@Seniors
do we have a swimming pool at NITIE?

No we don't have a swimming pool. We have a big beautiful pond though. It is full of life (read fishes, snakes, tortoise etc). If that is not enough, we have the vast Vihar Lake next to the college

BTW post such queries on the relevant thread

@Seniors
do we have a swimming pool at NITIE?

With a blink of an eye, an year had passed. It feels as it was just yesterday when we conducted B-Cube for our junior batch and today i see them conducting the same for the upcoming MBA Batches across top B-Schools.

Around 75 days left in campus and nostalgia had started to creep in. No doubt all of us await to take the first step in corporate arena as Managers in different roles but the life at campus is going to be missed by everyone.

As far as our batch is concerned, most of the people are either at home yet or out for a vacation in Goa, Ladakh etc. etc. and there are few like me in campus enjoying the serene environment

Junior batch is busy in participating in events and working on certifications, workshops etc. trying to enhance the value of their CVs, just like what we were doing till few days back

There has been lot of coverage about placements and recessions across B-School arena but God's own Campus in Mumbai did not allow us to feel the heat and once again all NITIEans are proud of being associated with the brand NITIE.

Lot more to say... but will stop myself and come back again soon as this thread is going to be the place where am going to continue enjoy life at NITIE even after graduating out! :clap:

as of now!

Best Business Brains 2012 Edition coming soon!! All the MBA Aspirants stay tuned as there is lot in store for you!

Follow the event on the official FB page to be a part of all the excitement, quizzes and learning >> https://www.facebook.com/BCubeNITIE

Had attended last year's session and got some wonderful info directly from some of the profs who are teaching us right now. It was a great experience to know what faculty expects from us directly, rather than from a third party.

I hope the IMPACT people will make it even more better than last year.

Best Business Brains 2012 Edition coming soon!! All the MBA Aspirants stay tuned as there is lot in store for you!

Follow the event on the official FB page to be a part of all the excitement, quizzes and learning >> https://www.facebook.com/BCubeNITIE

This is wrong....

NITIE anyday ranks above MDI....

and how can they even rank MDI even above I K and SPJain...

the last five should ideally be..

6. IIMK
7. NITIE
8. IIMI
9. SPJain
10. MDI.

just a thought of course... :splat:

who am I to rank them :oops:

rohit170985 Says

And NO FMS????

Buddies..I do know that we rank our college among the very very best (in the Top 5 I would say). But some things are not in our control..like how certain rankings come out and on what basis they were made. My point, on this thread, let's get back to discussing our fun-filled life and offline, ensure NITIE moves up the next time (over the 'other' colleges). I am sure, with the activities that our current batch is involved in, there is going to be a sea change soon... fingers crossed :).

3 ch33rs to NITIE!!

Ch33rs,
Satish :)

Hold your horses guys, we shouldn't be doing these comparisons
And yes we are good, people who matter know that

This is wrong....

NITIE anyday ranks above MDI....

and how can they even rank MDI even above I K and SPJain...

the last five should ideally be..

6. IIMK
7. NITIE
8. IIMI
9. SPJain
10. MDI.

just a thought of course... :splat:

who am I to rank them :oops:

rohit170985 Says

And NO FMS????

Buddies..I do know that we rank our college among the very very best (in the Top 5 I would say). But some things are not in our control..like how certain rankings come out and on what basis they were made. My point, on this thread, let's get back to discussing our fun-filled life and offline, ensure NITIE moves up the next time (over the 'other' colleges). I am sure, with the activities that our current batch is involved in, there is going to be a sea change soon... fingers crossed :).

3 ch33rs to NITIE!!

Ch33rs,
Satish

This is wrong....

NITIE anyday ranks above MDI....

and how can they even rank MDI even above I K and SPJain...

the last five should ideally be..

6. IIMK
7. NITIE
8. IIMI
9. SPJain
10. MDI.

just a thought of course... :splat:

who am I to rank them :oops:

And NO FMS????

Time to break the silence here

NITIE sustains 7th spot in CNBC Rankings 2012 IIM-A tops CNBC-TV18's best B-Schools 2012 - India News - IBNLive

NITIE sustains leadership in SCM/Ops , certified by MoneyControl rankings Moneycontrol.com - Personal finance vortal for news, markets, shares, mutual funds, debt & money, loans, credit cards, insurance, planning desk, stock ticker and more...

This is wrong....

NITIE anyday ranks above MDI....

and how can they even rank MDI even above I K and SPJain...

the last five should ideally be..

6. IIMK
7. NITIE
8. IIMI
9. SPJain
10. MDI.

just a thought of course... :splat:

who am I to rank them

Time to break the silence here

NITIE sustains 7th spot in CNBC Rankings 2012 IIM-A tops CNBC-TV18's best B-Schools 2012 - India News - IBNLive

NITIE sustains leadership in SCM/Ops , certified by MoneyControl rankings Moneycontrol.com - Personal finance vortal for news, markets, shares, mutual funds, debt & money, loans, credit cards, insurance, planning desk, stock ticker and more...

Mod 2 over :clap:

Now some party :cheers:
Then back to home for a few days :biggrin:
Prepared for north Indian cold

Time has really flown by and it feels nostalgic to leave my second home NITIE

Its Over! Its Over! Mod 2 is done n dusted!

Let the parties begin!!!! :drinking::drinking:

:cheers:

Happy Festive season everyone! Have a blast!

Exams going on

For me , they are yet to start as my electives were not scheduled on first 2 days

P&G; Ambipure contest launched as well, exciting food for thought with all aspects of business viz. marketing, supply chain and finance to be worked upon for the case!!

