we are in our final leg of placements and it is an experience of its own kind to undergo a B school placement. But hey stay geared for the GRIND!!! your placements actually depend on the work you do and the way you extract the most from the program.
I agree with you man. and my intention is not to size up the college based on the placements.
believe me when i say this. i have read most of Harpi's and twiceblessedman's comments before writing this.
but i would still insist on my question and i would like an figrative answer.
Since the investment is high. i would like to know man. i am just anxious.
Hi to all gladiators here..is there any possibility that incoming spartans would be meeting outgoing gladiators upon joining in April?? or You would have left by the time we join?? It would be wonderful to meet you all guys up-close & personal Atleast an induction on first day with gladiators would be really nice. Since I donot stay nearby Chennai, so I would not be able to visit the campus until the formal joining date, so was just wondering about this. Also, if anyone can share, How's the orientation process of incoming students like??
Hi to all gladiators here..is there any possibility that incoming spartans would be meeting outgoing gladiators upon joining in April?? or You would have left by the time we join?? It would be wonderful to meet you all guys up-close & personal Atleast an induction on first day with gladiators would be really nice. Since I donot stay nearby Chennai, so I would not be able to visit the campus until the formal joining date, so was just wondering about this. Also, if anyone can share, How's the orientation process of incoming students like??
Unfortunately there is no overlap of the batch but you would get to meet a large number of us on the convocation day and the party later in the evening.
I have a small silly question : Are the rooms provided SINGLY-OCCUPIED ( one person per room ) ? OR DOUBLY-OCCUPIED ( 2 persons per room ) ? ... coz I believe I had read somewhere that INDIVIDUAL AC rooms are provided .
I have a small silly question : Are the rooms provided SINGLY-OCCUPIED ( one person per room ) ? OR DOUBLY-OCCUPIED ( 2 persons per room ) ? ... coz I believe I had read somewhere that INDIVIDUAL AC rooms are provided .
Yes, the rooms in the men's and ladies hosteal are single occupancy and air conditioned.
The married students hostel have double beds and are also air conditioned.
I am planning for my MBA in Great lakes this year. I have not attended any Entrances as of now. I am trying to write "GREAT" Aptitude test. I wanna know how much should a person score in this test in order to get in this amazing university. I have 2 yrs of exp in my back, and wanna do my 1 yr mba over here.
kindly advise how can i try to get in. As i dont want to miss this opportunity.
I am planning for my MBA in Great lakes this year. I have not attended any Entrances as of now. I am trying to write "GREAT" Aptitude test. I wanna know how much should a person score in this test in order to get in this amazing university. I have 2 yrs of exp in my back, and wanna do my 1 yr mba over here.
kindly advise how can i try to get in. As i dont want to miss this opportunity.
Thanks in advance
Admissions in Great Lakes no more happens through GREAT. It is only through CAT, XAT and GMAT. The average GMAT score for the class of 2011 was around 700, while the average CAT and XAT scores were 96 and 95 percentiles respectively. GREAT was only conducted in 2010 due to the CAT debacle.
If there is one word that I can say to describe the experience in Great Lakes so far, it is WOW. Two days of outdoor training that included adventure sports, paint ball, tug of war etc was awesome fun. We then had a guest lecture by the CEO of Orchid chemicals , thought provoking session on Introduction To Marketing by Prof.Swaminathan and many more interesting sessions.
With lots of guest lectures and sessions planned in the coming days, am gearing up for a interesting and knowledge gaining hectic one year at Great Lakes.
Today we had an awesome session on starting a business. And the person who interacted with us was none other than the chief editor of PAGALGUY Mr.Apurv Pandit 😃 WOW! It was a very interesting and informative session on what to do and what not to do if you start your own business.
Not only that, he also spoke to us about the kind of work that they do at Pagalguy, the kind of work environment they do and so on. It was pretty interesting to know that he was the second person to join the organization after the founder himself. He spoke about how pagalguy with one employee(the founder himself) and few members grew to a profit making organization.
Article provided by Avani Mittal of her visit to Ms. Hillary Clinton's speech at Chennai on 20th July 2011-
As we, the students of Great Lakes Institute of Management, started on our journey to Anna Centenary Library on 20th July 2011, we could not ask for more. The 30 of us were super thrilled about the prospect of being addressed by none other than U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the epitome of beauty and brains!
