errrr what is Fidaglo?
Folks!
This thread seems to be loosing its purpose... would request all the converts not to post some irrelevant one liners... Would highly appreciate if you post regularly on this thread, once you reach campus..
I have studied at the Ribandar campus, and eagerly look forward to updates on this thread, which talks about Life@GIM, a life which we as alumni miss badly...
I am positive, you guys will feel the same, a year down the line..
Sincere request to everyone, please maintain the sanctity of this thread.
Today, as I surfed (a luxury currently owing to my internship), I happened to bump into the Facebook group created for the incoming batch. Ah! The questions and apprehensions there caught my imagination. They were amazingly similar to the ones I had. My hunch is, everyone for aeons to come will continue to have similar questions before taking any major decision in life. Now, to me, sitting at the other side of the decision, the answer to those questions seem obvious. But I guess, when the mind is so full of doubt the most obvious may not be the most obvious. So here goes my story..
It all began on that fateful morning when the PGP Office sent be a mail saying that I had converted. Oh the joy of making it! I just couldnt control my grin for days on end. Oh! So happy was I. I was to head back to college. To MBA. Back to school finally. To amazing Goa! J
I began as all begin. Looking out for pictures of the campus, the placement reports, the rankings and everything I thought that mattered. Mum would ask me to consult some random uncle and asking his views about doing an MBA. In the hind sight, I must have talked with 20 such random uncles & aunts who were known to be good in the field of education but I doubt it made an impact on me.
The next step was contacting future batch mates. Girls checked out the guys and guys the girls.J Grand plans were laid out to be executed before the college commenced. A few adventurous amongst us even arranged trips as far as Singapore & Thailand, while others were content on meeting in various Indian cities. I being me met the first person from GIM in the train to college. It was quite an amazing train journey. Meeting your comrades for the first time but feeling that you had known them all your life!
I got down at Karmali station along with all the GIM folks I had met on train. The moment I got down I fell in love with Goa. I still remember that day as if it was yesterday. It was around 9 AM in the morning and cloudy. The grass & trees had just been bathe in drizzle and were sparkling green. As a matter of fact, as far as I could see everything was green! There was a cool breeze just caressing me. Just across the station there was a small lake with a birds flying over it. Ah! The perfect setting. For some reason it reminded me of Lords. (The cricket stadium in England I had seen during matches J)
The ride to Sanquelim was even amazing. Goa is littered with brooks and coconut trees and I was simply amazed by them. The roads were awesome which actually added to the beauty!
Finally we reached. Perched on top of a mountain in the college stood the college. To know the beauty of the place you have to visit it once in monsoon. Greenery as far as the eye could see and away from civilization. An idyllic place to study. Parents who had come along ditched their kids and were out taking pictures of the place! J
Then came the next question; what do we do now that we are there. Well Ill put the facts as they were in our time and hope its the same this time. That way itll help the incoming batch.
1. There are 4 class rooms on the ground floor. Each class can easily hold 60 students.
2. We were assigned to one of the 4 class rooms which were to become our sections for the entire year.
3. On the day of admission each class room had a list pasted outside its door with the name and roll number of students assigned to it.
4. So all we had to do is take our certificates and go and sit there once we were on campus.
5. After a while, a lady from the admin came and collected our certificates and asked us to fill in a few forms. (please take a pen and a few passport size pics along)
6. Once done, we were asked to go to our rooms. It was done.
7. Since I was one of the late comers to campus (a few of the hostels were being given final touches), I was accommodated at the old campus. That way I even got a chance to experience the GIM of Ribandar.
So that is how began my life @ GIM
Visit Konnect2GIM : My First Day @ GIM for post with pictures & more...
It all began on that fateful morning when the PGP Office sent be a mail saying that I had converted. Oh the joy of making it! I just couldnt control my grin for days on end. Oh! So happy was I. I was to head back to college. To MBA. Back to school finally. To amazing Goa! J
I began as all begin. Looking out for pictures of the campus, the placement reports, the rankings and everything I thought that mattered. Mum would ask me to consult some random uncle and asking his views about doing an MBA. In the hind sight, I must have talked with 20 such random uncles & aunts who were known to be good in the field of education but I doubt it made an impact on me.
The next step was contacting future batch mates. Girls checked out the guys and guys the girls.J Grand plans were laid out to be executed before the college commenced. A few adventurous amongst us even arranged trips as far as Singapore & Thailand, while others were content on meeting in various Indian cities. I being me met the first person from GIM in the train to college. It was quite an amazing train journey. Meeting your comrades for the first time but feeling that you had known them all your life!
I got down at Karmali station along with all the GIM folks I had met on train. The moment I got down I fell in love with Goa. I still remember that day as if it was yesterday. It was around 9 AM in the morning and cloudy. The grass & trees had just been bathe in drizzle and were sparkling green. As a matter of fact, as far as I could see everything was green! There was a cool breeze just caressing me. Just across the station there was a small lake with a birds flying over it. Ah! The perfect setting. For some reason it reminded me of Lords. (The cricket stadium in England I had seen during matches J)
The ride to Sanquelim was even amazing. Goa is littered with brooks and coconut trees and I was simply amazed by them. The roads were awesome which actually added to the beauty!
