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18/11/2015; 20:37:

I got back to campus at around 11:30 p.m. on the 12th. The campus still looked a little deserted. We settled on the stairs outside Mess 3 to share food and catch-up on each other’s lives.

13th morning began with MAC class where we discussed process costing. There was a Finance Class scheduled to happen right after, but, it managed to get cancelled.
At 11:45, we had our first class of the course on Ethics & CSR- the course began straight with a case that had a young salesperson facing an ethical dilemma.
We then had an OM class after a long time- we’ll be having a quiz soon since there wasn’t a mid-term.
Later in the evening, I headed out to the city to meet an old friend who was in town. I couldn’t spend much time with him since he had to leave soon; I was back on campus close to 9 p.m.

We had a couple of classes on Saturday too. At 2 p.m. we headed to the acad block for a MAC class, we waited, watching YouTube videos on the projector but there was no sign of the professor. Turns out, he wasn’t informed about the class at all. I then headed out to the city to meet a friend who was visiting- this one had all the time in the world and I got back to campus, courtesy Ola, around 10:30 p.m.

The cancelled Finance class was held on Sunday morning after which we headed out to eat. Most people were back to campus by Sunday evening, and just in time too! Starting Monday, we had a rather hectic schedule of classes- 5 of them, each day.

As promised, we had 5 classes on Monday, including an OB class where we discussed the existence and purpose of organizations. We’ll move to learning the details of organizational structure, soon.
Tuesday was all classes too- 5 of them to be precise.
Later in the night, we worked on a brief report on Balanced ScoreCards, for our Industry project- our group has picked an HR project.
Wednesday brings a good change, bang in the middle of the week, in the form of our Industrial Visits. We left campus at around 9:30 a.m. in a larger bus than the usual 24-seater one- ours was one of the last stops along the way and we were seated in the office by 11 a.m. We were to work on an HR Project, focusing on the Rolling Area- the company is divided into functional areas as per the production process that goes into making the steel rods. Within Rolling, there are 5 subareas- Production, Electrical Maintenance, Mechanical Maintenance, Quality and Workshop. We split into three 2-person subgroups and set about meeting the different sub-area heads, gathering information about the process, the employees involved, their work hours, the performance measurement scales and the incentive schemes. The engineers in our group picked up a lot more technical information than we did and we were done by around 3 p.m. The bus was ready to pick us up by around 4 p.m. and we headed back to campus.
All the clubs are in ultra-active mode, conducting events! The Economics Club has come up with a rather interesting sounding event called ‘Snake-o-nomics’ which promises a life-sized Snakes & Ladders game for the finale. Right now, there’s a Consulting Club event in progress, with a Live Project and Rs.5000 on offer as prizes!
Perhaps, this is the result of new-found enthusiasm post the PGP2’s return from their Himalayan Outbound Programme!
There was a Book Launch on campus, this evening- Ishqiyaapa- To Hell with Love by Mr. Pankaj Dubey. There is a candlelight vigil to be held at 10 p.m., today to express our solidarity for the chaos that’s going on over the world.
Also, Utsaha- the Rural Marketing Fest is right around the corner- a Rural Marketing themed quiz titled Utsukta (I credit myself with coming up with a great name!) will be held tonight at 11 p.m. It's just one event after another! And, there's another 5 classes, tomorrow!