Hi People,
If you thought 'Life @ GIM" was restricted only to the boundaries of Santa Casa De La Misericordia (which is the name of the 350 year old completely WIFI building which houses GIM...)....think again!!
After 3 months of ragdaa patti in a B School....I was in no mood to even step into a B School for a week...Chhutti on my mind!!!
I was at home...eating...drinking (Mountain Dew) and resting my brain cells fried up the oil of MBA course workload....
But as chance would have it....I stumbled upon a notice which caught my eye...
A notice for "Chakravyuh 2009", the Annual Management Festival Organised by Lala Lajpatrai Institute of Management in Mumbai.
After finding out that the organisers would accept OTS entries, a clarion call was sent ot to GIMites in Mumbai during that time....the call...was answered by none other than Ashwin Kak, batchmate, fellow MECCAN, friend and one of the most creative guys I have ever known.....
Together we decided to give the Ad-DY-NO-MITE (the ad mad show) a shot...
We were asked to create a print ad for TATA NANO.
We went for a totally no nonsense approach wherein we concentrated purely on the 1 lakh rupee price and 26km/l mileage.
The entire Copy was in chaste hindi....and was bombastically titled "KANJOOS MAKKHICHOOS"...a reference to the frugal engine of the Nano...
Besides the ceativity part...Ashwin and I had a complete blast making that creative....
Ashwin likened my sketches of the NANO to a yellow tortoise and at one point threatened to lie down in protest ("Main idhar hi laet jaoonga") if I drew one more nano!!!
Due credit must go to the organising team of the event which kinda bend the rules for us and allowed a two member team to participate in an event meant for 4 people.
Special thanks to Anand Vig and Ms Tulsi Sindhwad for taking care of all of our requirements...be it getting us wierd coloured sketchpens, rubbers or moving furniture to make space so that we could sit on the ground and draw our creatives...
to Ms Ramandeep for running the event so smoothly!!
and Miss Himani Kanitkar for the most effective "SILENCE GUYSSSS" call which I hade ever seen....a call which was immediately complied to by the murmuring crowds and also for clearing our silliest of doubts without getting irritated...(or atleast showing it :-P )
An hour later we were given an opportunity to present our work to the judge Mr Saket Rao who apart from having an illustrious career in the field of communications was a outdoorsman into river rafting and a trained kick boxer!!
Much to our delight, we qualified among the top 5 from the 25 teams among whom were the likes of JBIMS ....
BUT THIS WAS NOT ALL....WE WERE NOW IN THE FINALS!!
For the finals, the brief was to create a TELEVISON COMMERCIAL (TVC) which had to be in sync with our print ad.
We also made it to he finals of the Marketing Quiz...qualifying as the top team in the prelims...but messed up in the finals and couldnt win it :P
BRAIN BLOCKED
I and Ashwin spent the evening barinstorming on the Worli seaface katta...we looked to the setting sun for the inspiration...which never came 😛 We were truly in a chakravyuh!!!
INSPIRONF
inally we took a cab...and on my first ride over the Bandra Worli Sealink...we had a flash of inspiration and our storyboard was ready in my head by the time the cab crossed over into Bandra.
Working virtually over the phone from our respective homes, both of us hammered out the script and readied the forty second ad skit over a 2 hour long Conference Call !!!!!
Next day, I reached the venue 3 hours prior to the event and drew out the 7 pane storyboard.....I put in everything they had taught me about advertising in Podar College and what I learned about marketing at GIM...
Again Ashwin had more than flattering things to say about my drawings!!! Like Picasso and what not 😛 :P
at 11 30 am we finally got our chance and presented our skit and the accompanying storyboard on a chart paper to Mr Orijit Mitra of the Corporate Marketing team at Vodafone.
His reaction....."Perfect. No Questions".
We were scared...either he liked our stuff or it was pure bull :w00t:
After the event, the Chakravyuh organisers did not declare the results and on the insitence of Event co-ordinators who were like friends by now...no I mean friends by now....I stayed back for the evening...
and staying back was one the best decsions I took cos the entire evening spent in the auditorium enjoying the numerous singing, and dancing events. It made me nostalgic about the last day of our fest back in Podar College...
