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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Cribs
I kept cribbing over broken relationships till I saw this girl. She is 18, part of an SHG, She has an year old child but has lost her husband.
Could see the fear in her eyes, but there was always a smile on her face... Just felt like giving her a hug!!!
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
The chemistry of a break up
Although I title this as "Chemistry" of a break up, what follows also has elements of mathematics, psychology and what not... Have seen quite a few of them now, some very close, but have somehow been able to see a kind of a pattern. May be I am right, may be I am wrong...
So its starts with the couple whom I would call X and Y. X is of the nature of I-want-to-live-my-life-my-way and Y is of the nature of I-will-do-anything-for-you.
Ofcourse X and Y do not know about this characteristic of theirs.
Stage 1: X, Y meet. Date. Talk to each other for long hours (Oh, telecom operators benefit the most here). X is all fida over Y. Y starts to think that X is the soulmate. They go out of the way to help each other. They go out of the way to spend moments with each other. And there are sacrifices made by both X and Y. This makes them believe that there could be nothing better than this relationship. It makes them believe that this is all we needed.
X forgets the characteristic and the way X is now is an ideal situation for Y. So things move on smoothly.
The couple is happy and the story moves on like this for a couple of days, weeks, months and may be years as well...
Stage 2: The couple feel good in each others company. X does not mind being totally dedicated to Y. Thats X's way of life right now. Y is under the impression that X will continue to stay like this. Life is rosy. No thorns attached... There are occasional disturbances here and there but love overwhelms them all.
Stage 3: X and Y get separated for some time. X finds it difficult to shower the same love on Y. Y finds it odd as X does not behave the same way.
The Final Stage: This is when the actual characteristics come out. X goes on the "I-want-to-be-myself" and "you-be-yourself". Y says that "I-like-to-live-for-you-and-expect-the-same-from-you". And both of them have a difference in approach. All those sacrifices that they did for each other are now valued against other trivial things. Questions like "Why-should-I-do-something-for-Y?". "Why-doesn't-X-love-me-so-much?" and such stuff start cropping in their minds. Personal happiness becomes a major factor. There is an opportunity cost attached to each element that X or Y does with each other.
X starts to enjoy life sans Y, Y starts to live life with beautiful memories of the past. Y feels that X loves Y the same way as it was before. X starts to feel strained by the relationship as X cannot live an independent life.
And then comes what they dreaded the most.... BREAK UP!!!
But then if you see what was wrong... Well, the very first thing... Where they make promises to each other, build hopes, live lives that they don't endorse just to keep the other happy. Well, all this feels good temporarily, but unfortunately its not sustainable. That is the fault!!!
PS: This post intentionally lacks attention to detail... to make the as generic as possible.
So its starts with the couple whom I would call X and Y. X is of the nature of I-want-to-live-my-life-my-way and Y is of the nature of I-will-do-anything-for-you.
Ofcourse X and Y do not know about this characteristic of theirs.
Stage 1: X, Y meet. Date. Talk to each other for long hours (Oh, telecom operators benefit the most here). X is all fida over Y. Y starts to think that X is the soulmate. They go out of the way to help each other. They go out of the way to spend moments with each other. And there are sacrifices made by both X and Y. This makes them believe that there could be nothing better than this relationship. It makes them believe that this is all we needed.
X forgets the characteristic and the way X is now is an ideal situation for Y. So things move on smoothly.
The couple is happy and the story moves on like this for a couple of days, weeks, months and may be years as well...
Stage 2: The couple feel good in each others company. X does not mind being totally dedicated to Y. Thats X's way of life right now. Y is under the impression that X will continue to stay like this. Life is rosy. No thorns attached... There are occasional disturbances here and there but love overwhelms them all.
Stage 3: X and Y get separated for some time. X finds it difficult to shower the same love on Y. Y finds it odd as X does not behave the same way.
The Final Stage: This is when the actual characteristics come out. X goes on the "I-want-to-be-myself" and "you-be-yourself". Y says that "I-like-to-live-for-you-and-expect-the-same-from-you". And both of them have a difference in approach. All those sacrifices that they did for each other are now valued against other trivial things. Questions like "Why-should-I-do-something-for-Y?". "Why-doesn't-X-love-me-so-much?" and such stuff start cropping in their minds. Personal happiness becomes a major factor. There is an opportunity cost attached to each element that X or Y does with each other.
X starts to enjoy life sans Y, Y starts to live life with beautiful memories of the past. Y feels that X loves Y the same way as it was before. X starts to feel strained by the relationship as X cannot live an independent life.
And then comes what they dreaded the most.... BREAK UP!!!
But then if you see what was wrong... Well, the very first thing... Where they make promises to each other, build hopes, live lives that they don't endorse just to keep the other happy. Well, all this feels good temporarily, but unfortunately its not sustainable. That is the fault!!!
PS: This post intentionally lacks attention to detail... to make the as generic as possible.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Best way out ?
Sometimes you wonder whether being correct or making sure that you are right is the apt way to go about doing things!!! Whether doing things right when the world around has made its own laws really makes sense!!!
Say for example on the road. Most of us do not follow majority of the traffic rules. We dont maintain a distance, we dont horn (or sometimes horn excessively), we dont use a signal before changing lanes, we dont listen to horns , no seatbelts and somehow this has got into us that if there is an inch space for my vehicle to fit in, I would!!!
Now the question that lies in front of me is whether I join the crowd and do as it does or do I be the loner following all the rules.
Digging further deep, this is something like the Game Theory problem where in if everyone follows the rules, each one is benefitted but if no one follows the rules and you try to be saint, you are at a loss. So if everyone follows the rules, there is no locking of vehicles and hence no jams. However, this needs cooperation from everybody and even if one person tries to "act smart" (for personal gains), the equilibrium is disturbed. Infact, this is what happens even on the road. We try to cover each and every inch of space that we can and hence locking the traffic many a times. And hence all of us try and "act smart" and in the end all of them lose.
But then what is the way out?
Surely the best way out is the equilibrium route. But the question arises as to why a driver not disturb the equilibrium for personal gains? I guess proper traffic monitoring would be required to ensure that drivers follow the equilibrium.
I am aware of the school of thought which says that "you be good and the world will be good to you", I am also aware of the school of thought which says that "you-be-right-come-what-may" but then so equally I am aware of the fact that "while in Rome, do as what Romans do".
Say for example on the road. Most of us do not follow majority of the traffic rules. We dont maintain a distance, we dont horn (or sometimes horn excessively), we dont use a signal before changing lanes, we dont listen to horns , no seatbelts and somehow this has got into us that if there is an inch space for my vehicle to fit in, I would!!!
