It's a new year, a new term. But somehow it's the same old story. Still 'living by deadlines'.

I have survived the onslaught. Got decent summers. Learnt a few more tricks of the trade. Basically by now you are expected to give fundaes at will, and somehow I manage to satisfy that necessity (what better proof than this entry).

IIMK is the best of all IIMs. Yeah. Where else would you get an inter-term break of 15 days? Where else would you have online 'yahoo status wars'? Where else would you have dedicated 'movie nodes'? Where else would you have wireless LAN to allow quake death matches?

We, as a batch, have taken long strides. Now that our seniors prepare for their placements and departure, we seem all set to step into their space (literally since we get to move into their valley facing rooms). We have been 'Konverted'. We now have an unwritten pattern of behavior and aptitude. We can put the Pavlov's dogs to shame by the conditioning in terms of eating, sleeping and daily habits. Sleep, hunger, leisure are all a function of variables which 'depend'.

Speaking of the level of MBAization, some of the practices which make us typical IIM students are:-

• We send power point greeting cards.

• We float excel sheets to plan travel, vacations and anything requiring a few names.

• We use computer generated random numbers to make groups.

• We can catch a powernap anytime and anyplace, even in a classroom.

• We always try to make the most of the poor sex ratio.

• We work individually for group assignments and work as a group for individual assignments (exceptions are rare).

• We use yahoo messenger like your best friend, from an alarm clock to networking platform to make official announcements.

But when it comes to business, we can be as professional and impressive as is expected of us. In a way we live multiple lives in one here at IIMK. In a few months, we would be going for summers. We would be expected to live up to the expectations. And then come back to give gyan to our juniors. Appear all savvy and mature. That's going to be fun.

More from me in Version 2.1 with summer stories.

Contributed by -
Prashant Dinodia,
PGP 2003-05,
IIM Kozhikode.