Finally we reached. Perched on top of a mountain in the college stood the college. To know the beauty of the place you have to visit it once in monsoon. Greenery as far as the eye could see and away from civilization. An idyllic place to study. Parents who had come along ditched their kids and were out taking pictures of the place! J
Then came the next question; what do we do now that we are there. Well Ill put the facts as they were in our time and hope its the same this time. That way itll help the incoming batch.
1. There are 4 class rooms on the ground floor. Each class can easily hold 60 students.
2. We were assigned to one of the 4 class rooms which were to become our sections for the entire year.
3. On the day of admission each class room had a list pasted outside its door with the name and roll number of students assigned to it.
4. So all we had to do is take our certificates and go and sit there once we were on campus.
5. After a while, a lady from the admin came and collected our certificates and asked us to fill in a few forms. (please take a pen and a few passport size pics along)
6. Once done, we were asked to go to our rooms. It was done.
7. Since I was one of the late comers to campus (a few of the hostels were being given final touches), I was accommodated at the old campus. That way I even got a chance to experience the GIM of Ribandar.
So that is how began my life @ GIM
Visit Konnect2GIM : My First Day @ GIM for post with pictures & more...
Was keen to know Wi-Fi and LAN connectivity @hostels ?
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Was keen to know Wi-Fi and LAN connectivity @hostels ?
thanks
Dude ,don't we answer these queries on FB and GIM thread ?? why are you spoiling the thread .It is not for this purpose and I am feeling bad to clutter this thread by posting this (when the same is told 1 post back ) .OFFENSE MEANT
@all - who are asking queries,it is not the thread for this purpose .Hope you understand and don't unnecessarily clutter the thread with such trivial questions .
@all : Sorry seniors and all for such useless post of mine .But couldn't help
do they consider SECTIONAL CUT-OFF for GIM?????
hehe no mater wat hapen i bet pepl vl never listen u stop 3 n 4th asks sum iritatin ques.
Nice.
Sory 4 spammin bt cldnt resist.
P.s. Not a alumni bt hav read al posts.
Any one posting with queries related to admissions or anything on this thread will be reported to the moderators and will call for a ban.. This thread is strictly meant for the Current students and Alumni of GIM.... Prospective candidates kindly refrain from posting here and use the threads meant for queries.
vinothgowtham Saysdo they consider SECTIONAL CUT-OFF for GIM?????
SORRY FRIENDS FOR QUERYING IN WRONG THREAD!:lookround:
Internship!!
Another Summer, another internship going by
Here i am sitting in my cubicle, waiting for my boss to turn up when i just had this thought to compare my engineering internship in an oil company with my management one in a financial services company.
I sit in an Ac room looking at the poor souls running on the road in this heat, whereas I was the one on the otherside till last year in the plant.
The weapons I have at my disposal to tackle internship are Word, Excel, PPT and Outlook while during my engineering days they were pen, paperm,helmet, safety shoes and an eye for detail.
Here you have options in the cafeteria whether you want Punjabi,Marathi,Chinese or South Indian, whereas in the plant you had to eat whatever the local bhaiya cooked up.
You join somewhere in the middle of the hierarchy as a management intern, whereas you were at the bottom of the pyramid as an engineering intern.
Your work timings were from 8.30 to 5.30, now they are 2.00 to 10.00.
You shared a rickety old PC with 10 other interns playing flash snooker championships with them daily, here you have your own PC (which is good enough) where most things are blocked (thankfully PG isnt) in the name of information security.
You took a bike, hitched a ride on the way to the plant, but now a cab comes to pick you up.
Lastly, you worked(atleast tried to) for two months at a stipend of 5000 per month, but now they pay you much more
There is one cardinal rule that holds all over the world: If students are smart, their teachers are ultra smart. Today, Ill just jot down some of the hilarious incidents we have had during college.
Episode 1
The moment you enter an MBA course, you have entered a life filled with power point presentations. Odds are that your group will be preparing at least one PPT every day and presenting one every 2nd day. However, there are some great souls who develop the art of staying hidden and are rarely called to present PPTs. So much so, that at times these greats tend to attend lectures without knowing whats there in the PPT that their group has prepared.
So, begins the story, one early Monday morning just before the marketing lecture. All groups had been asked to prepare a PPT and come to the class prepared. The topic was related the automobile sector. (GS = Great Soul)
GS1 to GS2: This profs calls students from the last bench. Lets sit in the middle.
GS2 to GS1: Yea thats correct, but 3-4 weeks ago he had called someone from the middle too!
GS1 to GS 2: Ok, lets sit in the first row. No one is ever called from the first row (prof walks into the class as GS1 and GS2 are settling down in the first row which is rarely occupied J )
Prof: Please settle down. (Looks at GS2) Since you are closest to the board, would you like to present the first PPT of the morning?
GS2: Sirrrr.. me?!?!? ( Are you kidding me? I am sitting on the darn first bench! No one in the history of mankind sitting on the first bench has even been asked to present! look on his face)
Prof (a smile on his face Caught you didnt I?): Yes you.
GS2 (slowly getting up): well sir mmm.. (Searches for his group members) mmmm.. yea.. I will present Let me get the PPT pendrive from my group members mmmm (looks at GS1 It was your stupid idea of sitting here right?!) (Walks to his group members, everyone quickly tells him the topic and a few points and that the PPT is 30 slides long!)
