One Week At 'L'
Has been a complete change in my life in the last one week. From being a regular guy with a settled life in Pune, to being a person in the grind of a MBA institute. The work pressure of this place is legendary, though as of now things are relatively chill, but the prospect of the future is a prolonged heat wave.
Talking of the weather, there has been a perceptible change from the muggy and hot weather, to a pleasant one courtesy monsoon winds and rain, one can see huge clouds floating past the sky, one is reminded of Kalidasa and Meghdoot , as they do look like large FEDEX courier planes "Guppies". Thinking of sending a love letter through them, but my knowledge of geography says that it will have more chance of reaching Nepal than Pune, owing to the direction of the wind.
Today I took a evening walk in the campus , went around the entire periphery, it took about 40 min, the campus is full of verdant foliage, fresh air. Very well planned layout. Reminded me of the army cantonments in my childhood.
Lots of interesting subjects in this term, there's Business Law, Accounting, Statistics,Economics etc. There was a gem by a fellow student in the Business Communication class, a classic case of a verbose MBA. Asked to define communication he rattled off " A bidirectional exchange of ideas, between sender and receiver and vice-versa" . It had the whole class in splits .
On Sunday we had a presentation on "Economic turmoil and currency crisis in Latin America". Except football and Latino sizzlers like Shakira, we had no idea about the region. With extensive help from google and our economics book. We managed to put up a rag-tag show. After that there was a insti party starting at 12.00 , went on till 3, there was dancing and boozing as usual. I just took two pints of beer and rushed off to the TV room to watch the Euro Final. Both the beer (Castle Lager) and the final were disappointing.