Hiya peepz,
here comes haripi express - part 2 with all details about the first month life @ Great lakes.Its been a hectic ride so far with my average hours of sleep reducing from 10/day to 6 /day with signs forboding that it is going to get much worser.
. we have 8 sujects this term including chinese with 2 subjects already been completed . we have also finished the final exam of FinAc last saturday.
The subjects we have this term are FinAc,macroeconomics,statistics,marketing,strategy ,chinese,Business communication and corporate finance. So far 6 subjects have been taught by 4 foreign profs and two by reputed indian faculty.The quality of faculty has been so good that i can say that these are the best teachers i have gt after my 12th wherein i had a gem of a maths teacher.All foreign profs are PhD's in their respective fields. so that shud give u an idea of the knowledge level they poses and the best part has been that they have come down to our level to teach and ensure that whatever they impart has been completely absorbed by the students.
so far the toughest subject seems to be macroecon becoz it involves a great deal of studying as well as analytical skills.But the prof has done such a great job in making sure that our basics are proper w.r.t classical and keynesian economics.The last class wherein we had a case analysis of the indian economy post liberalisation was spellbinding. we had done close to 10 assignments in macroecon alone . The prof is a gold medallist in ecnomics and frequently writes for businesline.
FinAc we had a prof from FIU teaching us , Strategy by a prof from Texas alington,Buss comm by a prof from IIT,Chicago and marketing also by a faculty from IIT,chicago.i am mentioning the profs becoz i feel last year not many knew about the quality of faculty who had taught our seniors. this year its getting even beter eith a wide diaspora of international faculty.
The classes are held with a clear focus on equal class participation.we are divided into groups and we do some projects in groups which brings out the cameraderie between us.
The unique USP of Great lakes has been the focus of learning chinese . we have been getting a person of great repute who knows close to 10 languages teaching us. class is great fun as all of us shout chinese and its queer when we hear strange sounds. regarding chinese i would like to give u guyz a brief intro. chinese language is based on how it is enunciated.phonetics play a very important role.for eg: li can be spelt in four different tones which carry different meanings.the tones are high low,base and a curvy tone. curvy means like wuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
we also learnt how to call numbers till 1 crore.
for eg :
111111 is called as yi shr yi wan yi chyan yi bai yi shr yi . how does it sound?? the emphasis shud def be on the enunciation.
we had two done 2 mock presentations one on submitting a business proposal to the mayor of chennai abt a new start up business and the oher on teamwork.it was videotaped and we got an idea as to what our weaknesseses were when it comes to presentation skills.
we also had 3 guest lectures one on brand positioning,one on winning vision and other abt murugappa group by their director vellayan.
thats all reg great lakes.more abt Great lakes in the next express.
reg venky monke** i do admit they rock..but they remain as mon**** .j.k..
my bro is gonna kill me if he sees this post..
Prashanth
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