Mr and Mrs Chakravyuh was an added attraction but the Fashion Show was simply scintillating with amount of hard work put in by the teams!!
The Retro theme simply brought the swinging sixties alive on the stage!!
And to cap it all off....our team...coded "THE DOORS" managed to win the Gold medal for the event!! The gyaan gained during summers Cold calling prospective Nano customers got us both cool prizes includng a TATA Indicomm internet data card!!!
And I even got to give a little globaaal Thank you speech on behalf of GIM while accepting the prize!!! (As a GIMIte..how could I miss a sacred opportunity to give globaaaaaaaal)
So all in all...it was a very very well organised event...as they chanted back in audi..LALA ROCKS!!!! and I am sure in whatever small way possible, GIM did make its presence felt and they were two days well spent!!
Cheers and Enjoy!!!
Cheerzz to Snape Bhai..I Knew you were upto something Big,when i couldn't find you online for last couple of days..!!
Way to Go!!
Congrats to the Team..!!
Cheerzz
Ankur
Ola Amigos!
Feels great to be back at GIM after a refreshing and certainly well deserved break. I am a family person; and while it was hard to say goodbye to everyone at home I am eager to spend an enjoyable and fruitful second term with my extended family at GIM.
Marketing is easily the most interesting subject I have encountered. Everything is so real world and so practical. No thought seems irrelevant; if it works for your customer, its worth exploring. Period. Professor Parulekar is an amazing marketing faculty. Its encouraging to find someone with such vast experience and proven credentials yet so receptive to new ideas and a willingness to go beyond mere 'KOTLERisms' . Challenging status quo is a part of life @ GIM and its a privilege to be part of an institution that lets me explore new ideas and embrace change.
Up next is the basanti cup (our intra college cricket tournament). Hope to bowl a few yorkers and bounce a couple of my batchmates. 
With Akhtar out Carvalho can move to fast bowling!!!
The weather in Goa is simply surreal. Its raining 24X7 and the effect the picturesque mandovi has on my spirits cannot be described in words :grin:
The maddening heat of Mumbai is a distant memory.
Thats all for now.
Charles
PGP1
Goa Institute of Management
Time sure does fly ... I can't seem to remember where my vacation went 
And so friends I am back to GIM with the rain gods extending me a very hearty welcome I joined my friends, all of us back from our respective places with huge stocks of goodies just waiting to be consumed 
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And yes ... we are all set for Round 2 of our PGPM Marathon which tests the Human ability to endure lack of sleep, juggle multiple courses with each presenting tougher challenges and meet deadlines.
The first few days have been nice for us ... I just hope I can stock enough sleep for the better half of this term.
PS : Learnings from last term :
One Nighters before exams don't work anymore :nono:
Open Book Exams are not what they claim to be 
It is actually possible to be formatting reports, making power point
presentations and having meals at the same time :shocked:
OB isnt as easy as it looked 
Term 1 was one roller coaster ride. It took a while to get adjusted to the pace of the course but hopefully we are now better prepared for the term to come. Looks to be one hectic term for sure!
But I am really looking forward to the non academic part of it. The first term was a truck load of fun with Walk for India, Samriddhi and the numerous events organised on campus.
Can't wait for Term 2 to begin in full swing! Bring it on I say!
Debjani Ghosh
Batch of 2009-11
Goa Institute of Management
I wake up to the sounds of birds nestled in their little tree homes chirping away trying to brighten up the sleepy world of humans. I watch the vast open sky and feel humbled. I look out of my window, the Mandovi lies there, calm and peaceful. I watch a ferry go by as dutifully as it always does. This is truly heaven on earth.
But then, there is only one thing separating me from this beautiful paradise. KOTLER...!!
Got to study guys. See you later.
Rains Rains and more rains, dont know what has happened to GOA. Its raining like it wont rain for next 100 yrs. Mandovi is threatening to overflow and airport is closed. Thanks to the Portuguese construction, GIM is safe when 1/3rd of Goa is threatened by floods.
Term 2 and Term 5 are truly ON, can see sleepy eyes and people running between classes.
