How was your experience during 1st semester at IIM Ahmedabad?

Since one of my friends is a recent alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, I might be able to share his experience with you. Here is what he has to go through,

• Because he arrives with a former IT experience of about 4 and a half years, it was particularly difficult for him to attend classes, mostly early in the morning.
• The classes usually lasted for almost 100 minutes, each of them particularly coupled with long cases, assignments, and course lists.
• He was not entirely familiar with the concepts of Operations and Management, and the basics of Finance.
• Later in time, it took him off guard and unwary.
• It was particularly difficult for him to become accustomed with the course structure.
• However, what he did like in the course was subjects such as WAC, and relevant others that were basically non-technical in several ways.
• After only a long time since then, he began getting more involved in his study structure.
• In fact, he also genuinely took help from various younger students whenever he could so as to ace some of the toughest subjects.
• Moving forward, he acquired better results than the 1st semester after only contributing time to some of the most difficult subjects.

He still mentions that his sophomore year onwards, the study structure in fact went in a very convenient manner. But, the 1st semester generally did not go well for him.