Two things

Two things that you can never miss at ISB

1. The assignment deadlines
2. Classes at 8.15am

Most assignments require that we submit a soft copy as well as the hard copy. The deadline is usually early in the morning 8am or sometimes 00:00 hours. For the latter, at 11.40pm suddenly there is queue of jobs and printers in all buildings become scare resources. It is now the ultimate decider of our fate. The happy ones sigh a relief while those waiting for their printouts let out a curse. To add to the pressure, people pickup the wrong printouts. But at the end of it, everyone has submitted their assignments before the deadline, even if means a nightout, and things seem normal again.

The best of all assignments so far has been with marketing tool MarkStrat. Notoriously time consuming! It is a blackhole - time gets sucked into it. You tend to get either over passionate or simply don't understand how it works.

My quad mates are from my section and we seem to make it to the 8.15 class JIT. After one of those hectic days, for one class I literally woke up from bed and ran to the classroom. I remember Sandeep asking me this question before I came here. Now I see why mint gums are also for non-smokers. And there is nothing wrong when your group mate wishes a goodnight in the afternoon - as one of alums had joked or so we thought.

When assignment deadlines overlap with the 8am class, it is sheer glory. Nevertheless, things seem to get completed in the last minute and the cycle repeats.