Things I did with the Longhorn Cricket Club and the business terms I learnt:

Task: Playing on the league team
Term: Teamwork

Task: Bring tons of equipment from India in my bag
Term: Supply chain management

Task: Trying to buy 1 cricket tennis ball at a time from desisport.com
Term: Vendor relations

Task: Convincing Nimit to stay on the committee for another semester
Term: Staff retention

Task: Convincing Niraj Zaveri to join the team
Term: Recruiting

Task: Planning out who bowls each over of a twenty over game
Term: Workflow

Task: Taking the league team out for a buffet after a win
Term: Performance-linked incentives

Task: Finding an alternate venue for the Baylor game hours before the match
Term: Crisis management

Task: Distributing flyers all over campus
Term: Ambush marketing

Task: Sitting at the table for hours
Term: Wasting time (a very important business term!)

Task: Talking about LCC to every damn person and them actually recollecting the name from somewhere
Term: Brand recognition

Task: Giving equipment checkout as an extra benefit to members
Term: Value added services

Task: Dhruv not being able to sent the uniforms in time from India
Term: Misallocation of resources

Task: Organizing everything from match screenings for the lazy to league games for the diehard
Term: Covering the full spectrum of the customer base

Task: Convincing Curtis to join the LCC
Term: Encouraging workplace diversity

Task: Letting people bring three guests into a match screening
Term: Value proposition

Task: Making a profit nevertheless
Term: Superior net profit margins

Task: Starting off with a $100 loan and having a $1000 dollar balance in 2 years
Term: Debt management

Task: Organizing events with the ICA, ISA and PSA
Term: Cross-functional team building

Task: Having members tell me that the LCC is their favorite student organization
Term: CUSTOMER SATISFACTION!

Things I have learnt after visiting Kerala

Everything smells like coconut oil…including the currency.

Cricket = Sreesanth. If he’s not playing, they go back to soccer.

Everything the far side of Kozhikode is considered North India.

Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan are junior artistes compared to Mamooty and Mohan Lal.

The women match up to the men in everything. This includes facial hair.

Call centers can never exist in Kerala, as the world is incapable of understanding Malayali English.

A sideways bob of the head can mean about three hundred different things.

It really is God’s own country.