"All my bags are packed, ready to go..." with this John Denver song, I come back to continue my innings with pen & paper aka keyboard & screen. Now, I and the whole of fachha community in IIM-A is counting days, some ppl are even counting hours (this is true, I'm not joking). The obvious question is counting what? We all are counting the days to go before we make a big transition in our lives, the day we become TUCHHA. Now you all must be wondering what's the big deal? The readers who have read my previous articles would know what I'm talking about. This term has been busy giving treat to seniors and also getting it from the ones who have cracked placement scene. For example, five people in my dorm have been placed abroad and another one has got the best domestic offer from McK. It feels good to be among such studs, but its time for them to enter the corporate world and for us to have a taste of it during internship.

Today we had our last submission for one of the subject WAC; this was a grand finale with fifty pages long case. Yeah, you read that right, although it was three students per group assignment, even then half of the batch slept only three hours yesterday because everybody was working on it. The very famous funda followed religiously is of JIT (Just In Time). Although the Japanese would have conceptualized this for different purpose, here it means work only when deadline is close.

In Ist year, the system makes you stay awake till morning and in second year it is your own choice. Seniors are sometime awake till 5:00 am, watching movie or playing games on LAN but they won't sleep. One of the funniest comments was made by an European exchange student who in his farewell letter gave all of us a suggestion & here I quote him, "Guys, try sleeping at night, it is a good feeling, trust me."

What would I miss about first year?? I would miss the time when I cooked Maggi at 4:30 am (no, I'm not insane) and the best part is that even at that odd hour two guys came to my room and I had to share it with them. It is a different issue that none of us knew whether it was our dinner or breakfast. In my earlier articles, I'd mentioned about time management problem in the morning, now it's all figured out. Now I don't go for both bath & breakfast in the morning because sleep is a lot more important to me. Class starts at 9:00 am and I usually wake up at 8:45 am, sometimes I have even woken up at 8:55 am and been at class on time. JIT remember!!!

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* Contributed by -
Anuj Arora,
B.Tech. Eletronics & Communications,
Kurukshetra University,
IIM-Ahmedabad.