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A Wimwian’s Guide to Rational Thinking on Placements

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It’s that time of the year when p-words are the only things being talked about at Wimwi – placement, ppt, pizza, ppo and ppi, preference list, package, placecom, p-o-r, points, proofs, and of course, the all-important double-p: prep. Did I mention peer pressure?

In the middle of all the RG-ing and the deadlines (and the terrible winter, especially in the basements of old campus dorms), as the blazers come out of wardrobes and as junk food sales in this part of Vastrapur reach peak levels, life on campus is far from easy. Lucky are a few who not only hold a ppo but also fully reciprocate the offeror’s love. For everyone else, here are 3+1 thoughts from someone who is still enamoured of the job she got through campus placement.

  • Know what you want and where you want to reach, within limits of reasonableness
  • This is about you, not about the recruiter, and least of all about your peers
  • If it feels like hype, it certainly is
  • Additional thought for idealists: now is the time to hold close your lofty ideals, cynicism is not worth its price

Know what you want and where you want to reach, within limits of reasonableness

There are very few of us who can answer the question of what we want and where we want to reach, but all of us can make the effort to answer that question, as truthfully as possible. Are you looking for as much money as you can make, or a specific role, or job satisfaction, or living up to the expectations of others? All these are valid answers, and while the answer may change later, having the clarity helps in the interviews – “Why consulting/ finance/ marketing/ … ? Why abc firm/ xyz role? Where do you see yourself five years from now?” are all-time favourites of interviewers.

The best way to look at this is to examine your life till now and understand what you really enjoy doing, and then figure out how that fits among the career options available through placements. Sounds simple, but definitely isn’t! Try to be reasonable in terms of expectations, because that helps put things in perspective for you, especially in the face of peer pressure. Ultimately, if you really know what you want in life, you will get it sooner or later. Now, that sounds like the most over-used of clichés, but I have heard this from alumni of the 1980s and 1990s, and surely they have seen enough of life to speak with authority?

This is about you, not about the recruiter, and least of all about your peers

In the flurry of CV-making and proofs and deadlines and ppts and formal attire and the multitude of other demands on your attention, it is very easy to lose track of what you really want. “Perhaps abc firm will take only 3 people, do I even stand a chance? Maybe I need a CV like <name of section-mate/ dorm-mate> to actually get through. Maybe my CG is not in the range they are looking for…” – all are trains of thought that lead nowhere.

Instead of worrying about what will seem trivial later, focus entirely on your strengths and how best you can capitalise on those. This is especially critical when forming your preferences on firms, on roles, locations and so on. It is even more important when thinking about how to project yourself in the best possible light.

If it feels like hype, it certainly is

B-school placements inevitably suffer from hype, driven by the media and by peer pressure. Try to keep your cool – there is more to placements than the top firm or the highest salary and less to placements than the biggest event in your life.

Additional thought for idealists: hold close your lofty ideals, cynicism is not worth its price

Having got through the IIMA admission process and the grueling life on campus, there is no reason why placements shouldn’t be a cakewalk for Wimwians who are all, without exception, capable and accomplished. So why does placement loom larger than life?

The answer lies in a conversation I once had with my neighbour in sec-C. Sleeping in class is not an uncommon occurrence at Wimwi, and I wondered aloud (not without a small measure of guilt myself) why students bother to come to class only to sleep. (PA, do you recall this conversation?!) In his typical swaggering style, PA said, “you know, people come to class only for attendance.”

“Then why do they even come to Wimwi?”

“Simple. For placements.”

This was said in half jest, but there is some element of truth here, and that probably explains a lot of the hype and pressure.

Given the way things are, it is easy to be cynical. Over time, however, I have realised that in spite of widespread acceptance of cynicism as a way of life, there is something to be said for idealism. Yes, your placements may not work out the way you want them to. But that would be the last reason to lose your precious ideals, especially those that made you come to Wimwi in the first place, with stars in your eyes and dreams in your head. The world needs such people. And I have a hunch that they are happier with life than their peer group.

Based on the above thoughts, here are five things you can do to think rationally during placements.

