Induction Rocked..... no respite since then...

We got over with our formal/informal induction to IIM-L last saturday.... Details i cannot disclose coz of the insti honour code :).. but it was awesome fun.... top it up with the amazing insti party... with unlimited booze [yeah, unlimited] flowing.... and the DJ belting out number after number.. the best part was that the party was in an AC hall, Samanjasya, otherwise we would have just melted away in the Lucknow heat. On Sunday, we had a session with our Chairman of the Board, Dr. Jamshed J Irani, Tata Sons. Amazing personality, I was totally in awe of him. Even though I did not agree with most of his views regarding management education [neither did most of my classmates] , still I enjoyed listening to his amazing experiences n life.
Monday... formal classes begin... first class, BIO [Behavior in Organization, for the uninitiated]... man, the prof was deathly boring... I thought, this, this is it... this is how I am going to die... from boredom driving me closer to St. Peter.... but thankfully the session lasted only [!!] for 90 minutes, and then i rushed to my room for a nap... I was thinking, why are the IIMs so revered, the profs here are just as [or even more] boring than the profs at med school.... but then Tuesday showed me why... We had a CFM [communication in management] session... the prof was amazing... energetic, knowledgeable, in sync with the present generation and had an amazing sense of humour....
Just as I was gloating, MANAC struck, then QAM, then LAM... and then god knows what... Assignments, Groups, Presentations, Projects.... the deluge literally shoved me to the edge.. then i recalled, i am in helL.... gotta run now... have to analyze Aventis Pharma's Annual reports for the past four years [WTF!!!!!!]

1st post from helL...

Hey people, this is my first blog post from IIM Lucknow, AKA IIM-HelL.... before coming here i had these dreamy thoughts about a great campus, awesome facilities and a really cool and intellectual crowd. Well, realities are a little bit different. My excuse may be that dreams really never come true, but I contend that I may have over expected, but not too much from one of the top institutes of this country. Some dreams really did materialize into reality, as in, the campus is breathtaking, an idyllic mixture of manicured lawns and densely forested areas, and some really wonderful artwork at display. The academic facilities are unparalleled too, with one of Asia's largest management library and a well and adequately equipped computer center. The classrooms are fab, so is the mess, for a change I didn't feel nauseous after having hostel food. But now comes the pitfalls, sports facilities are nowhere near even good. They just "are there". The soccer ground is just an unkempt lawn with bent water pipes for goal posts with torn nets, the basketball court is a concrete one and so unkempt that it is pretty easy to fracture a bone in the body after taking a fall, and there is no surrounding mesh wall, the lawn tennis court is also concrete surfaced and the net is in shreds, the pool table in H12 is in a pathetic state too. The only saving grace are the badminton court [indoor, wood surfaced] and the TT hall in H12.
The commercial plaza is adequate for one's daily needs, but they really rip you off. The canteen/fauji dhaba is exorbitant beyond measure.
Now to the most important part, the people.... well to be frank most of the people I have seen are really studious and keep to themselves all the time, a small minority is really cool, maybe even good at studies and are really helpful, but a sizable number of the junta consists off eggheads and I-am-too-important a**h****. And to tell you the truth, these more than compensate for all the goodness existing at L..... one always feels like telling them, UP YOURS!!!!