Rest, its all happiness around in the campus with people focussing on diverse stuffs these days. Nostalgia starting getting developed too as the last few months in campus approach

Looking forward to live the coming up months to the fullest before stepping into the hectic corporate life once again

PS: All the best junies for Financial Management Exam :thumbsup:

@ Alums

Do check out the Life at NITIE Page at FB as an initiative of IMPACT team at college to have a consistent interaction with outer world Life at NITIE | Facebook

More updates later

Ahhhh its feels good to be back in this thread after a longish break

Mod exams are just a couple of days away, and to take a break from the hectic studies (ahem! wink! wink!) just thought of posting some updates from the last two months.

Got to see quite a lot of new happenings over the past couple of months. After summers it was good to see people in a relaxed n chilled out mode, most of them really starting to enjoy the campus life after the hectic first mod. For me it has been anything but chilled out mod thanks to CFA. It was quite an experience to study day n night continuously for almost one full month. But atleast feels good to have learnt quite a lot through the whole process even though results are a little dicey.

Some things I missed out on due to the studies, definitely the CS night out sessions, the endless Mafia at the pond, poker sessions, Late night stroll around the campus. Have to make it up during the next mod, enough of studies

Sports has seen a major change since the summers. Basketball, Tennis, Volleyball, football, TT and of course Cricket, its as if every tom **** n harry plays atleast one game have to start of with something soon. The Mighty chess tournament which ran for almost two months finally came to close last week, and have to say best of the lot made it to semis.

The new hostel and Acad block looks super stunning to say the least. In the city of high rises I guess we are soon going to have the tallest hostel across any institute, standing tall at 17 floors. Yes 17 floors for a hostel! and the new Acad block looks nothing short of stunning when viewed from outside. Cant wait to move into both of these soon, lucky junies, will get to enjoy the whole place for 2 years.

Oh how can i forget Prerana, Indian Ocean was really good and a welcome change from the mad headbanging stuff And Anurag Kashyap was superb for Cita De La along with Gul Panag who turned quite a few heads The highlight for me was photographing the whole event, was quite an experience!
And Rivaldo really had the whole place in splits during Sansmaran, our annual Alumni event. It was stand up comedy at its best, thoroughly enjoyed his show.

It was great to see so many of the major recruiters floating their annual case study competitions with NITIE among the elite league of b-schools. Amazon, ITC, HUL, P&G;, KPMG, Pepsi, Tata Motors and many more. Really feel privileged to be part of this institute, hoping to take part in some during next year.

Something else which I just noticed was NITIE almost had a clean sweep at SJMSOM for the their annual event Avenues, kudos to the seniors. A total of 5 Event winners and 1 runner up, thoroughly impressive! Hope we can repeat the show next year

I guess thats all for the moment, will see you on the other side. Have a fabulous festive season everyone.

Day before y'day witnessed ITC Interrobang in the campus.

ITC made some really good arrangements in the campus, we could feel the environment for the National level Final for SCM case study happening in the campus.

Another plus points..

1. Mr. Atul Chand (CEO, ITC Lifestyle Retailing Business)
   
2. Mr. Paritosh Wali (Head, Biscuits and Confectionery, ITC Foods Business)
   

I was really lucky to get a chance to listen to these 2 biggies in the campus.

The session was followed by the final round of the case study competition.
And this was really awesome!!
Tight time lines!! too good presentations!! ( I cudnt understand, how can they fit in so many things in one slide!! followed by tough questions from judges!! Brilliant defense from the participants!!!
Whopping 2lacs + distributed as price money to all the finalist !!!

Thanks to ITC for the small pizza party as well !!:grin::-P

checkout more pics and info abt ITC interrobang here

https://www.facebook.com/#!/itcinterrobang


Exams lined up for now... hardly 1 week left !!! too many things to b covered before that!!

till then !!

jasonbourne2005 Says

Exams starting in less than 10 days...bought my 1st book of this mod finally thanks to the committee and forum activities had no time whatsoever till now... hope to start studying soon :P

Itni jaldi padhai shuru

Will have to ask your committee and forum to increase your workload :biggrin:

Am yet to know the names of the subjects purchasing book is a dream since last few mods

Exams starting in less than 10 days...bought my 1st book of this mod finally thanks to the committee and forum activities had no time whatsoever till now... hope to start studying soon

Another feather in NITIE's cap in the field of marketing

Dr.Ranjan Chaudhuri will be given the award of ' Best Teacher in Marketing Management' in 19th Dewang Mehta Business School Awards scheduled on 26th November, 2011 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai.

Heartiest congratulations to sir on behalf of entire student community at NITIE.

Cheers!

*Apologies...images missed in previous post have been attached here.

Though this should have found mention in the previous post...found it better to post here. Almost everyone at NITIE could heave a sigh of relief as there was an extended period of leave for Diwali Everyone got to see their loved ones, those staying out of Mumbai especially !!

B-school competitions are happening at a frenetic pace...my inbox is literally being "spammed" by the Relationship team @ NITIE, which is a testament to their sincerity..awesome job guys!! :cheerio::cheerio:

Last friday (Nov 4th), almost everyone at NITIE was introduced to something called Thalassemia (click to know more). We were addressed by a person on behalf of a group of children suffering from this problem. I am darn sure it was his fiery speech which resulted in the huge turnout for the blood donation camp 2 days later...since I don't have the official figures, the only thing I can say for sure is that the turnout was HUGE!!! We were also allowed to do a free checkup for Thalassemia!!

And last but not least...PRERANA is finally here!! One of the biggest B-school events in India... AWESOMENESS starts @ NITIE on Thursday, Nov 10th and continues for the next 3 days!! List of exciting events to look forward to...

1. Prerana Business meet ***
   
2. Summer project contests ***
   
3. The Last Samurai *** (organized by Prueba)
   
4. Events by leading corporates (be here to know them ;))
   
5. Lots more....
   

*** - Flagship event by NITIE.

And the biggest of it all (@ Prerana of course):

1. Decibelz- Indian Ocean performing @ NITIE
   
2. Prerana Business Quiz
   
3. Cita Dela Prerana - Gul Panag & Anurag Kashyap!!!!
   

Life @ NITIE indeed rocks...see you on the other side of Prerana with tons of images and updates!!! It is going to be one helluva weekend @ NITIE!!

