Fourth Week..

I have to write this post yesterday evening. But I could not. Man, when second years and faculty told that CORE will be overwhelming and when I got through it for the first 3 weeks easily, I thought they had been exaggerating. An it turned out to be a big NO. I was toppled by CORE this week.

I got 96/100 in Finance quiz and 98/100 in accounting quiz. And I screwed up Data Analysis mid-term big-time. Of course, I have 8 subjects to study and my target is to excel in 5 of them and doing ok with in 3. I am trying to do the things on the same line.

We had to read a case every day and sometimes a couple of them and do a lot of other things side by side for networking stuff. It takes best of your organization skills to balance your work and relations. I figured out to do things in an order. I will do what requires my attention immediately. Then I will do the next one to that. I figured out that it is the optimum way I can do the things.

Coming to the Classes, they are in full swing as I told. We had to do Cases in Finance, Accounting, Operations and all. Economics got interesting when we discussed about FED funds rate cut. And how can miss to mention Marketing. One of the second years told earlier that once Marketing Professor comes to into the course, you think that you are working only on marketing. It’s perfectly true. He made us read 50 pages per day for every class of his and made us interview a consumer outside. We interviewed the mother of one of our teammates about her thinking and preferences when she bought a new Refrigerator recently. Marketing is really a fun class.

We had Consulting Academy Kick-off day on Friday. Many consultants (many of them Managing Directors at their firms) came and told us how they recruit, what they work on and how life in general as a consultant. Then in the evening we went play golf with them. This is the first time I am playing golf and you can expect the out come..:-).

We have assignments to be submitted on Monday and Wednesday. My team wants to meet on Sunday to finish them off. So, we can count Sunday as a working day. That makes only Saturday as the free day..We have a china night today and will attend that. It is an event organized by our Chinese batch mates.

I am freaking a lot on weekends. I watch movies till 4:30 AM and wake up at 10:30 AM. This is life on a fast lane, May be supersonic lane. I am enjoying it though..