GS2: (I am sc**wed look begins the presentation): Good morning everyone. So, my group and I have made this presentation on the automobile sector. Automobiles entered India in.. blah blah blah globaaaal globaaal. Blah blah (goes on for 30 mins giving global right from Nano to Chevrolet.. Anything he had every heard about a scooter/car/truck/plane in his life was to be blurted out. It had no relevance or connection to what was there on the PPT)
By the end of it, everyone was almost on the floor laughing. The professor comments, When I asked you to present I thought communication was not your strength, but at the end of the presentation I can guarantee you that communication is your core competency. J
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Episode 1
The moment you enter an MBA course, you have entered a life filled with power point presentations. Odds are that your group will be preparing at least one PPT every day and presenting one every 2nd day. However, there are some great souls who develop the art of staying hidden and are rarely called to present PPTs. So much so, that at times these greats tend to attend lectures without knowing whats there in the PPT that their group has prepared.
So, begins the story, one early Monday morning just before the marketing lecture. All groups had been asked to prepare a PPT and come to the class prepared. The topic was related the automobile sector. (GS = Great Soul)
GS1 to GS2: This profs calls students from the last bench. Lets sit in the middle.
GS2 to GS1: Yea thats correct, but 3-4 weeks ago he had called someone from the middle too!
GS1 to GS 2: Ok, lets sit in the first row. No one is ever called from the first row (prof walks into the class as GS1 and GS2 are settling down in the first row which is rarely occupied J )
Prof: Please settle down. (Looks at GS2) Since you are closest to the board, would you like to present the first PPT of the morning?
GS2: Sirrrr.. me?!?!? ( Are you kidding me? I am sitting on the darn first bench! No one in the history of mankind sitting on the first bench has even been asked to present! look on his face)
Prof (a smile on his face Caught you didnt I?): Yes you.
GS2 (slowly getting up): well sir mmm.. (Searches for his group members) mmmm.. yea.. I will present Let me get the PPT pendrive from my group members mmmm (looks at GS1 It was your stupid idea of sitting here right?!) (Walks to his group members, everyone quickly tells him the topic and a few points and that the PPT is 30 slides long!)
GS2: (I am sc**wed look begins the presentation): Good morning everyone. So, my group and I have made this presentation on the automobile sector. Automobiles entered India in.. blah blah blah globaaaal globaaal. Blah blah (goes on for 30 mins giving global right from Nano to Chevrolet.. Anything he had every heard about a scooter/car/truck/plane in his life was to be blurted out. It had no relevance or connection to what was there on the PPT)
By the end of it, everyone was almost on the floor laughing. The professor comments, When I asked you to present I thought communication was not your strength, but at the end of the presentation I can guarantee you that communication is your core competency. J
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Today I am not going to talk about my Life@GIM..... I will tell you a story...
So the pratogonist in this story is a Boy, who has just crossed the legal drinking age 
.... Who is from a Tier-II city, single but off the market 
... We shall call him Dayaldas for the sake of convenience ( BTW people with those names do study in B-Schools)
So this story starts exactly 715 days back on the day of 15th June 2009. Dayaldas has got an admit to GIM, he has sent his fees, his medical forms, added every hot chick on Orkut 
(yeah that was THE SOCIAL NETWORKING site in those days), took a fancy laptop with a cool cover and a big battery and has packed 55kgs of luggage and is all set to GO GOA 
:cheers:
Now he reaches Goa on 16th June... mesmerised by the beauty, scenic ofcourse 
, he reached the holy gates of GIM in Ribandar (yeah yeah that same 400 yr old Yellow Building opposite the River, which dayaldas thought is the Arabian Sea). After getting a room and dumping his luggage he sets off to meet his new buddies in the campus, he socializes, tries to talk in english (after all he scored some fancy percentiles in XAT) and acts very sophesticated.
Now we shall skip the initial days of Induction where he meets seniors, and thinks "Why the hell the chicks of the senior batch hotter than my batch" and then using his DI&LR; skills he makes a theorem - "Beauty of Fairer Sex in B-Schools in inversely proportional to the cut-off %ile of the college"
Now we shall explain his story term wise
Term 1
All exited after the induction he starts his Term 1 with 7 subjects to cover in 3 months. He thinks big deal; engineering mein he used to pass 8 subjects with 5 days of prepration... Then he gets the shock of his life... 10 assignments per day 
... All this along with the freshers party and club selections and bucket parties, he learns the concept of Freeriding.... The days pass on with Regular Intake of brewed beverages, 9AM classes, assignments more than hair on his head and Razzzie Parties...
In this term he gets selected into The Marketing Club - MECCA, which had the SuperModel of GIM as his senior core committee. So along with his 4 Meccans he decides to take MECCA to greater heights.. neways so this way amongst all this the term 1 is about to finish and exams are approaching fast... So he said now its time to take out the books, but one second... there are no Books, only PPT and notes (which he dint make).. So with help from his so wonderful friends he gave his exams, and when all were going to home he decided to stay back and attend an exchange programme with students from Belgium to "ADD VALUE" to his CV.