Ch33rs,
Satish

Lots of updates...tough to remember them all!! On a pan-indian scale..CAT has started and so has the MBA season for this year. For aspirants checking this page at this point of time, all the very best for your efforts..see you all in campus soon :cheers:.

First of all, we had Denevo, NITIE's intra-college arts festival (Oct 10th) which was a roaring success in terms of the events as well as the crowd turnout (my batchmates of course :D). The event was well managed by the Cultural team. Dance, singing, dramatics and what not...we even had Munna and cirkitt on stage ;). Committee and forum members of the senior batch were felicitated for their contribution in their respective fields. Attached is a very hazy picture of our respected Director Amitabh De addressing us before the event was flagged off.

And then, we had Lakshya, a 3-Day Annual Corporate event from October 14th-16th..which was well organized by our IE batch-mates. We had many interesting cum challenging events. Industry stalwarts were honored for their achievements (TVS Motors, Moser Baer, Maruti Suzuki,...). And the event was rounded off by a power talk from Kimberly Clark's CEO Mr.Prakash Iyer.

More updates in the next post...some time from now :biggrin::biggrin:.

Ch33rs,
Satish

Updates from NITIE Campus

Team from NITIE bagged the first prize in GSKCH Buzz Season 5 at national level ... one of the biggest Marketing events

NITIEan grabs the 3rd rank in recently held FLIP exam and has bagged in few PPIs for one of the most coveted Finance Profiles

NITIEans emerged as winners in all Operation events at IIM B Vista 2011 , restating its leadership in Operations

Well.. thats all for time being ... rest updates coming soon... till then keep exploring events in Marketing, Finance and Operations and encountering NITIEans as winners in all the 3 major fields of Management

Cheers!

Well, well , well ..

Here is one of the most coveted days of my stay at NITIE ... It's the time to see history getting recreated after the most inspiring and popular speech at IIM-C .. yes, I am talking about Harsha Bhogle , the personality whom we all like to hear irrespective of being aspirants, B-Schoolers or corporates !!

He would be at NITIE Campus in few hours from now

And we will see the magic live this time Have seen him lot on You tube, TVs, talk shows etc , but now is the time when NITIEans are going to cherish the feel of being NITIEan!!

Power Talk by Harsha Bhogle from 6 PM ... already the house packed NITIE Lawns can be imagined... everyone planning to leave early as no one wants to miss out the opportunity and wish to grab the seats as soon as possible

Will be updating the space with pics and highlights of the session soon

Till then

@saTrisha I wish I could make all my posts as colourful and attractive like your posts You seriously put in a lot of effort man. Keep it up.

Its feels weird to think that its been close to 4 months since I landed here. Time has flown by would be an understatement. Time travels here faster than the speed of light. Most of the updates have been regularly posted here by my fellow buddies, so I can afford to be lazy and laid back and just keep on thanking them :p

I think it was 2 months ago when I last posted, since then life has been a blur. Keep your cool was the most important advice I got from seniors and professors. We had our mod exams as well as the summer placement process. Mod exams were as usual, burning the midnight oil and 11th hour studies. Nothing new there. Now just hoping for good grades.

Summers were a completely new experience. For the first time in life I experienced what really cut throat competition is. The peer group is so highly qualified and talented, it was indeed a tough but healthy competition. Eventually getting through on the first day itself saved me from a lot of stress. Seriously, level of stress is something which no one can imagine, and this after I considered myself to be better at handling pressure cooker situations, even I was on the verge of the cliff during a couple of tense moments. Keeping you cool is the single and most important advice I could give to anyone and of course Being Yourself! well that's two things :p

Another thing being even though the market was a little gloomy, the placements were surprisingly good and many new coveted profiles were opened this time around. Hoping for the same during the seniors final placements in a few months time.

Whoever said that life at nitie is chilled out, shoot be chased down to vihar lake and fed to the crocodiles. I thought second mod would be more chilled out and enjoyable and here I am doing even more work thanks to the forums, committees and also the cfa exams in december. For me it looks like the next 2 months would be even more hectic than the last two. And to top it Im not able take part in any of the case studies floating around thanks to the schedule.

And as saTrisha mentioned we had our cultural day today with some impressive and some not so impressive performances The best being the summers GD process skit. The weather in mumbai has turned hot n humid

And NITIE's unique event the NPL - Nitie Premier League is back with its second edition NPL 2.0. This time with the addition of more teams and even more colleges & corporates taking part, its going to be one hell of a season of cricket! The bidding process and the player buying will all add spice to the event and hoping there would be some real cheerleaders too :clap:

Prerana is just round the corner promising to be even bigger and better than ever before(prerana.nitie.net) and Lakshya is next week with show stopper Harsha Bhogle It promises to be another exciting and fun filled month ahead with loads of sleepless nights events and parties

Until next time this is me signing off.

Craackpot
NITIE Management Batch 2013

Adding to the exciting event mentioned by Varun bhai and Harsh...here are more excitingggggggg updates from NITIE !!

First to go is Denovo, NITIE's Intra-college arts festival...there will be dance, music, fashion show, DJ and of course, yummy-licious food!! In an open-air setting, it is going to be one helluva an event .

Next up, in a month's time is Prerna..one of India's biggest B-school management festivals. So many events lined up on those 3 days (Nov 10-12)...the precursor events have already started !!

Some of the awesome events lined up in Prerana are:

1. Enerstrat
   
2. TLS aka The Last Samurai
   
3. Beat The Street
   
4. Stratagem
   
5. Launchpad
   
6. ....
   

Excited?? Check them all out at Prerana.nitie.org | :).