  1. Understand yourself – what drives you, where you want to reach, where you can reasonably expect to reach, and your value system
  2. Learn as much as you can about firms you are interested in – use every possible source
  3. Prepare your way – spend time on preparation in whichever way that works for you, this adds to confidence on the d-day
  4. Make tradeoffs – don’t fall into the trap of wanting to prepare for everything, instead have your priorities clear and focus only on those at the top
  5. Be genuine, be yourself – during pre-placement interactions (dinners, buddy calls and so on), rather than trying to create an impression, focus on understanding the firm and on whether you would enjoy working there

Closing note:

“Everyone from my batch is in a good position, whichever field they have chosen to be in. So the concerns that you have now are really not so important in the long run.” These words, coming from an alumnus of the 1985 batch, are worth remembering whenever the pressure mounts.

If all the above sounds a bit up in the air, that’s intentional. If pragmatic advice is what you are looking for, watch this space for an upcoming post ‘A Wimwian’s Guide to Practical Action on Placements’.

Is the IIM Land Bank a Non-Performing Asset?

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The 5-acre London Business School churns out about a 1000 graduates a year and is ranked among the top MBA programmes in the world. Unlike this, the IIMs are doing a pitiable job while occupying considerably more than 100 acres of land on average. This is the gist of a once-recent article by Nirmalya Kumar in the Economic Times. Needless to say, it is easy to take issue with the arguments laid out in the article.

From the way Kumar puts forth his thesis, it appears that the IIMs are sitting pretty on a pile of scarce resources (much the way the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala discovered itself to be doing, though the hue and cry seems to have eased with time). The direct conclusion here is that acre for acre, the IIMs could easily carry out better capacity utilisation, to use management lingo. But is this really possible? Or desirable?

For one, an institution is not defined by the spread of the campus or the number of buildings. Instead, institutions are about the ecosystems they create in order to enable learning, research and other objectives. This might sound hollow to cynics, but having spent two activity-packed years at one such institution, I can vouch for the fact that the residential system makes a significant impact on the campus experience. Indeed, the “dorm culture” and “bonding” between the 30-odd residents of a dormitory are inextricable from the campus memories of those who call IIMA their alma mater.

Compare this to the setup at LBS – no residences, not even a self-contained campus, and buildings spread out in a part of the city. In fact, according to the student at LBS who described this to me, some of the main features of the campus (if a disparate set of buildings could be called that) are the classrooms, discussion rooms for the indispensable group work, and the library.

I couldn’t help wondering what my life at IIMA would have been without the badminton courts! Perhaps students at LBS live in off-campus residences where the amenities are far better than what could have been offered by the campus if it had attempted to. Moreover, it would be fair to assume that commuting, especially during late hours, is easily done in a city like London. Unlike this, the transaction costs of commuting, in terms of lost time, pollution, stress and so on, are significant deterrents in most places in India, leading to a less wholesome MBA experience for non-resident students.

That brings me to my next point, a tad more controversial perhaps, in favour of residential campuses. Although the formalized atmosphere of meeting rooms and libraries is conducive to intellectual discussion, there is something to be said for the less formal, more relaxed discussions that happen in dorm rooms or other campus hangouts such as the students’ mess and the night-canteen. But then again, an institute that caters to students with significant work experience might prefer to provide them a life that is closer to work life rather than campus life. This side of the argument gains credibility from the fact that IIMA’s one-year MBA program for executives, which accepts candidates with substantial work experience, is conducted at a more formalized level compared to its flagship two-year program.

For more views on this topic, check out this post by Prof. T.T. Ram Mohan of IIMA on his blog.

Ultimately, there are merits to both models, specific to their individual circumstances. Comparing the IIMs with European b-schools and exhorting them to squeeze more out of the land they stand on not only is unfair but also, to some extent, fails to take into consideration the rationale for establishing a self-contained campus in the first place. In spite of the “sprawling” campuses (as Kumar puts it, although the term itself is questionable), the IIMs have had to work hard to ensure that students did not suffer due to inadequate infrastructure when the intake was increased significantly as a result of the implementation of quotas for OBCs. Having mentioned the one topic that is synonymous with endless debate, non-existent rational discussion, and ever-postponed bold action, let me end this post right here!

I Bet You’ll Go ‘Wow!’

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If Gurgaon could dream, Dubai would be its vision every time.

