Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
End of P2
P2 is almost over. One more paper to go and then I will be off to Fonty for P3.
INSEAD is really intense and unbelievably fast. Before coming here I used to completely disregard this notion of intensity at INSEAD, but believe me...I was so wrong. This place is crazy. You go days without sleep and you always have a million things to take care of. Fuck...this shit is unreal.
Anyways...so now I am off to P3. This campus switch is great because how more international could an MBA be - two continents in one year. But at the same time this system has a serious drawback. You can switch at the end of P2, which is like 4 months into the program, but it usually is in P2 that you make good friends....people you will stay in touch and meet in your post-MBA life. And because of this switch, chances are that you wont meet some of them again in rest of the MBA. Sucks....
Fuck it.
So how was P2? Shit...absolute shit. We had Marketing which was the most frustrating experience ever...the other courses were way too fast and only finance was brilliant. But brilliant with a twist. Brilliant because you learn the smart things...you know the ones you could talk about in a social set up and impress people...and twisted because it made your life miserable. It was painful but exciting. Everyone at INSEAD was motivated by the challenge of the subject. We all worked hard. We knew its beyond us but that very fact made us work. For me...I went down...went down fighting.
On career front nothing much is going on. I applied to only those places where I saw a fit. I applied to 1 consulting firm for China office and got dinged. Before coming to INSEAD, I was targeting China for post MBA career but in the current difficult environment, firms are taking only native Chinese so I am screwed. I speak the language, I understand China and know how to deliver results but still things are not happening for me on that front.
I have once again come to hate the HRs. They are so full of it. You get called from random places but rejected from the right ones. And some rejections are just lame. I got rejected from one place and they said my level of education does not match their expectation. Are you fuckin kidding me? Of course it was a standard rejection but I think firms should consider the kind of message they want to send out. But right now its a buyers market so who am I to complain.
Alright...I better go and start preparing for operations exam for t'row. After the exam we have a bad ass 6 hour champagne party. Cant wait !!
INSEAD is really intense and unbelievably fast. Before coming here I used to completely disregard this notion of intensity at INSEAD, but believe me...I was so wrong. This place is crazy. You go days without sleep and you always have a million things to take care of. Fuck...this shit is unreal.
Anyways...so now I am off to P3. This campus switch is great because how more international could an MBA be - two continents in one year. But at the same time this system has a serious drawback. You can switch at the end of P2, which is like 4 months into the program, but it usually is in P2 that you make good friends....people you will stay in touch and meet in your post-MBA life. And because of this switch, chances are that you wont meet some of them again in rest of the MBA. Sucks....
Fuck it.
So how was P2? Shit...absolute shit. We had Marketing which was the most frustrating experience ever...the other courses were way too fast and only finance was brilliant. But brilliant with a twist. Brilliant because you learn the smart things...you know the ones you could talk about in a social set up and impress people...and twisted because it made your life miserable. It was painful but exciting. Everyone at INSEAD was motivated by the challenge of the subject. We all worked hard. We knew its beyond us but that very fact made us work. For me...I went down...went down fighting.
On career front nothing much is going on. I applied to only those places where I saw a fit. I applied to 1 consulting firm for China office and got dinged. Before coming to INSEAD, I was targeting China for post MBA career but in the current difficult environment, firms are taking only native Chinese so I am screwed. I speak the language, I understand China and know how to deliver results but still things are not happening for me on that front.
I have once again come to hate the HRs. They are so full of it. You get called from random places but rejected from the right ones. And some rejections are just lame. I got rejected from one place and they said my level of education does not match their expectation. Are you fuckin kidding me? Of course it was a standard rejection but I think firms should consider the kind of message they want to send out. But right now its a buyers market so who am I to complain.
Alright...I better go and start preparing for operations exam for t'row. After the exam we have a bad ass 6 hour champagne party. Cant wait !!
Friday, April 3, 2009
P2...
Ok...am back from another hiatus.
We are now in P2 and life is mad. The workload is high, quite a few are worried about internships, most are going nuts with elective bidding for P3 and some of us have to move to France in 3 weeks.
Got the results from P1 and I bombed...thats bombed with a capital B. I was shocked. This Z curve thing is a bit tricky. Although it saved my ass in subjects which I found really difficult, it sank me in subjects which were easy. Because, when its easy getting a 80% score is as good as flunking the subject. And my grades got screwed.
P2 is much different from P1. In the first term it was whoa ! after whoa ! for each prof while in P2 its WTF mostly. Marketing prof is the worst one. Marketing is supposed to be fun but the prof makes it even worse than statistics.
On internships roughly about 40 opportunities exist out there and firms are being very very picky. I applied to 3 firms and got the royal up yours reply. Doesnt matter...just another reason to get shit faced.
I will be moving to Fonty for P3 and then back to Singapore for P4/P5. I want to work in Asia so I reckon being in Singapore would help.
I gotta go. As some of you might have guessed, am in the marketing class updating this blog !!
Peace !!
We are now in P2 and life is mad. The workload is high, quite a few are worried about internships, most are going nuts with elective bidding for P3 and some of us have to move to France in 3 weeks.
Got the results from P1 and I bombed...thats bombed with a capital B. I was shocked. This Z curve thing is a bit tricky. Although it saved my ass in subjects which I found really difficult, it sank me in subjects which were easy. Because, when its easy getting a 80% score is as good as flunking the subject. And my grades got screwed.
P2 is much different from P1. In the first term it was whoa ! after whoa ! for each prof while in P2 its WTF mostly. Marketing prof is the worst one. Marketing is supposed to be fun but the prof makes it even worse than statistics.
On internships roughly about 40 opportunities exist out there and firms are being very very picky. I applied to 3 firms and got the royal up yours reply. Doesnt matter...just another reason to get shit faced.
I will be moving to Fonty for P3 and then back to Singapore for P4/P5. I want to work in Asia so I reckon being in Singapore would help.
I gotta go. As some of you might have guessed, am in the marketing class updating this blog !!
Peace !!
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