Things are hottening up @ NITIE..literally too :).

Ch33rs,
Satish

:w00t: update from campus !!

Harsha Bhogle is going to be there in NITIE Campus for a power talk with students on October 15, 2011

Check details here Nitie Lakshyas Photos | Facebook

All the alums who are in Mumbai and want to attend it are most welcome

Cheers!

Can't wait to see him in the campus. Just one week to go now

update from campus !!

Harsha Bhogle is going to be there in NITIE Campus for a power talk with students on October 15, 2011

Check details here Nitie Lakshyas Photos | Facebook

All the alums who are in Mumbai and want to attend it are most welcome

Cheers!

Few updates on happenings in the campus

Session on Shopper Marketing scheduled today evening by Mr. Steve Remedios , Head, Customer Marketing at HUL.

Our own management fest Prerana launched ! Another opportunity for us to grab PPIs and good amount of cash ;)

More updates coming soon!!

Good to see junies taking over the charge of queries out here

And yea, past week was a bit dull for seniors with lot of holidays and among one of the best weeks for the junies

More updates soon !! :)

@ Jigs

Just to add on, thread shall be up once the notification is out. Few more days to go

JIGS1403 Says

I am sorry that i am spamming this thread a bit but i am not able to find any current thread on NITIE where queries can be asked and solved..please help..

craackpot Says

You can PM me with any queries you have, we'd be happy to help you out :)

I second craackpot...you can PM me too..of course, Varun saar is the biggie :D

Ch33rs,
Satish

JIGS1403 Says

I am sorry that i am spamming this thread a bit but i am not able to find any current thread on NITIE where queries can be asked and solved..please help..

You can PM me with any queries you have, we'd be happy to help you out

I am sorry that i am spamming this thread a bit but i am not able to find any current thread on NITIE where queries can be asked and solved..please help..

@ gaurav and all the active puys from NITIE

PG Meet has been finalized with NITIE as venue in first week of october ( so that you all are also free from the hectic schedule till then )

CAT Aspirants will be there as well apart from most of the puys of campus

Bring it on and yes junies, wish you all good luck !!

1st mod got over too early. Never realized that I came here on 16th june and have already spent 3 months by now. Still I haven't discovered many places within the campus...acads block, PG block still seem to be new places for me..

2nd mod started immediately, without giving any term break!! Hopefully will get some break after next week.

@Varun,
we should have a small aipgm for (which has been pending for a long time) after next week.

An All Mumbai meet is already being planned to be held in NITIE.

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/pagalguy-community-events-pg-meets/68608-pg-meets-mumbai-aka-maximum-13.html

So I guess your wish will soon be granted.

1st mod got over too early. Never realized that I came here on 16th june and have already spent 3 months by now. Still I haven't discovered many places within the campus...acads block, PG block still seem to be new places for me..

2nd mod started immediately, without giving any term break!! Hopefully will get some break after next week.

@Varun,
we should have a small aipgm for (which has been pending for a long time) after next week.

PS: Completed 5/7th MBA in a blink of an eye... NITIE, you have started taking me back to the memories of my GROOVE days Want these 2 mods to be longer than the 5 mods which are over so far!!

Varun

I am sure they both will be longest of your mods @ NITIE Bro... my "curses" for the same :splat: .

Ch33rs,
Satish

rebzin Says

I have decided to put more efforts into my studies from next mod onwards (I have been deciding the same in all my semesters, but hey, you can always be optimistic, right )

And it would only remain till optimism in thoughts After all, we believe investing our time in competitions, extra currics, weekends, industrial visits rather than just being bullish over theoretical knowledge without any concern with what actually happens in industry

Engineers believe in practical knowledge and we are proud of that

( OK, there is the matter that after hearing to some of the ideas that come out of people, you will really start wondering, from which planet he came from

True.. Happened with me as well

Now, coming on updates from my end.. last 2 days ( i.e. since the exams got over ) have been really hectic.. making quite a submissions under stringent deadlines and a hope Few more pending stuff lined up for coming 3-4 days amidst the classes for 6th mod which are scheduled to start from monday itself

PS: Completed 5/7th MBA in a blink of an eye... NITIE, you have started taking me back to the memories of my GROOVE days Want these 2 mods to be longer than the 5 mods which are over so far!!


Varun

Phew... One mod over, another one begins in a few days... And I know there are going to be lots of surprises awaiting in the future too...

Really can't believe that its been close to 3 months, since I joined over here. Well lots of memories, getting 5 PPOs in a space of 5 mins, running around for committee and forum selections, classes where I had to be dragged into and some where I voluntarily used to go , celebrating "Onam" with flower carpet and serving "payasam", and finally down to the exams... Participated in certain B-School events, had both good and bad days over here...

Exams really tested all my stamina and finally testing the creative writing department within myself also... I have decided to put more efforts into my studies from next mod onwards (I have been deciding the same in all my semesters, but hey, you can always be optimistic, right )

Satrisha has already put in most of what is happening over here, so I guess I don't need to add anything more...

Regards,

Sarath

PS : Who said, there is won't be any diversity if we study in an all Engineer Campus??? Whoever said that should atleast once visit NITIE. ( OK, there is the matter that after hearing to some of the ideas that come out of people, you will really start wondering, from which planet he came from, but then that is another perspective, right? )

... you ask me why??? The first mod exams are over, finally... :).

It has been a whirlwind of a Mod here....seniors too have moved one step closer to their dream of MBA (congo)!! I still feel like I landed on the PPO spot yesterday, bags in hand...with dreams in my eyes and a fire in my heart. The shortest nostalgia trip I have had so far...

First of all, it was a tough and mind-screwing last 2 weeks. Imagine writing a full length paper after 4 years :shocked::shocked:. At least in my case, I had to cover so much portion for all the exams at the last minute...but when friends are there, what's to worry?? I had so much of help from my friends who taught me almost everything..!! You rock guys (and gals too :-P).

