b-school gaatha

now that i've spent about a month in this place, me thinks me should jot down a few griping comments on life in a b-school.

the biggest trouble in a b-school is that there are too many managers and too few workers. everyone wants to take the lead and organise and co-ordinate. which usually leads to timelines getting stretched and more organization and co-ordination. there was this event where we had to prepare a marketing campaign and i was making a poster and this guy comes along and says - "hey maaan, i think this font doesn't look very cool! make it something more flashy." and promptly walked away to give some more instructions to someone else. i can bet my (future) year's salary that this particular fellow didn't know how to hold a brush right...

and btw, the two most frequently used phrases i hear are - "hey maaan!" and "hey guys!"

i strongly believe that 70% of the tension in a b-school is artificially created. surprise tests, assignments, pre-readings, projects and the worst of all - group projects. when you get 5 group projects and all of them have different groups and you have mammoth problems of scheduling meetings, you understand what group interaction is all about.

then there's the problem of class participation. somehow people have this misconception that this is all about asking questions. "sir, since standard deviation is the square root of variation, why do we need to have two terms? we could as well have done with one!! " "sir, normally in economics we deal with two variables. why are you using three variables here and unnecessarily complicating matters?"

baaki complaining kisi aur din [:P]!!