Day One

It was my first class in NITIE of communication skills by Prof. Nikhil Mehta but since our professor  was not present in the campus, it was taken up by Prof. Mandi. He has a very different style of teaching and our batch including me seems to filled with entuhusiasm of learning within the first few minutes of class. He arrived with a bag which has some toys in it . Precisely it has two small globe, two plastics butterflies and one wooden hen. To our utter surprise he asked us to play with these toys and observe them. It was then I realized that why he is so famous around campus. Later he asked us (some of the student of the class) to sell the toys as a part of small group activity. 

Prof. Mandi told us importance of creating and writing blogs. According to him every person should write a blogs because this will lead to sharing of knowledge and thus eliminating the concepts of universities and colleges from the world. I was very much impressed by his way of thinking.  Prof. Mandi has a very simple philosophy i.e. "aaj ka paisa, aaj hi kamana" which means we should focus on the per day cost of living and work accordingly to earn money per day by our own. He also gave a concept of Opportunity costs. Opportunity costs here means the total cost incurs for a person to join NITIE for MBA program. In my case the total opportunity cost turned out to be 15 lakhs. (3.5 LPA for two years which I could earn in company had I not joined NITIE. in addition to 8 lakh i.e. total expenditure in NITIE). A sense of seriousness drew in that I am  here  for the purpose of real learning. The figures also made me realize how difficult it is to earn money and how our parents are earning day and night to support a living.

Prof. Mandi also gave us idea that we should not strive to get placed rather we should start our own venture, we should be competent enough to give placements to others and this possible only when we are earning 50% of per day cost per day. He made us to sing a slogan in this very context which goes like this "socho becho,becho sikho,shiko socho".

Apart from learning and understanding the basics values of life, Prof. Mandi also made us to sing a song the popular song Another Brick in the Wall of  PINK FLOYD which takes a jab on the prevailing system in western schools .

Overall, It was very good session of learning .I had never thought that learning could be so much fun in this way!!!. There is lot more to learn from Prof. Mandi and so I will and as I learn I will post my learning here.