New Delhi- Day 6

Julie,

Well today is what we like to call a gauntlet. Just a brutally long day of classes, classes, and more classes. We started out with marketing and it actually was a little more engaging that it has been. Probably because the case we were discussing was one we had all spent a lot of time on the day before for our case write up so people had more of an opinion. BUT class was still three hours long, which felt like a really long time.

During class we had a little "visitor" that has actually been hanging around the last couple of days and I forgot to mention it. I guess it is only in Delhi that you can have a 5 star hotel and still have a mouse running around the conference room. Not to mention that we have mentioned it multiple times during class, yet every day we come back he is still spotted running along the wall on the right side of the room. Not only that but today he caused both Stats and Marketing to stop for a second when one of the girls would scream and jump out of their chairs claiming they either felt or saw the mouse running around near them. It was pretty comical.

After marketing, we had a speaker who is the Managing Director of Harley Davidson for India. Harley Davidson is brand new in India and they actually haven't even started selling bikes yet (they start this April). He was a GREAT speaker! It was so refreshing to have such a great speaker and have him speak to topics other than public policy or pie in the sky ideals of what the area will become. I feel like most of the speakers we have are a waste of time, not because they aren't great business people, but because they don't share very much relevant information.

After the speaker it was lunch and then on to stats. Stats was another good class, but today seemed to go a little long, I just was so ready to be out of class. Normally after the second class we are out for the day, but today was not the case. We still had one more class, CCL, and two hours of it. The class ended up being rather interesting because of a huge debate generated by the students on the structure of the class. CCL is suppose to be the flagship class the differentiates this new MBA program and a lot of students who are passionate about the international portion of this MBA have been really disappointed with it. All of them had really strong opinions and so for an hour they laid out all their complaints and concerns. Luckily I guess they got things resolved to work together to fix this stuff because it was getting really uncomfortable in there.

After class was dinner. After dinner was suppose to be another speaker, but after 9 hours of sitting and listening to professors and speakers I checked out. I came up to my room and read some really interesting cases on Real Madrid and the iPhone. Tonight I met with my team to finish up a stats case and now here I am again. It seems like our team is having a few issues that haven't really arisen till now. We are beginning to realize that Kerry hasn't ever done anything dealing with the content of any of our assignments since the very beginning. She does well at keeping us organized but never actually contributes to the content. Also a lot of our team feels really disjointed right now. Not everyone is putting  in the effort and I feel like we are all depending on others to "carry the banner." Anyway, I am sure we are going to have to have a discussion before leave here or Term 3 could get really ugly.

Well tomorrow is the culture dash so hopefully we will have some great pictures and videos of India.

I love you!

Brock