"Anything can happen over Coffee"
A tribute to my first quarter A wonderful setting for a romantic evening. A lull after a downpour. I was waiting for 'you will know who' in front of 'Coffee World', Koramangala yesterday evening (10-Aug). It was a planned outing. There were supposed to be four of us but one person had to travel on a short notice and so the rest three of us met up.We thought we cannot meet up at our house owing to some personal constraints and hence decided on this quiet and serene location. The meeting went on for about 2 hours and we did achieve some milestones."Anything can happen over coffee!"

Does the header and the above contents make you feel I am leaving you perplexed. Let me bring about some clarity. Life has changed since I started doing my post graduate program in Mgmt, a non-residential weekend course. I wanted to pen down some experiences as a mgmt student but what I lacked was time. Now that the first quarter is all set to end (which also means the second is just round the corner), I thought further delay would dampen my spirits of sharing the thoughts. The final nail on the coffin was our outing yesterday at the Coffee World, Koramangala.The other two people whom I mentioned were Bijesh and Monish. Nelson, the fourth member of our project team had to travel and could not join us at this historical meeting. We met to discuss our project on Strategy Mgmt and some pending assignments of Financial Accounting. Gone are those days when these were places meant to be hangouts for new acquaintances while sipping some caffeine. Bijesh's place was busy with guests and Monish's house and my place are li'll too far. So the place we zeroed in on was this.It was a productive meeting though and we did make significant progress in our project.

Well, the feeling of a fully occupied student is slowly creeping in and I am craving for time, but the experience is nevertheless wonderful. Weekends earlier simply meant movies,bowling and freak-outs. The whole definition is now changing. I would not say I am undergoing a radical change overnight, but I am taking it in little ounces and assimilating the difference.

All in all, it's been an enriching experience, exposing us to a whole new world of theories and models, lively discussions and case-studies. Guess all these lend lot of practicality to the whole course as such. This is just the beginning though. Another whopping 11 quarters (i.e. 2+ years) before we are draped in the black gown. "So Far So Good!"  ¶ Wednesday, August 10, 2005