11/04/2015

11/04/2015; 01:53:

Day 1 of the IIT v/s IIM face-off just got to a close.

So, let’s catch where we left off and get to today. Wednesday was pretty uneventful, through the day. We almost caught ourselves heading out to Indore city to pick up some items needed for the Face-Off, but, that was put on hold. Right after class, a few of us (including the entire Photon team) assembled in NLT9, looking through photographs- those clicked by the Photon team members themselves as well as those sent in by members of the IIM community. 7 best clicks of the many wonderful ones that we had were to be picked. We did narrow down to about 20 that day- the final shortlist was curated the next day. Right from there, I headed down to JAM- some students from IIT-Indore- their Cultural Secretary, their Dance/Drama/Music/Debate heads were all on campus to finalise the details of the Face-Off. Most events would see 2 judges- one courtesy IIM and the other courtesy IIT. The final schedule was worked out- all events were made to fit in perfectly.
Post this, an IPM aspirant was on campus with his friends; I proceeded to show them around campus, telling them stories and attempting to dole out advice at the same time. This tour ended in ice-cream at Mess2; life’s good! Post this, there was a SAC-CC meeting- one with the SAC-C, the SAC-T and the coordinators of all clubs and committees. The newly appointed SAC-C and SAC-T were also present. A couple of things came out of this meeting- the Infrastructure Committee will henceforth have one additional member each from the 1st year & 2nd year- sending their total to 8- up from the existing 6; further, an Industry Interaction Cell will be setup- they shall deal with Live Projects, connecting IPM students to the industry, start-ups and more!
This meeting was immediately followed by the Academic Committee pre-process. The Coordinator of the Academic Committee shall be the student representative in the IPM EC; hence, this coordinator will be chose before the coordinator of any other club/committee is chosen. The pre-process involved a few questions that called for out of the box thinking and a role-play in which the SAC EC played the role of the IPM Office.

9th April was a Thursday and a very welcome holiday at that too! A Marketing Challenge, organized by the E-Cell in association with eChai began at 9 a.m. and ran through the day, ending only after 7 p.m. Internships, and over Rs.10, 000 worth of prizes were given out to the winners. Various start-ups pitched their ideas to the students, post which 3 teams of 3 members each worked on designing a marketing strategy for their assigned start-ups. The start-ups were all Indore based- including Flap App, Engineer Babu and Pulpy Papaya. The event was a huge success!

After an eventful Friday, where our World Politics midterm was shifted from being on the 11th to being on the 17th, evening was even better! Afternoon saw a Team Building and Time Management Workshop for Section B- various team games and an analysis of the movie ‘Chak de India’ formed the crux of the course. At 6:15 p.m., the prelim for the Quiz to be held as part of the Face-Off was held.

At 7:00 p.m., the Music event took off in the New Audi. The Music events included one Vocal-Solo event and one Acoustics event. Both events were won by IIT-Indore, with participants from IIM being the runners-up in both.
This was followed by the Dance Event- both the Solo and the Duet events were won by IIM-Indore participants! This went on till almost mid-night, in the New Auditorium. At the same time, the Nukkad Natak event was held on the Events Court. This was won by IIM-Indore.

Meanwhile, ‘Tranquil’- the Creative Writing event was conducted in the Acad Block at 8 p.m. This was followed by the prelims for the Debate. The prelim was a group discussion- the top 4 members from IIT as well as IIM were selected, to form the team that would represent their institute in the final debate. The topic for the final debate is ‘This House believes that the UN as an Institution has failed in its role’. We shall be the proposition! The debate is 20 minutes long, plus a closing speech followed by a 20-minute open-house session where the judges, opposition and audience alike can throw questions.
I hope we do a good job of the debate! The Group Dance event, the Photography Exhibition and more Literary events shall happen on 11th evening!