Now the question that lies in front of me is whether I join the crowd and do as it does or do I be the loner following all the rules.
Digging further deep, this is something like the Game Theory problem where in if everyone follows the rules, each one is benefitted but if no one follows the rules and you try to be saint, you are at a loss. So if everyone follows the rules, there is no locking of vehicles and hence no jams. However, this needs cooperation from everybody and even if one person tries to "act smart" (for personal gains), the equilibrium is disturbed. Infact, this is what happens even on the road. We try to cover each and every inch of space that we can and hence locking the traffic many a times. And hence all of us try and "act smart" and in the end all of them lose.
But then what is the way out?
Surely the best way out is the equilibrium route. But the question arises as to why a driver not disturb the equilibrium for personal gains? I guess proper traffic monitoring would be required to ensure that drivers follow the equilibrium.
I am aware of the school of thought which says that "you be good and the world will be good to you", I am also aware of the school of thought which says that "you-be-right-come-what-may" but then so equally I am aware of the fact that "while in Rome, do as what Romans do".
Bad bad banking!!!
12:00 AM, Sid goes to SBI to deposit money for his fees. He gets a token number from the bank (really impressed by the token system, thankfully no more waiting in lines with people leaving you with no personal space and with no space to even turn around). But then what does he see, the number he gets is 460 and the number going on is 210 which means another 250 people to be attended to before him. He decides to walk out and come some other time as he was supposed to meet friends at lunch.
Decides to come early the next day.
Comes at 10:15 (branch opens at 10:30). Takes the token and awaits his turn. And what does he see
1) Most of the employees catering to us behind the counters do not come before 11.
2) It takes 15 minutes for each employee to settle down (after all initial greeting etc...)
and Sid is pissed off with the system. Only to see this...
"A madam across the counter shamelessly got some sarees and showing it off to her colleagues sitting adjacent to her and engaging them in a discussion"....
And sid gets pissed off... Holy fuck!!! Seems like these guys dont value our time at all... Lady, If ever I had to quote a bad example of professionalism, I would quote you.
And he does nothing but grumbles to himself... And await his turn.
I was also being sent from one counter to other, from one officer to other for some sicko verification. Somehow, no one was ready to take responsibility of this. Somehow the whole experience leaves a bad taste in your mouth. And no wonder one would lose customers because of this.
It is surely gonna lose this one.
Decides to come early the next day.
Comes at 10:15 (branch opens at 10:30). Takes the token and awaits his turn. And what does he see
1) Most of the employees catering to us behind the counters do not come before 11.
2) It takes 15 minutes for each employee to settle down (after all initial greeting etc...)
and Sid is pissed off with the system. Only to see this...
"A madam across the counter shamelessly got some sarees and showing it off to her colleagues sitting adjacent to her and engaging them in a discussion"....
And sid gets pissed off... Holy fuck!!! Seems like these guys dont value our time at all... Lady, If ever I had to quote a bad example of professionalism, I would quote you.
And he does nothing but grumbles to himself... And await his turn.
I was also being sent from one counter to other, from one officer to other for some sicko verification. Somehow, no one was ready to take responsibility of this. Somehow the whole experience leaves a bad taste in your mouth. And no wonder one would lose customers because of this.
It is surely gonna lose this one.
Monday, June 09, 2008
Am aging
So many new things happening around me. Sometimes makes me feel am aging... Makes me feel time is running out...
I have taken up a job, have gone for meetings far and wide, have been interacting with people, have been losing hair, have been putting on weight, have started having regular diets with the fear of body not adjusting to the food!! Signs of aging huh!!!
But never felt that old till I heard that a lot of my school friends have either got married or are engaged and due to get married soon... And I thought I was still a 23 year old kid... and there's a long way to go!!!
funny world this!!!
I have taken up a job, have gone for meetings far and wide, have been interacting with people, have been losing hair, have been putting on weight, have started having regular diets with the fear of body not adjusting to the food!! Signs of aging huh!!!
But never felt that old till I heard that a lot of my school friends have either got married or are engaged and due to get married soon... And I thought I was still a 23 year old kid... and there's a long way to go!!!
funny world this!!!
Friday, June 06, 2008
The Last Mile Connectivity Problem
Gurgaon to IIT, South Delhi costs me Rs. 10 by the BPO Cab, IIT to IIFT (in the same area) costs me Rs. 30 by auto.
Calcutta to Tatanagar Station costs me Rs. 97 by train, Tatanagar station to XLRI costs me Rs. 80.
The Last Mile Connectivity Problem has bothered telecommunication engineers for long, but the problem has been around in other domains as well. To speak of it, Last Mile invariably becomes expensive in most of the domains.
I believe, this is primarily because upto the last mile, the resources are shared. The cab is shared by many passengers, the train is shared where as the auto is not. And hence connecting to the last mile becomes expensive.
The problem can be solved if the extent to which the shared resources are used is increased. Perhaps a shared auto from Tatanagar station to somewhere close to XLRI might help.
In the field of communications, wireless systems have come to the rescue. Laying wires to the last mile (from junction box to home) is an expensive affair, instead a wireless system placed at the junction box serves the purpose.
Wonder if such a thing could be done in other areas as well!!!
Calcutta to Tatanagar Station costs me Rs. 97 by train, Tatanagar station to XLRI costs me Rs. 80.
The Last Mile Connectivity Problem has bothered telecommunication engineers for long, but the problem has been around in other domains as well. To speak of it, Last Mile invariably becomes expensive in most of the domains.
I believe, this is primarily because upto the last mile, the resources are shared. The cab is shared by many passengers, the train is shared where as the auto is not. And hence connecting to the last mile becomes expensive.
The problem can be solved if the extent to which the shared resources are used is increased. Perhaps a shared auto from Tatanagar station to somewhere close to XLRI might help.
In the field of communications, wireless systems have come to the rescue. Laying wires to the last mile (from junction box to home) is an expensive affair, instead a wireless system placed at the junction box serves the purpose.
Wonder if such a thing could be done in other areas as well!!!
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Convocation
Procrastination is the thief of time... and I have been procrastinating big time!!
CONVOCATION.... One event we all were so very looking forward to... Not because we were getting our degrees, but because we wanted to get back to college, we wanted to stay there, be with friends, enjoy the canteen... and do all that we so very much enjoyed each day of our 4 years at DA-IICT. We were there because it was also a mini reunion of sorts.
DA-IICT has been a very special place for me. I can go on and on writing abt it. but shall leave it for a later date. The DA-IICT hangover still continues to be there.