Rains too have subsided..with disparate showers now and then :D.

Which brings me back to the Groove session Team Impact had organized for us early into the first mod. That was a time when we junies loathed them (no offence seniors :D) for making us stay awake till wee hours in the morning...and not surprisingly, there were a few days where I went to bed only at 6am (after trying to study of course ;)) during the past 2 weeks!! The seed for our psychological preparation was put into motion by them...That one aspect of Team Impact (preparing us for the MBA life) deserves a huge thanks!!

It's time for a short break, for everyone...the summers 'bug' is almost here. We would be getting back to serious preparation pretty soon, in full force!!!

Till the next update,
Satish

Updates :)

NITIE has been awarded for being ' The Best Emerging B-School ' in Asia for year 2011
Prof. K.Maddulety has been awarded as Best Professor for Operations Management across B-Schools of Asia for year 2011
Prof. R.Ramaswamy has been awarded as Best Professor for Information Technology across B-Schools of Asia for year 2011

All the above awards were awarded by CMO, Asia

@ Satish

Thanks for appreciating the efforts of Team C2X


Varun

First of all, the most important issue of the day... "Happy Teacher's Day".

Lot of activities on campus...My friends are rejoicing for one reason or the other...Forums' results, the 2-day holiday last week ;), Mumbai rains, and of course, the exams that are looming right in front of us !!

The Fresher's party was simply awesomeeee!! A BIG thanks to CoordCom and the seniors who graced the occassion & set the floor on fire !!

Some of the impatient ones (like me) have decided to become CEOs aka partners/owners in the firms we have set up, thanks to Hamhara Dhandha. All credit for it goes to our respected Prof Dr. T Prasad and CIE (the Entrepreneurship Forum). Through Humhara Dhandha, budding entrepreneurs get a valuable chance to put their amazing ideas into action.. way to go \m/!!

C2X continues to give us First years a lot of valuable insight into the Supply Chain domain ...and the crowd keeps swelling every session in spite of "hazardous" barriers like assignments, presentations, mid-terms, final-exams :wow:!!!

JustTalk is into the action as well...by organizing mock GDs as well as PIs WRT the Summers. Talking of which, our Summers placement process is almost round the corner!!

The pressure keeps mounting at times..but thankfully friends and Nescafe are there to ease the burden !! Last but not least, there has been rain, rain and more rain since last week :splat:. Our lovely NITIE pond is more beautiful now... :)

Signing off for now,
Satish

Monday ko hi aaya tha..
fir kabhi aaunga to milta hoon :)

naam to bata do apna :P

Naam me kya rakha hai saar

On a lighter note, Varun here

Sirjee.. it's because of certain things which i can't post here :banghead:

Though, aap aao kabhi bhi.. we will make sure that you get the entry

No worries PMing you my number .. just let me know when you plan to come next

Cheers!

Monday ko hi aaya tha..
fir kabhi aaunga to milta hoon :)

naam to bata do apna

What's up with the new rules of not allowing anyone to enter the campus after Midnight???

I miss the frequent campus trips :(

Sirjee.. it's because of certain things which i can't post here :banghead:

Though, aap aao kabhi bhi.. we will make sure that you get the entry

No worries PMing you my number .. just let me know when you plan to come next

Cheers!

What's up with the new rules of not allowing anyone to enter the campus after Midnight???

I miss the frequent campus trips

Back after a long long time...first of all, I had the first taste of Maddu Mess ...Amazingggggg food to have at 4 in the morning. Though the setting is not quite lip-smacking, the food certainly is. Add to it the low cost, and your mouth is sure to water ;).

In the past few weeks, there have been a lot of competitions interspersed with assignments, tests and group presentations. Even though I am not very inclined towards marketing, my class loved my examples of Viral Marketing during the Viral Marketing presentation. I somehow managed to bring in "The Blairwitch Project" into a classroom presentation without getting injured :D.

We had an awesome celebration for "Janmashtami", where the Cultural Team did an awesome job of arranging "matki phod". We have more reason to celebrate as the Night Mess is now open (which is in addition to the Nescafe hangout ). Sleep is completely out of the question now!!!

Almost all the forums are out with their final candidates' list. I missed out on some, but gained a lot of experience out of those failures :). I managed to get into Prueba (The Strategic Knowledge forum @ NITIE) but... hope to see you as a candidate for Prueba next year :).

Next...Summers is almost here. The past few weeks were judiciously (ahem read desperately) spent in remembering our past achievements for our resume. To rub it in, we have the first Mod exams in another 10 days :shocked::shocked:. I still can't stop lying to myself,"Not so soon, I just joined NITIE yesterday" . 1/8th of my course is already going to get over :-(.

That kind of covers the past few weeks with some small misses...to round this post up, we have the fresher's party tonight . It is gonna rock baby!!! Eagerly looking forward to have fun with my batchmates (both the senior junta and the pagle junior junta).

Ch33rs,
Satish

Ok... here i go again with the post on one of the most sacred threads for me

Last few days have been really hectic .. presentations of different subjects going on , it being the end mod time Extra classes running from 7 pm to 10 pm

And apart from the academic rigour which is at its peak , exams are knocking as well And first exam is tomorrow Though rest are from 9th -16th

As an add on to all these, submissions of HUL LIME , Airtel iCreate , Case study competitions from different B-Schools have kept me busy and of course, few others in the batch as well

Juniors are gearing up ..preparing for their exams and few other useful processes which happen in B-Schools

Tomorrow err today morning begins with LIME presentation , followed by Brand Management presentation and then the beginning of the preparation of the exam scheduled on 31st All this qualifies to convince me to say as of now

Shall be back soon

OMG Its been a month since I last posted? It seems like yesterday only that I made that marathon post. So much has happened over the past one month!