Term 2
So after the break every one was back and the Bombs of the Placement Cell Dropped on Dayaldas's already Cracked Head (he met with an accident which involved him jumping off a bridge into water along with his bike), so the mail said that companies are soon going to come to select the brightest brains for Summer Internship, and to start submitting CV. So Mr. Dayaldas again pumped up ( majorly due to painkillers) started drafting his CV, after few lines he thought ( Maine apni engineering mein kuch kiya nahi, school mein kuch kiya nahi to likhun kya) , so after consulting the brightest HR seniors he prepared his CV and sent it to placement cell after getting it approved from God too 
The whole term 2 went into studying more complex subjects ( though he got a hang of studies and started studying from the beginning of the term), secured a summer internship, made some friends and thought Boss ab life set hai.
By this time rains also stopped in Goa and he explored Goa, the sunkissed beaches, the lovely waterfalls, the massive churches and yes by this time Foren maal also started pouring in Goa. Also since the term is full of festivals so celebrated Dandiya, Dussera, Diwali, Christmas with one and all.
Term 3
27th Dec - Start
WIZBIZ 2010
28th March - Finish
Now you must be wondering what the above 3 lines mean... Kindly refer to previous post by Severus Snape and others. You have to experience it to understand it.
In short Dayaldas's whole 3rd term went into Organizing the biggest Corporate Quiz organized by any B-School. Right from making the website to picking up chairs after the events, Dayaldas and his team managed the event which took toll on their - Grades, Relationships, Weight, Skin Colour
So excited about the summer internship Dayaldas leaves Goa for 3 Months.
Term 4
So now our Mr. Dayaldas has completed his Summers, had a nice vacation at home, spent all his stipend in few hours has come back to "God's Own B-School" - G.I.M
He is now a senior, his group on IP has changed to PGP2, is now officially SCC and can now add all the girls from his junior batch on FaceBook (yeah Orkut died by this time) and has now wil have to study only those subjects which he likes...
So he takes up 9 courses in the term, decided to get up for every class and study for his career and not for his exams,
10 Days later - 9:25 AM - Dayaldas is awakened from his deep slumber by his classmate who is saying, faculty is calling you into the class, which if you miss you will be kicked out of the course.. Then he curses hiself for taking so many courses...
4th term passes in attending classes, sitting for meeting for hours, cursing Goa coz it rains Girrafes and elephants.
Meanwhile all his juniors stay in the Newly Built State of the Art campus which is very different from his 400 yr old hospital turned B-School, he makes freqeunt visits to the campus on pretext of Mid-Summers, club selections and what not.
He and his team select the new JCC for their club and take some load off their shoulders...
The term is also full of parties and fun, but somewhere in the mind one voice is saying "100 days to placements" and suddenly Dayaldas gets goosebumps, but he thinks let 5th term come, then will think.
Term 5
Dayaldas comes back from his Term break, takes out a fancy Post-it board and writes his Plan of Action for Prepration of Placements. He knows the term is going to be easy with only 5 subjects to take care of. Soon he gets engrossed in preparing CV's, reading every business newspaper published even Times Of Kohalapur.
This term goes very mundanne with just one aim in his mind, to secure a good profile.
So we shall skip the details 
At the end of the term he Sells his Soul oops i meant secures a Fancy Job in a MNC and again says "Life set hai Boss"
Term 6
Now comes the final lap of his PGDM at G.I.M, he selects electives not based on the course outlines, but on the visiting faculty dates coz he wants to enjoy his last months as a student after which he will plan his life 6 days at a time. So he selects electives like "Hindi Lyrics in Management", "Emotional Intelligence", his intake of fluids has gone up like the Petrol Prices in recent times, his sleeping constitutes 2/3 of the day and he is living the Goan life of "Susegad".
Then one day "The Countdown Hut" is erected in the college, which reminds him only 30 days are left in heaven, he thinks 30 days, he will try to make his most memorable 30 days, he goes to every corner of Goa where he has never been, dines at every restaurant in the 20 mile radius, tries all the types of drinks in the razzie parties.
Then comes the day of "The annual Convocation", graciously dressed in the Black and Golden Robe, proud of his achievement, his parents in the same hall thinking their son has captured the world, he cares a rats ass about the gold medals his batchmates are getting coz he knows, he has earned his own medals. He finally get the coveted Diploma.
With a heavy heart he says bye to Goa, his home for 2 years, and is ready to take the next journey as a Corporate.
PS : Now you must be thinking why such a long post, beacuse today after 715 days, Dayaldas is leaving for his new life, he is joining the organization he was selected in, he remembers the day of 16th June, when his bags were packed in the similar fashion, but this time its 22 Kgs lighter .. After all he has learnt to optimize resources in some class of Operations Management.
Now who is Dayaldas - Its you, me , everyone who has entered the holy gates or Ribandar and Sanquelim (yeah finally we have a gate there)
PPS : This is a work of partial Fiction and Partial Facts, a lot of spice is added, and serious things have been omitted for the real life... coz as Prof. Mirchi used to say - Life if too serious to be taken Seriously
@Gaurav Golwalkar
Your GS 1 and GS 2 were rookies man... here the prof used his own judgement and its biased...so it can be predicted...
what do you do if a prof used Function RAND from excel to catch people !!