Plans for convocation and reaching DA-IICT were being made far in advance. We kept exchanging scraps, sending mails and offliners as to when we would reach there and what plans after reaching there. It kind of gave us something we could look forward to.
17 Jan 07
Yours Truly reaches ahmedabad, takes an auto to reach DA-IICT. Was such a nice feeling, the roads, city pulse, galla, and I finally reach DA-IICT. See Shweta and DC near the lotus pond. And the atmosphere lit again. We were such an exited bunch. Shouting literally (Shweta almost crying). We drop Shweta to the girls hostel and meet Jeeta and bakar and bakar and bakar. Then I go to the EWing via canteen (where I met parag and ashin). Wow such a nice feeling.
I opened each door to in that wing to see who's staying there. Had to really knock at each door, something that I would not have done otherwise. But felt good to see those rooms, some of the memories, some of the writings still intact. Went to my room, met the current habitants. All this felt really nice.
Then put my luggage in Ravin's place and went back to canteen to HOG. Was good to see manu again. Met Mishra who has so very much embraced DA-IICT. Had some food and by then the mindtree minds and others from Bangalore arrived and now the canteen was full of US. Lots of hugs and hand shakes. Shared food, felt good.
Then yours truly took a walk with his truly. Felt so good. Oh, I just held my tears back!!! I could see the life in me coming back.
Went back to canteen, hogged again and more and more and more bakar. Go back to EWing, and more bakar with EWingers. Dozed off!!!
18th January 2007
Surprise 1: See Mr. Racket Mohan, dressed up and ready while I am just woke up. Wow!! what a change can a job get in ur life. The MOST lazy guy is up and ready by 8. Unbelieveable.
(then i come to know that it was primary fuelled by a bet he had with Nikhil, I feel relaxed)
Get ready and canteen! Meet more and more people. Meet Dj (Surprise No. 2: Unshaved), meet vasu, tanu dhadda... See a lot of juniors around and a lot of fresh and new faces (1st years). Some of them come up and greet, met some GWingers, and gawd I am loving this.
By now all the infoscions from pune arrive (had met them just 10 days back). Canteen was full of us. Met Sawhney finally, absolutely 0 change. Collected Convocation Gowns, met trevor michael... Met Chutki. You could see the excitement in each of us.
Had our lunch in Brajwasi. A thali. Then had our convo rehearsal. Prof. Amin was shouting desparately but no one was ready to listen, all of us were very busy chatting with each other. He somehow manages to control the chaos and give us some instructions for 2moro.
Then we have a dress rehearsal. Realized then that the gown was too big for me. Looked around and found all of them to be the same. Had a group photo taken. People were so exited. Lots of photos being taken all round.
We make queues and go to the ground to take our seats.
We have a dummy ceremony where the director was handing away the degrees. That was prolly the longest time for which I saw our director. All the professors also came for the ceremony, met chakka there. Some parents also seen.
Each name was called out. And we called out their petnames, wild names!!! Fun time it was. More and more pictures being taken now.
Go to city pulse to watch The Kingdom, and have dinner at sardars. Mikey calls up to say he has arrived (Surprise No. 3). Sardars was good. Met Sarkar Sir there.
More and more bakar in EWing. Fall asleep
19 Jan 2007
This time I wake up first. Canteen!! Meet mikey, speak to him for long time. Feels nice. A good bunch we were (Mikey, Jeeta and Me). Sit in CEP and wait for Mikeys gown. Bakar and bakar and bakar with Mikey.
Go to chakka sir, and all smiles he is. The same bunch!!! Felt so nice to see so many DSP books, Mikey talks and talks and talks... Tells him about the latest that he is doing. Feels so nice to be able to connect to everything. WOW!!! I want to get back to DSP now. We (incl. Chakka Sir), bakar for 2 hours and then take his leave to go to chilli coriander. Another favourite place. Good food.
Go back and rush to the convocation. Man what a feeling. Amazing.
We realign ourselves and take our seats. Wait for the professors, the chief guest and the director to take their seats. Convocation Begins.
As names are called out, each person comes to the dias and recieves his degree. We cheered for each student as his/her name was being called out. Such a nice feeling. I actually dont have words to describe the whole thing appropriately. And as my name draws closer, i join the queue to receive the degree.
At 5: 04 pm, my name is called out and I reach the dias. I almost cried out. It was so over whelming. Am awarded the degree, have a little chat with the person awarding and I bow out. God!!!
Come back to my seat.
Gold medals awarded to sandy and mikey.
We then take oath. Some speeches. High Tea!!!
Lots and lots of photos.
The sad part now begins. People start to leave so that they can join work on monday. Seeing off people, with a sad face and a promise that we shall meet soon.
Missed all of them who were not there. :)
CONVOCATION.... One event we all were so very looking forward to... Not because we were getting our degrees, but because we wanted to get back to college, we wanted to stay there, be with friends, enjoy the canteen... and do all that we so very much enjoyed each day of our 4 years at DA-IICT. We were there because it was also a mini reunion of sorts.
DA-IICT has been a very special place for me. I can go on and on writing abt it. but shall leave it for a later date. The DA-IICT hangover still continues to be there.
Plans for convocation and reaching DA-IICT were being made far in advance. We kept exchanging scraps, sending mails and offliners as to when we would reach there and what plans after reaching there. It kind of gave us something we could look forward to.
17 Jan 07
Yours Truly reaches ahmedabad, takes an auto to reach DA-IICT. Was such a nice feeling, the roads, city pulse, galla, and I finally reach DA-IICT. See Shweta and DC near the lotus pond. And the atmosphere lit again. We were such an exited bunch. Shouting literally (Shweta almost crying). We drop Shweta to the girls hostel and meet Jeeta and bakar and bakar and bakar. Then I go to the EWing via canteen (where I met parag and ashin). Wow such a nice feeling.
I opened each door to in that wing to see who's staying there. Had to really knock at each door, something that I would not have done otherwise. But felt good to see those rooms, some of the memories, some of the writings still intact. Went to my room, met the current habitants. All this felt really nice.
Then put my luggage in Ravin's place and went back to canteen to HOG. Was good to see manu again. Met Mishra who has so very much embraced DA-IICT. Had some food and by then the mindtree minds and others from Bangalore arrived and now the canteen was full of US. Lots of hugs and hand shakes. Shared food, felt good.
Then yours truly took a walk with his truly. Felt so good. Oh, I just held my tears back!!! I could see the life in me coming back.
Went back to canteen, hogged again and more and more and more bakar. Go back to EWing, and more bakar with EWingers. Dozed off!!!
18th January 2007
Surprise 1: See Mr. Racket Mohan, dressed up and ready while I am just woke up. Wow!! what a change can a job get in ur life. The MOST lazy guy is up and ready by 8. Unbelieveable.