Concrete towers so fresh they look like they rose up from the earth about a month ago, cars the only vehicles on the road, busy professionals, unbearable heat outside the air-conditioned cocoons of the office and the car – all with a pervasive hint of artificiality – Dubai at first sight uncannily reminded me of Gurgaon. But while Ambience Mall might aspire to be among the largest in Asia, it is simply too conservatively built compared to the Dubai Mall or Mall of the Emirates. Conservative because Dubai is constructed king-size; the extravagance might well be unmatched by anything else in the world. In terms of sheer excess of luxury, even Singapore pales in comparison to Dubai.

Indeed, any visitor to Dubai (and ultimately nearly everyone in Dubai is a visitor – there are very few people who “belong” to Dubai the way people think they belong to India or Mumbai) is sure to go “wow!” at the grandeur and ambition that turned the desert into a city and built a collection of islands in a replica of the world to be sold to private owners. And it’s called ‘The World’! Check out this link to help yourself be wowed again. If the global economic crisis had not dampened the ebullient state of affairs, we might have been witness to ‘The Universe’ next.

Here are my observations on Dubai – some of them could be disputable, but that makes them no less interesting.

All buildings are beige villas or grey high-rises. Colours such as blue, green, red, yellow, purple and others on the spectrum are absent perhaps because they don’t match the sand, though the sand per se is rather difficult to spot unless you are right on the beach.

The sand is white and the sea is blue, with no pieces of trash lying around for you to either complain about or justify conveniently throwing a piece of your own.

Traffic rules are followed; walk on a pedestrian crossing with your eyes closed and you will still reach the other side unhurt. (This has not been verified by experience.)

If the radio in the taxi is playing Hindi music, that’s nothing to be surprised about. Just be glad that, Mumbai ho ya Dubai, the taxi-wallah speaks Hindi.

Petrol is more readily available than water, perhaps even cheaper. (Now this could be an exaggeration, but you sure get the drift.)

If you are vegetarian and you don’t eat cheese either, your weight loss plans will come to fruition in far less time than you bargained for.

If you are standing really close to the Burj Khalifa, you are well-advised to do some neck exercises before you attempt to look at the topmost point of the tower. Blaming the world’s tallest building after you sprain your neck is no fun.

<Personal opinion disclaimer applies.>

P.S.: To set at rest the question that might be lurking in your mind, Dubai on a short visit doesn’t feel like the Mallu home-away-from-home that “the Gulf” is sometimes termed as.

Time for Some Return-Free Risk

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Even as S&P downgraded its credit rating for the US, there has been no evidence of a “flight to safety” that stock markets usually witness at the drop of a hat. After all, when safety of the so-called safest asset, the US treasury bill whose rate of return is often considered as the risk-free rate of return, itself becomes questionable, where do investors go?

The reaction of financial markets to the downgrade can be interpreted to some extent as throwing good money after bad, or perhaps lending more of your money only to keep your debtor afloat, so that at some point in the future, you can recover your first loan, your second and further loans, and interest on all of them. (This reminds one of how Ninja loans were built up to unsustainable levels in the US in the not too distant past.)

Prof. Jayant R. Varma of IIMA, as expected, has an interesting take on this issue – that US Treasury assets might be Giffen goods. Giffen goods, in economics, can be loosely defined as goods for which demand rises even as the price rises – which is the inverse of a typical demand curve.

<Alert: Jargon ahead!>

Prof. Varma explains that “in a pure mean-variance optimisation framework, [the US Treasury bill] can never be a Giffen good.” However, “in a more general expected utility setting, [it] can be a Giffen good.” In the former, for both low and high levels of risk tolerance, the investor will hold less of the safe (as compared to risky) asset when its risk level increases. Hence the safe asset is not a Giffen good.

Unlike this, in the latter case, the risk aversion increases as the risk level of the safe asset increases. This means that more of the safe asset will be purchased even as its risk level rises. Ergo, the Giffen good situation, which could explain investor reaction to the US credit rating downgrade. Prof. Varma’s subtle sense of humour also presents itself on occasion: “In keeping with the spirit of the times, the expected return on the safer asset is zero – instead of a risk free return, it represents return free risk.”

