As announcement after annoucement started dropping on the blackboard, the tone of the whole campus changed. People started walking across campus with a sense of determination. Everybody looked like they have been on the dreaded spiral staircase atleast once in the past 24 hours. The professional clubs were a phenomenon, and there's a lot written about it already.
I never realized it was Monday until my alarm went on a frenzy at 7 in the morning. The tension was so high in the air that even the bunch of chinese students visiting ISB that day could smell it in the air.
The pre-terms really endowed me with some key skills that proved very helpful in classes. Here are some... mind you... these skills are hard to come by.
- Yawning without opening my mouth
- Sleeping with my eyes open (source: Vignesh aka Jignes)
- Sitting in a chair continuously for two hours
- Not uttering my favourite explitive when something doesn't make sense\
- Understanding the irony of life when an old 5 rupee coin means the whole world to me
- Holding a pen between my fingers without consciously thinking about it
- Appreciating the inner bliss when I stand in queues
There are skills that the pre-terms didn't teach us, but we managed to acquire - Smack D hinted at some of them in his post.
- Losing nametags, sunglasses, underwear etc.
- Writing extremely long emails (because I can type)
- Using Outlook rules and the oh-so-sweet sweet delete button (See 2 above)
- Drinking coffee at 3 in the morning and then chanting 'MR = MC' about 108 times
- Declaring that the buffet at Goel is heavy and expensive and substituting it with 3 plates of Chole Bature at the Cafe, 3 almond frappes at CCD, 3 triple sundaes at Baskin Robbins and 3 chilled beers with 3 packets of chips.
- Setting an entry fee for our own party (Practical applications to price elasticity of demand)
- Waiting for 20 minutes with our hand raised for a 20-second chance to speak
- Understanding that obesity is caused by a 'paradigm shift'
Week-1
Particulars Debit Credit
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Goel Account Rs. 1700
Cash Account Rs. 1700
Hot sun 22 Liter
Body water 22 Liter
Week-2
Goel Account Rs.1700
Cash Account Rs.1700
Work-out account 3 kg
Body weight Account 3 kg
Pre-term account Rs.15000
Cash Account Rs.15000
Week 3
Cafe account Rs.2000
CCD Account Rs.1200
Baskin Robbins account Rs.1000
Wine Shop Account Rs.5000
Party Account Rs.500
Coffee Machine Account Rs.100
Sun-glass Acct (Written off) Rs.5000
Cash Account Rs. 14800
Body weight account 6 kg
Binami account 6 kg
Assignment (20 marks)
Prepare a retrospective analysis of the value proposition offered by Week-3 to ISB students at the start of the week, and how the perspective of students changed from Monday through Thursday. Prepare a balance sheet, Cash flow statement and Income statement for Week 1 to 3. Describe how different Week-3 could have been if students didn't lose their nametags. (No less than 5000 words).