It started rolling

After the two day outbound trip, classes started with macro economics.. Very interesting subject.. During the CAT preparation, I have read about GDP, GNP.. etc.. but it was vague.. reading economic times during CAT, helped me understand few fundas.. But, it was just the tip of the ice berg.. After the first couple of classes, we were given assignments to discuss on the classical economics and Great depression in US of 1929.. Classes started for statistics.. interersting prof... I am not disclosing the prof names for obvious reasons.. Leads the class with lots of jokes and silly things in life.. It was boring learning the fundas like mean, distribution and probability etc.. It became more interesting as the discussion turned to using stats as a decision making tool in business..

My room mates are Harshil, Shirish, Hari Prashanth and Manu.. We named it SLIM (Small lakes insti. of mgmt..) ... ;)) .. Though we come late to our house.. we have enuf gossips and interesting topics to discuss for hours.. Nice bunch of intelligent people.. After all I am there naa.. to show them the right way. ;)...

Class has been split into some 7-8 groups with around 6 people in each group.. For the next four terms, six months, we will be inthe same group.. MBA life is all about team work.. It is great watching people cranking their brains together for a common goal.. amazing .. !!! Yesterday we have been given a schedule describing the timelines for each subjects of the first term.. Papers include Marketing management, Financial accounting, Busines communication etc.. All the profs are from US.. One from florida university.. another from University of Texas.. and a couple of other eminent profs who are the experts in their domain.. It is this unique model that attracted me to Great Lakes(GLIM).. I will be taught by people who do research in the same domain.. I will be learning the contemporary concepts in management, unlike other instis in india where we learn the same old theory .. and the old case studies.. Learning from the horses mouth is indeed an exhilarating experience..

We had a session on presentation skills and each group was asked to prepare a presentation... We decided on an interesting topic.. Relating Alexander the great and modern management.. We discussed and learned his war strategies.. logistics for supply of food and ammunition for some 35,000 strong army. who helped him conquer 90% of the explored world.. We analysed his leadership skills, strategy planning, logistics and discussed in our presentation.. We analysed his failure.. which people fondly calls as 'Legacy leadership'.. It was an amazing presentation and we did excellent compared to all other groups.. Prof specially commented about the innovativeness and congratulated the team.. Will be back with more news.. Back to reality.. pending assignments.. ;))