IIMK Lingo

Sorry Harshad... I had this idea but I guess great minds think alike... And you created it first... So I am not going to plagiarize, I give reference: Arbit globe if you can find it on this page... I will create my own list of lingo used in IIMK

A+: A grade given to somebody committed only to spoiling class averages and nothing else..

ABC: 1. Anoop Balachandran.

2. An obsolete term earlier intended to describe top management institutes in India in the past but has no meaning these days..

Assignment: ASS-kickInG-oiNtMENT... Used by Professors for making sick people study and get rid of their diseases... But never successful..

Appy: Apple Macbook... The hottest thing on Kampus... (See: C-hostels)

Arbit: Term for things unreasonable... Generally used for DCP (See: CP, DCP)

Alumni Committee: A committee meant to track where all the hotties from the senior batches have gone away..

Backwaters: 1. A committee of people inclined towards inviting hot chicks to Chettaland (See: Chetta)... Unfortunately because none such exist here

2. IIMK's cult-cum-management fest, which we eagerly wait for, to see those hot chicks..

3. A term people refer to without even knowing what it is when they visit beaches..

Beautiful Girl (See: Girl): A theoretical term with no practical applications existing in IIMK

C-hostel: A hostel of extreme interest to all the other hostels.. Some people alien to this land live here.. These people will know the whereabouts of anybody from A hostel to K hostel but if you ask the whereabouts of somebody from C hostel, they would never know.. These people consider themselves made up of some super-hot stuff... A view exclusive to them..

CC: Computer Center. Used for last-minute print-outs (and Murphy's law applies well here.. At the last moment, if you require it urgently, it never works).. Also used by people who have not got their laptops courtesy Madcom (See: Madcom) 

Chetta: 1. A derivative of "brother" in Mallu

2. A group of species who target some of their own population for certain needs of Maslow's hierarchy.. Fearsome creatures for those who do not belong to the same species but are similar in physical form..

CP: (Originated from Harvard would be my guess.. Abbreviation for Class Participation) No such thing exists... 

Convocation: A day when people who are not willing to go away from IIMK are made to leave and people who desperately do not want the travails for one more year are made to stay (though the species is quite rare)..

Day Zero: A day to prove that the toppers aren't the best in business...

DCP: 1. Desperate Class Participation - Usually people confuse CP with this but this is the original term.. 

2. Desperate for Class Participation - People who remain awake in class and commit blasphemy after blasphemy of waking up asleep people... Trying to get some extra marks by replying to Prof's questions, they lose even more marks than they would have got had they stayed quiet 

EditBoard: A committee supposed to publish magazines on behalf of the college... It does, by encouraging other people to write down articles for them... Instead it takes out a gossip magazine called Tadka.. And the only thing that they do is collect gossip in college...

F: A grade given to people who exceed the professor's limits for DCPs (See: DCP)

Forex: (Foreign Exchange) Don't think finance on Kolya Manus' planet... This word represents some hallowed students coming to this hallowed place from some other corner of the world.. Providing some Chettas the inspiration to dump the philosophy of Chettahood.. The only problem is that some foreign Chettas come along, making the Desi Chettas stick to their Chettahood...

Gas: A term given to the content that one speaks when he doesn't even understand what he is speaking, or the course of some subject no one understands but everyone gets an A, or sometimes used for arbit stuff.

Ghonchu: 1. Quiz master of Zamorin

2. Another quiz master. I can't say anything more than this.

Girl: A species which we long to see here.. Though some are seen here and there chased by scores of people who do not believe in Chettahood... A product of intense competition.. We learn marketing only by trying to woo them and failing...

GOC: God's Own Campus. Visit http://verdance.blogspot.com if you don't believe me.

GOK: 1. God's Own Kapur. A Kapur descendant ecstatic on getting admission from IIM-K thought he had reached God... To realize within two days that he is closer to hell...

2. God's Own Kampus. Preferred term for GOC.

Group: A collection of people, meant to perform certain tasks together, where everyone believes that somebody else from the group will perform it, and eventually, the task gets completed only because they collectively freak out at the eleventh hour

Horizons: A management fest intended to show off the best brains of the country to people in power viz. the corporate world

IIC: (Industry Interaction Cell) A committee originally meant to invite investment bankers and fund managers to IIM-K and interact with them (and of course organize Horizons)... These days it does all these things... Just that the corporate honchos who come don't get a chance to speak because of the presence of a particular creature who simply can't stop speaking.. 

 

IIM-ABC: 1. Institutes from the stone age in the era of information age

2. A new IIM Anoop Balachandran is planning to open after he gets out of here (if he gets out)

IIMK Survey Agency: An entrepreneurial venture by two students of IIMK inclined towards social service whom the SSG (refer to SSG) has rejected (and in whom the professors have no hope) - it is a survey agency with a social cause: that of keeping people awake in lectures through innovative surveys

IIM-K: Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. The best institute with the best brains of the country. The fastest growing institute of the country.

