It’s been 3 weeks since my last post and it has been a hectic 3 weeks. A lot of work piled up after the mid terms as 75% of this term’s classes were surprisingly scheduled in the latter half. Moreover the company PPT’s almost daily where one had to listen to the same crap over and over again was tiring to say the least. The term ends on the 15th and thank goodness for that. I have managed to wrap up the countless term papers, assignments and various other submissions which are characteristic of the 6th term. A few loose ends remain, which I hope to tie up over the weekend.

A lot of things happened in IIMK over the last 3 weeks…….the details of which can be found on Nitai's blog. Moreover anyone interested in anything related to IIMK should visit his blog more often. I don’t intend to stay here past these last 2 weeks and my fodder on IIMK would be provided by nitai and his blogs in the future. The final placements at K are just round the corner and most of the PGP2’s are seen trying to make sense of all the knowledge that has been stuffed up our brain. A lot of PPO’s and lateral offers have created a feel good atmosphere and with the kind of money being thrown around by the companies, IIMK placements this time should leave everyone happy.

Backwaters 2005 turned out to be a great event and it was obvious that the backwaters team had toiled for it. The IIMK alumni meet was scheduled during the fest as well and there existed a great festive atmosphere for those two days. I could not participate as much as I wanted to as classes were scheduled around the same time. Some moments worth remembering during backwaters have been the magnificent play by the juniors, the informal events as well as the amazing enthusiasm and energy floating around on campus. Here’s hoping that the next backwaters is even bigger and better.

The series of parties on campus have suddenly sky-rocketed and why not? The hostel parties started with D hostel juniors being the first ones to throw a party for us. The hostel party rocked and other hostels soon followed suit.

baKarD boyz

Parrrttttyyyy

Another great thing that I have seen develop at K over the last two years is the Hostel loyalty and camaraderie particularly among D hostelites much to my delight. Most of my D hostel mates chose to return to the same hostel in the second year as well in spite of it being the farthest from the classrooms. Two years in D has been great fun and most of us wanted to get a hostel t-shirt done to express the unique D hostel identity. We have been thinking of a good slogan which could capture the essence of D. It finally dawned on me when I was writing an article for the year book. Two things which a D hostelite is known for is his thirst for bakar and bacardi……apart from other things of course, so the slogan baKar-D boyz emerged. T-shirts were printed in a jiffy and it was great to see the D-gang wear the t-shirts proudly. I hope this D identity and tradition is carried forward by the juniors as well and considering the fine bunch of juniors here, I have no doubt that this will happen. Ok, its time to end this long post now.

A last pic :))

D's Detractors get this