LIbrary Etiquette

For me library is like a sacred place and reading my passion. I still wonder why people come into the library to voice chat on their laptops, socialize, to do group works, group discussions and all other things except READ. Even the college staff just come barging into the library shouting at the top of their voice. And the funniest thing in this college is that, books, badges, T-shirts and all other things are distributed to student inside the library. The only place I have seen this happening.

My MBA colleagues think that I am preparing for placement just because I spend most of the time in the library. If only they knew that I have been using the library from the time I learn't to read. I feel incomplete at the end of the day if I dont read the newspaper because that has been my habit for a long time. Unlike Singapore campus ( maybe thats the reason, my classmates have not seen me much in the Spore library), here in Dubai I am forced to read the newspaper in the college itself as our hostel is separated from the college and we dont have WiFi access in the hostel. The other reason is that I prefer reading from the hard copy rather than from the laptop. So when you have a library which subscribes to all good newspapers, why strain my eyes on the laptop.

Here in my college somebody shamelessly smuggles newspaper out of the library at the end of the day to read in the comfort of his/her hostel room. Somedays I dont even get to see the ET's and the FT's. I was told that last time a student was caught doing the same, he got fined heavily ( Dh 300). Let others also benefit from the college and the library. BUY YOUR OWN NEWSPAPERS!!!

Desert Rose

Well life can't be easier than this, atleast not as bad as a one year MBA should have been. I landed in Dubai a month back to pursue second half of my so called Global MBA after having finished the other half in Singapore. Life is Singapore was bliss. The place is sexy and the campus was excellent. Here in Dubai, the college and hostel are far apart and we have to depend on the college bus to get us to the college from the hostel and vice versa. Everything around here depends on the availabilty of the bus drivers.

One management concept which is very much practiced here in SPJCM is "Change Management". Everything from the timetable, to the classrooms keep changing every hour. Unfortunatley the professors dont!!!

Now let me tell you something about myself. I am a biomedical engineer. I joined Bosch as a fresher and worked for about 39 months there. I left Bosch in May 2006 as a senior software engineer. Went straight to SPJCM, Singapore to pursue MBA in Service Marketing and Management (1year). Came to Dubai for the second half, but I am certainly not liking the place. I am wondering why people get so excited when they talk about Dubai. Last month I was in Bur Dubai and it just felt like walking on the streets of Chennai. First of all you don't feel like you are in a foreign land as you see only Indians all around. Plus there is utter chaos just like India. So there is no charm in being here. Dubai needs a total restructruing in a much more logical manner. Hopefully it will be better with the Metro starting in 2009. Round-abouts are omnipresent (more than the sand :) ). If you are traveling, at the end of the journey you become giddy because of all the roundtanas. Having seen Dubai, India and Singapore, I think for business and management Dubai is too primitive, Singapore is highly mature. India is the boiling pot and this is the right time to be there. Seeing all the campus placements happening in India I am wondering what I am doing in a place like this. I feel stupid. I am waiting to get out of this God forsaken place and fly back to India as soon as possible.