Filler: Year end update

I tried to blog periodically and still I got sucked into worldly matters and could not finish a post I started. I changed my mind and decided to just list the items I wanted to talk about.

Our mod IV was short, just 4 weeks, but was very interesting. I especially liked our final group exam evaluating which country should MTN enter, Kenya or Ukraine? Thats all the question and we had to figure out everything about MTN, Kenya and Ukraine and present our recommendations. Very interesting stuff.

I got this email about change of "Honors" policy in Babson. It seems we are moving away from Honors into three categories of "Cum Laude"s. It was touted as a move to make students worry less about grades. I do not believe that. The process through which the committee came up with this decision was appalling. One GSC representative participated without consulting the student body at large. I wonder how students in other schools get involved in such a high impact decision making.

Recently I attended a networking reception at Highland Capital. They had an interesting internship/incubator program and there were lots of people who applied to this program. There seems to be lot of activity in video advertisement space.

I recently went on a trip to Niagara falls. I am glad I went on a weekday. Less crowded and it was not such a painful 8 hour drive. Here is a photo we took.

Buffoonery '07 clips

Babson buffoonery'07 was awesome. It was so good I stayed for the entire program!

One great thing about buffoonery is everyone participates, first years/second years, 1 year students and faculty. There were pretty good cheer leading skits by faculty. My favorite was Top Gun.



You can search for Babson buffoonery to view the rest of the clips

By the way, just read the news involving Fuqua students. It is shocking to hear that so many people could be involved in this cheating.

Final week, Babson Buffoonery

This is our final week of classes in our first year. In a way I am going to miss the class because we will no longer be attending the same class as a group of 55!. Quite a few will choose evening classes.

In this final module, we really had to read a lot. We spent most of our time reading macro economics. Our textbook is written by our professor Prof. Marthinsen. Lot of material to cover but this book has good flow and makes it easy to understand difficult concepts. On the flip side, volume of content to be covered in class gives little room for discussion/questions in classes.

By the way, Asian Business forum elections are getting hotter than our Grad council. One person has created a blog and even registered a domain for campaign. Very interesting!

Babson has a tradition of organizing "Buffoonery" twice a year. 2nd years organize the fall event and we, first years, have ours tomorrow. I am looking forward to the poker tournament prior to the event. There are quite a few clips from previous events in youtube. Here is one for you.