits later...Convinced I am trying to focus on the job on hand.....

First three days @ DoMS..

Day 1

With millions of thoughts lingering on in my mind I entered the class, My first class of MBA. I went in with lots of perceptions about everything but within 1 hour they all were blazed. Smart bunch of colleagues, great and kind faculty and great infrastructure overturned many of my apprehensions. Day started with the address from our HoD and faculty and was followed by a confusing lecture of "thinking globally" by a made entrepreneur from the Industry who confused everyone with the clarity of his thoughts;). This was a nice part of the day. Quick lunch at Tiffany's as no1 wanted to go to mess in scorching heat. Non avaliability of cycle was hurting me the most.
At 5 PM seniors barged in, told every1 to give presentation on "How to sell DoMS"and write how we landed in DoMS till 9 PM. It seems that four hour is a good time for this. But no food, long distances made everything difficult. None the less everyone assembled and presentations started and went on till 1 AM in the night. Few good performances and few fumbles. Hunger almost killed everyone. Going to sleep was everyone's dream. But that dream could last only for 3 hrs as next day was a campus tour which started at 6 AM :).

Day 2

Waking up at 6 AM is not difficult specialy when you dnt sleep at all. Campus tour started at 6.15 Am. This serene campus already hadaken everybodies breath away. This tour only added to it. With great flora and fauna and some nice sports facility , the only reactions invoked withme was "WOW". Cricket stadium,Banks,Hospitals,Departments were all hidden behind a tick forest. This one hour walk uncovered many hidden things. At 7.30 Am the only thing I could think was to catch some sleep before I again start my day at 9.30. But I always say U dnt get what u desire. Orkut consumed my precious 1 hour. Half sleep I barely managed to enter the class at the right time discovering yet another shorcut to the department. Leture on CSR by Ex Editor of Frontline unveiled a lot of things and sensitized everyone for this noble cause. It wasd followed by a very sleepy lecture on IIT's facilities and hierarcy.This still was good time.
History repeated itself and we were again told to give presentaion on some weird topics. At the same time challange was thrown open to peoplt to get registrations for PAN IIT Meet from the Almunais who were present in the campus in big number for tomorrowa 45th convocation. Life is full of choices and priorities. I decided to go for marketing of PAN IIT and dint prepare my presenataion and it was a utter fiasco:(. But I was happy to finally end my day at 2 PM after having some enlightening discussions with super seniors who came to give us some Gyaaan.

Day 3

Some more gyaan from Almunai which was followed by a presentation on choosing carrer path by HR Head Nissan-Renault head. I was briming with questions and it came out that I am the most confused about everthing. Finaaly free for some time after 2 PM we decided to go out of the campus for the first time. ASCENDAS the most famous place in Chennai contains Chennai's only Pizza Hut , MACd and KFC. This was nice time for us. We posed in front of every eating point and had some familiar food for the first time in 3 days. KFC's chicken seemed like the most delicious food I ever had. Now I wanted a bicycle. Life was difficult without it. 3 hours of walk and search finally paid off and after lots of though and frustation we were finally coming back on cycle feeling like winning warriors on their back to home. We treated ourselves at CCD , which perhaps will be my second home, on this glorious victory.


Things have already falling at place with my new number finally working. Every seniors told us to have fun and utilize these two years to the max...

I was still confused.....Vikas in me is asking me to take the path less traveled..............