(then i come to know that it was primary fuelled by a bet he had with Nikhil, I feel relaxed)
Get ready and canteen! Meet more and more people. Meet Dj (Surprise No. 2: Unshaved), meet vasu, tanu dhadda... See a lot of juniors around and a lot of fresh and new faces (1st years). Some of them come up and greet, met some GWingers, and gawd I am loving this.
By now all the infoscions from pune arrive (had met them just 10 days back). Canteen was full of us. Met Sawhney finally, absolutely 0 change. Collected Convocation Gowns, met trevor michael... Met Chutki. You could see the excitement in each of us.
Had our lunch in Brajwasi. A thali. Then had our convo rehearsal. Prof. Amin was shouting desparately but no one was ready to listen, all of us were very busy chatting with each other. He somehow manages to control the chaos and give us some instructions for 2moro.
Then we have a dress rehearsal. Realized then that the gown was too big for me. Looked around and found all of them to be the same. Had a group photo taken. People were so exited. Lots of photos being taken all round.
We make queues and go to the ground to take our seats.
We have a dummy ceremony where the director was handing away the degrees. That was prolly the longest time for which I saw our director. All the professors also came for the ceremony, met chakka there. Some parents also seen.
Each name was called out. And we called out their petnames, wild names!!! Fun time it was. More and more pictures being taken now.
Go to city pulse to watch The Kingdom, and have dinner at sardars. Mikey calls up to say he has arrived (Surprise No. 3). Sardars was good. Met Sarkar Sir there.
More and more bakar in EWing. Fall asleep
19 Jan 2007
This time I wake up first. Canteen!! Meet mikey, speak to him for long time. Feels nice. A good bunch we were (Mikey, Jeeta and Me). Sit in CEP and wait for Mikeys gown. Bakar and bakar and bakar with Mikey.
Go to chakka sir, and all smiles he is. The same bunch!!! Felt so nice to see so many DSP books, Mikey talks and talks and talks... Tells him about the latest that he is doing. Feels so nice to be able to connect to everything. WOW!!! I want to get back to DSP now. We (incl. Chakka Sir), bakar for 2 hours and then take his leave to go to chilli coriander. Another favourite place. Good food.
Go back and rush to the convocation. Man what a feeling. Amazing.
We realign ourselves and take our seats. Wait for the professors, the chief guest and the director to take their seats. Convocation Begins.
As names are called out, each person comes to the dias and recieves his degree. We cheered for each student as his/her name was being called out. Such a nice feeling. I actually dont have words to describe the whole thing appropriately. And as my name draws closer, i join the queue to receive the degree.
At 5: 04 pm, my name is called out and I reach the dias. I almost cried out. It was so over whelming. Am awarded the degree, have a little chat with the person awarding and I bow out. God!!!
Come back to my seat.
Gold medals awarded to sandy and mikey.
We then take oath. Some speeches. High Tea!!!
Lots and lots of photos.
The sad part now begins. People start to leave so that they can join work on monday. Seeing off people, with a sad face and a promise that we shall meet soon.
Missed all of them who were not there. :)
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Exposed!!
Was wondering how exposed, how vulnerable I am in case someone wants to track me (why they would do so is a different question altogether).
My Orkut account has details like address, telephone number, current location. It also has a lot of details like my friends, colleagues.... So anyone who has an intent to track can easily do so and can easily cause harm.
Wonder whats the way out!! Blocking content would defeat the whole purpose of orkut.
My Orkut account has details like address, telephone number, current location. It also has a lot of details like my friends, colleagues.... So anyone who has an intent to track can easily do so and can easily cause harm.
Wonder whats the way out!! Blocking content would defeat the whole purpose of orkut.
Monday, July 09, 2007
XL kaisa hai?
So how does it feel being in XL? This is one question which has increased my orkut scrap count by atleast a 50. How does it feel being in XL? And then I cook up an answer depending on what mood I am in. Its about a month since I have come to this place and I can say that I have had good fun. We were told that the life is really hectic and you get very little time, but I dont share the same opinion (or may be I have not got into the groove).
So how does it feel being in XL? How are XL ki kudiyan (read auntiyan)? How does it feel being with uncles and aunties (we have people who are called uncle and papa, and I feel lost.)? How does it feel having timings for food after experiencing Brajwasi? How does it feel responding to answers just for the heck of class participation? How do you feel staying in a hostel 60 years old after staying at a place which was given to you brand new? How does it feel to have just 10 users(max) logged on to DC++? How does it feel when there is no daddu's shop around? How does it feel when you cannot take your own book to read in the library?
Anyway the picture is not as sorry as I project it. The food is good and UNLIMITED. So its good. And they have a real good variety. So have not got bored of it as yet. Net is real fast and there are no proxies. So we get a download speed of 120Kbps too. The profs are really good and there is a LOT of student-faculty interaction. Lots of tournaments between students and profs. Lots of dinners hosted by either. Good lecture theatres. Everything (other than the hostel) is airconditioned. Library is awesome. The campus will be wifi enabled soon and believe me having a wifi connectivity makes your life so much easy. People are good, thats what matters. Everything is in control of the student. There are a lot of "Gyan" sessions by seniors and they do help.
A lot of things happen here because of what is called "XL Bonding". Ok, its 2:30 and I am very sleepy. So logging off. Have three 90 min lectures 2moro morning.
So how does it feel being in XL? How are XL ki kudiyan (read auntiyan)? How does it feel being with uncles and aunties (we have people who are called uncle and papa, and I feel lost.)? How does it feel having timings for food after experiencing Brajwasi? How does it feel responding to answers just for the heck of class participation? How do you feel staying in a hostel 60 years old after staying at a place which was given to you brand new? How does it feel to have just 10 users(max) logged on to DC++? How does it feel when there is no daddu's shop around? How does it feel when you cannot take your own book to read in the library?
Anyway the picture is not as sorry as I project it. The food is good and UNLIMITED. So its good. And they have a real good variety. So have not got bored of it as yet. Net is real fast and there are no proxies. So we get a download speed of 120Kbps too. The profs are really good and there is a LOT of student-faculty interaction. Lots of tournaments between students and profs. Lots of dinners hosted by either. Good lecture theatres. Everything (other than the hostel) is airconditioned. Library is awesome. The campus will be wifi enabled soon and believe me having a wifi connectivity makes your life so much easy. People are good, thats what matters. Everything is in control of the student. There are a lot of "Gyan" sessions by seniors and they do help.
A lot of things happen here because of what is called "XL Bonding". Ok, its 2:30 and I am very sleepy. So logging off. Have three 90 min lectures 2moro morning.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
First impressions... in pictures...
