Class Finally

Voila! First day of the class... and started with Statistics. Was supposed to be boring but Proff. LoveJoy is a joy to watch. Amazing fun class. Revised my probability fundas and decided it will be an EX for sure in this course. Stats was followed by Business Economics (micro-economics to be precise)... again great atmosphere. The other two courses I am taking this semester are Accounting and Strategy. Strategy Proff. Kale (IIMA alum) is taking the case study approach and is really great to learn from.

One thing that is strikingly different in here vis-à-vis the Indian education system that I am used to is the informal environment in the class. So, the four letter words are common... the Proffs will treat you like equal (though we are not for sure...) and the best thing is you are always encouraged to ask questions (by giving marks for class participation, as high as 30%)
Another thing that differentiate is the emphasis on “make sure they know before you test” rather than “test them before they know”. I know how little Proff. Back home used to tell us about a particular quiz and how they will make sure they test us on things which we didn’t know rather than helping us learn. Over here it’s an overdose always. You will get practice problems, problems to be done before class, after class, in the class, a practice quiz before the actual quiz etc etc. (although making sure you do it all makes sure you are studying always)… On top of that the marking is much lenient so no wonder everyone scores high… well that reminds me… here are some of the marks I have got in my subjects till now... Stats (24/24), Accounting (27/30), and Eco (62/65).

BTW before I forget to mention, all the instructors here think its only their subject that we are supposed to excel in to so loads of work :(