Socha tha MBA Kar Lein...

Good old Aristotle once subtly prophesied, "Studying won't kill anyone." I didn't take a chance.
Socrates commented, "XL and quizzes go hand in hand." I took my chances.
Here I am, bowled over.

Quiz 1 : July 7

Its was raining outside. I had my lunch and rushed to the lecture hall, quite bewildered to see others with the study material and text books with them. I probably had a blocked nose because by and large I'm good at smelling when things get fishy. The prof came and remarked, "This is not a surprise, I believe," and took out the quiz papers. Whoooooosh!

I had actually slept off the recess in which others got to know that Section-A had an open notes test. Blissfully ignorant that I generally am, I had no resources; though I must tell you that while others kept on browsing the text for jargon and many could not even finish off, I submitted the paper before the allotted time of 20 minutes. The questions were quite generic in nature but the absence of marketing jargon was a factor that couldn't be overlooked.

Quiz 2 : July 7

The same lecture. Whatever happened to the nutty Prof wasn't pleasant enough. Minutes after the first quiz got over, he gave us a four-minute quiz where we had to do an environment analysis of a non-tobacco product called Nirdosh Bidi. Quite merrily, I discussed about the positive effects that the absence of tobacco had on the environment. I roped in phenomena like pollution, hygiene, passive smoking etc.

I later found out that environment analysis happens to be something like a SWOT analysis.

Quiz 3 : July 8 : Gango's Quiz

Gango's quiz is an calamity of national importance in XL. Seniors had organised a Gyaan session the previous night that I had missed for a marathon Federer-Roddick Wimbledon encounter. Others seemed genuinely sympathetic. I actually had no hopes from myself. But the question paper wasn't that difficult. I got 19/30 - probably in the third quartile from the top. Twenty-two got 30 on 30.

Quiz 4 : July 9

It was Managerial Economics - a weird subject to say the least. There'e not a single concept that eludes my pint-sized brain when Prof. Sarkar teaches in his unique way. But when it comes to applying the same theories to practice, I'm bummed. No prospects, again. But the questions seemed to be at little variance from the ones solved in class. And it was an open-notes test again. :P Rocked the test. 8/10.

Quiz 5 : July 13

I had bunked the morning lecture of CSE. And there happened to be a surprise quiz. (Though I must admit I didn't know squat about "Ecological Security" either - the quiz question :D)

Quiz 6 : July 15

I reached the lecture hall at 0901 hours, sixty seconds late!! The sadist of a professor (CSE again!!) didn't let me in and took a surprise quiz. F*ck!

Quiz 7 : July 15

There was a twenty-four hour event - MAXI Bazaar - the last day. Somehow the seniors thought that we had an OB quiz the next day. They tried talking to the professor to defer the quiz. As the events unfurled, there was no quiz scheduled. But he got so incensed that he dropped in a mail at 0100 hours about one in the next lecture. Exhausted as I was from the event, I didn't overestimate my ability to cram the entire crap in a few hours' time. So I didn't. Got screwed up badly in the quiz, yet again.

Lines from the XL anthem rebound in my head :

"Socha tha MBA kar lein
Hum tum bhi thoda sa padh lein
Lo aa gaye XLR

Khwabon mein socha jo humne
Aaye usey poora karney
Lekin hui aankhein chaar"