Life@NITIE : The first week

With bag and baggage and lots of hopes and aspirations about that dream job (yeah, I even got placed with a 15+ package company in my dream the earlier night :D), the landing in God' s own campus brought in a feeling of pride and awesomeness. Most of us simply fell in love with the campus again. The feeling had not yet sunk in when we reached at the reception of hotel 1-2, and it suddenly vanished. The long line for room allotment gave a pinch of the MBA struggle ahead.

Little did we know that the biggest surprise was yet to come. As we entered the room, we were welcome by cobwebs, termites and the rust-painted washrooms making us realize that this was a 49 year old campus. A clan of termites and other wildlife have evolved during this time(apart from Team Murphy, of course). Anyway, the cleaning campaign started and went on till midnight. We were advised to sleep well because apparently, GROOVE was gonna start the next day. Surprise again!! (you know it !!!). But on the positive side, this one gave us a chance to visit Mumbai’s exotic destinations including Aksa beach (the cleanest beach of the city), Bandstand, infinity mall and some others. It was a pleasure to finally meet some of the awesome people I have been interacting online over the past few weeks.

There are some good things and some bad things about doing an MBA. After working for more than 3 years, it was such a relief to shed those formals, attend classes once again and play MAFIA (superlike J) during nights. Long live the guy who invented MAFIA(:D). Some professors even think of it as “Marketing, finance and accounts” and they think they know Gen-Y(Seriously, we need to teach these profs some real Gen-Y stuff. Can we have a game of MAFIA among all the deans and profs, and evaluate them on the basis of their efficiency and effectiveness?? :D). With all due respect to them, I guess most of us don’t like or support the 75% attendance rule. (Why us? L) Yeah, life is unfair. Even MBA is not an exception. But in the end, you get everything you desire even though during the course they make you ponder “what do you really want?” :O  

We also had some awe-inspiring campus tours including a visit to the roof top of the MDP hostel. We climbed up the height of the water tank on the roof and rediscovered the magnificent beauty of the campus through a panoramic breathtaking view. You can see the pond, Hiranandani, the new hostel, the new academic building, all at once from there, and its marvelous.

Everyday I find a new reason to be in love with the campus. And I guess most of us do. Everybody here may have different aspirations but we all will share the same brand of being a NITIEan. It will remain forever. And that’s why I love NITIE. 

Eurotrip 2007

One of the most memorable trips of my life, Eurotrip 2007, during my internship at Berlin.

We embarked on our journey from kaiserdam bus station to paris. We slept

throughout the journey and went straight to the Sacred Heart Basilica,

situated at a great height. The panoramic view of the eiffel tower was a

pleasure to the eye. After that, we went to the pantheon and the famous

notre dame cathedral. In the night, we went to the the eiffel tower and

enjoyed the view of the city from the top floor.

Next day, we visited the Lourve's museum, the abode of the Mona Lisa. It

took us the whole day to absorb the grandeur of the museum and we flew

from paris to rome in the evening.

At rome, we first went to the colosseum, the fighting place of the

gladiators and then to castel St. Angelo, whose imposing mass still

dominates the panorama of Rome. After that, we climbed up the 320 steps

of St. Peter's dome and relaxed at St. Peter's Square. The following day we went to see the vatican museum and the most famous, the Sistine chapel, the residence of the Pope. We enjoyed the evening at

the beach and took the train to pisa the next day.

As soon as we reached pisa, we scuttled to see the leaning tower, one of

the 7 wonders of the world. We took pictures in front of the tower and

moved on to venice through the train.

Venice is situated on a sea and we had to take a boat pass to roam

around the city. We enjoyed sailing in the boat and also paid a visit to the

san marco piazza where you can see a whole slew of pigeons.

We came to bremen from venice the next day by ryanair and then took 3

lander tickets to reach berlin.

The whole 1 week trip was a lifetime experience.