Preterm is on and voila .. time flies by. Actually, I still have a lot of spare time on my hands. But the trouble is I dont have an internet connect at home. It involves, getting cable tv and then an internet connect and guess what, they dont provide cable tv connects to people without SSN. Grrr.. so I will have to make a scheduled pit stop to the nearest cable tv hq a dozen miles away and identify myself before I can lay my hands on a good net connect at home.
Stuff done in the last week.. umm..
Attending more parties. Wharton junta seem to party a LOT. On any given day there are 3 parties you can attend. Plus with 800 people around, you can rest assured at its someone’s b’day, anniversary or whatever. Plus the junta parties like its got no other business. I attended a couple of parties, and most of them are held in pubs. Now there is this thing about noise levels - I dont’ like em to skyrocket :p . So I guess I meet more people at school than at the pubs. Plus ofcourse there are so many parties are people’s homes….
Then ofcourse I spent some time auctioning! AHA, At Wharton courses are auctioned and every junta has a fixed set of points so that they can bid on their favorite courses. Auctions are put into place because every class has a limited no. of seats available and students need to bid on courses that are of utmost interest to them. But there are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many courses that its humanely insanely impossible to attend all of them. So I decided to take up a couple of faculty lectures and trips that would help me figure out the insanity of business at the best business school [ self plug ] . Mwahahahhaa
Some of the courses/lectures/events I bid upon for preterm and won are:
| Industry Chat: Consulting | |
| Industry Chat: Private Equity [JMHH - G06] | |
| Tuesday | |
| Business Etiquette for Success [JMHH - F85] | |
| LECT004001 - Deals: An Introduction [JMHH - G50] | |
| Technology Intelligence for Competitive Advantage [JMHH - 260] | |
| LECT010001 - Competitive Advantage [JMHH - 240] | |
| Wednesday | |
| Opportunities for Entrepreneurship at Wharton [JMHH - G06] | |
| Negotiating in Times of Crisis (TICKET REQUIRED) 8/23 & 8/24 & 8/26 [JMHH - F85] | |
| Thursday | |
| Generating Venture Ideas [JMHH - 250] | |
| Leveraging Insights from the MBTI [JMHH - F60] | |
| The Electronic Business Library [JMHH - G50] | |
and these are events/lectures that will be done in two weeks and is in addition to the preterm courses am taking! So these are the events I am filling and fitting into my schedule whenever/wherever I find a lil spare time 
There were around a 100 events/stuff to chose from and therefore I guess no two people would have a similar schedule! Fin guys have stuff from trading simulation to hedge fund lectures to what not and guys like me have again equally interesting stuff to delve in. That kind of hints at the vast resources available to the junta here. Pick an area and you can find enough stuff to indulge yourself for the next two years!
Off the Wharton front.. I bought a 27″ TV and a surround 5.1 speaker system and a 5 CD/DVD/MP3 Player with changer and stuff for 250$ 
.. beat that :p .. the joys of purchasing second hand stuff from a guy who was leaving town .. now I am not sure if these things are gonna help in the long run.. but hearing music from those towering speakers..sheer bliss!
As you can see I havent started studying.. yet.. wait, I’ve never studied. I just got lucky that I even got there. Do I have to study now ? Um.. I’ll adopt a wait and watch approach before I answer that 
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//wait, I’ve never studied. I just got lucky that I even got there. Do I have to study now ? Um.. I’ll adopt a wait and watch approach before I answer that
Ha ha.. Bhai, it’s people like you who give people like me hope !! I certainly wish you don’t have to study much and just use some grey cell matter to rock Wharton with your propensity for physical experiments of entrepreneurship.
Posted 09 Aug 2006 at 3:48 pm ¶Kya baat hai Allwyn bhai…Party Sharty Hai Rabba ..:mg:
Posted 11 Aug 2006 at 5:12 pm ¶Hey allwin,
Posted 12 Aug 2006 at 8:26 pm ¶I was about to ask you this question when i read your earlier post
http://insane.pagalguy.com/2005/11/15/randomitis/
you mentioned there: no pub-no smoking-no drinking…
so how you going to cope up there?
since what i heard: these US-MBA ppl party all time…
did you feel alone there at times like these>? of course there must be some otherthings for ^^socialising^^ or just hanging around.
but still, would love to hear about partying & ur opinion on that>>
I still don’t smoke and I still don’t drink. Sure its a bit tough, but once you know what you really want to do, it sorts itself out
. People at Wharton surely do seem to be partying all the time, but at the same time are updated on everything out there. So heck, thats amazing! I don’t really have an opinion on this because people are free to do what they do 
Yes, there are loads of ways to meet up with people, classmates that partying is not necessarily the only way to network.
Posted 13 Aug 2006 at 3:15 am ¶ATB with ur math class. range of electives r mindboggling. have fun! i am gud n workin now.was a bit tied up with home so cudnt keep in touch. who is co-ordinatin for naseoh these days?
Posted 13 Aug 2006 at 4:55 pm ¶@Rajlaxmi - thanks! Congrats on the job
. Puneet is co-ordinating with NASEOH right now. Let me know if you need any more info. You should check up with the PG gang at NASEOH …they surely would love to meet the person who introduced us to NASEOH and changed our lives!
Posted 13 Aug 2006 at 6:44 pm ¶I sure wanna be a regular. Guess wil take some time for things to settle on home front. And pls dont glorify my intro to naseoh. It was nothing abs..In fact i aint happy at all as i have contributed zilch for long now. U guys really rock on that front. Wil try doin my bit.
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