Friday 22 January 2016

15/01/2015



15/01/2016; 02:09:

It’s been a nice week since we’ve been back on campus after the term break (aka RIP). We got to campus around 11 a.m. on 10th morning. We ordered some nice pasta for lunch and then called it a day sometime in the evening- a whole week’s worth of sleep was to be caught up on.
Registration for Term 3 i.e. the last term of PGP-1 was to happen on 11th, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We headed to the registration place which was where the old PGP office used to be; all offices were recently moved to a newly constructed administrative block that is situated right next to the library.
There was the usual term registration form, additionally, there was a peer evaluation form that was to be filled up and submitted-this peer evaluation was a part of our grading for the OB course in Term-2; we were to rank our team-members (the assignment group for Term-2) on a 6-point scale on parameters including contribution, communication, team work and interest.
We then collected some material for Term-3 and then headed out for lunch and a movie. In the evening, Voyage Capital, the Capital Investment Club sent out an e-mail announcing the launch of an NFO (New Fund Offer). They are calling for students to invest in this fund that will be managed by the Club members; historically, the Voyage Capital portfolio has turned up much higher returns than the average return on the market. Students can choose to invest any amount with Rs. 1000 being the minimum investment and a Rs. 20000 cap on the investment. Voyage Capital promises to explain how the whole thing works; looking forward to some learning about the stock market.

12th morning began early; I was up at 9:30 a.m. for some unbeknownst reason and spent nearly the whole day in the hostel. The highlight of the day was an hour’s basketball game in the evening. Earlier, at 3:30 p.m., a guest lecture about the Finance for Housing market was held in the New Audi. It was a rather interesting lecture followed by a short documentary. Despite registration having been completed the day before, no classes were scheduled until the 14th.

On 13th morning, we headed out for our Industrial Visit. We left campus a little after 10, arriving at the company close to noon. An organizational profile was to be filled in and submitted so we got all the requisite information from the HR at the company. The HR project that we’ve been working on is nearly complete too; we’ve gathered all the requisite information to prepare a Balanced ScoreCard, only the final report needs to be compiled. Hopefully, it will be ready by our next visit which is a week later. We were back on campus close to 5 p.m. and picked up some more reading material from the new designated distribution centre aka the Old PGP Office.
After we’d compiled and sent in the aforementioned Organizational Profile, we causally strolled out of Gate 2, and walked to Baba Kulfi where we ate chaat and lots of kulfi. Happy, we returned to campus by about 9 p.m. where a celebration for Lohri was in order. Everyone was gathered at the Football field next to Mess 2 where a large bonfire was lit at around 9:30 p.m. There was a nice sound system, some music; popcorn, peanuts and rewri to toss into the fire and even a dhol-wala! We tossed some popcorn into the fire- an act that is supposed to be the tossing away of all negative energy from one’s life.

The first class of Term-3 i.e. Finance-II was held at 8:45 a.m. on the 14th. It was an interesting class where we basically realized that this course will deal with applying all the different analysis tools that we learnt in Finance-I, last term to ‘value’ a firm. A Nihilanth meeting was in order around 12 p.m. Nihilanth is the annual inter IIT-IIM quiz, started way back in 2003, by IIM-Indore. It is held at a different campus each year (decided by way of a bidding process) and after 13 years, hosting rights are back to IIM-Indore! The opening ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m., 15th Jan and the teams have begun arriving. We spent some time with some of the participants, showing them around campus and drinking lots of cups of chai. Looking forward to an eventful weekend!

2 comments:

  1. Who are you ? :o I am reading this since yesterday. After reading this I definitely am giving IPM this year ! \m/

    Mumbaikar in 12th with PCM-CS :)

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    1. Hey, I'm an IPM student, currently in my 4th year.
      I'm from Mumbai too! :D

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