An Irked State of Mind

Haven't written in ages, ages I know. I haven't been feeling like writing lately, and now I think I know why.
I started off writing about my feelings and experiences at college, but somewhere along the way, it kinda turned into some special events journal. And then after three years, the special events didn't really appear special anymore.
And then I realized what happened...

So here I am, a few hours away from my major project stage 1 evaluation., and I'm gonna speak exactly what's on my mind...

S7 is kind of over, except for the final showdown tomorrow. The campus is empty like a Sunday afternoon. Five more months of college to go.

I know next to nothing about my major project. Thank God I got placed before this whole fiasco started!
Ummm I don't really have anything to talk about, nor am I in the mood to make small talk. I'm very irritated, tired and sleep deprived. All I wanna do is somehow make it past noon, tomorrow and then, two weeks of..my last vacation??
Whoa!! That's kinda my only disappointment about starting to work - no more summer breaks, term breaks etc.
And I'm supposed to be working on giving our presentation for tomorrow it's final touches but I so do not feel like it! And I guess to avoid that, I turned to the thing I've been avoiding for quite some time now - writing a post!
Damn I have heardly written at all this semester. It was a pretty boring semester for me, apart from the two week break in-between, but what followed after coming back to college took away whatever little joy we'd managed in those two weeks. Apart from that, there were all the usual events of monsoon semester, for the last time for me.
Starting with Onam -I'm gonna miss the payasam, that's it :P
Then Ganesh chaturathi, lol I'll miss getting the best dress awards at college dance nights I guess ;)
And diwali - college brought a whole new meaning of 'diwali' to me. Each year's been special; in fact, the last year was the least, with all our seniors gone.
Tathva was an unexpected surprise. We had a fire-show, live in our college by a group from the Czech Republic, and without any doubt, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen live.

That's about all the 'fun' we had this semester. The labs and drawing classes totally deprived us of the joys of 'only four theory papers'! Hopefully we'll finally get to take a breath next sem, before we step out into...the world...big, bad or whateer, I don't really kno yet! ;)

I guess I'll sign off for tonight now; gotta finish off all the work for tomorrow. And I promise promise promise I'll post tomorrow bout how everything went :D

Beaver-Lite

I got lucky yet again!! :D

Worm Eye

Except for the ones that drop onto my head, I guess I have a pretty good eye for worms and bugs. After all, I spotted this one!

The Pilloo Story

This is what happened to me yesterday..
Sometime during the day, a pilloo (worm) must have jumped onto my hair from some tree or something.
Last night, I was sitting in bed, reading a book and suddenly the worm slid down my hair and onto my shoulder. I thought it must be a big insect and just flicked it. And then I realised it was a worm and that too, had landed on its back on the ground and it was just so yuck!
But that didn't kill my laziness. I finished eating the chocolate I was eating, finished reading the chapter I was reading and only then did I get up to throw that thing outta my room :D

Not So Cool

Hello there. Long time again. And no I haven't been lazy. Whoever said final year is cool, my whole week goes in lab records and drawing sheets and weekends go by in the usual boring trips to the city and oh yea lots of just lazing around but not sleeping. So ultimately I still feel sleep-deprived and busy all the time!
So on things that have been up with me, there was our last Ganesh Chaturathi in college last weekend, and it was quite some fun. And oh oh before that was our last Onam too. Damn that was ages ago, now I realise I haven't posted in, well, ages!
And there have been placements. Loads and more.
And awesome weather. Finally the rains are here like first year, the way I like them.
And then there was the student body elections this Sunday, followed by loads of action!
And, I'm a little bored coz of having to spend a hell lot of time just by myself :( Sometimes I wanna get out of here really fast although time does seem to be flying by even faster in final year and hey I just realised, when I get done with this college, there can be no more Confessions@NITC. It's so soon compared to school which took forever to be over, and what am I gonna write about after college! Who'll wanna read about..well, I can't yet imagine what I'm gonna write about after college!

Striking Gold

Ahoy folks! I'm back after way more than 30 min though I don't think anyone really missed me here :P
So back to the placement story, as promised..

Placements started next Thursday, July 29 with General Electric. As I walked into the jampacked Bhaskara, I was surprised to discover how neat and tidy my batchmates were capable of being; anything for money I figured ;)

The recruiters were an hour late ,spent another hour showing us a very friggin boring ppt, and then arrogantly announced they only needed mechanical M.Techs and the rest could leave! I choose to not comment here any further on the episode but feel free to catch any one of us who went there for uncensored reactions ;)

So that's how campus recruitments started for the NITC EEE class o' 2011..

Two days later was Texas Instruments. I went with zero preparations because I figured the only way to not be in the top ten and get a good job (read awesome pay) easily was by studying C++. However, I thought the paper was damn easy - my class toppers were dumb-struck when they heard me say that!

And well, they were right. I didn't get through. And wasn't the least bit disappointed. And the first person I told gave me his hearty congratulations!!

By this time, I was totally freaking out. I was absolutely convinced I didn't have a chance till atleast the top ten from all the circuit branches were out of the picture and that depressed me even more for the last firm I wanted to get into was Deloitte&Touche, which was in six days (hence no chance in that one either) and I didn't even want to know what was coming after that.

However, before that ultimate doomsday I already had an absolutely clear image of in my mind arrived, there was Goldman Sachs on Monday, August 2. Sometime right after coming into NITC, I had seen a big poster of GS, checked it out and decided I was going to slide to Computer Science by the end of first year and get placed in GS by the time I started final year. Dreams!! August 3 is my birthday and I kept coming up with absolutely crazy ideas to go out that day and keep myself busy to stay cheerful for atleast that one day.