The Anna Centenary Library building was beaming with energy amidst the tight security arranged around the venue. Thrilled by the maiden visit of Hillary Clinton to Chennai, the reporters and press from local, national and international media, local audience and chief officers assembled in large numbers to a be a part of the event. As we waited for Hillary to arrive, the influx of celebrities from film and music industry such as Kamal Hassan, Padma Subaramaniam and Chinmayee along with opinion-makers such as Gauthami kept the gathering mostly comprising of students engaged. Among others, Cognizants R Chandrashekhar, Apollo Hospitals Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Founder and Dean of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Bala Balachandran, were also present.
The welcome address by Mr.P.A.Naresh, Joint Director of Public Libraries, Tamil Nadu preceded the speech by Ms Hillary Clinton. Ms Clinton started with "Vanakkam", her vernacular greeting provoking a roar of approval from her audience. She expressed her happiness about coming to Tamil Nadu and Chennai and praised the Tamil culture and history. The US Secretary of State paid tribute to India, its democracy and its pluralism.
She maintained that India is important to US and reiterated US support for India becoming a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council in a reformed UN system.
Touching upon the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, she asserted every citizen of the island nation deserved equal help and opportunity. Additionally, she emphasized that India and US should work together to combat piracy, mitigate climate issues, achieve nuclear non-proliferation and enhance sustainable development. She also quoted Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs wish that he should be able to travel so freely across the subcontinent that he could eat breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul. This quote met with much applause from the audience.
Towards the end, she desired a free, global world where peoples aspirations are not buried due to boundary restrictions. Though, it may not seem easy but she is sure that we can afford to be ambitious. This is a time to seize the opportunities of the 21st century and it is a time to lead.
The audience were mesmerised by her demeanor and presentation. However, a void was felt, due the absence of an interactive session. Pranita Dhamdhere of Great Lakes responded, Her reference to silk route- the ancient trading passage between India and China was something that stood for me. She stressed on its relevance for tomorrows India, a silk route stretching from India in all directions. I also appreciate her focus on importance of women empowerment in India, if it wants to grow in the real sense.
Vikram Choudhary pursuing PGPM at Great Lakes shared, It was an exhilarating experience to be an audience to such an eminent and learned personality. India becoming a superpower was something I had always read about, but receiving it from such world leaders shows that our invincibility is inevitable.
In short, the trip was a memorable one. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity for us which we shall cherish forever.
Vijayshree Menon, PGPM Student of Great Lakes Institute of Management, shares the experience of her typical day at Great Lakes. A typical Spartans day
Awake till 6 , catching nap for an hour Sleepy faced , straight out of bed , Brushed unbathed while few are unshaved, hungry thirsty , heading for the 1st hour
Here we are sitting in HR class, half-closed eyes and opened lappys , Some are sleepy , many look sloppy, But still a few does make some CP No matter we were awake or Sleepy
Few Stealthy glances on finance books Anticipating the test in the next one hour. Dont u dare to Complaint cos , this is what that's said "U asked for it ,for this U paid "
But it doesnt deter from our fight, Working all through the day & night Be it assignments or a game of Foosball At the end of the day, It is fun for all,
Every day we take things in our stride, Thats what in which we all pride Come what may, we never give in We are the 300 brave 'Spartans'.