All the pics have been taken in XLRI, some from my cam and some from jeevan's.
Sorry for the shabby way things are put up... thats pretty much the condition my room is in...
Friday, June 15, 2007
XLRI... First impressions
Another chapter of my life begins. The next two years at XLRI.
XLRI is a Jesuit institute. The boys hostel here is named after its founder. The hostel was constructed way back in 1968 or so. And has not been renovated much since. So one can imagine how the hostels are, but the rooms are spacious and thats a good thing. Besides the location of my room is quite good, with most of the commonly used things nearby. So am happy abt it.
Theres a mess in the groundfloor of the hostel. This is a common mess for boys and girls, waise girls hostel is adjacent to ours. And one is allowed in the others hostel. Food is quite ok but I am sure I will get bored of it soon. So finding alternatives already. The worst part is taht the mess has timings and so if u miss that, you might as well sleep hungry.
The library is really nice, completely air conditioned and wifi enabled. We cannot borrow books for some time as we are not registered yet.
Classes started from yesterday, the schedule is quite hectic... for some days we have classes from 8:30 Am to 9:15pm. Each class is of 90 min duration, dunno how i will manage such long attention span. We have already got an assignment to do some market survey.
City markets are about 3 Km from the insti. Auto guys charge heavily but theres no other alternative. Most of my friends here are from bangalore or mumbai and so they find everything very cheap from food to beer.
Bulk of the people here have a fair amount of workex. There seem to be very few freshers around here. So seems like I am gonna have a tough time. All the best to me.
XLRI is a Jesuit institute. The boys hostel here is named after its founder. The hostel was constructed way back in 1968 or so. And has not been renovated much since. So one can imagine how the hostels are, but the rooms are spacious and thats a good thing. Besides the location of my room is quite good, with most of the commonly used things nearby. So am happy abt it.
Theres a mess in the groundfloor of the hostel. This is a common mess for boys and girls, waise girls hostel is adjacent to ours. And one is allowed in the others hostel. Food is quite ok but I am sure I will get bored of it soon. So finding alternatives already. The worst part is taht the mess has timings and so if u miss that, you might as well sleep hungry.
The library is really nice, completely air conditioned and wifi enabled. We cannot borrow books for some time as we are not registered yet.
Classes started from yesterday, the schedule is quite hectic... for some days we have classes from 8:30 Am to 9:15pm. Each class is of 90 min duration, dunno how i will manage such long attention span. We have already got an assignment to do some market survey.
City markets are about 3 Km from the insti. Auto guys charge heavily but theres no other alternative. Most of my friends here are from bangalore or mumbai and so they find everything very cheap from food to beer.
Bulk of the people here have a fair amount of workex. There seem to be very few freshers around here. So seems like I am gonna have a tough time. All the best to me.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Some Pics..
They say laughter is the best medicine. (9th Apr '07)
The E-Wingers,
thats what we call ourselves (9th Apr '07)
Mehsana Water Park (mar '07)
Mehsana Water Park (mar '07)
Hiranandani St., Mumbai. One place to be!!
(mar '07)
Monday, April 02, 2007
Lots of stuff happenening in the past one week.
Farewell
So the next big activity on campus will be our farewell. And preparations have started. Seems like its gonna be in the next week. But there have been rumours that farewell will be in the college itself. Now that will be a spoiler.
Batch Shirt
One more activity in the college is abt the batch momento. Hope we have a good nice sweat shirt
XLRI (Waitlisted)
Have been waitlisted in XLRI. Going by the past trends, I should be able to convert this. Its my first convert of the season (and I fear that it will be the only one). Now gotta decide whether to join or not. Thats a million dollar question. Lets c.
Mehsana Trip
Had an awesome time at the water park in Mehsana. Shall post the pics soon. Got back old memories (we had been to mehsana 2 yrs back). To beat the heat it is one place to be. Rs. 150 is the entry fee. And you are charged extra just in case u rent a costume. However I strongly recommend you to buy one rather than rent.
Maninagar
Had heard a lot abt the work our people are doing there. And am lucky to have got a chance to see it. It was an overwhelming experience. Good work mishra, way to go..
BTP
And after all that fun comes the work part. BTP has just started (again). We are trying to implement stuff and have got some breakthroughs. Hope we finish it all on time.
Farewell
So the next big activity on campus will be our farewell. And preparations have started. Seems like its gonna be in the next week. But there have been rumours that farewell will be in the college itself. Now that will be a spoiler.
Batch Shirt
One more activity in the college is abt the batch momento. Hope we have a good nice sweat shirt
XLRI (Waitlisted)
Have been waitlisted in XLRI. Going by the past trends, I should be able to convert this. Its my first convert of the season (and I fear that it will be the only one). Now gotta decide whether to join or not. Thats a million dollar question. Lets c.
Mehsana Trip
Had an awesome time at the water park in Mehsana. Shall post the pics soon. Got back old memories (we had been to mehsana 2 yrs back). To beat the heat it is one place to be. Rs. 150 is the entry fee. And you are charged extra just in case u rent a costume. However I strongly recommend you to buy one rather than rent.
Maninagar
Had heard a lot abt the work our people are doing there. And am lucky to have got a chance to see it. It was an overwhelming experience. Good work mishra, way to go..
BTP
And after all that fun comes the work part. BTP has just started (again). We are trying to implement stuff and have got some breakthroughs. Hope we finish it all on time.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
coaching instis
Never knew my blog was so famous.... got three, yes three requests for a new post!!! well for a writer of my calibre this is something like winning the oscars.
With all my interviews done, there is something I think I have to look back upon. No doubt this season has been a bad one for me as far as interviews are concerned... I have my own set of reasons but lets not get into that.
The more I learn about the coaching centres and their working, the more I get repelled from it. The main reason why I hate them is that the coaching centres which prepare you for these enterances to MBA colleges teach you how to fake. To begin with they give you fake APTITUDE. Well cat is an exam to test your aptitude. Now what these coaching centres do is that instead of teaching you how to approach a problem, how the problem works, and how can a solution be derived, they teach you the solution and just that. They bombard you with a thousand problems (plagiarism zindabad!!) and ask you to solve them. And hope that you get a similar problem in CAT or any such enterance. This is what I call faking APTITUDE.
I am not saying that I did not practice these problems, I am not saying that I have not faked, but the very feeling to sit in a coaching class trying to master that art is disgusting. I feel it disgusting because I have studied from the very best when I was preparing for IIT JEEs, the Ramaiah Coaching Centre. They unlike the coaching institutes were problem setters and did not plagiarise. They taught the very basics (I still remember learning the proof of 1 + 0 = 1 altho it would never be required in IITJEE) and then how to make the problems, coz when u know how to make it, you know how to solve it. This unfortunately is not the case with these MBA coaching institutes.