However the life at GIM never slows down whether its rains or work load. On Saturday BrainVista the quiz society organised its first quiz of the new term and yours truly was the quizmaster. The quiz had one prelims and 5 rounds in the final round and as usual Snape and Pooja won the quiz. I thinks its their Nth win where N tends to infinity, after all they are THE quizzing team of GIM......
@charles, all the best for basanti cup....But beware I m one of the umpires, any resemblance to akhtak(except the yorkers) will dealt with calls of no-balls.......
Hi gim'ans;
whatz the fee structure..and the placements out there...
:banghead:
Hi gim'ans;
whatz the fee structure..and the placements out there...
:banghead:
the fee this year is around 5l for the course.....
and for placements you can see the following link
http://www.gim.ac.in/uploads/studprofile/1_placefile_Placement%20Report%202009.pdf
Hi gim'ans;
whatz the fee structure..and the placements out there...
:banghead:
the fee this year is around 5l for the course.....
and for placements you can see the following link
http://www.gim.ac.in/uploads/studprofile/1_placefile_Placement%20Report%202009.pdf
this is not the right thread for the query.. kindly post ur query in the 2010-12 admissions thread !!
http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/goa-institute-of-management-admissions-2010-12-helpdesk-25044144
Regards,
Midsems just got over last Friday and the PGP1s at GIM probably had one of the best weekends in recent times. After a long while we actually had a weekend to ourselves. Sure enough students here tried their best to explore the beautiful state of Goa. Sounds surprising but these are rare times when we get to enjoy. Compared to our power packed scheduled where we are expected to do superhuman tasks, this was a blessing from heaven itself.
It seems like eternity since I have penned down a word or two on LIFE @ GIM
Life here has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride. 2nd Term began with a whole new bunch of subjects and faculties. Finally I can boast of 1 class in which can I do CP Marketing -1. The grades of Term-1 have started pouring in and I am bombed as usual :banghead:.
A lot fun has been happening on the campus as well. First we had a delayed Dandiya night ( due to the torrential rains.. when it rains .. it literally rains cats n dogs in Goa), had awesome fun with all the traditional Gujarati garba tracks and authentic gujju food frm Rajdhani, thank u too all the Gujju crowd @ GIM.
With barely a week after Diwali came. With almost all the PGP participants celebrating Diwali on campus(yes that's what MBA is ) it became all the more fun. RaZzMaTaZz - the cultural club of GIM in association with Prayas made all the preparations for Diwali, all the hostels were decorated with Diya's, candles and lighting. LH & Mourge (Girls Hostels) were decorated and there was a competition for the best decorated room. Post Aarti and dinner was an awesome fire cracker show sponsored by RaZzMaTaZz and @ 10:30 came the most awaited moment. The entry of all the Male Junta of GIM into the Ladies hostel for 2 Hours . Its a long standing tradition of GIM where on Diwali night all the boys are allowed the entry into the girls hostels. The girls decorate their rooms and have sweets and other delicacies for the Special guests. And i tell u the view of Mandovi from LH is simply awesome. I envy the Female Junta.
Post diwali the massacre started with tons of assignments and Mid-term approaching.
Then came another event from MECCA called BLURB based on the concept of product design and advertising. All the participants had fun designing innovating and crazy products such as Anacondom, LoveBulb etc. We as organizers had more fun making and organizing the event and it exposed us to a lot of concepts involved in advertising and product design.
Then came the Mid-terms 4 papers in 2 days totally massacred.
With the mid-term ending on Friday, GIM junta needed the much awaited break and people in groups of 10's headed towards various parts of this beautiful state. I myself with 10 more people landed at Palolem beach on Sat night, stayed in beach huts, had awesome sea food:cheers:, bathed in the clear Arabian sea the whole Sunday morning, explored some more virgin beaches. When you are studying in Goa, atleast on Sundays ( very few though) u can appreciate the Beauty (both scenic and ).
So after a fun and tiring weekend I crashed on my bed last evening to find my self getting up just 4 min before the class. But with the close proximity of class to my room i managed to reach JUST IN TIME .