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book is precisely what describes one of the most inspiring teachers at Great Lakes. Maheshkumar, student-PGPM, reflects upon his erudition gained over the past few months at Great Lakes and acknowledges the contribution made in his life by a Transformational teacher. To know more about this guru read on... Days were passing, pressing the thumbs on biometrics and getting acknowledged for the presence(Sometimes getting irritated with the sound of Pl try again) and nights were swallowed by the pre-reads of economics, leaving many gorgeous faces circled and sleep deprived. The erratic behavior of the curves in those pre-reads was making them look horrible (going against their vary notion of being attractive). Strategy and probability was brought into the action to safeguard ourselves in the classroom. As the probability of getting hit by the spell was higher in the region of eyesight and on the corner benches, we get strategically positioned on the extreme back benches and become invisible. So the balcony benches were getting booked much in advance and booking was extended to close ones with notebooks and mobiles working as booking agents. Though after the lecture, things were falling in place and curves were appearing attractive again (Even they didnt dare to be undisciplined in the classroom).This was the scenario with the economics, marketing and statistics were also slowly starting to tighten their grip and one more monster was marching its way towards the Spartans i.e. Accounting. Most of us being engineers, our lives revolved around machines and programming codes, we were as much familiar with the ledger and the journal of accounting as a beautiful lady used to be familiar with loneliness. In other words, the liabilities were piling up in leaps and bound, assets were weakening and Spartans equity was also depleting (after analyzing ABC case study so many times).The basic accounting equation was in danger of facing imbalance. Hang on folks. A powerful asset was already on its way to Greatlakes. Similar to the way, Amitabh Bacchan used to rescue helpless from the goons starting with the dialogue,Rishte me to hum tumhare baap lagte hain, naam hai Shahenshah, he entered the classroom with the wordsHi, I am Suryasekar Krishnamurthy from Florida university and I will be teaching you accounting. Though the words were as humble as he is, the result was as much powerful as that of Mr.Bacchan. First lecture started with the accruals and cash concept and he started answering every single hand that went up. Few of us started asking complex questions and I started to feel that lecture is diverting from the topic. But soon realised the futility of my thinking as such was his grip over the subject that no matter wherever it goes, he will bring it back on the track. The magic wand that he brought with him started showing its effect. Suddenly the demand for front benches exceeded the supply; atmosphere inside the classroom got filled with trust and confidence. Eye contact started establishing and more and more hands started rising with the belief that no matter whatever the doubt is and however foolish it is, it will be cleared with crystal clarity. With the continuous flow of knowledge from his side and 300 brilliant minds sitting in the front, accounting became more accountable with Journal appearing as General and Ledger appearing as Pleasure. Any murmur in the classroom would die down with his three simple words (dont misinterpret) i.e. Hang on folks. Such was the flow of knowledge inside the classroom that even the benches in the classroom could recognise the difference between the asset and the liability. Being the University of accounting in himself, the exchange of knowledge was not confined within the walls of the classroom. A coffee with him in the Bistro and you will digest the accounting concept much before the coffee. A walk with him in the green campus and he will take you on a ride of various accounting concepts. Apart from his teaching skills, it was his personal connect that added the cherry on the cake. It may be his that extra mile walk on the stairs of classroom to listen to the question of the back bencher or appreciation of the singing skill of fellow Spartans in the temple or mischievingly congratulating us for our sour response to the non mandatory doubt clearing session on ratios, with the justification of understanding our priorities. Those invisible walls between the faculty and the students got demolished and he started appearing as one of the fellow Spartan. After being the testimony to the fact that learning can be flourished even in the atmosphere of trust and confidence, he left on the same note as he started with Hi, I am Suryasekar Krishnamurthy from Florida University and I will be teaching you accounting As a transformational leader made a sheep lion realize that he is lion. Being a transformational teacher, he made us familiar with that accountant beneath most of the engineers.
Mahesh Kumar (student- PGPM) continues his magic by penning down his experience of a day spent in Great Lakes and translated his entire journey so far through emotions in his heart. Read on about the Day that Never Ends.....
The sound of alarm playing spoilsport brings you back to senses, you check the clock with half closed eyes and realize that waking up cant be delayed any further as it is routine wake up time (20 minutes before class) irrespective of class timing(standard deviation being almost zero). After unwillingly getting out of your kingdom (bed, no one can challenge you there), you brush your teeth. Now you come across a trade-off between bath and breakfast. As the deodorant has its own limitations (remember you hadnt taken bath yesterday either), you sacrifice those mouth watering parathas and idlis for the benefit of your class-mates and move towards the bathroom only to find that those bathrooms are already running house full as it is peak time and you get a chance to enter into nearby white house. While you are busy there, you hear the voice of door opening and quickly finishing things, you get hold of the bathroom before it is hijacked by someone else (this can be termed as bathroom management). The shower of hot water opens your eyes fully and you kind of settle the score by ignoring all the calls from outside such as Kamine kya kar raha hai, jaldi bahar aaja. After getting ready, you start running towards the class and while running you come across a line on the T-shirt of a fellow Spartan, Three things to do, wake up, survive and go to bed and a thought comes to your mind, is it the theme of the day?
