Free Thought

Thursday, July 31, 2008

100 days

It's been over a hundred days since I came to ISB and I cannot but wonder about the sheer pace with which the last three months have gone by. The paradox is that time seems to go by slowly every day (especially when you are sleep-depraved in a class and you wish you had done your assignment a couple of hours earlier and grabbed some shut-eye:) ) but before you know it, the week is over and you wonder how things sped by so fast!

The B-school environment has been superb thus far - great people, some 'interesting' ones (put it down to diversity!), a whole maelstrom of activities going on all the time, some sleep, a whole lot of a lack of it, fun, learning, arbit CP, competitions, dunkings, loads of work and what not.

Its 1:19 AM and at the risk of jeopardizing my pre reads for tomorrow, let me venture forward to put forth my point of view on entrepreneurship, a core course in Term 3. There are many views on how relevant the course content is. Some think that entrepreneurship is an intrinsic ability that cannot be taught, while others believe that it can be learned - the value of the course for me has been in examining my beliefs and attitudes about entrepreneurship. Having worked in large and small companies, I am able to relate to many of the dilemmas faced by the entrepreneurs in the cases and I think learning in this course can happen only through introspection.