Alpha Society

"Alpha Hour (Alpha Society) was originally founded in 1995 by students from the MBA '97 batch. Their vision for it was an organization where students could examine and discuss exciting and relevant ideas. They'd invite prominent and visionary guest speakers (like Shoaib Hashmi and Alys Faiz) to give talks and would show thought-provoking films." "What I like about these changes in the club's objectives and activities is that Alpha Hour becomes whatever the students want and need it to be." "Also, it just occurred to me: you probably don't know why the club is named Alpha Hour, either. It's named after the Alpha waves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_wave) that the brain generates. Alpha waves are generated during periods of waking relaxation and that state often occurs just before you fall asleep at night. It is said that you sometimes get your best, most exciting, and most breakthrough-type of ideas just before you fall asleep. What the club's founders wanted to do was create a time and place where people would have a whole hour of intellectual and ground-breaking thought and discussion. That they loosely translated into an hour of Alpha-thought time, hence The Alpha Hour :)"