Back after yet another hiatus

Yes i know.. i am like the most regular blogger ever! "Thank u thank u... i would like to thank my" ... Oh.. u ask me what's the secret of the highly predictable and continuous and incessant blogging? Well i think I have always been very organized and dedicated in anything i did.. For e.g. when i was 5 years old (as u can see.. great memory too!) i cried and cried and cried when i had fever (oh.. not a pertinent example? hmmm... ppl keep telling me that i tend to be a little arbit at times.. but i am persistent at that too.. i have ALWAYS been arbit!)

So.. with all that aribidity(Blogger just underlined that word red.. wonder why! must be an earlier version...) i must tell u that i gave this psychological test in the Change Management Class called MBTI. (No it didn't tell me to visit the doc.. It was a basic version, u had to pay for the consulting.) So, it spewed out the result that i was apparently an I-N-F-J (Introverted-Intuitive-Feeling-Judgement). And then i read what these INFJ clan of mine generally behave like... hmmpph...hmmpph.. I apparently would be best at stuff related to social work, education, ministry, environment.... Dudes... repeat after me.." Shruti is becoming an entrepreneur.. " and not the social or not-for-profit kind or any such thing (with due respect to that flavour) I WANT TO GO GET THOSE CLIENTS, BABY!

So, as the business partner (aha! does that sound good, Sriram ? 5% extra equity stake for being respectful to u in every blog.. nah! not worth the loss of funnnn! ) mentions, "tune bohoth jhoot bola hain" or my take is "test ne bohoth jhoot bola hain"! For the record, Sriram's personality type came out to be E-S-T-J (Extroverted-Sensing-Thinking-Judgement). Now, we knew we were different and all that.. But, if test is really an indication, the founders of this company are going to having some fun sparring!

Law of network effects

Considering the popularity of the term "network effects" as an answer to all questions in Strategical Analysis of IT, here's a law dedicated to the enlightening concept:



"The value of the concept of network effects increases with the number of MBA students who buy in to the concept".



This, my friends, is the reason the dear professor repeats the term 25.3 (calculated using mulitple regresson after accounting for multi-collinearity and micro numerosity) times in every class, on average.



Happy networking and effecting!

I'm now an MBA/8...

Ello ppl!!!

I am officially an eighth of an MBA now... i am accordingly articulate, precise, tactful, busy, correct, and fashionably incorrect... Oh its just an eighth done... have a long way to go yet....

Now that the first round of grades has hit me, it is evident that any infinitesimal slacking will be brutally punished. You will have to live with the social stigma of being "below average".... And suddenly u realise, coincidentally ofcourse, that u aren't in an MBA school for grades! C'mon.. can u even be so naive? But ofcourse what it IS you are here for: thats a BIG secret... Dont let the cat outta the bag now.. someone else might steal ur thunder!

Now that also bring me to my life's ambition at this point in time "make average"... And if by luck, by some supreme chance i happen to hop over that much elusive line, then its time to bring out the champagne! The happiness is so unbearably HUGE that i simply have to start dancing the dance of the guinea pigs in the middle of the windy atrium (i like ta move it move it....physically fit....MOVE IT)...

U paid for this experience... to be among the sharpest, brightest peer group in the world... enjoy the joys and sorrows of it... sure, they average out too :)

A point in time

Windy it was, the atrium spare,

Holed up in a room was I,

On an incessant merry-go-round in air,

Couldnt make a single thought fly.....

Dear Davies...I have to agree....

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

Law of conservation of attention

I had a major revelation today :The law of conservation of attention.

The total amount of attention in a day always remains constant. It may be transfered from one lecture to another. Attention can neither be created nor destroyed.

This became apparent to me after a stroke of brilliance in Stats class followed by sheer dumbness and sleep in Accounting class.....

See, i even have empirical data supporting my law :)

Cheers,

Shruti.

A first time for everything....

so.... i've been at ISB now for a month! One month old, and more importatnly, one mid-term old... Bravo Shruti!

Well... its been two weeks of propah classes.... the classes have been well chronicled... so i'm gonna talk about some of the things i've never ever done before in my whole entire life...

Washing clothes, separating colored clothes, making sure they dont all repeatedly collude and decide to migrate towards a particular color...Even more so, drying clothes at 2 a.m.!

Being irritated that the library closes at 2 a.m.!!! What a geek!

Studying furiously for a test that contributed just 5% of the overall score! Man! this is pure torture for innocent kids from Mumbai univ who are completely new to this whole concept of studying for a class test!

Sorting 50 mails in a two hour span... and being a spectator to raging debates by the mature youth of India on the lines of "Are we at a disadvantage bcos we will be writing our exams in the uncomfortable recreation centre?" Have a question for u people raising this really pertinent question- did u give all ur previous exams in ultra-comfortable ergonomically designed AC lecture theatres?
Yes there are some new things i am really enjoying too....But whats the fun in listing them out?  I will at a later date.. when i feel more charitably inclined.. And thats not today :)
Cheers!
Shruti.

The finger stamp

Yes... i am part of this collection of people who are headed to ballot in a couple of weeks time... Its the most important and all consuming part of our lives right now...I mean what can be more exciting than voting the Chairperson of the Governing Society of Bartenders?

There are many campaign pitches addressing key issues facing all bartenders in India today, a sample of which i present for ur benefit:

1. Extended lunch hours

2. Equal opportunites for women in bartending

3. Improving the in-house lunch menu

4. Addressing future issues(Thats recursion at its best)

5. Better networking with previous boards of the Governing Society of Bartenders

so job opportunities even in Honolulu can be identified....

But, i think i have cracked the campaign pitch. Its............. "world peace"

(smug face that goes with having cracked the toughest problem which even the smartest kid in class couldnt)

Dont let it out till the elections... cos i think this seat was meant  for me since its very inception!

Cheers!

Shruti....