MY NEW LIFE

Finding time to blog when in a b-school is not that difficult once the professors allow us to use laptops in the class. But till situations become that idealistic, I have got to exploit innocent faculty teaching refresher courses like mathematics.

First let me begin with my college. Though a startup and people being skeptical about it, the institute is in the hands of dedicated people who don’t show the slackness often associated with government employees. Also the investment on the temporary campus is enormous and shows the resolve to make IIFT-K a success.

About Kolkata now. Salt lake city is the poshest area in Kolkata and is in everyway opposite to how people usually picture Kolkata. Folklore here says Salt lake is actually land that has been reclaimed from a lake. That’s hard to believe as salt lake is as wide as 5 Km in diameter. As Dominique Lapierre narrates, non motorized rickshaws are still aplenty here. And surely I have to mention about the ‘ultadangas’. That’s how motorized autos here are called. With every passing day we are setting records for maximum capacity of an auto and surpassing them promptly the next day. As of now it stands at 7. In the evening people usually queue up at important junctions to hire autos. And believe me, the queue can be longer than in a busy ATM. Buses here are also weird. The seats are like 4 inches wide and only along the periphery and so are the tickets (5cm*1cm). Yellow colored taxis are also ubiquitous. And hiring them is very much like asking for a lift. You can only go to the location the driver intends. Long live communism.

About b-school life. The course is designed to be very rigorous. But that is only applicable if you don’t understand how the system works. No different from management books, the professors too are verbose and convey little. So it is up to you to separate the grains from the chaff. The most important benefit of being in a b-school is having a wi-fi enabled laptop. As long as orkut and ym are around, life is going to rock. And everything connected with the course is usually done using powerpoint. And this is the most exciting part of it. Most of the exams have only MCQs. Now why are you showing your teeth??