Scraped Through..

Hmm...So..I am done with my first term here. I have mixed feelings about my life here; well,who wouldn't considering the mad schedule here. At times all we could do was laugh at our helplessness at the lack of time..80 pages to read, 1 hour to go. 4 questions to answer, 1 hour left to get a printout..Blah Blah..

Then loads and loads of PPTs..We might have made around 25-30(????) alone in this term!! Add to that the PPTs done in class, and I guess half my life @XL has gone this term dealing with PowerPoint.. But to add to that, our V Brand did make a name for itself this term, especially in "Corporate..(blah blah)..Responsibility" (I couldn't fit the name of this course in my end term answer sheet ;)).. I don't know how many would have actually liked our experiments with Role Plays, and Acts, but then I can bet my life that we were certainly the most creative group when it came to the mundane task of telling the class what they already knew..

The idea of different groups for different courses didn't really go too well with me initially, as it turned out, those were the only people I got to know well enough!! Oh yes..Still a few in the class with whom I haven't talked much, and 1 term is over!! In my defense- the same applies to them as well!!

As Sengo puts it: "The only good thing about this term is that ITS FINALLY OVER.."..it began so brilliantly with a near MAX score in QT...Aah..I saw so many dreams then, top ranks, scholarships, A+ grades- it turned into a nightmare soon. For the rest of the term I couldn't even add up half of what I got the first time :P

Then there was our "Managerial Economics"..God knows whats managerial in that..Anyways, I couldn't get a hang of it initially, bombed in the first quiz, got raped in the second (which brings me to one famous quote- "You don't get raped in XL, you get Kakani-ed and Gango-ed"..For the unenlightened, these are two of our professors!!)..getting out of quotes and all, and getting into Market forces, and Game Theory, as I stand now, Economics has been my strongest subject this term, and BELIEVE me, that is not saying much :(

The Show-Stealer though has been BFA...Basic Financial Accounting..Seems to be the most innocuous of subjects initially; but it has drowned many..We got our grades a couple of days ago, as many as about 55% of the Batch has below "B" Grades. More significant was the fact that the cutoffs came down drastically!! When its KILLER QUIZ was held on 24th, these were a few of the GTalk status lines(Plagiarism intended..Thanks to Varun :)): Find it here.
Vinayak Mehta : Et tu, Sengo!
Aditi Shukla : Last rays of hope are gone.
Vidisha Vijay : From one disaster to another
Avinash Mehra : BFA is BewaFA
Marshal Sonavane : Phir BewaFAi
Meet Kachchy : CFA to pass ho gaya, BFA ka pata nahi!
Sandeep Somisetty : 2 out of 30 in bfa quiz 2..now 30 on 45 needed..tuffer than eco now..
Shifa Shalini Tirkey : helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
Abha Inamdar : Even Ganpati Bappa has given up on me
Abha Inamdar : Ay kaash ki hum hosh mein aa paaye!
Shubham Singhal : I see a distant C,,which i cannot cross coz I dont know how to swim
Ruchika Sinha : Passing accounting suddenly has begun to look like a herculean task !!!
Pathikrit Basu : The Horror!! The horror!!
Rajkamal Roka : screwed up ...top to bottom
Sakyabrata Dutta : BFA is fast approaching the point of no recovery.
Varun Gupta : Gango na karey Sengo Ne Woh Kaam Kiya Hai!

As it is...when all was done, and the grades were out, I PASSED, Just, but I did!!! So after the Battle, Plassey returned home!!!!