Saturday, May 12, 2007

Life at ISB - Hectic to the Core

Life so far ....... hectic to the core

One week gone - 51 more to go.

It has been a roller coaster so far, but I am enjoying it.......... at least philosophically.

On the Grades front, it has been a mixed bag

I got 6 out of 8 for Class Participation (which is basically shooting your mouth off in the class --- on a serious note it means how effectively are you contributing to the learning exp in the class ) - this is above average score I got 5 out of 5 in the first Eco Quiz and 2.5 out of 5 in the second eco quiz - these two are so far above average scores
Our group got 57 out of 63 in our first eco assignment (again above average)

The group assignments are funny, because the egos and the so called "leadership qualities" of people are showing up.

We are a group of 5 ( for the first 6 months we are more or less a team)
1 - an IIT engineer with 3 years of Infy exp - brilliant chap - absolutely
2 - a BITS Pilani engineer with 4 years of Kanbay exp
3 - an economics graduate with 2 years of exp in Ernst and Young Consulting
4 - a CA with 3 years of exp in Banking (Lending to SMEs) - fun loving

They are wonderful team . Most of them (including me) have worked in teams with a hierarchy and with at least one boss. Here it is completely a flat structure. So it gets funny sometimes and someone ends up moderating . I think things will settle down in a couple of weeks once we know each other well.

Most of the assignments are Group assignments and thus it will be fun working with these brilliant minds.

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