The Term That Was !!!

Finally... Exams over and so is the term !!! phewww... What a term it was !!! Some great decisions and some not so great... Mixed emotions as another term gets over this day. Successful completion of 5 trimesters but only 1 left at this HEAVEN called SDMIMD...

The term that started off in high spirits. Placements season was on its way and so were our preparations. The result of the previous term (4th term) was shocking. An increase in grade from 3.18 to 3.23 when I expected it to fall below 3.10 (on scale of 4). A good surprise indeed !!! Having the option of only two finance subjects, had to take subjects from marketing and operations. That's where the term did not prove that great. QTMR (Quantitative Techniques for Market Research) proved to be a nightmare for many of us. No one expected that it would entail so much of hard work and research. Well for me it seemed I forgot that I am a core finance student. All those who took QTMR did only the project through out the term. It seemed the term had nothing else but QTMR. Well, Product Management another marketing subject was just Great !!!... though felt lost sometime during classes but most of the classes were interesting and had great fun... Supply Chain Management... Took that out of curiosity of understanding SCM... Nothing much to say for that... FIS (Fixed Income Securities) After FD (Financial Derivatives) expected some more encounter with YTM, Coupons & Hedging... But after FD I just sailed through the elective.... Last but not hte least MBFI ( Management of Banks & Financial Institutions)... had most expectations with it but well you won't get everything that you wish... Exams were interesting... as usual Kapil and me studied together for two most important subjects (PM & FIS) ... However the most exciting thing that happened was... A finance student teaching people marketing subject...!!!

Well that ends the elective list but not what I did in 5th term... Going t0 bakery with Janab, Playing basket ball after dinner and taking lonely walks at midnight became another hobby of mine in this term. Couple of friends maintained the SDM tradition of plasters while some of us had a narrow escape (includes me!!!). Vibrants discovered a new way of celebrating birthdays and that started with me ( Thank U !!!). Ankit will curse me and Ankush if I don't include his name here for harassing him all through the term and making him watch movies till 2am-3am. Even Kalpa for my new habit of listening music in loud volume. Not to forget to include my sweet friend and student whom we might not be able to see back on campus... Well Teacher, if you reading this... thank you for accompanying me in the late night walks... (Teacher if you don't know is RachanaPriya. She got suspended from the college she was teaching so she joined MBA!!! Just kidding!!!). Diwali went by this term and had great fun here at SDMIMD. Did not miss home... Waited at bus stop from 5am to 7am for picking up Karen from her yet another home trip...

Well the term has ended and new term is on the block... Expect to get placed soon and enjoy last few days of Official Student life... (We are students all our life)...

Going Ahmedabad from Mysore tomorrow most importantly don't have a reserved seat to go... going with Ganda (Wadhwa Vinay Manohar... I like to call him that ...) and Huda (Talreja Prashant)... Hoping for an exciting journey with a waiting list ticket for a journey of 40 hours....

See you all soon....

All the best for Next Term....

JAM