The Gladiators

When you enter ISB you will be put into study groups (the composition of which is decided by ISB). You and your study group (of 4 or 5 people) will stick together, like the Gladiators trying to fight off and survive whatever comes off out of the gate, in the first four terms. All your group assignments, presentations, write ups etc have to be submitted group wise. So it goes without saying that a good portion of your fortune at ISB in terms of grades is decided by your study group.

I must say that one of the best parts of my stay at ISB was my study group. Not because we four were the toppers of the batch or we scored highest in every assignment, but because we cried together and laughed together, we enjoyed and suffered and we did learn a lot from each other...

Here goes my blog in the honour of my study group - C11. A brief profile of the rockstars of this group

Kaustubh Verma: He can sing in 9 languages, can play the guitar (all learnt by himself) and he is one of the most "networked". He will be the first to invite others for a game of cricket/ tennis, he is the first to vote for a party, he is the first to take a short break in any assignment, he is active in most clubs - consulting, operations, energy, social life.....but if you really think he is a Poet (which is what he claims in his blog - http://www.kaustubhverma.blogspot.com/), you are badly mistaken. Whenever our group reaches a deadend in any assignment, we all look up to him and he will not disappoint us... This man from L & T is truly Lovable & Talented..

Sudhanshu Dutt: We call him Mr. President, for he leads the Real Estate club at ISB. He is one of the most organized persons i have ever seen. A health and fitness freak. A work machine. He never gets tired and its rumored that he can study non-stop for 100 hours. In ISB sometimes.. sorry most times, the amount of work involved is herculean. And many people just give up, but not Chugi (his nick name). Irrespective of how many assignments, how many pre reads or how many cases have to be read, our man is always prepared for everything. Dont know where he gets the time.. Its going to be easy for the real estate firms this year at ISB, they know where to look for...

Ashutosh Kumar: (http://www.ashutoshatisb.blogspot.com/) A banker. If i were to describe him in just one word, i would say "Determination". He is a truly self-made man. Hails from Bihar, studied physics but then joined a bank. Rose through the ranks, worked hard for GMAT and here he is now at ISB. If he has reached till here, i know nothing can stop him from his dreams. May be he will start his own bank someday...

Rangarajan Krishnan: Come on, you know me... i am not going to bore you..

Yesterday we finished our last group assignment for the core terms and went out together for dinner. My best wishes to these gladiators to come out in flying colours in the days to come...