Start of Term 7: Placement fever and random anxieties
Term 7 starts on Monday. Many people have no term break this time since their exams end only today and the new term starts on Monday!! Nowhere in the world would you find a term starting the next working day after an exam and nowhere in the world would you find an exam happening on Jan 1st!!! (Yes, we had an exam on Jan 1st!) But then nowhere in the world would you find an ISB!
The barrage of exams and classes is just a consequence of the 1 year format. If you need to complete the coursework of two years in one, this is bound to happen. Yesterday one exchange student asked me how much of this can you guys retain. Well, people have different opinions but I surely retain a few things I like and then how much more do you retain in a two year MBA? 5 years down the line, its your experience, pre and post MBA that is all you have---You might only vaguely remember the porter’s model or the M&M theory, especially if you work in an unrelated field! But the ISB social network and the school stays on your resume forever!!
Coming back to exams, most subjects in term 7 don’t have an in class exam. With an all time low interest in acads, the highlight of this term is going to be placement preps. January is full of recruiter PPTs. We have about three PPTs lined up every day in January. Many recruiters have been coming to ISB over a past few years and some others are new names.
It is also interesting to see that as placement time comes closer, people are slowly bordering insanity. Part of it is driven by peer pressure, part of it by unrealistic expectation and most of it by pessimism. People are generally worried about what others are doing, who is getting what shortlist and all that, even if they themselves are doing pretty ok! How can my quaddie/ group mate do better? That’s the key question that seems to be bothering everyone! But I guess all this is a part of the fun package. As placements come closer, a lot of such stories would be heard. Some are pure fun and some not so much---
Its fun time as usual---
The barrage of exams and classes is just a consequence of the 1 year format. If you need to complete the coursework of two years in one, this is bound to happen. Yesterday one exchange student asked me how much of this can you guys retain. Well, people have different opinions but I surely retain a few things I like and then how much more do you retain in a two year MBA? 5 years down the line, its your experience, pre and post MBA that is all you have---You might only vaguely remember the porter’s model or the M&M theory, especially if you work in an unrelated field! But the ISB social network and the school stays on your resume forever!!
Coming back to exams, most subjects in term 7 don’t have an in class exam. With an all time low interest in acads, the highlight of this term is going to be placement preps. January is full of recruiter PPTs. We have about three PPTs lined up every day in January. Many recruiters have been coming to ISB over a past few years and some others are new names.
It is also interesting to see that as placement time comes closer, people are slowly bordering insanity. Part of it is driven by peer pressure, part of it by unrealistic expectation and most of it by pessimism. People are generally worried about what others are doing, who is getting what shortlist and all that, even if they themselves are doing pretty ok! How can my quaddie/ group mate do better? That’s the key question that seems to be bothering everyone! But I guess all this is a part of the fun package. As placements come closer, a lot of such stories would be heard. Some are pure fun and some not so much---
Its fun time as usual---
posted by Venkat @ 10:09 AM
1 Comments:
At 1:01 PM,
Anonymous said…
Regression->B-plan->Matrimony->Money. Not a bad chain at all. If only we cudda teamed up a month ago to team-up for the ISB B-plan contest, we'dda given Onbyx a run for their money!
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