Loaded

By -

We had probably one of the most intensive class days yesterday when we had three straight classes then followed by the Language of Business (LOB) Final Exam for the coup de grace.

This loaded day was heavy with quant subjects: Quantitative Analysis (QA), Financial Management 1 (FM1) and the Operations Management (OM). Incidentally, this was our first session for OM. We met our teacher for this class, Prof. Fernando Roxas, for the first time. The OM session was an introduction and we didn't discuss a case (thank goodness).

The LOB final exam was a difficult case and we were given four hours to analyze and answer the questions relating to it. After the exam, I overhead the finance folks in the class discussing the answers and realizing that I totally missed some of the items in the exam. Don't you just hate it when that happens? You pour your heart and soul in an exam and you feel a sense of achievement as you pass you paper only have your hopes crumpled in an instant?

Yesterday was a loaded day indeed.

--

On a lighter note, we also had a new class and it is Management of Cost and Profit (MCP) today. Our teacher is the very animated (think Jim Carrey) Prof. Maurino "Mau" Bolante. Maybe it's me, but Prof. Bolante is so hyper that our class is going to have something to look forward to whenever we have our MCP class. Who knows? Everybody in class may have a new ringtone by the end of MCP. :)

--

MBA students in AIM have an internship subject which is called Action Consultancy or "AC." The AC for our 16-month MBA batch is scheduled on May 5, 2008 to June 20, 2008. I'm not sure what are the details of this course is, but I know it may entail the student to go outside of the country to become an intern to an enterprise based in, say Singapore or Hong Kong or the United States.

The AIM Career Management Service (CMS) is arranging to have an interactive resume book for our batch to be given to companies who interested in hiring AIM MBA interns for our respective AC's. I think that's a very good idea. The previous batches also have this interactive resume book.

However, what I'm a bit miffed about is how we can't give pictures for the resume book. Thus, we were required to have our photos taken by an official photographer. I do get the rationale of having a uniform look and picture quality, but what makes this series of events iffy to me is the lead time we got for the photo session. I learned about the photo shoot today last Tuesday. I would have wanted to wear my own clothes for the pictorials.

To make this interactive resume book less controversial, the CMS sent each student a copy of the contract from the resume book supplier. If you ask me, disclosing the figures was a good move because some students were questioning production cost.

I believe the CMS and the student reps are acting for everybody's good and I'm optimistic future project implementations will be smoother.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Getting Admitted to the MBA Program

By -
Let backtrack a bit: How was I able to get admitted to the Asian Institute of Management (AIM)? The admission process is a relatively brief process, but rigorous nonetheless. The AIM Website outlines the procedure on how to apply and the requirements as well. However, I found some old content at the AIM site that might get some users confused. But in spite of that, my experience in applying was a very smooth and hassle-free one. I made sure that I had the following accomplished: Application Form - This can be downloaded online . The application form is very long and has 14 essay questions! It is better to answer the essay questions briefly and direct to the point. Official Transcripts - This is my undergraduate transcript from the University of the Philippines - Diliman . Academic Recommendation Letter - I had a former professor of mine from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business accomplish this one. Professional Recommendation Letter - I asked a former superior make a recommenda...
Read more

My Experience with the Embassy of India in Manila

By -
Image
Are you a Filipino going to India? Be warned. You may be in for a great deal of frustration. I've been spending the past week arranging my visa for my Action Consultancy (AC) in India. (The AC is equivalent to AIM's industry internship for its MBA students; I'll blog more about this in future posts). The frustration has really been mounting because of the very confusing and Byzantine system of the Indian embassy here in the Philippines. First point of frustration: the customer service. I initially called the embassy to clarify the requirements and procedures. The embassy has an automated answering system that has a selection where a caller can get an itemized list of requirements. That's all. No information of procedures, steps or guidelines. I selected the option to talk to a staff member and when I asked my query, she told me I'll find everything I need at the Indian Embassy website . If you look at the site, there are some information, but not the ones I'm lo...
Read more

Asian Institute of Management in India?

By -
I've been following the "new campus" moves of the Asian Institute of Management as of late and while I said my piece a while back, there was some development that reached the media last week. I've speculated that AIM's new campus may be outside of the Metro Manila. But how about a new campus outside of the Philippines? President Francis Estrada said in an interview with Business Standard : AIM is an Asian Institute and is not just for the Philippines. We are thinking of creating campuses beyond the capital Manila and are looking at proposals to establish presence in India. My take on this is that from a strategic point of view, it's pretty sound.The Indian graduate education student market is very huge and talented and AIM had seen a big growth of Indian students since the start of the 2000's. Here's a fact: For the MBA program, the Indian population in AIM has steadily grown and if you compare the 2001 class to our class, the Indian percentage o...
Read more