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The third term at IIM-A is known to be the cousin brother of the first one in terms of academic load.

Operations Management is back, in the form of OM II, and is arguably the toughest subject of the first year. OM and MANAC were the toughest ones in the first term and if we thought that OM I was bad, then we had seen nothing. Because OM II is known to be the nemesis of a lot many.

However, two things went well with this subject. First, the subject was pretty interesting. With concepts like Queuing Theory, Inventory Management, etc., backed by fundoo cases, the learning just kept getting richer. Second, our OM professor was one of the best I have ever seen in my life. IIM-A has some great professors but this one is simply out of this world. Witty, Succinct and Imaginative, he would easily put himself in our shoes and, hence, was very easy to relate to. I am tempted to write so much more about the novel ways by which he teaches but this is not the right place. And yeah, by the way, the final exam paper of OM II was such a bouncer that it did full justice to the 'toughest subject' tag this subject has.

Finance II is the next in line. I am sure many of my batchmates would not agree with me and I respect that. But for people like me who are not too enthusiastic about finance, this is the other toughie in the third term. The problem was that there was no set pattern. The cases were so weird and arbit. And the exams were as expected... all bouncers.

Apart from the above two, there was WAC back in action. This time, we had 3 reports to be submitted, one individual, and the other two in groups of two and four respectively. And that meant that few of the Saturdays were doomed to be disastrous.

The highlight of this term, and also the reason why its known to be super hectic is the huge amount of group work. The study group really comes alive in the true sense in this term. Every subject has loads of assignments. projects, class presentations and what not, that needs to be submitted as a group. Which meant that long hours were spent in one of our rooms, working on the next submission.

I still remember the long nights that we would spend in my room, working on the lappy, brain-storming, discussing the latest movie, talking about girl-friends and the list was endless. You see, no group meeting would be complete without our usual regular digressions!!!

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* Contributed by -
Vinamra Srivastava (Campus Associate),
PGP - 2,
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.