19/09/2015

19/09/2015; 21:00:

16th was the last day of classes for term 1, for the end term exams were to begin on 17th morning.
We had a marketing class at 11:45 a.m. - the last class for Term 1. It was an interesting class, as usual and ended in smiles.
Later, we attempted to get some studying done- my approach to this was to take a 6-hour long nap.
At around 9 p.m., I made my way to SR-17 to read some OB. We agreed to split the readings- I began reading from the first one and my friend began reading from the last one- the idea was to read half & half and then discuss.
There was a take-home quiz to be done and sent in by mid-night, for the OB course. There was a reading along with the questions, explaining the whole idea of Transactional Analysis. It is indeed a very fascinating idea. We e-mailed the completed document to sir- and, he replied to each person individually, thanking them for their submission! Sir is awesome!
I went off to Mess 1, at around midnight, to celebrate the birthday of one of our Media Committee team members. I think she must’ve cut atleast 3 cakes, all of which eventually ended up on her head. Some food at night mess later, I was back in SR-17.
Readings done, we lounged on the terrace, before getting to our planned ‘discussion’. A couple of other people settled wherever they could find space, to listen in. That was that. There wasn’t anything much to study for the Accounts paper, since sir had done an excellent job of the classroom teaching. Explaining the cash flow to a few separate groups of people and attempting to learn up the different financial analysis ratios later, we were done and headed off to sleep.

17th morning began with the Accounts paper- it was a fairly simple paper that covered the exact topics that we’d gone over. I was done writing, about an hour into a two-hour long paper. I headed to my room via Mess 2 to read the remaining readings of OB anyway.
Meanwhile, Zephyr held their second workshop for the academic year, on ‘Reflections on your Perceptions’ at 12 p.m. They seem to be scheduling all their workshops to ensure that I cannot be present (of course, that isn’t true- everyone has different conflicting schedules and the least offensive is selected)
The OB paper at 2:30 p.m. was fairly simple and only about an hour long. One good thing about the end-terms was that the morning paper began only at 10 a.m. and not any earlier.

In the evening, at around 6 p.m., Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations began- Ganapati Staphna was done in the late evening, in the SR-10 basement.
Meanwhile, all the IPM-2 students sent out surveys to the institute, on topics ranging from happiness to beauty. There was a paper to be written as part of their Psychology course that merited all this data be collected.

And then, since it was Thursday, Globe@I decided to do a re-run of their previous week’s late night show, with fried rice and chilly chicken/paneer on offer.
Of course, I returned from the OB Mid-term and promptly fell asleep. The plan was to do a re-run of the previous night and get some studying done. I woke up only in the middle of the night i.e. at 3 a.m.
I made some half-hearted attempts at studying Micro-Economics before falling asleep again. The paper was, as promised, significantly easier than the mid-term exam. There was even a smiley face next to the instructions, informing us that there would be no negative marking on this one!

I went over my QT notes in the few hour gap between the papers; the QT paper began at 2:30 p.m. and was 3 hours long! Perhaps, to make up for the Eco paper, this one was significantly more difficult than the mid-term exam.

Uber is on board, partnering with our upcoming fest, IRIS. As part of the deal, we received a promo code on e-mail that entitles the holder to 2 free rides around Indore!

There wasn’t any studying to be done for both the end-terms the next day, so lots of sleep was in order.

19th morning began with the OM paper- it was an open book/notes exam and the paper was mainly a bunch of cases to be analysed and solved. One question even asked about the Student Mess and what can be done to increase its capacity.
The last end-term, Marketing, began at 2 p.m. – we were greeted with a 25-page long case as soon as we entered the exam hall. The examination was 3 and a half hours long, mostly to give enough time to read through the case.

At 8 p.m., in keeping with the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, there was a Maharashtrian feast arranged for, in Mess 3.
Most of us headed out to eat, right after the exam ended- restaurants nearby were completely packed, and all with IIM-Indore PGP1’s!

Meanwhile, a lot of the different events as part of IRIS have opened registrations and we’ve been receiving mails, accordingly. Voice of Indore is in full swing, with auditions held at DAVV, recently.

The evening wore on and the clock ticked, all closer to my birthday !