The Term that it was

"Only those who are asleep make no mistakes." And as I did not intend to make mistakes, I slept the whole of yesterday. Actually that’s not the sole reason, the other reason being the completion of the second term and here I am with nothing to do at all or rather with lots of planning to do for the forth coming international immersion trip to New Orleans, USA.

The second term flew by from not only my life but also from the life of all the GMPians and now we can call ourselves half MBA’s. The GMPians life was filled with a lot of action for the last two months... Life seemed hectic from day 1 with loads of case studies and tons of reading handouts given for every alternate day’s lectures, sometimes even for the next day’s lectures. From the first week itself every GMPian started the midnight walk to the XLRI night cafe so as to take a break from the intensive course contents. When some of the GMPians felt that ‘The most wasted of all days is one without laughter’, to get back what everyone had lost, they planned for Durga puja holidays. And that was the last final days when I remember sleepingL.

The Mid Terms started and along with that came the key responsibility of the GMPians; organizing the Dow Jones CEO meet. On the event, Mr. Christopher Mitya New, Managing Director, Dow Jones India delivered a talk on "Corporate Turnaround at a time of Economic Turnaround". The lively and intellectual interaction between Mr. New, the faculty of XLRI and the GMPians was the take away for all the attendees.

How can I forget to mention the quiz after the CEO meet!!! Though it was a cake walk for many, others still felt distressed at the end of the day. There is a saying, ‘All’s well that ends well’ but probably it is not made for the GMPians and at the end of the very same day we all realize that there is one more quiz lined up for the next to next day. Then finally the end term begins and guess what we get to know, our USA visa interviews are scheduled in-between the exams.

The discussion on the second term of GMPians cannot be ended without the mention of a few, the cute professors who took pains to teach us (the GMPians) and the sweet professors who used to get pained when we gave incorrect answers (NO!!!!!!!!!!!), the professors who made the most boring subjects fun and the fellow GMPians without whom this journey would have been very tough.