Having said this, my understanding of the field is limited. So if you have read on till here, it might be worth taking a look at the link cited earlier. The article is interesting, and not just for MBAs or the finance world.

Small is Big in Good Old Mumbai!

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From ‘Oh my goodness, this garden, if you can call it a garden, it’s… it’s so… small’ to ‘Well, a garden is a garden even if it is only as big as the store room at home was’ – this succinctly puts across what has transpired in the past couple of weeks, as yet another drop (yours truly) has begun its saga in the human ocean that is Mumbai. Indeed, I am beginning to realise how lucky I am to watch kids playing in the crowded comfort of the garden, instead of being obliged to watch serials through the window every time my neighbours turn their TV on. Small things really count.

Small kindnesses shine upon you like twinkling stars and stand out amidst the waves of hurrying people. In a shared taxi, a co-passenger (and I know no more of her than that she had a kind face) offered to pay my ten rupees as well when the driver denied having any change with him. Thankfully, I was saved from an obligation to an unknown good Samaritan because the driver changed his mind at the end and like a benevolent magician, produced hitherto non-existent change! I prefer to believe that the lady inspired him towards helpful behavior.

It also helps to have a sense of humour. How else can you stomach it when you see an unnatural kind of crowd in CST and on asking a passerby, get the nonchalant reply ‘shooting chal raha hai.’ Before recollections of unpleasant news assailed me, I realised from the overall lack of panic that in spite of the urgently hurrying crowd which simply did not allow you to stand and stare in search of the ticket stamping machine, CST had space to allow movies to be shot there. The shock of that one instant took time to ebb away, but it was probably worth it – how else could the movie ‘A Wednesday’ have been made? You may spend all the money you have, white or black, but it would be simply impossible to re-create CST for a movie scene. And I am not talking only about the millions of rupees you would have to spend on bringing in extras just to create the ubiquitous crowd.

But then, since when has Mumbai been about serious movies only? It is the land (and sea) that can undoubtedly lay first claim upon the romance genre of movies in India. So it was a surprise to read a statement on a board in Mahim: ‘A life without love is like a year without summer.’ A year without summer, of all seasons? I would love that! Clearly, the message is a legacy from the colonial days, harking back to the nostalgia for the much-longed-for English summer. Given how fervently admiring many Mumbaikars are of the rain, the quote would be much more apt if it said ‘A life without love is like a year in Mumbai without the monsoon.’

Oh, but how I would love that as well! Not for me the rain in Mumbai – it is incessant, windy, pours down exactly when and where you wish it wouldn’t, and makes the roads muddy, stinking and no less crowded anyway. And this is only the prelude to the monsoon, apparently. But it gives you lessons in industriousness that you don’t get anywhere else – instead of running for cover, people just go about life as usual. And not just any people, workers on the roads unfazedly going about collecting garbage make you wonder why you even thought of complaining about the rain.

All in all, this is one city you could dislike less and less every day!

What if you call an IT engineer a clerk?

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Talking to friends the other day, I almost shocked the assembled group (and myself) by calling IT engineers “clerks”. It was a spontaneous comment, and meant no offence because I too belonged to that category not so long ago. But I regretted saying something that could even minutely be construed as prejudiced, and wondered how that happened. So here is the explanation for those who care to hear!

My friend T. had mentioned that she received periodic advertisement SMSes inviting her to call at some number for “bikini babes” or something of the like. Apparently, some other girls also got such messages. Curiously enough, none of the guys she checked with ever got such a message. Well, I reached for the safest possible explanation: “Some clerk in some IT company must have mixed up the M and F in the database!” That’s when my point was missed, and the innocuous turn of phrase grabbed the limelight.

To make things worse, as usually happens in such situations, I explained myself: “By clerks, I just meant the BTechs…”

Pat came the question: “Oh, so you are calling BTechs clerks? How dare you?!!”

There was nothing more to be gained, or even lost, for that matter, by explaining, so I kept mum and resolved to explain things on the blog.

