aneeshm
Deity
Right now, I'm doing my second year in engineering in computer science.
This may sound absurd, but the least technical subject is causing me the greatest stress as the examinations approach.
In technical subjects, I'm perfectly at home, because I know that if I get it right, that's it, end of story.
But this ridiculous requirement of "Financial and Industrial Management" is driving me insane. The six units are equivalent to six separate subjects in themselves. It's as if a sadist decided to see how many different parts of an average MBA undergrad first year syllabus could be crammed into six units, and then added in a few twists and turns, just for fun.
Here's the syllabus:
1) Introduction to Management (Historic overview)
2) Economic and Legal (A crash course in basic economics and copyright, patent, trademark, and contract law as it is in India)
3) Business Organisation
4) Human Resources Management
5) Financial Management
6) Financial Analysis
Now you can't even find a book that covers all this, because the stuff covered is so completely disparate.
I have no clue how detailed the questions are going to be, and what level of analysis is expected of us.
The first unit is complete fluff - I get the whole thing off the Wiki.
For the second unit, I've gone through through Sowell's "Basic Economics" and "Applied Economics". For the legal part, I've forced myself to read "Intellectual Property Law", which, though quite readable by the standards of legal literature, is still not a very easy read.
For units five and six, I'm currently reading (and enjoying - it's really good) "Financial Management: Theory and Practice", by Brigham and Ehrhardt, along with a book on analysis by Ambrish Gupta.
It's units three and four that really stump me. I can't find anything even as a guideline. If anyone here could tell me anything which will give me an idea of what these two subjects are about, and which explains their fundamentals in a lucid way, it would save my life.
And this is also a more general rant - why the hell does an engineering course require me to study all this stuff anyway? What grave sin have engineers (and everyone else in the rigorous subjects) committed that they have to be made into "complete" human beings by being forced to sit through this stuff, whereas nobody ever calls a completely worthless "queer/women's/<insert group here>-studies" (or equivalent) humanities/arts student "incomplete" because he couldn't grasp the basics of Newtonian mechanics or the fundamentals of differential calculus even to save his life? I'm far more "complete" than that worthless wastrel, but I still have to sit through this farce. I'd like to see him go through the graphics course from our first year.
This may sound absurd, but the least technical subject is causing me the greatest stress as the examinations approach.
In technical subjects, I'm perfectly at home, because I know that if I get it right, that's it, end of story.
But this ridiculous requirement of "Financial and Industrial Management" is driving me insane. The six units are equivalent to six separate subjects in themselves. It's as if a sadist decided to see how many different parts of an average MBA undergrad first year syllabus could be crammed into six units, and then added in a few twists and turns, just for fun.
Here's the syllabus:
1) Introduction to Management (Historic overview)
2) Economic and Legal (A crash course in basic economics and copyright, patent, trademark, and contract law as it is in India)
3) Business Organisation
4) Human Resources Management
5) Financial Management
6) Financial Analysis
Now you can't even find a book that covers all this, because the stuff covered is so completely disparate.
I have no clue how detailed the questions are going to be, and what level of analysis is expected of us.
The first unit is complete fluff - I get the whole thing off the Wiki.
For the second unit, I've gone through through Sowell's "Basic Economics" and "Applied Economics". For the legal part, I've forced myself to read "Intellectual Property Law", which, though quite readable by the standards of legal literature, is still not a very easy read.
For units five and six, I'm currently reading (and enjoying - it's really good) "Financial Management: Theory and Practice", by Brigham and Ehrhardt, along with a book on analysis by Ambrish Gupta.
It's units three and four that really stump me. I can't find anything even as a guideline. If anyone here could tell me anything which will give me an idea of what these two subjects are about, and which explains their fundamentals in a lucid way, it would save my life.
And this is also a more general rant - why the hell does an engineering course require me to study all this stuff anyway? What grave sin have engineers (and everyone else in the rigorous subjects) committed that they have to be made into "complete" human beings by being forced to sit through this stuff, whereas nobody ever calls a completely worthless "queer/women's/<insert group here>-studies" (or equivalent) humanities/arts student "incomplete" because he couldn't grasp the basics of Newtonian mechanics or the fundamentals of differential calculus even to save his life? I'm far more "complete" than that worthless wastrel, but I still have to sit through this farce. I'd like to see him go through the graphics course from our first year.