For more details refer to an old GIM Diaries post of mine :)
Another hilarious incident involving PPTs...
Raghu, my dear friend, an IT Bond and currently a fellow Wiproite based out of Banaglore soon to go offshore, was part of a team that was presenting a PPT. Raghu is the person who once famously described the term IT penetration as "Penetration of IT where IT should have penetrated but hasnt yet penetrated"...so gloablity was the play of his left hand 😛 😛 :P
Like team presentation, good old raghu was assigned to present a part of the PPT.
So when the group was through 7 slides and reached the 8th slide Raghu walked in like a Kannada filmstar walks into a villain's lair with his mom/sister/girfriend tied to a pillar nearby...
But by then the prof had understood everything.
Either the PPT was too good, and totally self explanatory, or the professor realised that there is no point wasting time on these gone cases...
either way, he waved his hand at slide number 8 and said..."Ok skip..."
Raghu skipped to 9...he opened his mount only to hear..."SKIP."..
SLIDE 10...uhhmmm sir..."ok ok skip skip..."
Slide 11 - This as you can see sir...."I have seen...skip skip"
Slide 12 - Here we can say..."Yeah yeah I know what ure saying skip skip..."
So Raghu puts his head down and walks away from the stage like Ricky Ponting after losing in the World cup Quarter Finals....
Sir - "Raghu where are u going?"
Raghu - Sir my slides are over !!!
Sir - But u didnt say anything...
Raghu - "speechless"....Sir but I skipped no !!!
Class - Cynaide khila do humein !!!
Initial impressions at GIM, sanquelim campus.
As I settle to write this, the rain drops tap my window incessantly and the clouds draping the mountains are slowly caressed away by the cool winds.The whole greenery and the misty mountain tops are the perfect setting for a great countryside novel. But that is not what I am here for :). Such is the beauty of this place that the moment you gaze around, you cant help but marvel at the nature's work.
In case, you are wondering why this guy is yankering about the surroundings here at Goa Institute of Management (GIM),Goa. Its because I'm completely smitten by the beauty of this place :-).
Well, first things first, Its been two days since I arrived here in Goa or rather somewhere which somehow happens to be in Goa but its not "the Goa". Sanquelim (Saakhli, Sakhlim), had a tough time explaining to the taxi driver at the Karmali railway station that I want to reach GIM not some god forsaken Hotel management college which he was hell bent on taking me to.
So, when I finally saw the campus from down the hill, I heaved a sigh of relief. During the journey, armed with Google map (god bless amerika!!!) I had been constantly peppering the taxi wallah that whether he knew the way or not? we should go right not left!!. And as a consequence of my smart ass antics, the taxi wallah refused to give me his number, when i asked for it. A snubbing, which I richly deserved :). Lesson learnt: Never underestimate the taxi driver, even if you don't understand a word what he's saying.
It was raining elephants, sharks everything when i arrived.....after a lot of roaming around in rain and sacrificing my umbrella to the hands of gusty winds. I somehow manged to complete all the formalities and got myself a nice hostel room overlooking the mountains. By that time I was completely out of steam......met some people from the facebook group.............dumped the contents of my luggage in the cupboard....phew!!!!.
As the day came to an end, got acquainted to my roommate and few other nice people. The campus was already abuzz with construction activities and with 240 people now and 240 more to come.......i only hope there's going to be an awesome camaraderie around.
Day 2 started off with the director's speech and the faculty introduction. Mr. D'Lima, our director, introduced us formally to the "GIM". Somebody mentioned he has close to 42 years of experience, and the experience definitely showed in the wonderful way he addressed us and presented his points clearly and crisply. The faculty introduction thing passed off in a whiz. And it was time for the "tests". About which I rather not write here. 😃 ;)
Post lunch session was the doctor's talk.....abstinence from the vices of Goa.........proper care of your health...........antibiotics usage............ I wonder till what time i will abstain from the "vices" of Goa. A thought to ponder,indeed. :)
Forgot to write about my trip down the hill.............the adventurous soul that I am (pun literally intended!!!!) decided to look around sankhlim market a bit. My roommate Sanil, dropped me off while on his way to panjim. With my newly purchased umbrella, I set upon exploring the place amidst heavy rains. Although being a pretty small hamlet sort of place..... I was surprised to find the place has everything you need. A hospital, physician, optician, banks, atms, general stores and even a "national bar" which for the record i didnt go to.
As i already mentioned my adventurous streak, I don't know how but that streak died its slow death the moment I started climbing the hill. and by the time I was at the cafeteria scourging those puffs I was literally huffing and puffing (Shakespeare would have turned in his grave on seeing my rhythmic connotations).
Anyways, enough of my ramblings, these days have been dramatic, chaotic and everything right from the word go!!!!! Already loving it!!!!! Somehow the sense of achievement and urgency is yet to sink in and hopefully we will overcome the "stressing" and "stretching".
Till then, its time get drenched in rain again and again!!!!
Later,
Abhishek
Dont Know How or Why but It took me almost 2 days to post in the thread that I had been following since ...ummm... even I dont know when... But I guess thats the way life is expected to be for the upcoming 2 years in GIM....And I am loving every moment of it....