Well another place they ask you to fake is in the GD/PI process. I am against this also. People on the other side of the table in an interview are among the best in the country. They know what kind of a student they need. Its something like faking about the symptoms to a doctor, you would never get a desired treatment. I had decided that I will not lie come what may... even if I seem rude. If they cannot accept me the way I am, they are at a loss.
With all my interviews done, there is something I think I have to look back upon. No doubt this season has been a bad one for me as far as interviews are concerned... I have my own set of reasons but lets not get into that.
The more I learn about the coaching centres and their working, the more I get repelled from it. The main reason why I hate them is that the coaching centres which prepare you for these enterances to MBA colleges teach you how to fake. To begin with they give you fake APTITUDE. Well cat is an exam to test your aptitude. Now what these coaching centres do is that instead of teaching you how to approach a problem, how the problem works, and how can a solution be derived, they teach you the solution and just that. They bombard you with a thousand problems (plagiarism zindabad!!) and ask you to solve them. And hope that you get a similar problem in CAT or any such enterance. This is what I call faking APTITUDE.
I am not saying that I did not practice these problems, I am not saying that I have not faked, but the very feeling to sit in a coaching class trying to master that art is disgusting. I feel it disgusting because I have studied from the very best when I was preparing for IIT JEEs, the Ramaiah Coaching Centre. They unlike the coaching institutes were problem setters and did not plagiarise. They taught the very basics (I still remember learning the proof of 1 + 0 = 1 altho it would never be required in IITJEE) and then how to make the problems, coz when u know how to make it, you know how to solve it. This unfortunately is not the case with these MBA coaching institutes.
Well another place they ask you to fake is in the GD/PI process. I am against this also. People on the other side of the table in an interview are among the best in the country. They know what kind of a student they need. Its something like faking about the symptoms to a doctor, you would never get a desired treatment. I had decided that I will not lie come what may... even if I seem rude. If they cannot accept me the way I am, they are at a loss.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
XLRI Interview
Had my BM interview yesterday in mumbai
fresher, BTech in ICT, good percentiles, good acads, decent extracurriculars.
panel:Prof. Rajeev Sharma(L), Prof. Supriya Kumar De(C) and Prof. J.Singh(R)
R: So Siddharth, are u from Gujarat?
Me: Yes sir
R: Has Parzania released in Gujarat, did u get a chance to watch it?
Me: It has not released in Gujarat, it is being shown to the MPs here. I did not get a chance to watch it.
R: How do u rate ur performance in college.
Me: Good, Gave some statistics.
R: Whats ICT?
Me: Told
R: Why is it easy to eavesdrop in mobile phones.
Me: Gave the reason, told that CDMA has better security.
R: why is CDMA not popular then?
Me: told
R: why MBA?(in some other language and words)
Me: Told. Told abt entreprenuership and all.
R: In which area?
Me: DSP. Also told him why I wanted to be an entreprenuer.
R: Do you think govt must give tax holidays to entreprenuers
Me: Agreed and gave reasons
All this while [C] was going thru my file.
C: You have got all A's and B's, why have you got 2 D's.
Me: Gave him the reasons for that
R: But you will have such courses in MBA too..
Me: told him that I had improved then, in fact the last two courses I had got an A. In this I mentioned that I had taken a course on Satyajit Ray
C: Compare Ray and Ritwik Ghatak
Me: Sir, I donot know any movies of Ritwik Ghatak.
C: How do u see Ray as an artist?
Me: Told
C: Which Ray movies have you seen
Me: Told
C: What do you interpret from Aparajito and Apur Sansar
Me: Told
C: tell me what is Linear Dependence and Linear Independence of signals
Me: told, mentioned abt basis vectors
C: What are basis vectors and what are its properties
Me: Told
C: Asked for an example to explain the same.
Me: Gave an example to show linear dependency.
C: Give a practical example, where it can be used.
Me: Gave another example in which I used the word variables
Another few questions on variables.
L: Question on probability
Me: Am not really sure if he was convinced with my answer.
L: Something abt entreprenuership
Me: Gave an answer
L: What is your ultimate aim, beyond all this
Me: Told.
L: You may leave now.
fresher, BTech in ICT, good percentiles, good acads, decent extracurriculars.
panel:Prof. Rajeev Sharma(L), Prof. Supriya Kumar De(C) and Prof. J.Singh(R)
R: So Siddharth, are u from Gujarat?
Me: Yes sir
R: Has Parzania released in Gujarat, did u get a chance to watch it?
Me: It has not released in Gujarat, it is being shown to the MPs here. I did not get a chance to watch it.
R: How do u rate ur performance in college.
Me: Good, Gave some statistics.
R: Whats ICT?
Me: Told
R: Why is it easy to eavesdrop in mobile phones.
Me: Gave the reason, told that CDMA has better security.
R: why is CDMA not popular then?
Me: told
R: why MBA?(in some other language and words)
Me: Told. Told abt entreprenuership and all.
R: In which area?
Me: DSP. Also told him why I wanted to be an entreprenuer.
R: Do you think govt must give tax holidays to entreprenuers
Me: Agreed and gave reasons
All this while [C] was going thru my file.
C: You have got all A's and B's, why have you got 2 D's.
Me: Gave him the reasons for that
R: But you will have such courses in MBA too..
Me: told him that I had improved then, in fact the last two courses I had got an A. In this I mentioned that I had taken a course on Satyajit Ray
C: Compare Ray and Ritwik Ghatak
Me: Sir, I donot know any movies of Ritwik Ghatak.
C: How do u see Ray as an artist?
Me: Told
C: Which Ray movies have you seen
Me: Told
C: What do you interpret from Aparajito and Apur Sansar
Me: Told
C: tell me what is Linear Dependence and Linear Independence of signals
Me: told, mentioned abt basis vectors
C: What are basis vectors and what are its properties
Me: Told
C: Asked for an example to explain the same.
Me: Gave an example to show linear dependency.
C: Give a practical example, where it can be used.
Me: Gave another example in which I used the word variables
Another few questions on variables.
L: Question on probability
Me: Am not really sure if he was convinced with my answer.
L: Something abt entreprenuership
Me: Gave an answer
L: What is your ultimate aim, beyond all this
Me: Told.
L: You may leave now.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
21st Feb
First trip to delhi alone. This time unlike the mumbai train, this train stopped only at 7 stations and most of them at night. So you wont find too many peddlers/beggars/free ride passengers in the train.
