Year end break...
The one week year end break is coming up... tomorrow is the last day of exams and then, for the first time since we walked into this campus, we are off, for a whole week, through chirstmas and new year before we come back on the 5th of Jan for term 7.
Term 7 has been the most looked forward to term, though the reason is not the fantastic line of courses and professors that it offers. Its of course the interviews term, with a majority of the job interviews happening during the 6 weeks of this term. Its all going to be a blitz with people praying that their dream job becomes theirs as soon as possible, so that you dont have to smart with the tag of "not placed yet"...
The course line up for term 7 is such that, if not for the placements, everyone would have opted for the maximum 5 allowed... check this out...
Customer Focused Product Planning - Seenu Srinivasan (Stanford)
Advertising - Ajay Kalra (Carnegie Mellon)
International Finance - K John (NYU) & Ananth Sundaram (Thunderbird)
Commercial & Investment Banking - Greg F Udell (Indiana)
Information Technology Infrastructure - Saby Mitra (Georgia Tech)
Managing Strategic Partnerships - Phanish Puranam (LBS)
Economics of Strategy - Ram Shivakumar (Chicago)
Strategic Profitability Management - Bala Balachandran (Kellogg)
Logistics & Supply Chain Management - Narendra Agrawal (Santa Clara)
Capital Raising Strategies in Corporations - NR Prabhala (Maryland)
Negotiation Analysis - Madan Pillutla (LBS)
Creating Value from Technology: IT-Enabled Services and Strategies - Ravi Aron (Wharton)
We here are almost at the level of complaining to the acad office that they never should have lined up such terrific courses during the placements season but then, its a tough proposition adjusting them in other terms anyways...
For now, I am looking forward to finishing my Consumer Behaviour final exam tomorrow and leave this campus to go back home for the first time since I came here... I will be in chennai from the 27th through to the 2nd... If anyone reading this will be in chennai, drop me an e-mail at r_sankaranarayan at pgp2004 dot isb dot edu and I will be happy to meet or talk.