IIM-L: An IIM created prior to liberalization only for nerds (unliberalized people).. Originally called IIM-Hell (especially with the Mallu accent), the brand name has been changed since IIMK began operations (for obvious reasons)

IP Messenger: An internal IIMK messenger needed for spamming for past year's papers in exam days.. The message goes to each and every laptop, concerned with the problem or not. Also used to share data-movies, songs, nice ads, etc. A lot more happens on IP which can't be said here...

ITComm: IT Committee.. A group of privileged people who can download anything they like.. They are responsible for maintaining Zamorin (See: Zamorin), bringing movies to kampus and a host of other things... Responsible for everybody's survival for two years..

MADCOM: A committee of mad people who, despite studying microeconomics, believe everything can be obtained without giving any profit to the seller... And call themselves merchandising and design committee... Of course, we love them more than any committee on campus.. They are responsible for my 55K appy (Apple MacBook) and loads of other wonderful stuff at cheaper rates... Specially useful for paying our fees through bank loans.. Though always later than expected..

MCS: Multi-Committee Syndrome - A term used to describe the situation of a particular creature who volunteers for many committees and gets voted nowhere.. 

Media Cell: A committee meant to propagate everything good existing in GOK to the outside world... Instead they don't do any work except escorting C-hostel girls till they sleep.. And writing arbit globe while they are not doing that.. :) 

Mess: Isn't the term obvious?

MessCom: Mess Committee - A committee committed to making the messy mess even more messy... However, they are responsible for keeping us alive by helping us with good, hygienic food...

MF: 1. Margin Free - The only shop to buy toilet soap in Kampus. 

2. Mutual Fund - At the time of placements, seniors ask the juniors to use this definition and speak a lot of gas to get through to companies..

NC: Night Canteen. Generally used in day only. A place where the proprietors, despite having a monopoly over the market, keep prices of food items down in the benefit of the students.. Also a place where all birthday celebrations take place, so that people don't have to go too far to search for milk, coke, pepsi, tea, coffee, etc. to throw over the birthday boy/gal. 

Night-out: Needed to stretch some silly task that should be completed in an hour over the whole night.. NC is a specific cause of this phenomenon.. Generally used in exams..

NIT-C: National Institute of Technology, Calicut. It was created as a sports club for IIMK but because of the lethargy of some senior batches, it was not getting used.. Eventually the government made it an engineering college..

Open-book: A type of exam in which copying from the book is allowed (in case you know the book and bring it to examination hall).. But you can never figure out from which chapter (sometimes subject) the question has been taken...

PGP: People Going through lots of Parties.. You thought something else??

FPM: Frequently Partying Maniacally... These kids have no other work except partying and watching movies from Zamorin for four years... And getting some money for that... What a life!

 

PlaceCom: Placement Committee. People voluntarily get screwed to get elected into this committee and work their asses off during placements.. Kudos to them.. Of course, they have all the access to the insider information.. Other people are terrorized by this committee.. To quote something somebody said: The lesser said, the better. I want a good summers ;)

Quiz: A 10 minute thing supposed to be for 25 minutes where you go and write down your name on the answer sheet out of respect for the professors...

Sangram: Sports meet with IIMB. Here out of mercy for the oldies, we allow them to win by fraud.. However, we never lose on sledging..

Soapbox: A fun-filled event at the time of elections for various committees. Where people wanting to get into committees fail at trying to perform stunts to impress the public.. And eventually only Machiavellian wins...

SSG: Social Services Group. A group made for people with anti-social thoughts who try to get other anti-social people to do service for the society. Because that in itself requires a lot of social service.

STI: Social Transformation in India. A course where you learn how to socially transform India by watching foreign movies which are explicit in nature.. Where the professor teaches everything except the course and still is the most loved professor at Kampus.. The only course where you can freely discuss everything in class (including sex and pornography).

StudCon: Students' Council. Supposed to represent the students, these people are selected to tell other students not to come late to class without following on their own. They give feedback to the administration on behalf of students without knowing the students' feedback.. They help everybody.. If your hostel wash room has not been cleaned for long, call them... err.. They will not clean.. They will ask the responsible person to clean it...

Summers: A phenomenon where students come to know the fraud that is being taught to them over an year.. And eventually come back even more confused than the juniors regarding which specialization is the best...

Zamorin: Hub for movie, songs, files-data collection and an extremely famous (in IIMK) quiz by Ghonchu.. One of the best time-pass kit for IIMK students.

To be updated soon...