Saturday, January 13, 2007

What the MBA is making of us....

Good to see us all back at the school. Some of us looked really colourful with their smiles and energy rejuvenated after having a good break with family and friends at home. After the enchanting sessions of Microeconomics with John Glen and Sean Rickard in the first term we the novices had already started speaking in the so called 'economics jargon'. Looking at the FT and beginning to relate to the economic upheavals around the world made me wonder sometimes.....was so much really happening all this while around me which I was ignorant of..or has it really begun now? Perhaps this is the biggest satisfaction, the learning that we are experiencing every moment and being able to realise the bigger picture...where there is no disconnection between me, the country, the society and the world as a whole. The synergy which the different subjects lead to, be it Marketing,MicroeconomicsAccounts,Operations,Statistics,Organisational Behavioural... and more to come in this term is a point of awareness where the holistic picture is incomplete without its different ingredient colours.
The course began with some enthralling lectures in Finance by Lance -where all of us the so called' financially challenged' ones and even the maestros were put on alert...we realised that this term would force us to be comfortable playing with numbers whether we liked it or not. Joe Nellis' Macroeconomics lecture -'Circular Flow Of Income' was fascinating, we are all looking forward to being mesmerised once again by the effects of Macro combined with our acquired awareness of Micro. The pressure has already begun to build up as ususual, MBA s never have enough time.. but you see we are expert in stealing time.. so we still manage to chill out at the Socials with the 'Karaoke nite', the rugby practice, the ATK challenge, the NUS business plan, football, cricket.....oops.. perhaps the list is endless.