The best memory being MahaMandi, as many have already mentioned.. MahaMandi was quite an eye opener. To experience the life of a salesman for one full day out on the streets of Mumbai was awesome! Learnt so much on that single day, as they say real learning happens outside the classroom and MahaMandi being the best example. Kudos to all the Rocket Singhs!! Also another awesome thing about MahaMandi was the chance to be on MTV. MTV was on campus for 2 full days and were shooting like crazy. Almost everyone got a chance to be on air. Yours truely also got the chance, now looking forward seeing myself on the idiot box soon ;)

Another thing which I remember very well being our esteemed Alumni Amit Shah's speech to the incoming batch. The best thing being how he emphasized on how attitude matters more than talent. He gave so much insight into real corporate life and how attitude goes a long way to being successful. It was almost like a Harsha Bhogle, IIM A moment. It will stay with me forever. :respect:

We had our batch secy elections couple of weeks back and the well deserving candidates made it through. And not to mention all the committees selections done and a few forum selections yet to be completed. But Im super happy to have made it through to the committee and forum of my first choice! Big Big thanks to many seniors who helped out in the process.. We also had our mock interviews n GD in preparation for the summers. Realization hit me after the PI that I know very little about my interest domain and I need to work real hard if I am going to get a good summers.

This being a loooong weekend I finally managed to catch up with all the sleep lost over the past 2 months. I also had to compensate for the sleep I am going to miss over the next couple of months due to mod exams and summers. Slept for more than 30 hours over the past 3 days. Phew. And of course the weather in Mumbai is just.. I dont know what to say. It is so blood awesome that you don't feel like getting out of your bed.

Another thing which I almost missed out on was the Counter Strike gaming mania. There are so many CS enthusiasts, we have converted a room specially for playing CS only, and come weekend the whole hostel is converted into a war zone. But it really feels awesome to be back playing CS after a gap of 4 years.

Oh did I forget to mention the Poker sessions? Now that most people have no alternate source of income we all try our hand at gambling to make some money to cover our expenses. read C2H5OH. And mafia also makes an appearance once in a while, but there are so many things to write.. so many things happening.. its all a blur. Too tired after such a long post. Will update more in the next post. Till then spread the awesomeness!!

Relived the school days few hours back

Attended the flag hoisting ceremony after good number of years.... listened to the director's address ... saluted the national flag ... had sweets and tea after the hoisting !!

All this coupled with shaking hands with director, dean placements, all eminent professors of the college ... exchanging the wishes of Independence day ... Awesome it was !!

Hail my nation ... \m/

Hail NITIE for giving me the opportunity \m/

Regards
Varun

Hola

Reporting once again from Room No. 305 Hostel 3 of God's own Campus

Weather is at its best in Mumbai..Campus looking even more beautiful in rain. .. Good number of people left for their homes to celebrate the festive weekend

Rest are in campus like me Celebrating the 64th birthday of the nation in campus and looking forward to flag hoisting tomorrow morning by the Director Sir !!

Junies have started studying and giving complex to seniors telling us that we should also study

Jaane kya hoga raama re

Will update more soon

as of now
Varun

instinctivefist Says

Bro u certainly got to see the Pareto curve in real scenario ;)

ya actually, i never believed in pareto before.. i used to think, its too theoretical... but it really happens in real life!!

whole story got changed. by 9 pm we sold stuff worth of almost 4000Rs.. ( two bags of mandi stuff) that was an awesome feeling!!!

Bro u certainly got to see the Pareto curve in real scenario

Our Pitch in Mahamandi-2011 went like this
Excuse me Sir, we are first year students of NITIE (flashing our ID ) and we are on a drive called Mahamandi (broadening my chest and running a finger over it pointing to the inscription on the t-shirt). About a 1000 students are on the roads today all over Mumbai from various business schools like NITIE, Narsee Monji, IIT and KJSOM. We are promoting education by doing. We have educational toys by a NGO called Navnirmiti. These are made by children of the NGO to help other small children learn using them. These are not conventional toys and are designed by a scientist from IIT Bombay, pulling put and giving them a toy called Jodo. And of course the proceeds from these sales will go to the children of Navnirmiti. If a person doubted our pitch, I turned around to show the sponsors that we had printed on the back of our t-shirts and showed a permission letter from the commissioner of police of Mumbai. A couple of times people pulled my hanging ID and read it to see if we are not bluffing.
A great learning curve :splat:

@Varun- start a thread on Mahamandi, it is no longer a sole NITIE event with equal participation from other colleges and people from all walks of life would love to read about it

Yesterday was one of the memorable day in my life. It was once in a lifetime experience for me. It was MAHAMANDI 2011!!!

Y'day we,Nitie students, were out on streets with SJSOM, NMIMS, KJ SOM students along with few students from Pune, to sell educational toys. At the end of the day, i just felt wow!!!

Never thought that, how bad it feels to a salesman, when we just shove him away without even listening to him. :shocked:

Met people of extreme ends.. some just listened to us, some shoved us away as if we were untouchables. When were loosing out our confidence at Bandra, Linking road ( as that road was already covered by many Mahamandi guys, and i got into the last bus after finishing off the mandi infra work), I was so disappointed, as we had could sell only stuff worth of 200 buck. it was about to get 6 pm...

then we made a decision to go to juhu chowpaty, which turned out best one!!!

But as soon as we reached there, we saw that whole juhu beach was already taken over by all the other mahamandi guys!! Such a disappointment again. We were about to give up, but then thought of giving a shot for another half an hour, if nothing works out, then go home, that was the plan!!

Made lot of pitching speeches with many customers but no success!! And then came some magical turns and the whole story got changed. by 9 pm we sold stuff worth of almost 4000Rs.. ( two bags of mandi stuff) that was an awesome feeling!!!

