Wrote this to a couple of friends in Term -1. Pasting here to get the ball rolling and build some inertia at the site.

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It has been quite a while that I've been thinking about writing about first few days here. Days became weeks and weeks turned months. Finally, got this opportunity at 4:00AM to pen down a few words.

Last week was unusually busy. Who would have thought that a week next to end of Term-1 would be more stressful than the Term-end exams itself. Four continuous sleepless nights. Swinging from neural networks in MATLAB to the stock movements along the regression curves wasn't something we thought would follow immediately after Term End exams. Rest as they say is history. We're getting used to typical routine of IIMC. When complained to one of the profs here, here're the responses:
1. I can bet and prove that I'm more overworked than you guys.
2. Sleep deprivation is part of the teaching methodology here. You'll get used to it. Sooner the better.

A typical day starts at 9AM and ends at 3-4AM. During heavy days it becomes 9AM-6AM. Continuous fear of "surprise" quizzes, 20 pages cases, night long assignments and 100 pages chapters are getting into the psyche surely. We've our group activities planned at 2:00AM because that's the only common time available in the whole of the day.

Professors are great. Particularly Economics and Finance ones – the ones which IIMC is known for. All Chatterjees, Sens, Basus, Sinhas are phenomenals. Worse even, we're not being able to exploit their potential. They've a world to offer and we've only 24 hours a day to absorb.
At the stress levels, I'm not really doing bad. Working for 16 hours was part of presales routine and pretty comfortable with night outs as compared to most of us. Continuous night outs for the whole week was really not that hard. Dealing with ambiguities and uncertainties too is coming out naturally. Overall happy.

Regarding Performance, me not doing that great but can improve this term. Competitive spirit among 30-35 yr olds is as fierce as 22-24 ones. Lure of consulting and i-banking is keeping people on their toes. Rat race is going on.

Batch has a mix. Some girls as well in the batch – 4 of them. They're doing great academically as expected but would not be the same for long.

Campus is good but not great. Full of lakes and small hawrah bridge. 6 lakes/ponds in all. Some migratory birds. This batch is getting quite some attention here and envy of the PGP folks.

Need to sign off here.