To finance or not to finance

Term 2 results are out and my results are what I would say “OK” and what my dorm mate says “decent” . I am consistently in the “OK” range and see myself in the same range for the next two terms too. Not that I am not trying to improve but here grades are so much tried to how much you speak in class and even after knowing about that and how much class participation matters, I just cant speak out on everything and anything in class. I speak enough to just to keep myself safe. It is not like I have a problem with speaking out but just I don’t see myself doing it so much like some o do here.
Just remembered that none of the famous bschool bloggers are toppers in their class( Wouldn’t they be studying instead of blogging). So, atleast I am in some catergory :)). Anyways , I am not struggling with MBA anymore and I am content with that. The internship is going good and the first experience of actually working in a company as a consultant is good. I think the thrill in being a consultant is starting from scratch. There is nothing at start and after so much of data collection, research , meeting people and analysis , you can see things coming together and you really enjoy it. I also realised something, I haven’t used any of the tools that I learnt in the strategy management course. It was a not a conscious decision not to use any, but I feel good in the sense that I didn’t use any tool for the sake of using them but still managing to do what is expected out for me.
I also chose the electives for Term3 two weeks back.I have always liked the course titles irrespective of what is being taught in those subjects :)). Here are the electives I have chosen.

New Management Concepts
Advertising and Sales Promotion Management
Corporate Finance and Financial Service
Sales Force and Distribution Effectiveness
Operations Strategy
Global Marketing Strategy and Policy
Technology Strategy

I am not doing any specialisation. Finance is something that I don’t want to do and Marketing is something that I can’t to . So I have taken a mix of GM, Finance and Marketing courses. The biggest dilemma was ofcourse whether to choose the one finance elective or not.There is something about finance in AIM. Everyone gets so agitated and worked up when the words “FM1” or “FM2” are mentioned. People are more scared about finance than swine flu here. I myself am not interested in finance but not for the reason that I can’t manage it but because I don’t like it. It is something I can do but don’t want to. I don’t like dealing with money so much. If you think I am saying ” I don’t like money”, you are so wrong. I said I don’t like dealing with and managing it. I used to hate my salary statements for the fact that they had too many line items. I always wanted a salary statement that said “Gross salary – Taxes = Net Income” . Now isn’t that simple? It is not that I don’t like chasing money but I don’t want to get into finance and chase money by actually chasing it. But the good thing about studying finance is that, everything I study in it is new and actually interesting. That’s the reason for the one finance elective.