Met a CEO of a start up firm, an event mangt firm, he made out "Bohani" (first sale at Juhu) we picked up after that. We sold stuff worth of 600-700 at one place without even moving couple of feets.

Sold one toy to a zoolawala at juhu chowpaty !! lolz!! ;)

Met one alum of nitie, IM -14 batch passout, had a nice chat with him, he too bought some stuff.

We discovered out theories of selling stuff,

1. theory of formal shoes ;)
   theory of senior citizens :D
   theory of uncle with young wife and small kids
   and what not
   

As it is said, "Sub kuch bikta hai, bechane wala chahiye!!" (everything can be sold on the street, there should be right person to sell the stuff)

I dont if i will do such a stuff once again or not.. but it was the memorable day in my life.. i just cant forget it.. we didnt have any girl in our team (it helps really!! ) , none of us had marketing skills, it was raining like hell initially, we walked almost from bandra to santacruz by road while selling on the street, we pitched in to many people for almost 15 min to sell a stuff but some of them just said NO :splat:!!! ( 15 min of pitching is too long, just give a try to convince a stranger to buy something from you on the road, its such not that easy)

At last, i would say, every b-schooler should experience the MANDI experience once in life time. There is no better way to learn marketing than selling on the street!!

Cya!!

Whoa

Junior batch is out on Mumbai streets for one of its kind event MahaMandi 2011 ... stopping prospective customers on mumbai streets, giving them illustrations of the products trying to sell the products given to them

Already, excitement is at its peak after reading the FB status messages of the experience of junies.. waiting for them to return to the campus and share the interesting happenings of the day :clap:

And , we the seniors have been engaged in classes plus the coveted cases which have been floated recently.

As far as i am concerned, just got over with forum interviews and await eagerly for the newest torchbearers of my forum Chain To Excellence to join the team and take the activities forward in the direction of the vision of our forum.

More coming soon .. as of now !!

Cheers
Varun

Had made a long post yesterday morning....which vanished into thin air (PG DB issues). Hopefully this one will stay :).

The Forum selections have started.....after a very tiny lull, activities are proceeding at full throttle. Sleep is becoming a precious commodity (Biz Eco effect :shocked:) here @ NITIE ...for all those aspirants out there, here's the low-down on NITIE's forums (in no particular order):

1. Street
   
2. Just Talk
   
3. Spic Macay
   
4. Rotary Club
   
5. Rendezvous
   
6. Prueba
   
7. NSC2
   
8. NPL (yep!!)
   
9. C2X
   
10. SAY
    
11. Arth
    
12. Mastishk
    
13. MiG
    
14. IIPC
    
15. CIE
    

Please don't expect me to explain about the forums..if you want further info, let's discuss it over Groove next year .

Adding on, the election for the various Secretary posts just got over a few hours back. We NITIEans got to exercise our right to vote again . The results are out, since most junta is asleep, the real party and "bum-kicks" will happen in the morning ;). Congo to everyone who got selected :).

I also had a mock PI organized by the Just Talk forum. It was a very valuable experience, for the seniors gave me guidance on my weak areas WRT my summers as well as my final placement. Time for the "real" hardwork now!!!

On the personal front, I had been working on the Maha-Mandi cum MiG website with 3 more friends. The website went live yesterday and the LIKEs have already crossed 80 :)... Not sure if I can post the link here, hence refraining.

Just 1 day to go for Maha Mandi...."socho becho seekho"...gonna be a rocking day!! Got my C2X interview before that, hoping to perform really really well :). More updates very soon..... :D

Ch33rs,
Satish

Hola people

After committee selections and the fun filled committee freshers , forum selections are knocking here in campus

Made the presentation till late night ... discussed few things with fellow members ... slept at 6.30 am .. attended the class at 9 am :achievement:

Still no signs when i can make up for the sleep ... as hectic day is ahead .. presentations to be given to junies, some work needs to be done for the 2 case study competitions which are currently in the news around B-School arena plus the regular class assignments and presentations !!

:w00t: So much to do and they say MBA is pretty relaxed !!

Looking forward to some more time with junies sitting on the other side of the table and then loads of fun while working with them on different plans in pipeline :)

Signing off for now ... case awaits to be read before the clock strikes 4 PM


Varun

Back to my most-loved thread...life here is HECTIC....yes it is!! Cos time flies right before your eyes and you can do nothing about it....It seems like I woke up just y'day morning (Saturday) after a week of classes, and Sunday is already here!!

As mentioned in the earlier posts...all the committee results are out!! Congo to all the committee members ..I aimed for very few comms and got through none. Nonetheless, have come out wiser in terms of experience. I have the forums and clubs to look forward to now... :)

I am eagerly looking forward to take part in C2X (Chain 2 Excellence), the SCM & Ops forum of NITIE. I missed out on the competition they had organized earlier, hence I missed out the PPI completely. But I managed to take part in the competition organized by CIE (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship) and have done well..hoping to see something positive turn up :).

The parties are on among the various committee members..Mumbai is partying as well, for we are having incessant rains for the past 1 week. And I heard, the real rains haven't started yet OMG!!! :w00t:

Assignments and tests (espc Statistics) have started....which created a frenzy among most people as our nap-time moved into a recession!! PlaceCom has urged the 1st years to start working on our CV....I still can't accept the fact that it is 45 days since I joined NITIE. Holy cow, right before I know it, I would be sitting for my summers (after managing to survive the 1st Mod exams).

Last but not least, Malhar (cultural fest) organized by St.Xaviers is around the corner and groups are trying their best to practice in the midst of other activities. I am skipping Malhar (though I registered initially) as I am going home during the long weekend (before Aug 15th).

