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4:30 A.M.: The sound of my roommate's alarm wakes me up, I get up only to push the alarm button off. The signal though is that the day has started. I try opening my eyes but then fall back to sleep for a few more minutes. Suddenly, I find the clock ticking over to 6:15 A.M., and yes, considering the exams I have in coming days, I decide to wake up. By the time I could get spectacles over my eyes, I have already crushed a few books, which take more space of the bed then what I do. Somehow I am able to find the right book, and sit down to study for few hours before I realize I got to get ready for classes, and hence, start the dressing up process.

9:00 A.M.: Running all the way to institute campus, I manage to enter the class just before the Professor, and its only during this hour that I realize how much "JustInTime funda" holds good. Seeing the enthusiastic faces, the first thought that crops in my mind is, "Why can't I be energetic?" Probably Philosophy is what makes them so enthusiastic, and then starts a session full of fun-loving arguments, from atman to souls, from buffalos to sleeping tigers... We meet every soul and by the end of lecture, I am unable to find my own!

11:00 A.M.: After the first class, my bad karma follow me, I land up in another class - Statistics. Now this class can surely wake Kumbhkaran also. Prof. PKV, as we lovingly call him, is one of the most energetic Prof I have ever met. He runs in the class, he cracks fundoo jokes, and his knack of getting amazing expressions on his face makes us feel alive. His bending over style of saying "Exxxcuse meee" has become a rage in Great Lakes.

2:00 P.M.: After a heavy luncheon, we guys move to the nearby tea-stall. One thing is for sure, the owner of tea-stall is not only making lots of money but has somehow become an internal part of our lives. While using a few "Hi-tech and censored words", we have SP (Special Tea) with blah blah blah. All this while our eternal mates, dogs around Great Lakes, keep trying to come closer to have some biscuits. In the classroom, we are back to the same process of intense discussions and learnings.

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* Contributed by -
Manik Kinra,
PGPM 2007 Batch,
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.