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The last term had clearly been the best in terms of lack of academic rigour and that followed by Shodh Yatra was the icing on the cake! Having experienced the bliss of being a tuchcha, I was all set to continue enjoying life to the fullest in the next
term as well. But I also ensured that I do not lose focus on the quality of courses that I chose. And hence, I took-up an interesting set of subjects that I thought I would love studying, apart from, of course, the fact that they should fit into the time-table nicely so as not to interfere in my blissful activities of tuchchadom.

I took five courses and an independent project: International Business Dispute & Resolution (Yep, you learn that too in MBA!), Legal Aspects of Business (No! No! I don't intend to be a lawyer, its a compulsory subject), Managerial Communication, Merger Acquisitions & Corporate Restructuring and Philosophical Foundations of Management (yeah, you read it right!). The project was on Negotiation in Movies.

I am still so proud of the kind of subjects I took... Ha! Ha! Ha!... International Business Dispute & Resolution (IBDR was taken by a professor about whom I had heard so much that I couldn't help signing up for the course. And trust me, I had no regrets. He was clearly one of the best professors of IIM-A when it comes to teaching style and humour! He was very particular in making sure we all were up-to-date with our current affairs and GK. Our classes would begin by discussing some of the headlines of the day and his sharp and witty take on those. He would often show us some YouTube videos of some great advertisements, etc.; he was a big movie buff and lots of his examples somehow traced their way back to some 70's hindi movie. The best part was that the quizzes and exams were from newspaper articles which we had to interpret and analyze given the theory that we studied in the class! And the classes were all court cases between fighting companies over legal / political / personal issues! IBDR classes were fun and I had decided that I will again take the same professor's courses in the next term as well. It was a coincidence altogether that I again got to interact a lot with him during 'Chaos', about which I will write later.

Managerial Communication (MC) was a big value add. A short course on communication, which I initially thought I don't need, but was proved so wrong when I went through it! Another excellent professor, with a brilliant teaching style! No theory at all. Only action! In every class, student will speak in front of everyone, sometimes impromptu, other times some prepared articles. The audience will then rate the speaker on a scale of ten, and all those ratings would determine the final grade of the student! The professor has nothing to do with the grading, and trust me, there were hardly any biases involved because grades were the last things on our minds!

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