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A rather tiring day. 09:00 am: Wake up, and still feel sleepy. 10:00 am: Leave for LBS 11:00 am: Reach LBS. Check mails. These days, it takes a couple of hours. 12:30 pm: Attend India Club meeting for Diwali celebrations. Very well organized. 01:15 pm: Presentation by Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Pretty good. Manage to stay awake. 02:15 pm: Eat lunch. Stupidly eat prawns without seeing the labels. Almost vomit. 03:00 pm: Group meeting. Discuss Dell. 04:15 pm: Fall asleep in AT Kearney’s presentation. 05:15 pm: Stay away from anything that looks non-veg during tea. 06:00 pm: World economy class. Excellent professor. Terribly funny. Everything makes sense. 07:00 pm: Guest lecturer. Fall asleep. 08:00 pm: Back to Prof. Scott. Wake up and listen. 09:00 pm: Answer more mails. 10:00 pm: Chucked out of computer center. Go home. 11:15 pm: Have dinner. midnight: Crash.

I’ve scanned a couple of more pages of Target that have the job profile of the LBS graduating class of 2000 and the summer of MBA 2001. Incidentally, this magazine also publishes a complete list of who’s joined which company. Really neat idea, great for contacts.

Business India’s business school rankings seem surprising. I’ll check with LBS and ask them what they think.

Well, apparantly LBS has just had its lecture theatres (LTs) newly made! Which is why they look so good, I hear. At least, the Professors keep commenting about how new the LTs are, and how they’re unused to it and all that. This afternoon, Pallavi, another exchange student, an MBA 2001 student and myself, got together and ran a series of mock interviews. LBS’ consulting club has some very good material on case interviews. ...

The session on Mergers, MBOs and other corporate reorganizations by Paulo Volpin started 5 minutes late. Reason: They had a problem with the computer projector. Fixing it turned out to be a hi-tech exercise, though. A guy came in with some kind of a hand-held device, pointed it around like a remote control, and the projector was on. 6:05PM – 5 minutes lost. 5 minutes later, “IP address conflict”. The Professor gives up and moves on to trusty slides. He came prepared. ...

Today was my first class at the London Business School, and I’ve written up my experiences on day 1. I plan to keep updating it.

LBS’ placement cell publishes a magazine called Target, some of whose pages I’ve scanned. It gives an idea about what consulting and finance is, what companies look for, how to prepare for interviews, alumni feedback, etc. Sorry about the small size of scanning, but I had to conserve disk space. I’ll bring the book to IIM-B when I come back.