Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Bakwas Bandh Karo [May-19]

Section A

Student raises hand to ask question in Stats class. Immediate neighbours burst out laughing even before he uttered a word. Poor fellow asked his question with great challenge (almost laughing and almost forgetting the question too) but his struggle lasted quite sometime ! ** Class burst out laughing in the meanwhile **

Section B

Seemed like a jargon contest [on a serious note the underlying concepts were good. Click on the links for details]:

Prof: ** Explaining about Pricing Engineering **

Student 1: ...blah... Libertarian paternalism [ The aha-moment ... now who can beat me at that]
Prof: ** stumped ** I dont know about it ** waits for sometime .. no answer ** and it is ??
Student 2: ** immediately after the first one was all said and done ** There is one more concept that is called "Subliminal marketing"  
[You can do one ... I can do better]
Prof: ** Scarred for life **

Section C

Student: Blabber .... blabber ....
Prof: Ok, what is the question?
Student: Sir, I was making a comment.
Prof: *stumped* thank you

Section D

Student: Pricing in India is done like this …..blah blah blah blah ………..

Professor: ** Disagreeing with Student ** No but ideally it should be done like this ….blah…..blah….blah……

Student: Sir that happens in America cause it is a capitalist country and I come from a socialist country (what the F !)


Section E

Professor fights back. Some killer responses by the Prof:

1.       The biggest hell was created on earth when someone tried to create heaven.

2.       Society didn’t become greedy suddenly after 2006. It was always greedy.

3.       “Ex-ante” …  if you were an investor in 2006 & I took you back in a time machine …

4.       This is for my “mathematically inclined” friends who want to see the world in a complicated way.

5.       I believe, for 20 bucks a day, you could hire a guy to do the integration for you.



Section F

[Last week] Prof presenting his research. He came to a graph of employment rate in the US over time. At which point this guy butts in with something like “But sir, when I was working in the US….”

And Prof was like “This data is prepared by BLL… go fight with BLL…I did NOT prepare this data… C’mon guys… u shud know when to bring in your personal experiences….”


For the Batch

1. Medical Advice (from a non-Doctor) on Campus regarding Swine Flu: Please take necessary Porkautions !

2. The ever enthu guys of a Section - as usual decided to gift something to a professor. As at all times :

-          More than 100 mails were exchanged [At the time of going to press I mean]

-          A poem was written for the prof

-          Some cool dude thought of gifting the professor a bathroom tile with the prof’s picture on it [Hey man – I am sure he has a mirror to see himself every day ?]

3.     How must a sample mail from the GSB hopeful should look like [for illustrative purposes only. Not to be copied. including comments]

A lot of you have been enquiring (21 to be exact!) [Official Census figures including the Dean himself] if I was running for the GSB President [If not Kalam then you] Several of you also said that I should take up this responsibility [No we were begging…Please, Please..Without you IME will not survive even 1 day. Save our planet] . After careful deliberation, I have finally submitted my vision for the GSB President [ I am a visionary whose vision is scary]. The responsibility holds no personal gains for me [Except that - You'll see me getting A McKinsey job which is not technically a personal gain, it is for world peace] rather it poses the challenge of coordinating the multiple aspirations of our very diverse batch [Overplayed card] . Delivering meaningful impact to the larger society [Hey, you know where I get this line from? I heard this in one of the Obama speeches] in my own small ways  has been my focus before coming to IME [I used to organize diwali programs in my neighbourhood before coming here] and the need and opportunity to recreate the same magic here has led me to this decision! [ Move aside Jadugar P.C. Sarkar]