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B Division > Batch 2007 – 2009

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Coaxed and threatned here I am penning down on our B Division…aka as padhaku division, boring, nerdy and the uncool or whatever the popular mis-conception  was! So then where do I start, shall I do a Mapara and give a comment of each one of us like he did for C Division? Noo…let Mapara bask in his own glory, because i believe our division was a single organism and not just individuals brought together by the Gods of acads department. 

 

So what was B Division – It is a potpurri of different flavors yet one color. Dahling’s of some teacher’s (read Business Law and OR) and nemesis of others (read HR). Managed to score zero as a group in one silly Eff-See-Que of RM, and managed to bail ourselves out of it too.  Certain old men give new dimesions to how HR was studied, and then there were others(certain loud mouths) who beat the CLO in explaining HR concepts. Were to the forefront of giving timely submissions and also about not caring for Foundation exams (Oh yes! some of us have still not appeared for a few of those!). 

 

Singles, engaged, committed and married you name it and we have them…oh yes some of us even changed these stages while being a part of the gang. Blessed with singers, and guitarists we even have people who could put Janice(remember F.R.I.E.N.D.S) to shame. College toppers to exam floppers, from the tallest of the tall to the shortest of them all. From pure Punjabi fun to Man madrasa, from pernnial hard workers to sleephyheads(favorites of Pathak Sir) we have seen it and done it all. We have had cake officers to certain non resident students surprising even Prantosh.

 

…but then how did this cacophony of contradictions ended up giving perfect music? I’ll never know, sometimes things just given an impression of being impossible…but then for B division things have always been possimpible!

Fusion Musik

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Last evening, a group of us SCMHRDians ventured to IIIT Pune (I square IT, as they call it, but why not I cube T??). Their fest Dhruva is on these days, and Indian Ocean band performed there yesterday.

It had been a while since I had heard music by them, and the first time I was in an Indian Ocean concert. The music was so different from the regular pop which I am so used to. But the extensive use of acoustics, folk instruments, tubthumping and the way they enjoyed playing the music was enthralling.

While I am still not conversant with the lyrics, but the music is so soulful. At moments, you just felt the rhythm within you. It was as if those indecipherable words were the sounds by primitive men, who made tunes without the lyrics as we know them today.

Indian Ocean is an 18 year old band, known for its Indian Rock-Fusion music, with themes based on nature and folklore. It is quite niche but has a strong fan following.

SCMHRD launches NEEV 2007

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Days of hard work have finally bore fruit, we are finally ready with the launch of NEEV 2007, the Annual Business School Festival of SCMHRD.

Months of work has gone in, and its really satisfying to see it finally start up. NEEV is a thematic business festival, this year the theme is CULT.

Spread over 3 days from 15th – 17th of December, the festival has a plethora of events which shall test the mettle of the best business brains in India.

The key differentiators are the last man standing game, Branding game, Nibiru, Transhumanism…well…I like all of them. I still wonder whether I could live upto the challenge, had I participated!

Do visit http://www.scmhrd-neev.com for further details.

Assumptions!

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Ya, the placement week is here. While more than 50% of the batch is already placed, I haven’t been able to make the cut. The actual process had started a week ago, with most companies not shortlisting me and a few just chucking me after the group process.

Now, I have been able to suggest and motivate people who weren’t going anywhere as well. But, last two days with over 18 companies not really interested in me has just made me feel the reality. I have just lost that positive attitude with which I could help others, because I can’t help myself either.

I had joined this B School assuming that I was good at certain things, I studied a few topics assuming that I can do a good job at them. However, with two days of disappointment I believe that I assumed wrong things. All my preferred organizations have come and gone without me. Now it doesn’t matter when and in which place I get to, I have to just accept what I receive.

It isn’t only me facin this situation, there are others too. Some blame the system and others evaluate the ones who have been selected. It doesn’t matter to me who got selected, I am no judge of other people. The bottom line to me is that I am still waiting. Tomorrow I would go back and try again, maybe get selected too, but I know I won’t be happy because it wouldn’t be my own efforts which would take me there, it would also be the pity of others underperforming so that I can make the cut.

The Marketer

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Never had it happened before in any of the classes of my 22 years of education…yet it happened in a B School, one of the most inhuman of all places. I am referring to the last lecture on Marketing Management by our professor describing Consumer Markets and Behaviour, focusing on the Personal factors of consumers. The specific discussion was on Family, and how different stages of our lifes are segmented for proper targeting of marketers. Sounds very inhuman? Well, I expected it to be cold to our feelings but instead we started with a couple in a relationship to their marriage then kids then retirement and so on…in the process he moved the whole class towards how important we are to our parents, how the buying decisions for parents change and how everything our parents do is in a way focus on our well being…we’ll by the end of the class I could see people in tears.
 
I didnt know that Marketing as a subject could also bring out tears….