And the vacation ends!!!

Today was the first day of term 2 and what a day it has been. It started with a competitive strategy class which discussed the case of the cola wars. Pre-reading for this class took quite some time as we had to prepare the case. Seems all the classes will be like this, case discussions in all the classes for which preparation before hand is required. We are also required to prepare a project focusing on strategy of a particular company that we select. More details, I guess, would be provided in the lectures to come.

Second was the Macro economics class. I have never really liked macro economics. I hope it grows on me like statistics. How I miss Bob Stine and Waterman’s classes!!!

And then had to prepare for tomorrow’s class (Marketing Management and Decision Modelling and Optimization). DMOP is the most dreaded course in the entire syllabus, will meet it tomorrow to know just how bad it is. As for Marketing, we would be playing a game called MARKSTRAT, which, I have heard from seniors takes up a lot of time. Right now, I have to read one chapter from Kotler.

And I have to submit a 1000 word write-up on Self assessment on effective leadership for the LDP course by tomorrow. I should have done it last week, but I was too lazy. The long break did seem to do a lot of good. But now we are again back to the hectic schedule and it just doesn’t feel like today was the first day of the term.

Last week was just wonderful with absolutely nothing to do. I had a LDP session on Thursday, so couldn’t go home. But, it was great being in campus and having absolutely nothing to do. It has become cooler here and there its always breezy. So, it was a wonderful time to walk around and explore the campus. Also, watched a lot of movie. And then had a one-day people skill workshop as part of LDP. Earlier, we had filled up a psychometric test consisting of 130 question. During the workshop, got a feedback on the same and also did some group activities to basically observe how we function as part of the group. I did not find it as useful as I had expected it to be.

We have another round of elections coming up, this time for various clubs. Also, CAF (Centre for Analytic Finance) is hosting a one-day banking conference this Sunday.

Last week, I also attended a seminar on “Informed trading, Information Asymmetry and Pricing of Information Risk’ by Pradeep Yadav

Thats all on the first day of Term 2. Hope this term is not as killing as the first one