Kampus Kouples Ki Kute Kahani

 This was sort of a small get together for some SCMHRDians at Yosha’s Wedding reception. We thoroughly enjoyed the reception with lots of food, friends, fun and some freaky jokes by Dear Hiru and Polo. What our batch mates talked about on a wedding?  You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to guess this one. We talked about couples in our MBA batch.

These days, Every time I refresh the browser in Facebook account, I see a new picture someone getting married or engaged!! It’s lovely to get such nice updates.It also reminds me of many types of couples, I happened to see during my MBA days. I have my observations based on my campus but it can be a story of any campus or co-ed school.  Human nature is essentially the same!!

Here are the different kinds of couples you see around in an MBA campus:

1) The “Spice” Couples: The name  “The Spice Couple”  has nothing much to do with Spices you use in your kitchen. They are called Spice couple because; if Plural of Mouse is Mice and plural of Louse is lice, Plural of Spouse Should be “ Spice”.  The only reason the Spice couple was not selected for movie the  “Ek Duje ke liye” is simply that they were not born at that time. This kind of  couple always remained together and had some amazing planning skills. They developed this skill discussing their family plans for future all the time. We batch mates realized their amazing Planning powers when they won couple of Business Plan competitions!!!  Family planning skills improvised for making business plans. We wish their Family plan also be a winner like their business plans!

2) The “Symbiosis” Couples: The name comes from the ‘symbiotic’ relationship these couples were in. They truly believed in “You-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-your”   theory.  No wonder they were often seen scratching each other’s.....well.. Not back exactly!!! These couples were often spotted in various “symbiotic” positions within and outside the campus like parking lots, swimming pool and E-square corner seats. These couples were also characterized by their simultaneous absence from the campus for their cousin's marriage respectively. Though when they returned, from their hometowns after attending their family functions respectively, surprisingly both had the same Goa tan on their skins!! Global warming .. u know.. !! every city can give you that Goa Tan!!    These were the couple who truly showed that love is eternal and cannot be destroyed.  It can only be transferred to other love partners. Many of them after leaving campus, have found other symbiotic partners at their new locations and are happy.

3) The “Take-my-trip.com” Couples:  Looking at these couples made be believe in the phrase “Love is blind” like never before. At least one of the members of the couple was in love for sure, because he/she was certainly blind to see/understand what other one was doing. Though everyone in the campus knew that who among the couple was being used as a “cash cow” and who was the “cow-owner”!!! The “cow” in the couple often presented the “Owner” class notes, free dinners, movie shows and birthday gifts. As in marketing strategy, “cash cows” were often killed for some other “star”!! That’s exactly Kotler taught us.. Right?  For more information on these couples you can log in to the URL http://www.take-my-trip.com. Many of them are still available for your trip!!

4) The “RAC” couples: First thing first... RAC stands for “Reservation against Cancellation (RAC)”.  It was Indian railways who introduced this RAC concept for reservations of berths in the trains, which were very popular.There were more people wanting to travel in the train than there were seats.  So railways started booking tickets against berths already booked, so that in case of confirmed passengers cancelling their tickets, RAC passengers could get the berth. This RAC methodology was meant for optimal use of resources. Well our RAC couple consisted of one “reserved” berth and one person trying for that berth. Benefits to the “reserved” berth was the constant attention and care, he/she got during tense MBA schedule. The other one had nothing but the hope. After all, Hope is a great thing.  Like Railways “RAC” passengers, the "passenger" in RAC couple also had two possible ends: either they ended up being in waitlist and never got confirmed or sometimes got confirmed when “Confirmed” passengers got seat somewhere else or got some bad feedback on the train and decided to cancel their reservation.

5) The “Elective” couple:  The people forming “the elective couple” were formed by the couple who took their MBA curriculum very seriously. The adopted the “elective” methodology for choosing their love partners. As curriculum electives, Partner electives were also chosen for one semester only. Each semester they chose different electives... I mean partners. Depending upon merit of the electives, the time devoted to each elective was proportionate to the “credits” of the elective. You can easily guess, these people chose many “Non-credit-electives” or even had some really short” workshops” too!!!
                                         I have crossed the acceptable word limit for this post. Depending upon the responses to this post, I will decide whether to write about other categories.  Enjoy..
© Shekhar Suman

Have you done MBA from SCMHRD?

 You have NOT done MBA from SCMHRD if you believe that:

1)      Excel sheets can be used only for data crunching and have nothing to do with @$$ wiping.

2)      Sundays should be holidays and should be spent at home relaxing. After all what’s Sunday lacks as compared to Monday to be called a Holiday. All days are equal.

3)      Learning Finance, Marketing, HR or Operations is more important than Learning Vedanta. Unlike Vedanta, other knowledge will be handy only till you are alive. We are prepared with knowledge to deal with problems coming in life  beyond death in hell or heaven.

4)      White house or NASA headquarters are the most heavily guarded and secured places on earth. Buddy.. You are yet to visit our Placements and Examination department.

5)      OOP means Object Oriented Programming. It means Out Of Placements. An extra degree which many of us get only after displaying suitable potential and characters for the same. Very few extraordinary chaps got higher degree called  TNG ( terms not granted) .

6)      Costliest food is served only in Five star hotels. Dude, just do the simple maths by dividing the mess fee paid by number of meals you had at mess not from Prahlads. You will know what is costlier.

7)      You should be allowed to carry in mobile in your classes.  How will you concentrate on the class given the threats you will continuously get from 9898989898.

8)      Chief Learning officer is a post related to Learning. Only bigger lie than this is that I wont die. Mere Bhai.. If CLO starts thinking about learning, who will sign Exemption applications!!!

9)      Number of buildings of any MBA institute will be a natural number. Ha ha ha.. Mathematicians are yet to find out how many buildings exactly SCMHRD has. I can tell you number of buildings only upto 15 significant digits. Number of buildings of SCMHRD as per latest research was  0.333333333333333. This number is nothing less magical than value of Pi.

10)   Exemptions are about financially poor students getting a waiver in fees. It is actually about a litmus tests which shows how much jugaad you can get from committees and how is your relationship with attendance department.

11)   If you fail in a subject, your grades are screwed. No way.. Actually your chances of getting an A+ have enhanced by atleast 5 times by spending rs 300 per failure. And you thought re-takes is a filmi word!!!

12)   Last but not the least : Your institute’s name is SCMHRD. Actually its SCM and HRD. Sorry by this criterion I am not an MBA from SCMHRD. Please let me know how many of you still feel they have done MBA from SCM&HRD.

© Shekhar Suman