There she goes, there she goes again.

The end is in sight. We are reaching our destination.
With the end of sem 3 a couple of days back, our major chunk of MBA is over. While placements are giving sleepless nights to many, its got increasingly difficult to meet "old" buddies. Seems like MBA is over already. Lets make the most of what remains.

And while at it... its time to disclose some really cool features thats kept us busy over the past few days.
1) First is the much awaited blog. Yes, we've got a brand new blog for ourselves. http://crkimr09.blogspot.com/
Subscribe to it.
2) Second really cool feature added is the "Trends". Now you can view the popularity of a profile and the trend of profile visitors over time.
3) Convenient profiles page. There are tabs added on the profiles page for convenience of viewing.
4) Videos and Photos are integrated.

Click here to view class website.

Drop a comment with your feedback. I'd love to hear from you.

The Rising Tide

Time and again we have proved ourselves when we need to. This time Marketing (M4) class has done us proud by winning the Quiz Contest, beating the competition by an incredibly huge margin. We bagged the 1st as well as 2nd prize.

The Mega-STARS:


Karthik

Mahendra

Arjun

Abhitosh

Nikhil

Aditya

The Stars:
Shazia, Sowmya, Avinash, Urvashi, Chaitanya, Divya, Sampada, Shreyas, Nikita, Urvi, Swati, Rohit, Sumit, Amey, Nalinakshi, Ravish, Prakash, Nishant & everyone involved with it.

Can we please have the spot light on these guys? :)

Congratulations.

Welcome-O-Freshers

One year gone by. Felt like an instant. Time really flies, and that too on a concorde. Still remember the first day of college, the ragging session, freshers party. Cant believe we have attained seniorism (so fast).

This week we had new joinees on our campus, their first day of college. And day before we got an opportunity to interact with them. We welcome them and hope they have a wonderful time here.

Photos of the intro session and freshers party can be found here.

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch who inspired many people by his speech "The Last Lecture", passed away.

From the Google Blog:
7/26/2008 10:25:00 AM

Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a good friend of Google, passed away last night. In addition to being recognized as a pioneer in virtual reality research, he became widely known as a gifted teacher and a mentor to many. Millions of people saw his inspiring "Last Lecture" on YouTube. Read more about Randy and his contributions on our Research Blog.

Thank you Professor.

Ad-o-mania

I have long resisted putting ads on the website, simply because they take away the charm. But I see a lot of people who earn enough to support their websites running cost. So one day when I had nothing better to do (and lot of time at hand), I thought why not play with it a bit. If we generate enough revenue then we can buy a domain of our own and pay for the hosting charges. So just on an experimental basis, we have put some ads here and there throughout the website (this does not include the image banner ad at the top of the page which is added by our free hosting website 'webng'. I hate it!).

This is just a test to see how much we can collect. If the collections are more then expected, we can channel the excess revenue to other better things.

So long my friends...

Anyone Can Post!

So often I browse through forums. Read it. Think "I think I can contribute here". Click on reply. Start typing a reply. Its almost done. I stop to think. BOOM!!! I click on cancel and leave.

I am sure this happens with many of you. A lot of people think, and think again, and yet again. And then decide not to add anything. I've been wondering why people are so shy to post anything, even if they know about the topic.

One reason is people are scared. What if I am wrong? My friends will think I am so dumb. What if i dont speak any sense? I will be ridiculed. Or simply, why should I share my knowledge?

This way we end up not telling even little of what we can share with others. If we seek information, why dont we give information?

We all have used Wikipedia. Sharing is the essence of Wikipedia and the reason for its very success. Because of this collaborative effort, it has all the potential to surpass any encyclopedia.

In a very non-preachy way I would like to tell you to pleeeeeeze share information. Dont worry if its non-sensical or off the topic. And no, you dont have to be as intellectual as Shreekant, or as analytical as Avishkar. You dont have to write paragraphs and paragraphs (250 word essays are history!). You can be as stupid as Prateek to post virtually anything here. A simple one liner will also do. The point is to take things forward and get interested.

Phew, took so long to draft. Hope all this effort is paid off.

P.S.: The topic of this post was inspired from Chef Gusteau's cookbook "Anyone Can Cook!" from the movie Ratatouille. :)

Sem II results are out

Guys,

Sem II results are out. Bindu has topped this time. The top 6 from our class are (in this order):

  • Bindu Nair
  • Uzma Sheikh
  • Sanjay Jain
  • Shreekant Shukla
  • Shazia Khan
  • Arshad Desai
Congratulations to all of you.

Long time no "C"

Welcome everyone,

Hope all of you'll have started with the summers and beginning to enjoy it. {no pun intended} ;)
Its been a while since we've seen good development here. This time around, we have couple of exciting things to see.

  • First is the new welcome page. I guess most of you'll must have noticed already. We say good-bye to our mascot... crouching tiger. I am so sad, almost in tears... goodbye my friend.
  • Stay up-to-date on the profile. A new sidebar displays recently updated profiles.
  • Website adapts itself to fit on any resolutions. So no more horizontal scrolling. {well, almost}
Whats in pipeline?
If things go as planned, we might get ourselves a blog soon. No more waiting for super-slow-prateek to fill THIS area. {Duh, he's so slow, our seniors farewell snaps stuck here for almost a decade.}

Hap-pee working!

Good-bye


Where? Time & Again, Andheri.
When? 2nd April, 2008

More photos of our seniors farewell party.

Chetana ki kudiyaan!

From the view-point of a chetana-ite. Inspired from "XL ki kudiyaan".

Starring:
Female Lead: Swati
Male Lead: Avishkar
Head shaking audience:
Gaurang


Recorded on one of those days, when we had nothing better to do. Not that we do anything good anyways. :)

Atul can play guitar!

Putting rest to days of speculation. All those who lost the bet, time for a party. :)

Elixir '08

We had this event "Elixir" in college on 21st & 22nd Feb 2008. Some speakers were really very good.

Click here to view the pictures of the event. Could'nt take many pictures this time.

Annual Pooja & Traditional Day

We had pooja in college on 16th Feb 2008, and we decided to have traditional day. What an enthusiasm people showed!!

Click here to view the pictures of the day

Treasure Hunt Team

Heartiest congratulations to Crouching Tigers for winning Treasure Hunt in Challenger '08.

Winning Team:

  • Anuket Kadam
  • Pooja Todi
  • Aditya Phadke
  • Pranita Gambhir
  • Sugandha Bagi
  • Kapil Thakkar
  • Gaurang Shroff
  • Mangesh Gedam
Click here for Chetana Week photos.

Sparkling bright

Welcome one, welcome all.

Heres are brand new, shiny, sparkling blog. Our space on the web.