1 month done in GMP

It only seemed like yesterday that the plane from Kolkata landed in JSR and I showed up in campus. But in the midst of working on my Math assignment today, I realized that it is close to 1 month since I joined GMP.

To continue where I left off in my previous post, the weekend adventure program organized by TASF (Tata adventure sports foundation) was great. On the first day, we got a chance to meet Madam Bachendri Pal, India's first woman to scale Mt.Everest. It was amazing to see the video of her Everest expedition shot close to 25 years back when Mrs.Gandhi was the Prime Minister. On a more modest but neverthless important level, in the course of 3 days, our GMP group cleared a number of obstacle exercises including rafting, rock-climbing and caving.

Courses-wise, the belt is being tightened starting this week. We have a couple of mid-term exams within the next week. Hopefully, I should do better than the quizzes I had thus far.

Last Sunday I got a chance to break away from all this sequence of assignments, studies and meetings by going to Bishtupur to celebrate a fellow GMPian's birthday.
I often refer to Bishtupur to friends and family as the "downtown" area of Jamshedpur. There is basically just one big road in the place with a few shops that vaguely attempt to capture the spirit of Commercial street in Bangalore. Of course our marketing prof might scowl at my attempt to compare two different "consumer segments", but kya kare..."Yeh Dil Mange More". Neverthless, we had a good time in the Cafe Coffee Day joint there filled with cake cutting/pasting, Freppe's and imitation acts of students and faculty alike.

Got to catch some sleep now...ciao !