Mentioned the schedule for the week yesterday. There are two major changes. Firstly, the learn by rote Corporate Governance exam has been postponed to the 7th. And, the scarier SAP-BIW exam has been scheduled for Friday

Woke up at 6.45am today to give the Supply Chain Modeling FCQ. The exam started at 7.15am amidst confusion and clarification over the 1st question. This turned out to be the easier and the solvable one for me. I knew the solution for the second one on paper but had absolutely no clue how to convert the solution into Excel

Whichever subject I choose, operations research follows me :’(

This followed by a quick breakfast and then a Social Entrepreneurship class in which we gave a presentation on Ibrahim Abouleish and Sekem.

Have been working on Financial Statement Analysis. Our topic is Jet Airways.

Don’t know when exactly I’m going to hit the bed tonight.

This always happens at the end of the semester and this time is no different. Have an extremely intensive week lined up with tests, presentations and assignment submissions.

Here’s to give you an idea about the same:

30th September – Supply Chain Modeling FCQ & Social Entrepreneurship presentation

1st October – Corporate Governance Final Exam

2nd October – Financial Statement Analysis Project Submissions

3rd October – Software Project Management and Financial Statement Analysis presentations

4th October – Mergers and Acquisitions submission

5th October – Supply Chain Modeling assignment submission

All this calls for a lot of sleepless nights and worse

Returned from Mumbai early Monday morning. Awoke nice and early and caught the 6.15am Volvo from Teli Gali.

Reached here around 10.30 and immediately got down to studying my Corporate Finance assignment.

Had classes on all days of the week except for Wednesday, which was an equally busy day.

Also got asked out for freshers. Didn’t expect it so soon.

Took an expected surprise test in the FSA class. I’m far from where I need to be. Also have an FCQ in the Corporate Finance on Monday as well as a presentation for Project Management (Ops) on SPACE analysis and BCG Matrix.

So, basically got my hands full all of today and tomorrow morning as well

Finally getting back to the crazy life called MBA.

The past week I have followed a rather standard routine.

A sample process flow for a day is given below… note for sake of readability it has been shown as a single flow, however it is a vicious cycle.

Today was the reFCQ for Six Sigma. We were surprised to find a 45minute theory paper given for just 30minutes. Considering that the rest of the batch gave a semi objective paper, this one was a killer! Tomorrow is the Operations Management reFCQ with the full portion… God bless me

On better notes, had a good Spanish viva last week as well as a few good tests to which I actually knew the answers too Now, the corrections will make a decision.

We got a 17/20 in the Brand Management presentation we gave last week and a 50/50 in the Managerial Communication Presentation which were at the top of our batch

However, one thing for sure is that thanks to the bell curve grading system that we follow, we won’t be ending up with great GPAs this semester.

Well, our batch (except for a few bookworms) are definitely on a rollercoaster ride this semester. Every single FCQ that comes our way seems to be a major disaster.

Because of oversmartness or sheer stupidity, a perfectly well going FM paper was set on the path of ruin. Finance students are now in a state of hope and despair!

Operations Management is one subject that is also in an equal state of disarray with a lab exam with two questions nobody knew the answers of or were not able to complete it in time!

We also made a presentation in Brand Management based on a Starbucks case by Mary Crossan and Arif Kachra. This required us to sleep for less than 3 hours on Saturday morning.
The same repeated itself today as we worked all through the night to get our Marketing Research paper ready for tomorrow.
I don’t see much sleep tonight as well considering that we have two FCQs tomorrow, Spanish and Technology in Business tomorrow evening, a possible Spanish viva tomorrow morning and a Sales and Distribution assignment submission as well.

I need to sleep!