Till now it has all been about settling down in the hostel and I have already made two trips to sakhli town on my own two feet and God I am proud of it....I thought My legs arent capable to do that anymore... But I have soon realized that life here shall make me do things which I would otherwise Deem impossible.
I just walked inside my hostel room with a sore leg and I realized that All I have to do is to open my room's windows and I have a beautiful Cloud-laden Green Mountain right in front of me.... A cool fresh breeze gushed in and Suddenly all that Soreness is history... there is a subtle calmness here which one could never find in the chee-po of a city's hustle bustle.
There is just one color everywhere - Green. Somehow I am not getting tired of just staring outside my window till I could see nothing.
I am sure my mind is overwhelmed with the serenity of the place..
M first umbrella became a victim of the Rains on the every first day...It just couldnt stand the Force of the wind along with some heavy pouring which we had been warned about much in advance... Thanks to our PGP2s....
Now Its time to gear up for tomorrow and the life ahead in GIM which would no doubt be a whole lotta learning and a whole lotta Partying...
Till next time...
Ciao
Regards,
Dev
The Premier First Day First Show :splat:
The day has finally arrived, 10th of June the day I will be officially inducted into the PGDM 2011-13 course at GIM. Finally I will be a part of the ever growing, ever popular and ever enthusiastic GIM fraternity. With my bags packed and overloaded boot of my car I leave for the battlefield accompanied by my parents and brother just in case I need any help which I did later.
Chasing a few mining trucks on the way we finally arrive at the golden or iron or whatever gates of Gods own B-school. Just before we could get out of the car the rain gods shower their praises and best wishes to all the newbies:, it rains like it hasnt rained for years. Finally the rain stops and I am all set to get set go. I reach the registration room allotted for my section and I fill up all the necessary forms and pay the required fees. Next stop the doctors room where we were supposed to get rooms allocated to us and find ourselves a roomy who would be your brother in arms for the battle at least for a year or so. After a long wait of 3 hours amidst all chaos, enthusiasm, anxiety etc. etc. etc. I finally manage to get myself a room and a roomy. The rooms in charge looked liked the devils most trusted guard a gatekeeper of the gigantic gates of hell greeting us with his evil grin saying to himself welcome to hell boy its going to be some adventure these 2 years.
I along with my roomy get going with our own set of keys. A few minutes later we are finally able to spot our room. I open the door and before checking anything else I just run to the window to check out the view and boy what a site it was, hills covered by mist with greenery all around it and the lush green football field (lush green thode dino mein ban jayega abhi paudey ugg rahe hai) mesmerized my senses . My roomy seems to be amazed too and says yaar how did u manage to get his one its great and I reply saying just chose it and I didnt know it was so good, we just got lucky my friend and we have a nice laugh :clap:. Then I happen to take a look at my room and let me tell you it was a little too dirty then I expected but thanks to my mom and the maintenance department we happen to clean it in no time. I am all set to get my bed ready and what do I notice, my bed has developed a huge crack :shocked:. I go knocking the doors of the maintenance department once again and the respond saying it will take at least take a couple of days to get it fixed hearing which I am in a big fix for a few moments. With my mattress on it with me on top of it could result in a huge crack in my spine if I happen to fall. I pray to God Bagwan bed bacha le baki sab mein bacha lunga fisrt day pe haddiya bachani hai nai toh wapis ghar lautna padega. My bro n parents help me unpack my stuff and get set for a very pleasant stay at the hostel. Later in the evening all exhausted I try to relax for a while but I just realize that my fan isnt working :shock:. Gosh I have to run around once again to catch hold of the electrician and I manage to find one . He checks the fan and says sir fan toh jal gaya hai replace karna padega and I immediately question him aaj ho payega? Nahi toh raat ko neend nahi payengey hum and in a rather tired voice he replies sir aaj mushkil hai magar try karta hoon. Luckily after an hour or so he returns with his assistant with a new ceiling fan. As soon as the assistant climbs up the chair the electrician pounces on him as he was standing on the chair with his dirty feet and had not made use of paper to cover the seat of the chair. The electrician then walks away leaving behind his assistant who utters a few words in a rather calm voice saab woh kalkatta se hai aur hum therey UP ke.. hum dono ki acchi banti nahi hai same same hote toh baat alag hoti.. understanding acchi hoti and both of us have a hearty laugh over it.
The night goes on pretty fineand I am up early in the morning thanks to my roomy , I rush to the loo and to my bad luck, hard luck, poor luck o whatever luck u could think of besides a good one the flush isnt working and I am in a fix once again. I just say to myself bagwan aur kitney fix mein daloge pehle hi din p...thoda toh rehem kar bacche pe, but somehow I finally sort things out and get ready for the directors speech. We make it in time, the whole session goes on well but ends on a frightening note as the professor who ends it says we are going to stress you ,we are going to stretch you and I say to myself sir bacchon pe rehem karo humpe metal ki tensile strength test mat kijiye...daya karo humpe.