Lots more stuff (Batch photo shoot, the powertoempower competition, my designing of the MiG/Maha Mandi website, b'day celebrations in Hostel, Rakshabandhan ) to post about...will come back again... :)

PS I can sleep peacefully now since I have made that post I have been trying to make for a long long time now!! ;)

Signing off,
Satish

Came down to campus this weekend.. spent a night in MDP.. rounds around the pond... nightout with my best buddy.. a mini-impact 16 reunion on sunday... met the latest members of the family... impact 18... quite a talented bunch i must say !!
And ofcourse there is my beloved impact 17 always good to spend sometime with you all :)

30 hours in NITIE, reliving the last 2 yrs.. missed few others who sadly could not be there on that day.. hoping for more of such days !!

Miss NITIE life like crazy..

PS: Warm welcome to Impact 18 !!!
And congrats to all those who made it to the coveted committees...!!

Committee selections are over

Junior committees are ready to take the charge .. heartiest congratulations to all the junies who made it to different committees :thumbsup:

Now, forum selections are lined up another procedure of gruelling interviews

Classes on spree as well having classes till 6 pm even on saturday

Lot of things happening apart from this... Salsa, hip hop , guitar , french and spanish language classes running in the campus ... quite a few guest speakers and alums have already addressed one and all in the college during last 1 month on latest trends in industry in different domains

Preparing for lot of competitions lined up in coming time as well .. and talks on what profiles to aim at for finals have begun as well

Why does a day has only 24 hrs for NITIEans... if we would have few more hours, may be we would have had relaxed for atleast sometime in the day :

More to pen down..more to update .. but after a short break

Cheers!!

I had to start the post wid this -
There comes a day in everybody's life, which they want to remember till the end of their life - "8th July" is tht DAY for me

I had given up hope of doing MBA this year after a series of rejects tht i got from many calls i had (read - IIMI, FMS, IIFT, IIT's etc)...i havent even seen or kept tract of the waitlsit movements of NITIE as i thought tht i stood no chance whatsoever to get an offer after my name wasnt included in the waitlist..!!

- Cut to 8th July - get a call from my brother saying tht i my name is mentioned in the NITIE "last list" of PGDIM..!! I felt emotionless (developed this habit after those series of rejects)...cudnt believe tht NITIE management wud pursue the waitlist even further after it got exhausted...!! and here i am today posting this in the Life@NITIE thread...!! To me tht was a real God-given opportunity to study in one of the Country's premier B-school
Firstly i was having a feeling while at home tht if i wud be able to cope up the 1-month "gap" wid the fellow batch-mates of PGDIM and my section-C, but left all tht to "bhagwanji ke bharose" and enjoyed tht day to the fullest
I had some frnds in the IM batch (saTrisha in particular) wid whom i contacted abt the whereabouts, admin processes and most importantly the academic part (how many classes were over by this time?)...all guys gave me gr8 support and insight abt the life here in NITIE :lookround:

Came to NITIE on 13th July, 5am in the mrng...(had to disturb Mullai Selvam at tht time in the mrng to rest in his room)...completed the admin formalities by the afternoon and settled in the PGPM hostel Got the opportunity to share a room a wid 3 other guys which many fewer get in NITIE (except for the PGPM hostels) (it has its own comforts) !!

And after spending 5 days at NITIE, i can just say tht these 5 days were some of the beautiful days spent in my whole life..!! it feels like i do belong here from many months..!!

I dont have to say much abt NITIE, coz the Brand NITIE is renowed worldwide, it is one of the centre of excellence and "Sells" everywhere and going by PG rules for not comparing wid any other colleges - NITIE is NITIE

The people u get u to interact (NITIEans) are just awesome guys...gr8 learning experiences while interacting wid each one got to talk wid many of my classmates and Hostel-mates but still yet to exploit many guys from other sections

Seniors: Right from the process of GD/PI for the admissions in NITIE, the Seniors leave an impression on the aspirants minds...!! Well any B-School is defined by the students who study in it and in NITIE, u get to meet the most helpful and interesting persons as our Seniors
Interactions wid the Seniors is awesomely gr8...they are willing to guide u in whichever manner possible..!! (Hell i missed the Induction programs ) The dedications they have shown during the induction period (learnt from my batchmates) - was truly applaudable..!! "They dont sleep and dont let u sleep"

Campus: One of the very Best in the Country...Scenic Beauty - lush green grass almost everywhere in the campus and when it rains - u dont want to go elsewhere coz NITIE is the place to be..!!
Enjoy the rains, get drenched and walk thru the campus and feel it..!!
Its best during the night, a walk thru the Lake in the campus wid the flood-lights on gives u a feel forever
The facilities at NITIE are well-worthy...u dont feel like to get out of the campus - a late night coffee at the nescafe is one to thing to do while staying here..!! (myself making a habit to do it daily )

Committee Interviews: Being a late-comer, i had to get used to the pace at which the NITIE life goes...was given one day to fill the forms for the committee selections and the next day (today) the interviews were conducted..!! Well everything at NITIE is Student-driven, which gives each and every individual the utmost exposure possible to become a proffesional by the time we leave wid a Job in hand A total of 9 committee's along wid a good range of forums to choose from at NITIE offers the students very bright opportunities to go and Interact wid the Industry proffesionals and Alumni of NITIE...!!

Had the opportunity to meet Vision IIM-ACL aka Varun today, during the Team IMPACT interview

If i had to describe Life@NITIE in 4 words - "Feel It, Live It"

Have a presentation tomorrow at 9am...and i am not sleepy
Guess tht's wat a gr8 campus wid interesting people around makes U..!!


PS - For all those who say tht NITIE is the best college for only Operations - Yes it is really the best college for Operations but it surely does have much more to offer than just Operations..!!
PPS -Wanted to post in this coveted thread after spending a month in NITIE...but there's no point in waiting when u have much to post ;)
PPPS - I havent got my PPO in the campus yet Hope the Crow God's shower their Blessings(read Shite) on me in the near future so tht i have a gr8 future in NITIE :biggrin:

More to follow....