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A 2 week veteran at WIMWI now...

What a time it has been once the classes have started! It seems as if I have been here for ages but when I look at the calendar, reality dawns on me that it has just been two weeks...

Let me first describe how a particular weekday goes here for me. I get up at 8:00... the worst moment of the day... I have started hating that alarm ring-tone and have developed a fear of it... and hence, keep on changing the alarm tone often! After great difficulty, I get out of the bed with my eyes all red due to the unending mugging of the previous night.

Classes start at 9:00 and three lectures take place, each interspaced with a 20 minutes break. Since I am in the new campus, it takes me time to go to have breakfast at the mess which is in the old campus. I prefer to spend those precious 15-20 minutes in sleeping extra! Hence, skipping breakfast has become the norm. At 1.10, the classes get over and we all trudge to the mess with a constant fear in our hearts... the dreaded quiz notice board!

This is the notice board that’s placed outside the mess and whenever there is a surprise quiz at 2.30 pm, a notice is out up there. And on an average, you have about 2-3 quizzes every week... so you can do your maths to find out how many times you have to skip lunch. Now its not necessary that you skip lunch when there a quiz at 2.30, but then somehow you feel its better that you go back to your room and study instead of munching your time away. There probably are two kinds of people who still have their lunch when a quiz is announced... One who are studious and are ever prepared for any quiz, and hence, who don’t need to go back to the rooms for a last ditch revision. The other are those who have become so immune to the system that they know ki padh ke bhi kuch zyaada faayda nahi hone waala... so might as well relish the tasty mess food! I belong to neither of the categories till now but am somehow pretty sure of joining the later very soon.

I usually sleep for an hour after coming back to the room so that I have some strength to sit late in the night. And after the sleep, its study time till as long as your eyes permit you to stay awake. Haan, include the dinner trip to the mess in between which provides a good break from the monotony.

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* Contributed by -
Vinamra Srivastava (Campus Associate),
PGP - 1,
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.