@NITIE POM Class 1

The  first class at NITIE turned out to be  a very memorable one. After the document verification and the room alottment process on Thursday ,most of us had gotten a chance to relax and settle down on the weekends.Very enthued for the first B-School class,I reached the classroom five minutes early for a 9'O clock class.It was already 9:20.The class was waiting for the communications Prof to arrive. Little did we know that in the next few minutes we will get introduced to Proffessor Prasad,more famously known as  "Dr Mandi". Most of us had already heard about him and his way of teaching his students. He entered the room with a bag and introduced himself. The session started with him passing the toys kept in his bag to the students. The toys were not so engineering marvels  but were as simple as globe sponge balls, butterflies, a sliding toy employing simple 10th standard physics. What was interesting was that he asked the students to keep throwing around the sponge balls across the classroom while he was talking. The discussion revolved around the importance of earning money by applying the learnings. He asked each one of us to calculate the opportunity cost of joining NITIE. For me, it comes around to be 18 lakhs i.e 2500 per day. :O :O. He stressed on the idea that every individual/student must aim to recover atleast 10% of 2500  every day .In his words , “apni roti,roz kamao”. The crux of the discussion was to  earn some economic value through the application of concepts grasped till date. This is much better explained by these lines

“Socho.. Becho !  Becho.. Seekho ! !   Seekho .. Socho ! ! !”

 There was  a funny act performed by two of my classmates where one was trying to sell the pink colored butterfly to other guy.He had to convince him to take the butterfly at a price higher than the original one.

One of the most entertaining part of the class was when he made a bunch of us sing the song  “Another brick in the wall” . I was hearing it for the first time. The lyrics goes like this..

“We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! teachers! leave the kids alone! 
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.”

Very thought provoking..!!

Dr Mandi  informed us about the activity for the next class –“ The tower building “.All in all the whole session was very practical and productive. I don’t remember myself picking up the pen to make notes. I guess that is the way he teaches. In addition to the concepts given by him , the class was useful to me in one more way. He has asked all of us to maintain a blog of all the management concepts learned and make it interesting by attaching pictures and posting videos of the class .From a very long time, I was thinking of creating a blog. And this is it. My first post!