August 2:

So Monday finally dawned, we had to get out from the middle of drawing class for the written round and I felt like an absolute moron wearing formals to drawing class which involved traversing nearly the entire campus and everybody now knew I was going for placements and everybody would then know when they saw me again dressed in formals that I didn't get placed! :( Plus I was already so sick of those clothes and attending ppts, I had almost decided on giving up on placements after that week and totally focussing on TOEFL.

The recruiters arrived not too late and by the end of their presentation, everybody wanted to be a NAPA! I tried hard not to get my hopes up. I had met most of the people who mattered but rarely met, on the way to the test and during the test too, I was seated around some of my favorite people. The written test was unbelievably long - aptitude and coding; my seniors' advices seemed to have been customised for this test. My favorite part was the essay, where I could be myself and wrote stuff I never knew I was capable of coming up with.

Back to my room, there was disappointment, depression, tears; but no fear. I felt like a sunken ship - there was nothing to save.

Around 10 pm, my PR texted me to be at TnP with my resume next morming at 8:30. Bloody bastards I thought, they were gonna call us there and then tell us who they were rejecting, like TI had done. I went to tell that to my friends and they told me the short-listed names were already out for the other depts. Even more annoyed, I called up my PR and whoopie!! I had received that text at all coz I'd been shortlisted. Now atleast I could really smile at midnight.

But I was exhausted coz of all the tension and little food; funnily all my b'day balloons read 'congratulations' and my friends continued to maintain I was just meant to get placed on my b'day (according to a trend started by one other guy from my state!). I couldn't sleep and when I finally did, mom called me to wish me and after that, there was no sleeping. I'd had barely an hour of sleep but I was neither sleepy, nor hungry, or anything. I jus got dressed, got some hugs and went.

August 3:

Out at TnP, it was a crazy day. With my cell phone switched off, I didn't even remember it was my b'day. We all sat around a big table, holding our breaths each time there was a shortlist and we went on the the next round. Each time I only managed a 'wow' to myself. After clearing the case study and a round of interview, two more rounds - the PR informed us. But when I walked into the interview room, they warmly welcomed me to the 'final round'. I was stunned. And my last was an understatement. And they could see it.

Anyways I had to recover quickly. There was nothing to lose, as they said. I was almost in a daze and I mostly remember telling them what I didn't know!

After that, everyone was called down and made to sit in the reception area. Most people were saying their own silent prayers. I had wasted the entire day at TnP with no phone calls, no food and no hopes and was telling God that since he'd brought me this far, just one more little step shouldn't be too much for Him! ;) After a looooong wait, when they finally came out, the power was out. So sir suggested we go outside, but it was raining! Another 'sign' I felt. We all huddled under the porch; and their HR executive held up the final list and read aloud: Trisha Singha.

I was stunned for atleast the third time that day and this one caused some really serious brain damage I think-I've been lazy and sleepy and late for class ever since ;)

So that was the best day of my life, my best birthday ever and the day I struck gold :)

Rain, Shine, Blue skies and my sleepy head!

Hey hey hey everyone, I know this time I have crossed the limits of laziness and everything else. I have been this lazy! So I gotta fill you in on everything that's been up with me.

Hmm, so I got back to college after a freaking long summer, so long that I didn't even like it anymore!

A lotta excitement in the train, for there was a whole war going on in college for single rooms for the final years which had been denied last moment, less than a week before college was opening. Apparently people went sat outside the administrative block to protest. I missed it all because I was still in the train. That saved me the trouble of shifting to the newly allotted rooms and then back to the initially allotted ones with all the luggage.

Talking about luggage, I just couldn't figure why my bags were so freaking heavy! Even my tall, strong friends complained this time! Add to that my sprained neck (did I tell you about my car crash this summer?) and I ended up spending a fortune on the porters. :(

Back to college, first day was nightmare - registration!

With only one ATM working and the whole college wanting to pay up that day while only the final years really needed to, there was a war between the final years, some girls who believed they should get to go first and the rest!! There was a big line outside the ATM and a crowd so big inside it that it seemed like the walls of the ATM would give away; and then there was the heat, the sweat, the stench, and all that! Someone compared the machine to a gang-bang and the view from the outside was pretty convincing :P

I got my turn after spending some 3-4 hours in the line, with a couple of final years blocking the ATM entrance so that we could register before the day ended!

While still in the ATM line, we got texts with guess..placement offers! Starting with Texas Instruments and General Electric. They were coming to campus in a week! and we had to give in our names immediately and attend a talk that evening. Suddenly there was excitement and something to look forward to.

After the ATM, the rest of the process was pretty quick this time, a BIG surprise yea!! Yet I had to run to and fro a couple of times for after 2 years of registering very efficiently and all by myself, I was unbelievably messed up this time and kept forgetting one document or the other!

The placement talk was damn boring and we had to run back at 7 for we still have the curfew :(

And then I had a room to clean and cartons to shift, all by myself. By next morning, my neck pain was back in its full spirit!

Well so that was day one, S7 @ NITC. The major thing that's been up since that day has been 'placements' and I'll write all about it in my next post, which will be up in another half an hour I guess ;)

An Irked State of Mind

Beaver-Lite

Worm Eye

The Pilloo Story

Not So Cool

Striking Gold

Rain, Shine, Blue skies and my sleepy head!

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