Visit to ISB

The scene was all set... It was time to pay a second visit to the only Indian b-school i will be
applying this year... The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad..

I had registered for their Friday session held on 22nd September, 2006.
And here are some observations:

• The TIE-Connect program was at its peak... I could see many visitors loitering around the coridor..

• The venue was changed to EC 8 because of unavailibity of class room. Though the receptionist was too shy to inform this, the pion was very courteous to escort us to EC 8..

• I was one of the early birds... And so, it was time to explore...

• Peaked through the glass windows in one of the ongoing class and the atmosphere was no different than what I had in my school...

• The front rowers were all attentive, with a posture suggesting that they would die if they missed a word of what the prof had to say...

• The lords of last benches were.... :):):)

• By the time I returned to EC 8, they had distributed the brochures and the feedback form... I asked for the same, but was disappointed to hear that they were limited in number.. Common ISB!!!
  

• The session was scheduled to start at 3 and it started at 3 sharp.. Hmmm.. Impressive!!

• Amit started the session and it was handed over to Srinivas (the one who got an admit from Fuqua as well)...

• The presentation was quite lively - a mix of video, audio and ppt slides... Srinivas had lot of info to be shared..
  

• I was quite pleased to know that ISB had 4 centres of excellence and 2 more are to be added soon...

• Srini was then accompanied by Nitin, an IT fellow from Trivandrum... It was such a pleasure to see a fellow IT wala.. :)

• Nitin along with Srini and the man himself, Srinath took the questions...

• As usual I was the first to break the silence, and it was asked just to break the silence...

• The questions then flew in - there was one fellow who was stuck on the exchange program that ISB has.. Pehle admission to ho, phir exchange karna yaar... :)

• It was probably coz i had researched a lot through the student blogs and ISB website and other forums, I was getting bored...

• I had a list of questions which i wanted to ask and i was raising my hand after an interval of 4-5 questions from others...

• One of my question also got the nod saying 'This is a very good question'... Tussi chha gaye!!

• Got to know some of the 'buzz' words which ISB looks for.. Good finding...

• The Q & A session streched too long and within no time, it was 5 o clock...

• Srinivas and Nitin had their class and so Srinath accompanied us for a visit around the building...

• As it was raining cats and dogs, we were not able to visit the student villages.. No lose for me as i have been there before...

• Found some new friends, some of them were still to take GMAT and some were still to plan if at all they ll apply to ISB..

There was a strange difference I felt this time as compared to my visit two years ago...
The student who conducted the session two years ago was kind enough to give his personal mail id in case if we had some queries... But unfortunately, i had no queries then...

I asked for mail id from one of the students this time, but i was given the google group id... :(
Though disappointing, but ye... I can understand the work pressure they must be facing.. No complaints...

All in all, come what may.. I am apping to this cross the road school...
Will be submitting the packet within a day or two...
With recos and the application form ready, i am just waiting for review comments on my essays from my friends..

Not sure how am i supposed to send them the application fees of INR 2000/-..
Will search it out on their site...

Chow for now...