You fill any vacant chair in the classroom without any fear as it is the lecture of a cool professor (cooler than the AC) who will give information on technology (Why the professors of informative subjects are so nice where as professors of particular economical subjects are too strict, can be a subject of empirical study).The professor starts the lecture and sincerely facing the books (text books) students build concentration. The Sense of humour of the professor grabs your attention and you come to know that there is something called as cloud (computing), which does not rain below certain temperature (Being non IT student, it is obvious). After an hour, someone asked about taking a break. After getting used to marathons (three hour sessions), it is like taking a break for a 500 meter race. But being a smart manager, you make full utilization of the opportunity and the break of 5 minutes ends up into a 15 minute break.
In another lecture, professor randomly calls a group to present and you get to witness the law Figures can lie as the probability of 1/30 suddenly turns into one. Wasting no time, you quickly take the class through the presentation to the most fascinating slide for any presenter (saying Thank you) as if the microphone in your hand is a live bomb which could explode any time. A round of applause follows which turns your head high (as you carefully ignore the probability that those claps could have been for quickly finishing the presentation).Then, despite of that big Thank you on the screen, you get bombarded with several questions from all corners. You retaliate along with your group members and the session turns into a wonderful discussion (& sometimes hiring of nurses turns into a 2 hour discussion).
You swim to another lake for the next class and secure a safe place as the professor has threatened in the previous lecture that if you come to the class without doing the pre-reads, you will be shown the door (though you know exactly where it is).The thought of financial freedom (retiring at the age of 45) and the skills of the professor get you involved in the investment related discussion. As the lecture proceeds, you learn so much that your retirement age automatically comes down to 40. (With pre-reads, you may have second thoughts about appearing in campus interviews. Moral: Doing pre-reads is too risky).
You never realize when those three hours have passed. To hold the nerve of the audience, a Bollywood movie needs songs, action, emotion, love scenes (I will not go further) and here a professor with the help of PPTS without much power(as they contain few words),holds the attention of about 150 students. In the last few minutes, the centre of attraction shifts to the biometric machines as the next lecture is after half an hour away and you have to take lunch in between. You run like the best athlete in the world towards the biometric machine and end up joining a queue (which contains several Usain Bolts). Every passing minute in that queue appears like an hour and to add to your ado, the biometric machine requests you to try several times. Then you run to the canteen to join yet another queue (Akhir kyun yeh queue?).
While standing in the queue, you witness smart team work by a few Spartans (single plate carrying food for several people). Initially you ignore soup as you are running short of time, but it pulls you towards itself and that delicious Gajar ka Halwa makes sure that you are left with few minutes before going to the class. While you are running towards the classroom, a new dish gets formed in your stomach with the combination of halwa and soup.
You successfully squeeze in through half closed door, your thumb says hi to the biometrics machine (ab toh har jagah ungli karne ki aadat pad gayi hai). Your eyes start scanning the last row for a vacant place and you occupy the very last chair (one behind the last row) feeling like a victorious king. But the smart professor brings back you to reality by calling you to fill the vacant seat in the front row and you tag yourself there with a plate showing kaidi no...(oops FT no....).Now the combination of Halva and Soup start showing its side effect and everything around starts appearing blurred and sometimes you go out of coverage area. But the thought of missing physical attendance brings you back into coverage and the announcement of (not so) surprise quizzes acts as an eye opener.
For the next two hours, the professor takes you through market research as if doing a research in the class itself till comes the time for the Big quiz. The quiz starts with that question paper smiling sarcastically at you and saying Best of Luck at the end (Considering the nature of question paper, professor sensed the need of luck in advance). Felling tense you look around and feel a bit relaxed as you find the same question mark on most of the faces around (Though there is a hole in our boat, most of us are sailing in the same boat and we can relatively mark the shore). And as always there will be outliers, for those below Folks, you make us proud and for those above, Mr. Bill Gates has said something I never topped a college but toppers from best of the universities work for my company(Kidding folks, one day you will make our country proud). After the quiz, your neighbour discusses the problems he faced while solving the questions and you smile at yourself as you never faced any problems during exams instead those problems prefer to greet you only during the results as if conspiring against you. The professor discusses the solution and you realize that though you have not nailed it but still did a good job, just by paying attention in the class.
