Friday, January 28, 2011

III Semester


The greatest excitement about the III Semester was that it had 2 half unit courses! Hence less classes and less pressure. There were times when we had just 2 classes on saturdays - and lot of holidays too - hence it was lighter semester compared to the first semester.!!

Prof. Neerja Pandey made a great impression on most of us even with the small number of classes she took. The individual video recordings were highly critical - that made us learn where we make mistakes during speaking in public.

Prof. Rastogi from IIFT tried his level best to make us learn QAM-2. This course showed us some real good examples of how surveys and their analysis is performed in the real world.

On saturdays, we used to have presentations during the half an hour break - Tanay Anand was instrumental in this great initiative - Kudos to him! I attended a few presentations and they were real good - since they were from people having immense domain knowledge. The farewell to their batch too happened in this sem - (i.e. passing out Batch# 4). Parties till now have happened at the campus (IPMX cafetaria) only, be it our freshers party or the farewell. We had started having fun in our super-tight schedules (i.e. learning to manage!)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

II Semester

The II semester was little less taxing than the first one. (May be we were getting in tune to the tough demands of the Working Managers Program or could be due to the subjects mix - 2 half credit courses). But had it been the I semester I am sure the students (who left the course after the I sem) would not have left WMP..

The subjects:
MANAC - Managerial Accounting - II
QAM - Quantitative Analysis for Managers - I
LAM - Legal Aspects of Management
DWO - Design in Work Organizations

These subjects were very informative considering the learning involved:
- Costing concepts and the wonderful cases,
- DWO - excellent learning via cases: Onida case / South-west Airlines,
- LAM - was interesting (when slides were not ON:)
- QAM had statistical concepts that could help in future.

Delivery wise I would say - DWO and MANAC were the best.

The class started opening up with each other in this semester. They started sharing their marriage dates, new-born news and other big events that otherwise were not shared in the I semester. Groups for assignments and projects were formed (Remember the norming, storming, forming (not performing) :) for the submissions and tasks were divided amongst the responsible people. The 'others' stayed merry (lot of work you know:).


(Some links floated by Tanay Anand - WMP11 batch - {super senior!} )

Freshers party 08
Farewell ( WMP 09)
Visit to IIM Lucknow ( Main Campus)
Freshers party 09

Videos:
A song sung by Rajeev WMP10 ( Pics from last year fresher's)
A group song ( Just for fun) WMP 11