At ISB

Life has changed a lot in last few months, but it has been for good all the way. And here I am back blogging after a long break.

To begin with I feel elated being at the Indian School of Business. Our Batch of 2008 at ISB has great diversity. It includes Ex-Army men, Squadron Leader from the Air Force, Doctors, Engineers, Chartered Accountants, Diplomats (IFS), Cops (IPS), Entrepreneurs, Marines, Journalists, Bankers, Consultants, and so many more wonderful people.

I am staying in the student village 3 and Quad I. My other Quad mates are Jayan, Ram and Pradeep and we have already built great rapport.

Then I have been allotted the section E and subgroup 13 (hopefully lucky for us). My group includes Amit, Rohit, Ankush and another Puneet. All of them have traveled a lot across the world and Rohit was working with McKinsey & Co, before coming to this place. They are great friends to have and they have been helping me a lot since I injured my leg playing Frisbee. Along with them for the last two days Dr. Kiran Shete and Jayan have also been taking great care of me.

To continue about the ISB, for the last few days we are having the Orientation week and a number of Alumni are also in the campus, and they are giving us a lot of gyan. We also have been introduced to the various clubs and the seniors are very supportive and protective of the new batch. I hope that our batch also does the ISB proud.

ISB is a great place to be at with such a wonderful batch of over 400 people. The place is built amidst a rocky terrain and large boulders beautify the place as if they were intentionally placed sculptors. The building architecture is modern with best facilities available and the Learning Resource Centre (or the LRC) is the towering centre around which the whole campus is spread.

But the greatest thing possible is the batch of 2008 itself. As the competitions in the Orientation week reach closer to the finals, the team preparations are increasing. The slogan for section E “Rock-E……. Rock-E” has already become popular (at least in our section). And after sweating in the field the people relax by partying hard. It is about 3 a.m. in the night and the party has just begun and I can hear the loud music outside. And there has been a party atleast every alternate day since we reached here.

I think the forth coming days will see some wonderful performances by this batch in the field of business, entrepreneurship, governance and social work. And I would like to be a part of some of those and would like to write about some on this blog as well.