Also most of ur co-passengers are hindi speaking people. This is also for the first time.
Stood in a long queue to get a return ticket cancelled only to realise that I was in the wrong queue. The good thing was that the room was air conditioned which was quite a relied from the hot amdavadi sun.
I was hungry since the only thing I had for the day was the lunch at 12. The dinner served was good. In fact excellent. It was hot, tasty and adequate. This was for the first time I had such good food in train. It was expensive tho.
Went off to sleep for 9hrs straight. Longest I have slept for some time now. Felt good.
Got down the train, got the ticket canceled and took a bus going to Mehrauli. Thats somewhere near IIT.
I dont know if I am right but people in delhi seem more colorful than those in bombay. U find most of them in bright clothes. May be its the complexion, may be its the weather, may be its that time of the day but I felt so.
Took an auto to IIT campus.
Entered another IIT campus, A place where I could have belonged to. A place where I thot I deserved to belong. I could have been one of those students carrying their bags walking and talking about string theory and thermodynamics and what not. Somehow felt sad for a moment. Felt bad.
Anyways, got down at the Nilgiri hostel. The hostel naming system is worthy of note. All hostels are named on the mountains, Nilgiri, karakoram, kumaon, aravali... and the hostel lobbies are named after rivers probably originating or passing through those mountains.
There are some good things abt the hostel, each hostel has a common room where u can watch tv or read newspapers and magazines. Each hostel has an std booth and a xerox shop. Each hostel has a tt table. there is a public address system for mail collection. And each hostel has a guard.
Was allotted a room. A two-bed-room. 'twas small. It had a bed, a computer table and a cup board and almost no place to walk. As soon as u get out of the bed, u are out of the room.
Food was good, satisfying but yes in the long run(which could be as short as a week), one would get bored of the food.
Slept for some time. And then moved out of campus. Saw people smoking in campus, you would rarely find one at DA-IICT. Surfed net. Had chat with people, am happy :)
U get special food on thursdays, just like we have monday morning brajwasi's. There was unlimited maggi, pure ketchup, cutlet and bread and pastry. Had another stomachful dinner.
walked along the streets for almost 2 hrs with my roomie(JMET 2nd ranker). Walked till we were dead tired. Then went back and slept.
Vishwakarma Bhavan, My centre for GD/PI 2moro.
Also most of ur co-passengers are hindi speaking people. This is also for the first time.
Stood in a long queue to get a return ticket cancelled only to realise that I was in the wrong queue. The good thing was that the room was air conditioned which was quite a relied from the hot amdavadi sun.
I was hungry since the only thing I had for the day was the lunch at 12. The dinner served was good. In fact excellent. It was hot, tasty and adequate. This was for the first time I had such good food in train. It was expensive tho.
Went off to sleep for 9hrs straight. Longest I have slept for some time now. Felt good.
Got down the train, got the ticket canceled and took a bus going to Mehrauli. Thats somewhere near IIT.
I dont know if I am right but people in delhi seem more colorful than those in bombay. U find most of them in bright clothes. May be its the complexion, may be its the weather, may be its that time of the day but I felt so.
Took an auto to IIT campus.
Entered another IIT campus, A place where I could have belonged to. A place where I thot I deserved to belong. I could have been one of those students carrying their bags walking and talking about string theory and thermodynamics and what not. Somehow felt sad for a moment. Felt bad.
Anyways, got down at the Nilgiri hostel. The hostel naming system is worthy of note. All hostels are named on the mountains, Nilgiri, karakoram, kumaon, aravali... and the hostel lobbies are named after rivers probably originating or passing through those mountains.
There are some good things abt the hostel, each hostel has a common room where u can watch tv or read newspapers and magazines. Each hostel has an std booth and a xerox shop. Each hostel has a tt table. there is a public address system for mail collection. And each hostel has a guard.
Was allotted a room. A two-bed-room. 'twas small. It had a bed, a computer table and a cup board and almost no place to walk. As soon as u get out of the bed, u are out of the room.
Food was good, satisfying but yes in the long run(which could be as short as a week), one would get bored of the food.
Slept for some time. And then moved out of campus. Saw people smoking in campus, you would rarely find one at DA-IICT. Surfed net. Had chat with people, am happy :)
U get special food on thursdays, just like we have monday morning brajwasi's. There was unlimited maggi, pure ketchup, cutlet and bread and pastry. Had another stomachful dinner.
walked along the streets for almost 2 hrs with my roomie(JMET 2nd ranker). Walked till we were dead tired. Then went back and slept.Vishwakarma Bhavan, My centre for GD/PI 2moro.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
11 Feb
Some things are funny.
One prepares for an exam, studies hard, puts in a lot of time and effort to understand, probably the biggest investment in terms of money and time. And fails. Fails so bad that one does not even realise that he's gonna fail.
And the same person writes other exams with zilch preparation and gets thru not one but all of them. Ya, I got thru FMS also. One more exam with '0' preparation.
And then one wonders what really went wrong, how did this happen. Its frustrating to say the least. Its not like my IIT exam where I did not know what I was doing and that I was doing just because everyone was doing. Here every decision I took, I took it consciously. So what it means is that I was wrong in judging something. And what frustrates you more is that you have no idea of what went wrong.
But then why am I not satisfied with what I got? to simply put it, its because I did not prepare for it.
I see myself and I see my roomie, that guy studied hard and planned for every mark. The kind of preparation he had done was amazing. I got thru the same with near zilch preparation. And so I will never be able to relish the sweet success as there was no hard work, no planning involved. Its just that I also got thru.
And the funniest part is.... My CAT percentile is 70.31 and my XAT percentile is 97.93... Now if these exams were a test of standard english language. How do you explain this? I am sure luck has not played a role in either....
One prepares for an exam, studies hard, puts in a lot of time and effort to understand, probably the biggest investment in terms of money and time. And fails. Fails so bad that one does not even realise that he's gonna fail.
And the same person writes other exams with zilch preparation and gets thru not one but all of them. Ya, I got thru FMS also. One more exam with '0' preparation.
And then one wonders what really went wrong, how did this happen. Its frustrating to say the least. Its not like my IIT exam where I did not know what I was doing and that I was doing just because everyone was doing. Here every decision I took, I took it consciously. So what it means is that I was wrong in judging something. And what frustrates you more is that you have no idea of what went wrong.
But then why am I not satisfied with what I got? to simply put it, its because I did not prepare for it.
I see myself and I see my roomie, that guy studied hard and planned for every mark. The kind of preparation he had done was amazing. I got thru the same with near zilch preparation. And so I will never be able to relish the sweet success as there was no hard work, no planning involved. Its just that I also got thru.
