Today we had this brilliant 3 hour lecture from our professor on Politics in organisations, rather covering the Political frame out of the 4 frames of the organisations. Carl marx to Stalin was brought into the playground and discussed thread bare. The four dimensions of power were sketched out. There was a mini-crusade argument period within the lecture hours where in we were allowed to fight in among over self, off course there was no physical brutality. I thought in sometime it will get into a stage where that would be possible, such was the force of the exhibitors, must say.

Monday was the accounts exam, my first exam pertaining to accounts this semester. Accounts is a very quantative subject normally but the books and lectures are designed in such a way that they talk about the dryer aspects of accounting and focus more on basic functionality. We were under the impression that even the question paper would bear a similarity but it turned out to be the other way round. It was filled with balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and other statistical descriptions that lot of them in class found the paper to be very tough including me, in spite of coming from an accounting background. There is a disadvantage by attending a class on Monday, since you are fighting in the battleground without the knowledge of the opposition, here in this it is the question paper. I was unfortunate to get into such a position whereas my peers we so happy when they got to know the mode of the paper.

The subject is divided into management and financial accounting. The test was on the latter half. Now all I have to do is forget about it and focus even higher in the management accounting exam such that I notch up as many marks as possible to compensate for the loss made here, if any. The buzz around the business school is slowly submerging below ground level due to mid term exam coming to an end. Now we have a weeks break thanks to Easter, where I have lined up close to 6 assignments to complete which I haven't even looked into. Planning to go to a beautiful temple on Friday, located in Helenbrough with few University friends of mine.

The course work is so heavy that you are submerged into doing the inevitable. But sometimes you feel you have lot of time without realising that there isn't any when you see at the bigger picture. The main question is sustainability. Any MBA is considered as a business entity by itself. It has its product values and costs. It caters to different segments and markets. Segments are the age groups with rich or poor work experiences and markets are the specialised fields it emphasis its focus on. It is more of a roller-coaster ride than anything else. Over the two years you meet a zillion people, experience different forms and methodologies of teaching, learn gazillion ways of doing things, solve hundreds of case studies, and interact with hundreds of nationalities and thousands of sub-sects within the nationality which you wouldn't have ever imagined.

If you consider me for example, inspite of UTS having majority of Asian student’s domination, there are still 87 nationalities of students who are pursuing their education here. Again this is further more subjected to segmentation and diversification, due to the sub-sects in cultures and previous education. So when an Indian identifies to do a particular problem, a German has an alltogether different strategy to complete the given task. The outcome may vary but atleast the knowledge derived out of team work definitely remains within you.

Ok, time out for now!!!

filtered by sambhar....