Now I am waiting for December when I will go back home and waiting more for 31st Dec, when Goa will be like never seen before and the best part , people from all over world come down to Goa to celebrate new years and we as privileged students of GIM will be in Goa.
Signing off as of now. Will soon be back for some more interesting aspects of LIFE@GIM.
Cheers
Adding to my previous post Ribandar Talks organized a talk on Social Media by our very own estranged_gnrs aka Mr. Rohit Awasthi.
Adding to my previous post Ribandar Talks organized a talk on Social Media by our very own estranged_gnrs aka Mr. Rohit Awasthi.
Yes. That was indeed a very informative session. The talk was on the topic "Social Media : New Roles for the New World of Marketing". It helped us look at Social Media with a whole new perspective, as a tool for marketing. We were lucky enough to get a chance to chat up with Mr. Rohit Awasthi after the talk where we had a very interesting discussion over a range of topics. Overall a very nice experience for the students of GIM ...!!
can anyone let me know whats the percentile range to get in GIM,
Is there any sectional cut-off?
How the admission process goes, do they give more importance for past academics too..?
:banghead:
can anyone let me know whats the percentile range to get in GIM,
Is there any sectional cut-off?
How the admission process goes, do they give more importance for past academics too..?
:banghead:
Kindly direct your query to the following thread : http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/goa-institute-of-management-admissions-2010-12-helpdesk-25044144
This is a thread about LIFE@GIM and not about admission related queries.
Thanks
Well.... After about 6 months in GIM, here I'm putting up my first post for "LIFE @ GIM"! But as they say, its better late than never...:biggrin:
I don't want to get back in time where I started my journey in term 1 coz I'm sure the bloggers here have given you an insight of how things go around in here and well, trust me guys the start of the journey was the best experience ever... a perfect blend of academics:banghead: and fun!:cheerio:
The beginning of term 2 was amazing with the RazZies throwing all of us a welcome party, and then came the inevitable... Term 2 subjects: COMA, POM, Marketing, FM, IGP and OR!!!:-( Sounds scary doesn't it?? But thanks to our professors here they seemed a li'l less scary once the classes started!
For a guy who is from an engineering background, a simple term like "cost" meant a price you got to pay for some stuff you use... well thats what i thought before COMA (a costing subject) dawned upon me.:sneaky: It's in this class that I realized there were about 7 different types of costs!!!
About POM (this subject is all about processes), OR (operations research) and IGP (all about how groups work); it is a totally different experience and well I'm short of words to describe anything about them!!:-)
Now, the next 2 subject I'm going to talk about are my favourites, Marketing and Financial management! So I better not speak much about it because I'm sure I will be completely biased!!!
The beauty of these subjects is that these are so intriguing; you will come up with ideas which you might have never imagined before!
Anyways, now to the interesting part... we just finished our mid-terms about 4 days back and this was the first free weekend we got after a very long time!!! No assignments, no tests, it was like a dream come true!:clap: There were people who went for water sports, beaches,
some just went exploring Goa on their bikes
and some just cleared the backlogs of SLEEP!
Oh by the way, I forgot the most important events in GIM, Diwali and Garbha celebrations.:cheerio: This was the first diwali I was celebrating away from home, but it was amazing! Once you come here, GIM is a home away from home! And then there was a much awaited tour of LH which normally is a no MANs land,:nono: quite literally... It was a pleasure to see everyone dressed in their traditional clothes eating sweets, dancing around, bursting crackers and some just jumping out of their skins at the slightest noise of fireworks.
Theres a lot more to this than whats written above and hence quoting Om Shanti Om Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost...
Cheers, :cheers:
Dilip Mallya
Its been 5 months since the Course started.. but it seems like I have been here since so many days..
Unlike last term, there is somehow no excitement to go home a month later...
Again, unlike last term the subjects this term are much more interesting, more participative and less of assignments :)
Each day,there is something to learn...inside and more outside class...
You learn here not only about management, business... but also about your own life... about yourself... about the world outside the door of your home... its good and bads...
and slowly you learn to cope with it,, fight with it and finally be a part of it..
I am learning it all here... And I guess this learning will continue for a long period of time..
But what is more important is that I am enjoying all this.. and I guess in the end that is what matters... 😃