Electives!

Yesterday and today were the first two days of electives. The first thing you notice about electives is the smaller class sizes. In the core courses, we were divided into 3 classes of 70 each. Now, profs offering electives have deliberately reduced their class sizes to 30-40 and that is pretty noticeable. One, I got a chance to speak a lot in class. The class seemed more focussed. There seemed to be richer discussion and everyone seems clued on. Dont know if I am mistakenly extrapolating what I have felt... The marketing services course is being offered by Nonny Singh and he has been keeping us very interested. The market research course, offered by Naresh Malhotra from Geogia Tech is the most popular course in terms of numbers, while operations strategy has also been commended (I did not choose this one). Marketing high tech products was interesting for a techie like me. So was Internet Business Models, by Krishnan Anand from Wharton. Now is the drop phase of the elective process. Meaning, we are all allowed to attend a lecture of a course before deciding if we want to attend it thru the term or drop it. Its been interesting to say the least... more as the days go by in this 6 week term...