Ajay - On the Road called Life!

As of today, the Admissions Process has finally come to an end. The Final Merit List for SCMHRD is now available on the website.
Admissions work at SCMHRD has been an excellent experience indeed. We did everything that was to be done, right from designing every single page of the brochure to sending teams on drives, [...]

That’s what my MBA Semester 1 GPA reads.
And, due to rules of the university, I cleared my Financial Accounting paper… which means no stars on my transcript!

As part of the Admissions Drive, we, the Admissions Team are organizing a contact programme in Mumbai and twelve other cities.
The event in Mumbai will take place in Ruia College, Matunga.
I sent out the emails two days back and in less than 24 hours we had all the slots in most cities full!
I’ll be leaving [...]

Have I been busy or have I been bored, considering my last post was two months back!
Well, busy is more like it.
WebComm Team
This team was instituted after Ravi and I joined / founded it. And work was hectic the last week of August and the first week of September.
While we did get the SCMHRD [...]

As is custom, we had two FCQs today. Spanish was expected as the seating arrangement was put up.
The other one turned out to be Operations Research. While Spanish turned out to be decent. Slight memory lapses and a few silly mistakes will ensure I don’t get a full this time as well, but I’ll survive.
OR [...]

After numerous discussions with our vendor and after tonnes of days (and nights) spent by Ravi and me, we finally released the redesigned www.scmhrd.edu on early 4th morning.
Check out the Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development website.
This is just the beginning and we have a long long way to go to make [...]

As part of the OSHE program I talked about a few posts back, we had to visit an industry in Pune itself to study the safety measures they have in place.
My batch visited Forbes Marshall in Pune.
The place in around 40 minutes from SCMHRD and the bus ride was noisy (leave a bunch of [...]

During one of our lectures last week, a lively professor was telling us about his MBA life at IIMA.
When asked about the tests that they followed he, as part of the conversation decribed the experience with five letters, viz. R-A-P-E-D.
We got a taste of that this Saturday.

The last ten days have seen four FCQs and the results of my Micro Economics FCQ. Got a 7 on 10 which was so surprising that I rechecked my results.
As for the new FCQs, we got Research Methodology hit us like a bag of bricks. Passing is now questionable. The others shouldn’t be a problem [...]

It’s been almost a month since my last post. And it just goes to show how tied up MBA life has kept me. Based on feedback from seniors this is going to be the case for atleast another two or so months.
A lot has happened since then, and I’ll just be summarizing a few of [...]