My first 123 days at SPJIMR..

(Originally dated 02/10/06)

It all started with an aim to "Bell the CAT". Finally the struggle came to a halt when the hallowed portals of SPJIMR stood wide open infront of me. There was no time available to taste the fruit of hard work but to take up the gauntlet. The first few days at B-School were remarkably hectic and wonderful. Presentations, quizzes, team events and what not? 11 pm became a normal hr to get back to hostel. Day doesn end there though..Woosh! got a quiz in the morning followed by a presentation..Gaaawd! when do I sleep then.. Still everything was enjoyed minute by minute.. Thanks to our seniors all the time they took out and gave us a lot of valuable inputs in those first few days.

Still can't forget the day when we were given a task at 09:00 pm to present a B-plan next day morning. None of us slept that day. And the strength to stay awake till 5 am and come back fresh to college by 9 am is all an entrant to B-school gets to adopt in the first few days itself. Of course i need to agree that i used to feel sleepy during lectures.

Quizzes!! They are an integral part of any B-school. Quizzes on QM and MicroEco!! I used to get even dreams on quizzes (Or may be I slept while writing the quiz and so I feel so… Well! I don remember in both cases what happened)

Now don’t conclude that there was no time for fun. Well! the main course of life at SPJIMR starts only now. With a wonderful batch of people making up the class of 2008, fun is filled in the air and is all pervasive. There we have Mr. Sudhir Kumar Jena who makes the whole class roar with laughter with his comic strips on each of our batch mates. On the other end we have Mr. Siddharth Dhar busy throwing out fundoos on six sigma and Manufacturing. Girls are no less active. There I see Ms. Navneet Nayyar questioning Profs who go haywire after listening to her. And this time Mr. Partho inherited some of the attributes from Navneet and proved that even he is no lesser in confusing Prof. Tom.

Hey! You cant miss out the “Chintu” of our batch sitting cool and calm. But behind the pardha you surely would miss out the chat window. ;) There always is a row at the back that keeps wondering whose socks stink. But suddenly one will hear Mr. Aditya Baliga’s “I Disagree” though not from no where. Whats our RJ-Rahul doing? Making a movie on PGLAB or a video on “ Gandhigiri”?? Kit-pit-kit-pit…there I hear Shireen’s typing sound. It goes on and on and on. She would seem busy typing something important yet with all her ears in the lecture. All on a sudden a question pops up from her from nowhere to just hold the neighbors for a surprise who were all the time listening to the kit-pit-kit-pit.

How can anyone be let to doze off during lecture? That too when am an Acadcom member!That’s our dear Shruti Gupta ready with a question. There goes on the inbuilt microphone with a sufficient amount of decibel that would even wake our sleeping Javed bhai up with a thud..( ooops! where am I??) When all this is happening Nats is lost in her own world. Still Pallavi is in the quest to find out why is that her number in roll not 1 but 2. Well! Who cares is what our GClisa feels.. Merrily playing “Hangaroo”.

From the lecture time to party time! McD our favo.. Tx to NIMITT ;) We celebrated Moon’s birthday out there ( Hey! not that Chanda Mama this is our very own Moon Nagar). Ankur, one of the staffs of McD still remembers our dear Moon. That’s were our enthusiasm for parties started..And Wednesday dinners?? There is no need to ask about it… Yippee! no mess food today.. There you can see Ganga, Sidd, Vishal, Amit, Myself, Moon et al deciding on the place. Hey! we are free this week end. Chaaalo chalthe hain.. Movie or restuarant? And how can i forget the way i tortured Amit Kumar for translation while watching OMKARA. Well! Laghe raho without any native slangs was easy enough for me . :-)

BistroBanters owes its genesis to all those wits and jokes cracked about each other sitting in the Bistro having VadaPav and Masala Chai. Ganga and myself used to sit for a long time even after our favorite hot pizza gets over. And that’s the time when a lot of creative thinking happens. Also major activity planning for PRCOM takes place :-). Sipping a lemon tea and having a debate on “Spirituality suggests liberation from pain is through liberation from physical identity- is that so?” was one of those ever cherishing moments. Ganga! The topic is still not closed.

This is just a glimpse of my 123 days at SPJIMR. There are lot more incidents that are beyond the scope of explaining by mere words. The much enjoyed RJ-Chintu radio, our very own IP messenger and Multicasts and at last not to forget our movie server which houses resources almost comparable in quantity with our libserver (he he ;) ) will all form part of everlasting memories.

Cheers,
Sukanya