VII Semester

Seventh semester certainly had very interesting mix of electives. It was a difficult choice for many. And I too managed 4 credits with one being a investment banking! My electives:
SDM (Sales & Distribution Mgmt.),
IBFS (Investment Banking & Financial Services),
BSCM (Business Sustainability & Carbon Markets)
& ATSC (Applied Theory in Strategy & Competition)
All 4 credits were satisfying (atleast for me:), as I attended almost all classes of these class-based learning courses & there was a good learning in each class!

IBFS was an insightful subject but was as tough as it could be. It taught us the concepts of rights, IPOs, LBOs, debt financing etc that we found very intriguing in our lives. Prof. Mishra had a great control over his delivery topics & was upto speed from the first class itself. His two classes together were real exhausting, I ate an extra samosa in the break every time!

BSCM as a subject really moved us, shook us & got us thinking in the direction of sustainability. I could never have taken the topic so seriously had it not been a credit course! Prof. Sushil was amazing (infact the best Prof I had studied from), he taught us from the heart! Some great concepts of sustainable development that would go a long way in shaping us.

The various closes & spins were mastered in SDM, now we know what techniques the salespersons use on us. Prof. Kumra was at his best with his real life experiences of teaching us the sales techniques.

WMP Class 13

"WMP" Class 13

We devoted a Saturday for our profile & class photos. Our whole WMP13 batch was in formals, in our dashing blacks. The class photo was fun as it was the first one to be clicked and people kept joining in till the last click! And this photo "WMP" took an hour to be clicked, we, managers, had little sense of creating artistic patterns but hats off to the photographer who held on!

Our exam timings finally got reinstated to the evening timing that was the unanimous choice of our batch, thanks to the WMP Chair for the same!!


Some other highlights of the semester:

• IIML Manfest 11 - a mega annual event held @ lucknow
• IIML International marketing conference - biggest marketing conference of IIML - till date all thanks to Prof S B Dash
• The placement of electronic IIML hoarding (thanks to the conference)
• Farewell to the senior batch 
• Prof. Anadi Pande's wonderful guest lecture for ATSC

IV Semester

IV Semester turned out to be one of the toughest semesters because of 2 very practice based (with long term benefits) full units - FM (finance) and MEE (Macro Economics). The 2 other subjects: HR (Human Resources) and QAM-III (Quantitative Analysis) were more class based learning.



 Photograph of the pizza toast (below) of Ankush Ved's farewell who decided to quit our WMP course - IIML for a Singapore job offer. We lost a 'productive' team member for our projects (so selfish!). He will be deeply missed.

The newsletter for IIML - IIML News Letter April 2011.

I dared to take an off during the closure week (a week before the exams) to travel to US for a week!! Result - I missed 3 quizzes - lost 25 marks straight away :( If I pass this sem, I know am not going to repent, else I certainly would :( - Anyway enjoy the US snaps here. Had to really rush up on exam preparation after coming back. Some of IIML seniors said "if one attends the classes well - one can easily pass" but it doesn't apply well for me because I cannot pass the exams if I do not study well :-)

The IV Sem exams are finally over now. Yippie, here comes the holidays after 1 full year of slogging and learning.!! I would definitely not touch any books -- would mainly concentrate on movies / gaming / touch base with people :)

Some HighLights:

• Student Council formation 
• New WMP Chairman for IIML-Noida 
• India winning the Cricket World Cup
• IPL-4