Then you rush to the canteen and as usual join another queue (After a year, one will be so used to standing in the queue that for a moment you will think about joining a queue even on your marriage day). You eat those snacks and if that snack is fried in oil then you need to issue few tissue papers to squeeze out the oil (are there any oil wells in those mango gardens behind the cafeteria?). Back to the room, you pay a small installment of sleep of about 15 minutes (everything is on fast track) and rush to the college gate for the weekly visit.
Then you start an alien trip to a nearby village (as both the words Yoga and Karma were alien to you till a few months ago). While sitting in the bus, you set the binocular so as to search any potential follower as you are aware that a transformational leader makes a sheep lion realize that he is a lion without even knowing his language. After conducting an unsuccessful search operation for a follower in every corner of the village, you start feeling low and turn back with hope that someone might be following you, instead you find that even your shadow is not following you. Thats when a bunch of children, with whom you interacted during the last visit greet you and start playing with your laptop with the kind of curiosity that only a child can display. After spreading educational awareness, you join the celebration of life and play a few games with them. You realize that while transforming others, you yourself are getting transformed into a better human being (strange situation ofbeing a leader and a follower at the same time) and you leave your village high on enthusiasm.
Once back in college, being proactive you take a bath (tomorrows class is at 8 am), then the house-keeping guys come to make your life bearable by cleaning the room (cant even imagine boys hostel without these guys). You get a solution for the assignment to be submitted the next day and in order to give it an original touch, you get involved and an outcome comes which can be saluted by any plagiarism software.
While having dinner, power supply goes out for a minute and you listen to several rock stars howling in their innate voices. After dinner comes the time to work with CEOs-in-making (Group mates, very true in my case) and prepare a few polythene coated PPT's. In the Bistro, while sipping on cold coffee you listen to the words Oh shit! Followed byyou are the maan and the man himself enlightens others with his knowledge with the use of flowery language (If mere use of the F word would have increased population then he alone would have doubled the world population).Both of them exchange knowledge in their natural high tones (which helps keep the Bistro employees awake in those late hours). By the time your work gets done it is well beyond midnight and you again loose the opportunity of sleeping and waking on different days (Sometimes you join much acclaimed club of free loaders so as to have a wholesale sleep).
Back to your kingdom (bed), your eyes find it hard to sleep (they are used to sleeping under close supervision of the professor with knowledge flowing all around) and all the events from morning runs as a flashback in your mind and it makes you realize that the theme of the day is Wake up, get empowered and stay awake as much as you can. Next morning, again you find yourself lucky as you come out of the bathroom and after watching the clock, a chartbuster song starts playing at the back of your mindBhag bhag....bhag bhag...you know the rest.
And you embark on an enriching journey of another day that never ends.
In the true Sparta Spirits... By Sushant Midha, PGPM 2012 Student Dec 2, GLIM, Chennai------------------------Dec 12, GLIM, Chennai
10 days of madness, insecurities, apprehensions, anxieties, tensions, plannings, prayers, and hopes! As the placement week is scheduled to commence from Dec 12, everyone in the college is living with a heart beating fast and fingers crossed, expectations flying high and holding hard on to hopes and prayers. Its the time to reap the fruits of all the hard work and sweat we have put in during last 8 months, recollect all the MBA gyaan and plunge our heart and soul to find that one perfect job - time for placements!!! Yes, the time has finally come, which will mark an end to the fact of us not earning, time to pick a job which we always wanted to do, follow our dreams and shape our future. With 70+ companies visiting the campus for placements during Dec12-16, all this seems to be a fairytale soon going to be a reality, a dream coming true! As the golden future stand in front of us, welcoming all with arms wide open, We, The Spartans, prepare ourselves in true Sparta spirits to fight for it and win for ourselves our dreams and aspirations. Its the time to prove to the world outside, the acumen we have acquired after joining Great Lakes, with the help of world class faculty and learning facilities provided to us. These 10 days is the time of suspense and patience, while we also prepare ourselves for the moment to glory. Wishes to the fellow Spartans- all the best friends...chase it, fight for it, snatch it-because you deserve it! Let the curtains fall, let the show begin! Placement week- Spartans are ready...bring it on!!!