And the funniest part is.... My CAT percentile is 70.31 and my XAT percentile is 97.93... Now if these exams were a test of standard english language. How do you explain this? I am sure luck has not played a role in either....
Friday, February 09, 2007
Another day wasted.
Have a lot of work listed in my to - do list of my Google Desktop. But just dont feel like working. This sem has made me very lazy. There's no time table. Discipline has gone to dogs. There's nothing you are looking forward to.
As one of my friends said "This sem is like unemployment".
As one of my friends said "This sem is like unemployment".
Saturday, February 03, 2007
SIBM GD/PI
So then first interview of the season? How will it be? what will they ask? Whatever happens I hope I don't loose confidence...
Took a lift to baner phatak(pune) and then an auto to SIBM. People in pune give lifts readily... It saves a lot of money.
A not so impressive building but a huge huge logo. Parents and candidates waiting outside. I entered the building. Was asked for my call letter. And was directed to first floor.
One small room where people were arranged in groups. I met m group members here. We had to write an essay on "Ethics of Profit Making". Had done a mock GD on similar lines. So did not have much trouble in writing the essay. Then we had some time before group task and group discussion. All the team members sat in a circle introducing ourselves... The coordinator did a good job in putting the group in sync.
We introduced ourselves. There were two of them who got 5 IIM calls and for whom this was like a mock process (one of them had the same percentile as mine, 99.73) . There was one with English Honors and 2 years work ex. Some with a workex of over 3 years. Some with infy. A classical dancer, a drummer from delhi. I guess there were only two freshers including me.
Then we were directed to a room to perform a group task. Each one of us was blindfolded and randomly placed in the room and we had to form a square using a rope. We were given 7 minutes. And we could not form a square. We came no where close to it. So a bad start.
Then we played another game and I fared bad in that as well.
Next we had breakfast for ourselves. Cheese sandwich and chips.. Had two courses. Felt good. We bakared with our coordinator for some time. And then we went for the GD.
It was a case study, a dilemma situation. One had to choose between ethics and job.
I was in a bad position there. With 4 members in the same line as mine, I could not see them well. And the moderator right in front of me.
Spoke a good point. It was discussed for some time. Tried to speak in between for a couple of times but was stopped. It was decent overall.
We came back to the room and had to wait there for the PI's. My number was 8th.
Three interviewers I1(who did all the talking) , I2 (who never spoke, probably just observed), I3(came in late, only sat for some time).
I: May I come in?
I1yes
I: Good Morning Sir.
I1: So Siddharth (looking at my forms etc..) born in Raipur and Hyderabad??
I: Explained him my story... Raipur -> Hyderabad and all that.
I1: Is your father in Railways?
I: No Sir, explained him where he is..
I1: You have good marks, why do u want to do an MBA...
I: Some gyan..
I1: Why not MTech?
I: Not interested in research.
I1: Why not MSc?
I: (Frankly did not know the difference between the two) Sir after my btech what I understand is that I like to work with end products and I am not interested in research.
I1: But there are a lot of institutes in Gandhinagar..
I: Gave some gyan. Told him that I was not interested in Advertising and so not MICA.
I1: What was your snap score?
I: Blah
I1: Did you write any exams?
I: Yes sir, CAT and XAT. Got a good percentile in cat but could not clear cutoffs. Shortlisted in XAT.
I1: Looking at my photograph in the form. This does not seem like you.
I: Sir that is because of laziness.. I did not shave for long time.
and some more blah on that.
Then I left.
A very short one, very general. No acads, no achievements... Dont know what will they judge me on.
Came back, started chatting with group members again. Went back home. Thot of taking a lift, but was very exhausted.
Took a lift to baner phatak(pune) and then an auto to SIBM. People in pune give lifts readily... It saves a lot of money.
A not so impressive building but a huge huge logo. Parents and candidates waiting outside. I entered the building. Was asked for my call letter. And was directed to first floor.
One small room where people were arranged in groups. I met m group members here. We had to write an essay on "Ethics of Profit Making". Had done a mock GD on similar lines. So did not have much trouble in writing the essay. Then we had some time before group task and group discussion. All the team members sat in a circle introducing ourselves... The coordinator did a good job in putting the group in sync.
We introduced ourselves. There were two of them who got 5 IIM calls and for whom this was like a mock process (one of them had the same percentile as mine, 99.73) . There was one with English Honors and 2 years work ex. Some with a workex of over 3 years. Some with infy. A classical dancer, a drummer from delhi. I guess there were only two freshers including me.
Then we were directed to a room to perform a group task. Each one of us was blindfolded and randomly placed in the room and we had to form a square using a rope. We were given 7 minutes. And we could not form a square. We came no where close to it. So a bad start.
Then we played another game and I fared bad in that as well.
Next we had breakfast for ourselves. Cheese sandwich and chips.. Had two courses. Felt good. We bakared with our coordinator for some time. And then we went for the GD.
It was a case study, a dilemma situation. One had to choose between ethics and job.
I was in a bad position there. With 4 members in the same line as mine, I could not see them well. And the moderator right in front of me.
Spoke a good point. It was discussed for some time. Tried to speak in between for a couple of times but was stopped. It was decent overall.
We came back to the room and had to wait there for the PI's. My number was 8th.
Three interviewers I1(who did all the talking) , I2 (who never spoke, probably just observed), I3(came in late, only sat for some time).
I: May I come in?
I1yes
I: Good Morning Sir.
I1: So Siddharth (looking at my forms etc..) born in Raipur and Hyderabad??
I: Explained him my story... Raipur -> Hyderabad and all that.
I1: Is your father in Railways?
I: No Sir, explained him where he is..
I1: You have good marks, why do u want to do an MBA...
I: Some gyan..
I1: Why not MTech?
I: Not interested in research.
I1: Why not MSc?
I: (Frankly did not know the difference between the two) Sir after my btech what I understand is that I like to work with end products and I am not interested in research.
I1: But there are a lot of institutes in Gandhinagar..
I: Gave some gyan. Told him that I was not interested in Advertising and so not MICA.
I1: What was your snap score?
I: Blah
I1: Did you write any exams?
I: Yes sir, CAT and XAT. Got a good percentile in cat but could not clear cutoffs. Shortlisted in XAT.
I1: Looking at my photograph in the form. This does not seem like you.
I: Sir that is because of laziness.. I did not shave for long time.
and some more blah on that.
Then I left.
A very short one, very general. No acads, no achievements... Dont know what will they judge me on.
Came back, started chatting with group members again. Went back home. Thot of taking a lift, but was very exhausted.
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