Khelo WIMWI Khelo...
We at WIMWI (Well known Institute of Management in Western India a.k.a IIMA) play this game 3 times a yr starting term 3, then in term 4 and then term 5. Have played two innings already. N damn, is it exciting :D
The bidding timings are announced. Its all managed by the student's academic council n they have the toughest time during bidding. N they do a great job always.
But the fun lies in the process.
There are several courses up for bids. But usually some of them are sought after the most. So for the first 1.5 hours of the 1 hr 45 minutes, the bids move by a point or so. Its basically people sensing the market and trying to find out how much interest others have in teh course. Also we have fixed number of bidding points that we can use (oh forgot to mention everything is online, software hai).
But then the last 5 minutes are pure pure panic :D
Points go sky high. People are left with no point n the bidding keeps rising. One has to remove points from one subject n put in another if he/she chooses that the other subject is what they want. Then u cant remove points from a subject u r winning, till u start losing it ie u have been outbid. So if u put too many points on a subject, then u would be at a loss for points in another.
Then if u uncheck a subject without removing the points first, then u lose the points along with it.
And the best (i find it worst) part is the funda of X. The bidding is for 1 hr 45 minutes + X minutes, where X is a random number generated by the system. This is ensure that people dont hoard points till the last moment and outbid serious bidders who have been helping to determine the market prices for the subjects.
Now X can stop any moment coz no one knows what X is. So during X, bidding, or removing points n putting it on another subject etc are dangerous, but people do do it.
Last term, during X i lost a subject i was bidding for from the beggining, and picked up two which are the biggest pains in my arse this term.
This bidding, I picked up two subjects i wanted by putting enough number of point over the minimum bid. BUt then during X, there was another subject I wanted, and had points also, but didnt have the gurda to bid for it, just in case someone outbid me in the other two subjects and then i dont have points to bid higher for them. Coz i seriously wanted these two subjcts, since then my week gets over in 3 days :D muwahahahaa
so next term i have classes only 3 days a week :D n baaki 4 din, karenge kuch. kaafi plan hai. there are many big cities near ahmedabad :D
So right now, me already waiting for the next bidding to happen in next term
P.S. : Did i mention that myself and Titto have a common hobby. Discussing the time table, studying it and "analysing" which possible subjects to take in the next term. So that would start in 5th term again. Right now, exams just round the corner, and also many projects up my arse. So finally having to work in tucchadom. But chalta hai. Only 2 weeks na :o)
The bidding timings are announced. Its all managed by the student's academic council n they have the toughest time during bidding. N they do a great job always.
But the fun lies in the process.
There are several courses up for bids. But usually some of them are sought after the most. So for the first 1.5 hours of the 1 hr 45 minutes, the bids move by a point or so. Its basically people sensing the market and trying to find out how much interest others have in teh course. Also we have fixed number of bidding points that we can use (oh forgot to mention everything is online, software hai).
But then the last 5 minutes are pure pure panic :D
Points go sky high. People are left with no point n the bidding keeps rising. One has to remove points from one subject n put in another if he/she chooses that the other subject is what they want. Then u cant remove points from a subject u r winning, till u start losing it ie u have been outbid. So if u put too many points on a subject, then u would be at a loss for points in another.
Then if u uncheck a subject without removing the points first, then u lose the points along with it.
And the best (i find it worst) part is the funda of X. The bidding is for 1 hr 45 minutes + X minutes, where X is a random number generated by the system. This is ensure that people dont hoard points till the last moment and outbid serious bidders who have been helping to determine the market prices for the subjects.
Now X can stop any moment coz no one knows what X is. So during X, bidding, or removing points n putting it on another subject etc are dangerous, but people do do it.
Last term, during X i lost a subject i was bidding for from the beggining, and picked up two which are the biggest pains in my arse this term.
This bidding, I picked up two subjects i wanted by putting enough number of point over the minimum bid. BUt then during X, there was another subject I wanted, and had points also, but didnt have the gurda to bid for it, just in case someone outbid me in the other two subjects and then i dont have points to bid higher for them. Coz i seriously wanted these two subjcts, since then my week gets over in 3 days :D muwahahahaa
so next term i have classes only 3 days a week :D n baaki 4 din, karenge kuch. kaafi plan hai. there are many big cities near ahmedabad :D
So right now, me already waiting for the next bidding to happen in next term
P.S. : Did i mention that myself and Titto have a common hobby. Discussing the time table, studying it and "analysing" which possible subjects to take in the next term. So that would start in 5th term again. Right now, exams just round the corner, and also many projects up my arse. So finally having to work in tucchadom. But chalta hai. Only 2 weeks na :o)
Labels: Life at IIMA
posted by Anurag at
4:11 AM
5 Comments:
Your second yr seems to be a marked contrast from first year..4 days free ?? that seems to be very different from what I've heard of IIMA :) ..Neways, whatever be the system of polls for electives, I guess ppl would always find ways of rigging it :)
@ajith
no riggin happens yaar...it was a system fault...coz within ourselves we dont try to screw each other (generally :o))
n yes...2nd yr @ wimwi is salvation...coz 1st yr is the hardest of all b schools...so makes sense to have a chill second yr right :o)
Why is first year the hardest ?
:)
@vinay
coz u r fucked by every possible hole in ur body
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