The below event may help many of you gain insights about management education.
Great Lakes is proud to inform you of GL Connect, a platform wherein Management aspirants across the country get a chance to network & associate with the Institute. Going beyond the regular agenda of discussing the School, application norms, addressing FAQs etc., this year the event offers much more.
GL Connect will present live discussions with the Dean of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Dr. Bala V Balachandran and eminent speakers such as Shantanu Prakash, Chairman, Educomp Solutions, Amit Agnihotri, Chairman, MBA Universe, Ashish Bharadwaj, Managing Director, GMAC-INDIA, Mr. Mohan Lakhamraju, Stanford Business School Alumnus and Ex-VC/PE Investor etc. Keep checking the Great Lakes website to find out which speaker is there in a given city.
Since inception of the institute, this platform used to be called Meet the Dean, with only Dr. Bala addressing the MBA aspirant audience. From this year, we have re-christened the same event as GL Connect and brought in a wider range of speakers to provide a global management perspective.
We are planning GL Connect as a four-city event, the details of which are given below. Registrations are already open for the event to be held in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. Please find the details below-
23rd December 2011 - Delhi 28th December 2011 - Chennai 3rd January 2012 - Mumbai 4th January 2012 - Bengaluru
In confluence with the above adage Great Lakes Institute of Management presents the annual fest, LAttitude 13 05, which strives to bring the best from industry and the academic world under one roof with the sole purpose of envisioning the future power centres of the world.
LAttitude 13 05 invites you to envision the future and be the change, for as they say The Best way to predict the future is to create it.
Here's to beginning of a new chapter in life - Great Lakes. :) : It's been hardly two months since we embarked on a new journey and there's already so much to share.
Here goes a short experience on the occasion of "Guru Parab" :
Like any other day at Greatleakes, 16th of June 2012 started with a pleasant morning and turned into unbearable scorching heat in the afternoon. This day was special, no-one cribbed about the weather, not about the scorching heat, none.
Special for many of us:sneaky:, we had been preparing for it for the past two days. It did not matter how hot it was or whether our exams were just a day away. What mattered was doing Seva for the Lord.
"Tati vao na lagaai, Gurandi, sharan peya" (The hot wind does not even touch one who is under the Protection of the Supreme Lord God.) So here we were, all the Punjabis distributing chabeel and inviting everyone to be a part of the commemoration of the martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the fifth Sikh Guru. As the tradition goes, we had put up a Chabeel (Sweetened drink of milk, water and rose syrup) stall outside the Canteen.
The ceremony stated with "Ardas", prayer to the almighty at 1:40pm and then we distributed "Chabeel" from 1:45 pm onwards till 4.00pm.
As the tradition goes, anyone from any religion, caste can join in for Sewa (help), it was completely voluntary and many joined in too. We distributed Chilled Chabeel everyone in the campus. Our feet burnt as we walked on the hot pavement, but the content on the faces of the people after they relished Chabeel was priceless. They all loved it and we loved it even more!
The day ended with a huge content in our hearts. The smile on our faces just could not fade. The feeling of oneness, the love and compassion for others and the service to mankind and above all to the load sent us to a different trance. :cheers: A trance that made us feel that Great Lakes is another home. That night, we all slept peaceful and content! To those who arent aware of this occasion: A Brief History Guru Arjan Dev ji is the fifth Sikh guru. He compiled the first version of the holy Sikh scripture Sri Guru Granth Sahib.He is an epitome of religious harmony and secularism. He built the famous Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple), whose foundation stone was laid by Saint Mian Mir. The temple was built with four doors signifying that people from all walks of life may freely visit the temple without restriction. The glimmering temple is also the lowest point in the city of Amritsar signifying humility. P.S: Our special thanks to all the Teachers, Staff members and the Canteen staff for their unrelenting support in making this event a success. God Bless!