My memories go back to the time when I sat for MBA coaching classes. Like almost everyone in the class, I fully expected – even looked forward? – to be placed in an IT company and to work there in case the b-school plan did not work out. Imagine my sense of dismay when a classmate at the coaching centre stated categorically that one important reason why everyone should do an MBA degree was this: after BTech, all that we would be made to do at an IT company was either sit on the bench or add tabs and spaces that had been missed out in software code. In other words, jobs that “any monkey could do”! Apparently, MBA was the key that would open the escape route from such an undesirable fate.

As anyone who has worked at an IT company will readily vouch for, things are not always that bad, though they do get disappointing at times. But then, when is life without its ups and downs? One thing is clear: in the pecking order that the fresh BTech joins, the new recruit is usually the beginner, the one who starts at the bottom of the ladder. In short, the equivalent of a clerk in a typical office (as far as my limited understanding of offices goes). This was the connotation I intended. Of course, he/she will rise up the ladder with the passage of time, but that doesn’t make them any less of a rookie initially.

Now, having done an MBA, the situation promises to replay itself for most of us who will begin at the bottom again. This is life, after all, and my comment was meant to be neither derogatory nor belittling, and merely indicated the value of experience. It was, at best, a quick metaphor and, at worst, sheer ignorance.

Indeed, having worked incredibly hard at b-school, MBA grads surely need not be surprised at having to do the one thing which could be worse than what any monkey can do – tons and tons of donkey work!

A Most Amazing Coincidence (or, The Difficulty of Choice Part II)

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If you enjoyed my previous post The Difficulty of Choice – One Death or Five, this is a follow-up post which came about due to a most amazing coincidence. Here’s the whole story.

Just the other day, I was going through Mint Lounge. (Don’t ask what I was actually supposed to be doing then.) One article led to another, and it wasn’t long before I stumbled on an article related to podcasts. You can find that article here. Before you start wondering how many hyperlinks you will have to navigate in this blog post, let me tell you: one more.

The article in the Mint mentioned a podcast titled ‘Justice with Michael Sandel’ which is primarily based on a very popular class conducted by Prof. Sandel at Harvard University. Apparently, there is a lecture in which Prof. Sandel talks about the “five deaths versus one” problem through a variety of angles and scenarios. That was a pleasant surprise since I had written my previous blog post a couple of days ago! If you have anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to spare, check out this video.

In this lecture, Prof. Sandel raises the ideas of consequentialist and categorical moral reasoning – the former leading to utilitarianism and the second to Kant’s philosophy, among others. Prof. Sandel very rightly points out that “philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know… It works by taking what we know from familiar, unquestioned settings and making it strange… not by supplying new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing… Once the familiar turns strange, it’s never quite the same again. Self-knowledge is like lost innocence. However unsettling you find it, it can never be un-thought or un-known.”

If you did read on till here, you will find the first 20 minutes of the video interesting. Later, Prof. Sandel quotes Kant: “scepticism is a resting place for reason… but it cannot be its permanent resting place.” The rest of the video is also interesting, but I’ll leave you to discover that for yourself.

In case you fear that this blog is starting to become mired in the incomprehensible realm of philosophy, let me assure you that I too hope, as fervently as you do, that the next post will be on something more tangible. So let’s wait and watch!

PS: Mint Lounge e-paper is admittedly convenient, in spite of my usual affinity for paper of the ecologically insensitive kind!

The Difficulty of Choice – One Death or Five?

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Imagine that you are standing on a bridge. Beneath you is a railway track where a wagon is approaching at high speed. You see that there are five men bound to the wagon. You also realise that there is a huge boulder on the track that will impact the wagon in the next ten seconds, and leave all five men instantaneously dead.

Just as you feel overwhelming despair, you realise that you have the power to prevent the five deaths. Standing beside you on the bridge is a fat guy who can be pushed down to the track below to slow down the wagon sufficiently to make its impact with the boulder quite harmless. The guy, who is staring at the sky, blissfully unaware that his destiny is being played with, will certainly lose his life in that case. What do you do?

(Many thanks to the person who described this scenario for me and listened to my responses with interest.)

Before anything else, let me clarify that you can assume certain things. You are strong enough to push the guy down, which is likely given the surprise element. Also, for the sake of simplicity, there are no grey areas – death is certain and instantaneous, be it the fat guy or the five men.

For those who are coming across this scenario for the first time, like I was very recently, several things might strike you. Practical details aside, the simple question “what do you do” translates into a million other questions that span the spectrum of ethics and values. Do I let one guy die and save five others?

