IX Semester

I couldn't wait to post the last semester (i.e. IX Sem) experience :-)

What to say, It is a mixed feeling this time: one is that we are free again from the current 9-day work week and the other being our regular meeting with friends and classroom learning would become infrequent. But whatever the concoction is: its net result is still +ve.

The mix of subjects this time provided high powered immense learning that would go a long way in shaping us as great(!) managers:
Strategic Management in Technological Innovation (SMTI)
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Internet Marketing (Internet Marketing)
Service Marketing (Serv.Mktg.)

SMTI was a must-take. Prof. Jain was extremely fascinating - the concepts he taught had a great impact on us. This time we had the honor of doing 7 assignments in a single subject but they roused the interest in the subject. The fact that he started the class with Saraswati Vandana was astonishing! (He had an impeccable style with which he carried himself with and the hat was very distinguishable too). Thanks to his inquisitiveness in our innovations Adobe LeanPrint too was discussed in our SMTI class w.r.t the utility framework.

M&A again was interested enough with the mix of national and international cases and discussions. Prof Ashutosh did give his best try with managing 2 sections The guest lectures were extremely good too. Nishant Saxena of Elements Akademia on P&G Gillette acquisition and Avimukt Dar on the “Legal Aspects of M&A”

Internet Marketing gave us the insights of the various aspects of marketing on the Internet and the rising importance of analytics and social media. All learnings were implemented in a project that we did on promoting bdaromatics.com

Service Marketing went into the nitty-gritties of designing and marketing a service. The importance of each and every step detailing in a service was the greatest takeaway from the subject. Dhobilite.com laundry service was taken up as a project.

I was searching for words to describe the feeling that I 'have' while (writing this blog) passing out from IIML and suddenly I got an email from one of my colleague Manu Chauhan that helped me in saving some time, the snippet of it goes like this- (feeling is similar:)

"..I am still trying to convince me by saying that the things are over now AT LAST, and now I have much more time for my family and job. But in back on my mind, I know that a gap has been created that will take some time to fill in. And on a more serious note, we are exposed to the world that we are an MBA now, and we are expected to perform like an IIM post-grad :)
But I am sure we will take this course on a new high by showing our actions in our own course of time. I congratulate all my batch mates for this achievement and wish you all the best things to come your way.
Let's all realize our dreams!!!.."

Last session - Internet Marketing (Dr. Maity in center)

Events:
Freshers welcome WMP8 batch
Great Guest lectures
Diesel hike
FDI Approval in retail, aviation

Links for Photos:
Link1: ClassRoom
Link2: The Presentations day

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 

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!)