Thursday, October 26, 2006

Term 2 - week 3

Managment Accounting II - Cost Accounting is really going over our heads right now. We really are not able to understand how to use all the information we are getting in this class. I spent most of the day yesterday reading up three chapters of the good about joint costs, split off points, activity based costing and cost allocation. I think I might be able to contribute better in class now.

Did the OM homeworks yesterday. The soap case design in complete. Design for Manufacturing and Assembly has also been compared with Industrial design. I would have posted by homework but our OM prof insists on a hand written assignment.

I still have to study for the QAM quiz tomorrow.

The student council has been dissolved. I think the WMP student council really needs to focus on getting the best instructors to Noida and work on making this program easier for managers. Their current focus on outside speakers and other business school festivals seems dumb to me.

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Term 2 begins

The finals for Term 1 were on October 5,6&7. The MANAC and BIO finals were relatively tough and thorough. The LAM and ECO papers were a joke. The LAM paper was almost exactly the same as the last years paper. The ECO paper required us to 4 out of 6 questions.All these questions were from the back of Michael Baye. The solution of all Michael Baye questions was distributed earlier by the students. There was no learning in these two papers/

Term 2 began. It seems that I will not have 80% attendance in the IT in Management paper. I have to go the US for one week. We have 3 ITM classes that week. Since this is a .5 credit course, there will be a total of 10 classes for ITM before mid term. I am figuring out how to get out of this situation.

The Quantitative Aspects of Mgmt I and MANAC II professors are interesting. The MANAC II prof is really knowledgeable and soft spoken. He tries to answer all questions asked in class, which sometimes slows us down. He has a habit of standing close to the person who asked the question and giving him an answer. He then asks the student "Yes/No" to ensure that he was understood. He also grabs his pants and raises them to the top of his waist as if they would fall down if not raised up. This is funny.

The QAM prof spoke at length about how his IIT, IIM son forced him to leave Mauritius and join IIM Lucknow. He is also a good teacher, thorough. We expect that he is give us a really tough exam.

The dissapointment of this term is that CK Singh will be teaching us OM II. Last week, he spoke how ashamed he felt about the choice of jeans made by his grand daughters. He said that jeans dont require washing for days and that he finds it disgusting. He then blamed Jeans for bringing AIDS and Chickengunia in India! He also told a surdar in our class that the color blue does not look good on him. Finally, he said that we must all wear White at all times because it reflects heat.

He is just absolutely boring and irritating. All of the class feels that attending his classes is a waste of time. They are there only for attendence. We are planning to write to the dean. I wrote up a document that Ashutosh will fair up before we ask everyone to sign it.

CK Singh has given us two dumb homeworks already:
1. Design a soap case
2. Answer Question 2 on page x in Aquilano based on the solved example on page y in Aquilano.

The dinner after Term1 finals was interesting. Bhushan, Anil, Ashish and I went to have a beer and dinner. We finished the ECO paper in 30 minutes. We were allotted three hours for it. We located the cheapest bear in Sector 18 Noida and drank and ate. Bhushan called Nupur to see if she would be interested in joining us, she didn't.. Anyhow, we have a good conversation about relationships and women in India today and why Bhushan and Ashish are still single. :)

We invited the CEO for holland tracktors to meet students of both the batches of IIML NC (noida campus). Only 25 people showed up. THe student body was really irritated at the lack of response. had a small disagreement with Ketaki the night before and decided to stay home on Saturday morning to get this disaggrement to closure.

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