We then move on to the next block buster release of the day.. the Foundation Course Test the first couple of papers go on fine and I happen to attempt whatever I can, then comes the last test for the day, its a test on MS Exceland I say to myself once again after looking at the questions bagwan MS Excel kyun questions ke formula dekke mein BODMAS ka rules bhool chukka hoon, VLOOKUP ko dekke mein upar dekke app ko yaad kar raha hoon aur yeh copy paste #,&,$ ko dekke muje taree zammen pe dikh rahe hai issey bacha lena.. zero dilwa de negative mat dilwana. We are finally somehow done with the test and we move for lunch after which we are supposed to attend a session by the GIM doctor which happens to end in 15 mins instead of the 60 as told before and my roomy has a nice power nap of 15 mins and wakes up by saying ho gaya kya and I reply haa ho gaya..Antibiotics nai leneko bola hai nahi toh raat ko jaldi so jaogey,beach pe party nai karneko milegi :drinking:aur goa ka maza nai le paogey :cheers:.... Ab chale? and both of us burst out laughing. Finally I am done for the day, I leave for my home sweet home for the weekend leaving behind my room and of course my roomy.
Cheers,
Trevor A. Vaz
GIM 2011 -2013
The day has finally arrived, 10th of June the day I will be officially inducted into the PGDM 2011-13 course at GIM. Finally I will be a part of the ever growing, ever popular and ever enthusiastic GIM fraternity. With my bags packed and overloaded boot of my car I leave for the battlefield accompanied by my parents and brother just in case I need any help which I did later.
Chasing a few mining trucks on the way we finally arrive at the golden or iron or whatever gates of Gods own B-school. Just before we could get out of the car the rain gods shower their praises and best wishes to all the newbies
:, it rains like it hasnt rained for years. Finally the rain stops and I am all set to get set go. I reach the registration room allotted for my section and I fill up all the necessary forms and pay the required fees. Next stop the doctors room where we were supposed to get rooms allocated to us and find ourselves a roomy who would be your brother in arms for the battle at least for a year or so. After a long wait of 3 hours amidst all chaos, enthusiasm, anxiety etc. etc. etc. I finally manage to get myself a room and a roomy. The rooms in charge looked liked the devils most trusted guard a gatekeeper of the gigantic gates of hell greeting us with his evil grin saying to himself welcome to hell boy its going to be some adventure these 2 years. I along with my roomy get going with our own set of keys. A few minutes later we are finally able to spot our room. I open the door and before checking anything else I just run to the window to check out the view and boy what a site it was, hills covered by mist with greenery all around it and the lush green football field (lush green thode dino mein ban jayega abhi paudey ugg rahe hai
) mesmerized my senses 
. My roomy seems to be amazed too and says yaar how did u manage to get his one its great and I reply saying just chose it and I didnt know it was so good, we just got lucky my friend and we have a nice laugh :clap:. Then I happen to take a look at my room and let me tell you it was a little too dirty then I expected but thanks to my mom and the maintenance department we happen to clean it in no time. I am all set to get my bed ready and what do I notice, my bed has developed a huge crack :shocked:. I go knocking the doors of the maintenance department once again and the respond saying it will take at least take a couple of days to get it fixed hearing which I am in a big fix for a few moments. With my mattress on it with me on top of it could result in a huge crack in my spine if I happen to fall. I pray to God Bagwan bed bacha le baki sab mein bacha lunga fisrt day pe haddiya bachani hai nai toh wapis ghar lautna padega. My bro n parents help me unpack my stuff and get set for a very pleasant stay at the hostel. Later in the evening all exhausted I try to relax for a while 
but I just realize that my fan isnt working :shock:. Gosh I have to run around once again to catch hold of the electrician and I manage to find one . He checks the fan and says sir fan toh jal gaya hai replace karna padega and I immediately question him aaj ho payega? Nahi toh raat ko neend nahi payengey hum and in a rather tired voice he replies sir aaj mushkil hai magar try karta hoon. Luckily after an hour or so he returns with his assistant with a new ceiling fan. As soon as the assistant climbs up the chair the electrician pounces on him as he was standing on the chair with his dirty feet and had not made use of paper to cover the seat of the chair. The electrician then walks away leaving behind his assistant who utters a few words in a rather calm voice saab woh kalkatta se hai aur hum therey UP ke.. hum dono ki acchi banti nahi hai same same hote toh baat alag hoti.. understanding acchi hoti and both of us have a hearty laugh over it. 
The night goes on pretty fine
and I am up early in the morning thanks to my roomy , I rush to the loo and to my bad luck, hard luck, poor luck o whatever luck u could think of besides a good one the flush isnt working and I am in a fix once again. I just say to myself bagwan aur kitney fix mein daloge pehle hi din p...thoda toh rehem kar bacche pe, but somehow I finally sort things out and get ready for the directors speech. We make it in time, the whole session goes on well but ends on a frightening note as the professor who ends it says we are going to stress you ,we are going to stretch you and I say to myself sir bacchon pe rehem karo humpe metal ki tensile strength test mat kijiye...daya karo humpe. We then move on to the next block buster release of the day.. the Foundation Course Test the first couple of papers go on fine and I happen to attempt whatever I can, then comes the last test for the day, its a test on MS Excel
and I say to myself once again after looking at the questions bagwan MS Excel kyun questions ke formula dekke mein BODMAS ka rules bhool chukka hoon, VLOOKUP ko dekke mein upar dekke app ko yaad kar raha hoon aur yeh copy paste #,&,$ ko dekke muje taree zammen pe dikh rahe hai issey bacha lena.. zero dilwa de negative mat dilwana. We are finally somehow done with the test and we move for lunch after which we are supposed to attend a session by the GIM doctor which happens to end in 15 mins instead of the 60 as told before and my roomy has a nice power nap of 15 mins and wakes up by saying ho gaya kya and I reply haa ho gaya..Antibiotics nai leneko bola hai 
nahi toh raat ko jaldi so jaogey,beach pe party nai karneko milegi :drinking:aur goa ka maza nai le paogey :cheers:.... Ab chale? and both of us burst out laughing. Finally I am done for the day, I leave for my home sweet home for the weekend leaving behind my room and of course my roomy. 
