Toughest of the lot

As the core terms near the end, I have already entered the electives and placements mindset... but I as well as many others have been brought back to reality by the investment analysis course... a gentle reminder that its not over until it is actually over... the amount of intuition and quant in this course have made it the most challenging of all courses until now... at the same time, the feeling of triumph when you manage to get the intuition going is something that cant be replaced as well :)

We had this term's dean's forum yesterday... the elective bidding has been scraped! the interests have been so diverse that except for 4-5 courses, there hasnt been a problem with the number of people opting for the electives... some interesting stats: most favoured majors... marketing - 147! fin - 109, LCM - 79, tech - 46 and ent - 10. the ent numbers are pretty low as many have opted to do specific courses in ent but not the whole specialization... that includes me too... some courses like prof. Kavil Ramachandran's "managing startups and growth" has been extremely popular...

Ok, that too much of acads and courses... we had the united airlines apac head in the campus yesterday... i could not attend the talk as I spent my evening talking to deputy dean Ajit Rangnekar... He had spoken a lot about placements in the dean's forum and his ideas on career selection were a revelation to me... He has had me thinking about the way I am going to apply for jobs on campus... more during the placements season as I aim to implement his suggestions... this year the placements may be narrowed down to a one month period to accomodate requests from the recruiters... ISB will also for the first time, invite companies on specific days, in the order of student preferences so that the most popular companies come first... the placom has been doing some good work and i will write more about it more as things unfold... as of now, its ELP all the way.... have a conf call tonight and have to prepare for that... so much to do before I sleep...