Deja Vu ??

We are extremely glad for the overwhelming participation in the preliminary round of "QUEST - A Business Quiz for the B-Schools" held on January 10, 2007, wherein a total of 198 teams participated across the 12 B-Schools.

It gives us immense pleasure to announce the results of the preliminary round. The first list consists of the various institute toppers from the respective institute, while the second list consists of the top 8 teams from the 12 institute toppers, who have qualified for the final round of QUEST.

INSTITUTE TOPPERS

Sl. No.	Institute	Team Name	Reg. No.	Participant 1	Participant 2
1	FMS, Delhi	Forty-Two	22027274	Suvagata Roy	Satish T
2	IIM-A	Phlegm Fatale	22067574	Dushyant Mullur	Keerthi Raghavan
3	IIM-B	Flaming	22069793	Vishnu Nandan	Atulya Bharadwaj
4	IIM-C	Da D Team	22092103	D V S Bharath	Dhritiman B
5	IIM-I	The Gunners	22087022	Wayne Fernandes	Kasturi Rangan
6	IIM-K	Janus	22056586	Vishal Bondwal	Malavika Narayan
7	IIM-L	Verve	22070745	Rritu Saurabha	Suraj Krishnaswami
8	IIFT, Delhi	Veni Vidi	22053333	Arka Bhattacharya	Nishant singh
9	JBIMS, Mumbai	Mavericks	22050065	Aditya Shende	Tejas Nadkar
10	MDI, Gurgaon	Funny Bunnies	22021336	Ramesh	Gurudatt Bhobe
11	XIM-B	The Last of Mochians	22006363	Anurag Mohanty	Dharamteja Mansingh
12	XLRI	Waldo	22032777	Raghu M Reddy	Shrikanth N

* The above 12 teams will receive a certificate from the Bank for topping the respective institute.

THE 8 TEAMS QUALIFYING FOR THE FINAL ROUND

1.	FMS, Delhi	Suvagata Roy, Satish T
2.	IIM Ahmedabad	Dushyant Mullur, Keerthi Raghavan
3	IIM Bangalore	Vishnu Nandan, Atulya Bharadwaj
4	IIM Calcutta	D V S Bharath, Dhritiman B
5	IIM Kozhikode	Vishal Bondwal, Malavika Narayan
6	IIFT, Delhi	Arka Bhattacharya, Nishant Singh
7	MDI, Gurgaon	Ramesh, Gurudatt Bhobe
8	XLRI, Jamshedpur	Raghu M Reddy, Shrikanth N

We congratulate the winners of the preliminary round, and appreciate the time taken by all the participants to appear for the test. We look forward to similar participation in future as well.



The Deja Vu-ing part of course comes in with the quiz meister "Harsha Bhogle" whom i shall be seeing again. If you recollect , he was also the quizmaster and Moderator at the National finals of the BT-Acumen Quiz and Debate finals (which IIFT won).
Here's hoping Nishant and me can pull off an encore for IIFT here too....

BT Acumen 2006

The North Zone Champs at ITC Grand Central Sheraton & Towers, Mumbai ( joy! :D)

The Debate Finals versus Sydenham

National Champs with host Harsha Bhogle

Winners All (l to r):Alumni Quiz Winners(South);Quiz Winners (IIM Bangalore);Debate Winners (IIFT)Swarnim and Me back at our room

(All Pics courtesy Manali)

Durga Puja

The Durga Puja Pandal at Aundh-Baner

L to R: Manali, Mom,Dad,Me

Re-Inquizzition: (of sorts :D) FC's Inquizzition 2002 was the first big quiz me and Manich won

L to R: Aadisht Khanna,Rishi Iyengar , Ramanand, Anand Shivshankar, Amit Verma, Kunal Sawardekar,Leslie,BV Harish Kumar and Self ( Vibhendu , Ganesh and Shivaji not in pic)
Details here!

Manali

On Workloads and Lack Of Sleep...

This last week has capped one of the most strenuous and rigorous times I've ever been forced to deal with. The workload here at IIFT as I'm sure with any of the top B-schools in India must be comparable. But, here at IIFT, in addition to all the coursework related assignments , projects and term papers, you are also expected to sit through 8 hours of classes on average.
Here's a snapshot of a typical day ( and yes like the cartoon , we don't have any weekends, in fact the only holiday we've had in our first trimester was 15th August, Independence day...which leads to pretty perverted reasons for us to be thankful to our freedom fighters)

6.45 a.m: Fight off the cobwebs of a slumber that has just about started , and get ready for a yoga session

7.00 a.m - 8.00 a.m. : Yoga

9.00 a.m. - 6.45 p.m. : Classes with 15 mins break between classes and plenty of surprise assessment elements including quizzes thrown in ( usually spent catching up on sleep),and a 45 min break for lunch ( usually spent on working on backlog asignments). every class usually results in assignments and projects due in no time flat.

7.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. : Work on asssignments

9.30 p.m.: grab dinner in a hurry

10.00 p.m- 11.00/11.30 p.m.: Club meetings . Trust me to make the cardinal error of joining 5 clubs.Which means I've a club meeting on almost every alternate day. Now club membership at IIFT is a solely voluntary, but an extremely serious affair. Lack of attendance at club meeting can get you barred from the club and also result in disciplinary action.

12.00 midnight.: Someone reminds you there's plenty of work left to be done on atleast 2-3 projects/assignments/papers that are due in class the next day

12.01 a.m.: You curse like haddock, but get down to work. Really, working hard here is not about the marks , but about the fact that every Proffesor here expects you to live up to and justify your being here at IIFT. Most of us come from top under grad schools ( includin the iconic IITs) and we've done pretty well there and later on in our work life, but the magnitude of work here is truly daunting. It absolutely forces you to become an efficient time manager. These last two months have definitely managed to ensur that I'll survive in absolutely any high pressure senario.

4.00 a.m : you finally call it quits. Hastily latch on the last few slides to your PPT, or frenziedly finish typing the report your working on and... SLEEEP!!!!!

6.45 a.m : Wake up again!!!

The last week was even worse, as we'd absolutely a plethora of asssignments and submissiondue on a continuous rolling basis almost every 3 hours or so. Deadlines here are precisely that, you meet them or you are dead. And so, we coped.

That's not to say we don'tget time to do other stuff.. we do, some of us more than the others, but all of that comes with an academic price tag attached. So when I spend hours on orkut, my blog , or talking to manali, what I'm basically doing is maintaining my sanity in this hell hole that I've vountarily consigned myself to for the next two years.

Love this hell hole though!!

GO! IIFT! GO!

P.S: Today is a lot more relaxed. For a couple of days now we have no classes. So we can finally hit the books, or the movie theaters as we prefer prior to our end terms which start from this thurday.

P.P.S: my next blog will deal with some of the more entertaining Profs and their styles of teaching.

On One Trimester Later...

You would'nt believe it, but time flies, shit happens, and sometimes even before you know it started, its over...I guess that's the best way to describe the first trimester at IIFT that just whizzed past..five days hence, we begin with our end terms...yesterday things came to a head with some really hectic assignment deadlines converging as big wave converges on big wave to form a mean tsunami, but we survived that too!...The pic above is us yesterday night, fighting to meet deadlines...I suppose it's only fair to admit here that my room has pretty much looked like this throughout the trime. But with exams round the corner, the stickler in me was aroused and anyways, I usually go out of my way to find some excuse, any excuse, to stay away from my books...even if it is for that one second extra..so i decided to clean my room... And.....


Voila!!!!...Clean Room :)