Cheers,
Trevor A. Vaz
GIM 2011 -2013
Really nice posts all three of you !!
The posts...litearlly drenched in goan rainwater brought bak the memories of my own induction.
Our Doctor...Dr (Mrs) Fatima D'Sa, happened to mention that alcohol consumption must be harmful to health...
The laughter which erupted in the F2 hall...I thought today Sanata Casa will collapase !!!
@ Trevor - Rehem...daya...HAHHAHHA...MBA me age jaa ke aisi halat ho jayegi...ki pehle tum daya ki bheek mangoge...par tumpe koi daya nahi karega..ulta aur paanch assignment sar pe laad dega..
Fir tum bologe...upar wale...utha le ..uthale...arrey Mujhe nahi us darinde visitingf fac ko...
Fir finally negotiate kar ke khud ko hi uthwane ka request raise karoge...
and when Yamraj comes to take you, your group will sent him back because you have three presentations to do and if you leave, the entire group will be screwed.
In short...Mktg, Finance, HR, operations...har area mil ke tum sabka aisa gangrape karenge...ki u will sing the song "And nothing else matters" !!!
keep it up. This thread is not just an outlet for you lieterary longings, but also a place to share stuff about GIM...A marketing tool.
Pratchoubey more than anyone else will vouch for the fact.
And in the age of facebook, when your urge to share your feelings and experiences with the world is fulfilled at the click of a mouse or a simple SM...no one has the time to write such posts.
But all three of you, I can sense are gifted. So use your gift more often...even when you feel a bit down, or a bit lazy...MOVE IT and write.
All the very best and hope to meet you all when I come to recruit you in the INternships season. So all FMCG fetishists...and nakli Marketing bonds...Gear up :)
Regards
Snape
The Premier First Day First Show :splat:
Trevor A. Vaz
GIM 2011 -2013
Regards,
Dev
Initial impressions at GIM, sanquelim campus.
Abhishek
Folks,
It was a delight to go through your posts, please continue posting, and let this thread be a reflection of the Good Life @ GIM!:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Its a week already since I arrived in Goa, and to confess i have already succumbed to the "vices" of Goa..... :). Explored panjim a bit, gorged buffet at the legendary haunt "fidalgo", got sloshed....sigh!!!. There are still places to explore, people to meet , soak the goan sunshine instead of getting soaked in the heavy rains!!!!!.....my schedule is already filled.....
Not to deviate from the course of action, we are already knee deep in action here at GIM. With the advent of the gruelling ( well.....at least for some people!!!!) 3 week long foundation course, things have started to fall in place a bit. Still we have enough time to explore the nearby scenic areas. The inland beauty of Goa really amazes me,compared to the beaches and all, it is hugely underrated. With the occasional sprinkle of rain, the greenery of the place literally lightens up....
Coming back to the foundation classes, it has been fun interacting with profs and fellow batch mates alike. Some people really capture your imagination, some hijack them and in some cases you still wonder "what was that?". But I guess these are perspectives which one needs to shift accordingly :). From the initial reactions one can gauge the fact that the faculty here is really up to their task and they know their "p's" and "q's" damn well.... I can already see my future :p
Our campus here is promoting a real novel concept of RFID cards for your every need on campus be it food ,laundry, stationary, snacks anything. Every transaction on campus is cashless transaction. So, up the hill cash doesn't work (pun intended!!). And as far as I know other than GIM none other institute can boast of such a unique facility. Of course there's a flipside, if you lose the card you are broke or the guy who finds it will make you 😃 :p
The campus is still in a progressive stage but once it is complete it will be a sight to see.
Quite unusually it has not rained for over 20 hours now, its a first for me since I arrived so am not complaining.
Rain or no rain, first week here was quite eventful. Hope my cheerful tone doesn't get caught in the myriad shenanigans of the coming weeks. 😃 :)
Later,
Abhishek
P.s. TT is a big hit in the hostel (the only "entertainment" here)
P.p.s. thanks severus snape and aspire for the encouraging words!!!!! 😃 :biggrin:
Welcome to GIM the new batch of 2011-2013 ... \m/ \m/
n welcome back our dear juniors (Now the Proud owners of the 'PGP2' tag).
Now that the campus is finally in it's full capacity, I am sure all of you guys out there would have a gala time in the months to come (So plz keep posting all the various things that happen out there..especially the PDP's ;))
n Severus Snape plz keep sharing all those lil anecdotes like you always done :-)
Cheerz guys n see u all @ the Grand Alumni meet !!!