This is the first word that came to my mind when I learnt that, our batch mate Mr. Gajendra Sisodia, Class of 2013 : has won first prize in the Marketing Plan competition:cheerio: organised by Ishwar Bhakti provider of Puja and Yagya services to NRIs. As a part of the competition, the participants had to come up with a marketing plan to increase its consumer base at a minimal budget.
Carrying on the legacy forward from GL Class of 2012, our batch has opened the account in winning prizes in management competitions across the country. Surpassing the likes of IIM Lucknow and NITIE in the competition() is nothing, but a reflection of the quality education imparted to the students. -- Proud Great Laker
;)HONEYMOON;) I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. I believe in living in the present. But, seeing the welcome desk and the welcome kits being laid out again for the Junior Mamallas (GLs first ever PGDM batch :newbie:), even I couldnt resist revisiting my first week here. You register and are ushered into your rooms where you dump your belongings and barely have time to exclaim in delight (or inform your bfs/gfs how awesome your room is or gush about it on fb/twitter ) when you are called in to collect your books (oh, only six for the first term by the way!), submit your certificates and complete other formalities. On your way to one of the numerous lakes (the classrooms and auditoriums here are named after lakes!), you meet others with similar dazed and confused expressions (who turn out to be your online chums), get together and an era of awesomeness begins! The first ten days are aptly termed as the Honeymoon period. Make the most of it as you will remember nothing as vividly as the very first week (rest will be a haze of passing days with you running helter skelter trying to complete the PPTs, the pre-reads and what nots the degree demands! :P). This is the period where you try remembering everyone and keep asking their names over and over and over again (till a point comes when you realize you have already asked the person his/her name a zillion times and are too embarrassed to ask again:oops:, so you start asking your neighbors instead!) bond together over obstacles, strategize and make team plans, realize how many muscles your body has (thanks to the fitness sessions), sell absurd items (like chungi and virility), learn to salsa-jive-waltz with face paints on, vanquish your opponents in the paintball arena:clap: & in the process, get to know those crazies you would be spending the rest of the year with! In short, you break the ice. And while most of us are busy enjoying our drinks:drinking::drinking: with the broken ice pieces (strictly soft drinks!), there are some over-enthusiastic EITs (Extra Initiative Types) who end up breaking their bones instead (well, they have to show others how skilled they are at jumping around and dancing isnt it?) and that is how Chettinad Hospital gets some of its first visitors from the latest batch of GreatLakers! While it lasts, there is absolutely no method to this madness with each batch bringing in its own uniqueness and craziness. But the fact remains, that even when the days are long gone with you struggling to get a wink of much needed sleep and trying hard to keep up with the course load, there are days when something triggers the memory and you drop anything and everything at hand to go back into what is just an wonderland now. Thats when you are smacked on you head :splat:by your group mates and asked to get on with the presentation that is due in the morning and you get back to it with a smile on your face! -- Article by Sushree Panda ( Class of 2013 )
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) when you are called in to collect your books (oh, only six for the first term by the way!), submit your certificates and complete other formalities. On your way to one of the numerous lakes (the classrooms and auditoriums here are named after lakes!), you meet others with similar dazed and confused expressions (who turn out to be your online chums), get together and an era of awesomeness begins! 
. Make the most of it as you will remember nothing as vividly as the very first week (rest will be a haze of passing days with you running helter skelter trying to complete the PPTs, the pre-reads and what nots the degree demands! :P). This is the period where you try remembering everyone and keep asking their names over and over and over again (till a point comes when you realize you have already asked the person his/her name a zillion times and are too embarrassed to ask again:oops:, so you start asking your neighbors instead!) bond together over obstacles, strategize and make team plans, realize how many muscles your body has (thanks to the fitness sessions), sell absurd items (like chungi and virility), learn to salsa-jive-waltz with face paints on, vanquish your opponents in the paintball arena:clap: & in the process, get to know those crazies you would be spending the rest of the year with! In short, you break the ice.
and trying hard to keep up with the course load, there are days when something triggers the memory and you drop anything and everything at hand to go back into what is just an wonderland now. Thats when you are smacked on you head :splat:by your group mates and asked to get on with the presentation that is due in the morning and you get back to it with a smile on your face!