But what if the five are criminals being taken to the executioner, and would have died on the electric chair in another couple of hours anyway? Then it makes no sense to let one more person die needlessly. What if the fat guy was the one who had tied up the five men? Even then, what if he had done this without knowing that there would be a boulder on the track? Or had merely done his duty as a police constable? And all these are just a subset of the possible plethora of questions. If you start thinking of options such as yourself jumping down (and hopefully not breaking too many bones) and derailing the wagon in some manner, or pushing away the boulder, you open a veritable Pandora’s box.

In any case, who am I to decide, you ask yourself.

What a muddle! Let me tell you what I finally decided. Given that I have neither information nor the time to gather information, I decide to do nothing. Oh, so I let the five men die by my inaction? But if I were to take the stance that saving five lives is better than one, I am immediately placing a value on each life and comparing one against five, which I simply cannot do. Yes, it seems instinctive to let the larger good win, but what is the larger good? Life does not go by numbers alone.

So, here’s my clincher. Research has shown that the negative impact, on your conscience and well-being, of action is far more than that of inaction. Meaning that if I were to remain a passive spectator and convince myself that I really had no choice, I would at least retain my peace of mind. Instead, if I were to act and save five people by killing one guy (mind you, not letting one guy die but acting to kill him), the guilt itself could make living impossible for me. So, ultimately, for rather selfish reasons, I do nothing. I would have preferred to jump down and save the five men myself. But then, how often does life give you a chance at successful heroism of the kind where you emerge alive?!

Well, what would you do?

Wicked Winter

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This post is dedicated to all those who think, at least sometimes, that the world could have done with one winter season every 3-4 years…

I took a few minutes to pinpoint what it was about winter that I didn’t like. After all, this is my second proper winter (if you can call a minimum temperature of about 10 degrees Celsius winter), having lived most of my life in a place that well deserves its name of God’s Own Country. So here are some things that I find unbearable about the winter season. Do you agree?

Do you like:

1. The way your nice hot plateful of food gets too cold even before you reach half-way through it?

2. The one hour of discomfort if you happen to wet the tip of your sleeve while washing your hands?

3. The shorter but more painful discomfort if you roll up your sleeves to the biting cold to avoid the previous problem?

4. The silent cold that hits you as you step out of the door of your cosily warm room?

5. Waking up in the middle of the night because your blanket has slipped off your big toe?

6. Covering yourself up in 3 layers of clothing only to have trouble getting some of it off because you are in a crowded room?

7. Hearing people from colder places comment on how “pleasant” the winter here is?

8. The fact that you cannot drink water without first heating it?

9. The last thing you think about – and curse – before going to bed is the cold, which is also the first thing you think about when you wake up?

This list is certainly not exhaustive!

A Year of Blogging

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This is a post about the blog, a meta-post of sorts. It was fun putting out thoughts on the blog, and very rewarding to know that over the year, I have done some of the following for you, my reader: made you change your mind when you thought a movie was not worth watching; made you think, and express those thoughts; and piqued your interest, strongly enough for you to let me know.

The post I enjoyed writing the most was the one on ‘3 Idiots’ and, not surprisingly, it was the one most commented and most well-received (by which I mean more than just the responses in agreement). I hope you enjoyed reading the blog, and I hope you will keep coming back to read when I have something to say.

Wish you a year of great reading!

Here, then, is what WordPress had to say on how this blog fared over the past year:

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2010. That’s about 3 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 10 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 21 posts. There were 11 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was May 9th with 122 views. The most popular post that day was Why I Did Not Like ‘3 Idiots’.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were orkut.co.in, facebook.com, twitter.com, insideiima.wordpress.com, and mail.google.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for 3 idiots reflections, reflection about 3 idiots, wimwi, reflections on the 3 idiots, and priya narayanan iima.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Why I Did Not Like ‘3 Idiots’ May 2010
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2

IIMA Placement Chairperson speaks on “media fixation with salaries” March 2010

3

About me November 2009

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The Bang for the Buck and Not Just for Zandu Balm November 2010
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5

Nothing Very Original – My Take on Raavanan June 2010
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