<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083763</id><updated>2009-03-06T00:25:05.312+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Battering Cram</title><subtitle type='html'>My third attempt at having a functional blog</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://batteringcram.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7083763/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://batteringcram.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Battering Cram</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00269248115890986978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083763.post-9058072000905818570</id><published>2008-07-18T16:21:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-03T13:57:41.682+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mba'/><title type='text'>MBA Musings</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;More often than not, life has been kind enough to let me realize what I can live without (Himesh Reshammiya, Sonia Gandhi and noisy crickets outside my window). I haven't had much luck figuring what I &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;could&lt;/span&gt; do with though.&lt;br /&gt;What I probably need to do is break this huge confounding problem into smaller confounding problems. So here's confounding problem 001....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top five&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;things I expect from my MBA (okay... PGDM) at IIM Calcutta:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be able to use words/phrases like &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;synergy, leverage, value proposition, strategize &lt;/span&gt;in normal everyday conversation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Speak better Bengali/Bangla&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Be able to hold forth on a conversation on the &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;impact of CRR hikes on short-term money market liquidity&lt;/span&gt; (fancy)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get better at math&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;-R&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7083763-9058072000905818570?l=batteringcram.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://batteringcram.blogspot.com/feeds/9058072000905818570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7083763&amp;postID=9058072000905818570' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7083763/posts/default/9058072000905818570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7083763/posts/default/9058072000905818570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://batteringcram.blogspot.com/2008/07/mba-musings.html' title='MBA Musings'/><author><name>Battering Cram</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00269248115890986978</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='11757990451008617716'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry></feed>