1) The fantastic Dr. Henry Moon teaches our ‘Managing Teams’ class an entirely new way of thinking about obscene CEO compensation (check out Tournament theory). Suddenly life makes sense 
2) The equally fantastic (and energetic) Dr. Dishan Kamdar talks about showing different packages to a counterparty in a negotiations class and I can then tie it up to a prior marketing class and say that’s exactly what choice based conjoint analysis forces you to do (mini-aha moment)
3) I have the opportunity of being taught a macroeco course by the former Governor of the RBI, Dr. C Rangarajan
4) I think about the prospect of spending Diwali with my entire family (incl. my sis & BIL, who’ll be flying from Chennai to spend the festival with us). Not to mention the ‘highly subsidized’ fireworks that I could get thanks to ISB bulk purchases
5) I get interviewed by a journalist at TV-18 for a piece on the economic downturn and how MBA students are coping with it – hey my first media stint and I handled it pretty well
