An Engineer at B-school

7 days before mid-term - Padhna shuru karte hain yaar!

6 days before mid-term - Aaj Cost Accounting shuru karna hai.

5 days before mid-term - Aaj 4 hours mein pehle 4 chapters.

4 days before mid-term - Aaj Introduction to Cost Accounting.

3 days before mid-term - Aaj toh Cost Accounting khattam!

2 days before mid-term - Friend corrects me that the 3rd chapter is Cost-Volume-Profit and not Cost-Value-Profit.

1 day before mid-term (yesterday) - Aaj nahi sona hai.

Today - OH FUCK.

Confessions of a DP God

Jargon Buster:

DP - Desperate Participation. n., v., tr. v., etc.

A desperate attempt by a b-schooler to grab the attention of the professor or company representative by asking inane questions. Opp. CP (Class Participation)

Overheard from a conversation:

Yaar I don't DP. I was always inquisitive. When I was three, I kept pestering my parents asking how I was born until they gave up and told me, "Look son, Poppy and Mommy got really drunk on Prom night. The condom machine wasn't working."

- anonymous DP God

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The Brick Test

I'm reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. He writes about the merits of a divergence test vis-a-vis a convergence test. A convergence test is one in which we have 5-6 options and we zero in on the best among them. This is what most IQ tests are. A divergence test asks you to use your imagination and take your mind in as many directions as possible. There is no right answer. It's the number and uniqueness of responses that matters. Gladwell asks the reader to come up with different uses of a brick. Please try this, it's fun!

I tried the 'brick' test with a time limit of a minute. How I fared is at the bottom of the post. What follows now is a little note on my first exposure to a divergence test:

I remember being put through a similar test by the Consulting Club of IIMC. As usual, I flunked with shining colors....

Chandrima: How creative are you? Let's say, out of 100, what % is creative and how much analytical?

I think about my inability to concentrate on stuff and take my wanderings as creativity.

Swamy: 70% creative

Chandrima: Wow! Can you tell what will happen if glass is no longer transparent? Name any 10.

Swamy: Duh....hmmm....aaaa.....

I took 3 freakin' minutes to finish my list of 10. The interview didn't last long.

Now my answers to the brick test:

1. building houses
2. drawing on road to play kit-kit
3. stand on it to reach high
4. defense in muggin
5. door stopper
6. breaking n stealing
7. if leg of table/bed is short/broken, use brick
8. weightlifting
9. block a snale hole
10. stop a car on slope
11. hammer a nail