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This term has whizzed by like anything. It seemed much more shorter than the previous term although both the terms were of six weeks each. Classes end next Thursday and exams start Friday. For me, this term was not very fruitful. There were some important courses in this term, but somehow I was not able to keep pace with the result that I need to work really hard to be prepare myself for the exams. The only course which I really liked in this term was Macroeconomics. The prof has done an excellent work in introducing the basic concepts of Macro. No financial mumbo jumbo, no text book stuff, just plain common sense understanding of Macroeconomics. He has covered National Income Accounting, Theory of Income Distribution and Monetary and Fiscal policies. The great part was that the prof related the contents to the current economic scenarios and helped us understand the various forces at play during the time of recession. Infact, the prof said that he enjoyed teaching the subject more during low economy phases because during these times the students are more receptive to understanding what is really going on. We have had some excellent discussions on the global economic situation and it has been an overall great experience. Kudos to the man!!!

Cost Accounting is another subject which has evoked some interest in me. Although complex, the prof has managed to capture students interest through his teaching style.

Marketing is a course which I find very boring and I typically switch off mid way during the sessions. There have been numerous case discussions during the session but I never really got interested. There is a marketing project which my group has to present and submit next week, but we are not even half way through. Guess it would be a last moment exercise.

OR is another interesting course but it faced the typical problem that quant courses in business schools face. These papers are taught by mathematicians and they have the habit of going into miles and miles of details and proofs and theorems and auxiliaries and formulas and what not. Little do they realize that as managers we would not be proving formulas but solving business situations. There is an excellent tool by Microsoft which is called Excel which can help us in solving various business problems. Instead of solving LP using Excel we banged our heads against Simplex and Big M and Two Phase which are thoroughly useless for us as managers. Excel is the way to go.

Tune back in later for my analysis on the other courses.