3rd one of the season

The third one of the season.... Being the superstitious and optimistic person I am I believe in numerology... Superstitious coz i want my lucky numbers to be my panel numbers... Coz i am optimistic, almost every digit turns out to be my lucky number...

1,5 - coz i have read somewhere that its my sun sign's lucky numbers
3,6,9- multiples of 3 are lucky for most people
2- its my roll number at college... so far it has been lucky for me by God's grace
4- my personal lucky number.... thats my birth date (sept 4), my dads birth date, my parent's wedding anniversary date and my dad considers it lucky to the extent that every car we buy will have the digits adding to 4...
The others are ok ... I used to consider 8 as my unlucky number but then my mother reminded me that its her birth date and its my birth date *2 (yea, my mother has her unique way of convincing people)... Neverthless now 7 and 8 are my neutral numbers :D

At IISc i was 2 nd person in the 4th panel and at IIT-Kgp interview i was 2nd person in the C panel ... ok i do look into such small stuffs... anyone reading it may think i have completely lost it.... But no.. i am still sane...

So back to IIT-Kgp gd/pi at iisc bangalore... on march 14th. Reporting time : 7.30 am...

I skipped my breakfast as the long walk to the restaurant took up our time and we had to run back to make it to the department of management studies, iisc at 7.30 am. I get there to find that more than 30 people in suits standing outside. I found 3 other girls there, all in suit. I asked someone who said that there was iisc interview also going on... So it will not be in that building..

We all waited till 8.15 am. There was no clue of any volunteers frm kharagpur. One guy called iit kharagpur... They told him to move to gate no. 2 where there was an sbi atm.. So we all, perfectly dressed, walked to this place... When we reached there still no clue of anyone from iit kgp... The security shooed us from the entrance as some people were filing the campus. So we were all standing on the road side, most of us sitting on the pavement side in full suits ( it was a wonderful sight). It was 8.30 am and then we again called iit kgp... they said to go to choksy hall ( yea, that was the name of the hall... i mentioned it here coz then i found it absolutely funny... A place very serious... trust me the atmosphere at iisc is very serious..... having such a name for their hall) .... This hall was a walk for almost 10 min... But we had to walk thru a path which had climbers all over the shade .. i felt like naming it hanging gardens of IISc...

So we finally reach this choksy hall... I didnt even have breakfast and most of us were in the same condition... Then the co-ordinators of iit kgp took another 5 min to get the hall opened...
We all went inside and sat down...

The next thing what happened is the funniest of all.... My mother was with me... We walk almost half of the whole campus without food and most of us had our stomachs growling.... My mother was really bothered with me skipping breakfast and going to attend this process.... The process once it starts can go upto noon... And we cant have a break once it starts... She teamed with another candidate and went to the director who was present there. They told the director that most of us are there without having food and the co-ordinators have delayed us so much... The director came and announced that we all can have breakfast and come in 15 min...

So i got in after having food for the presentation. The presentation started at 9.15 am. But after that everything went on very smoothly. The presentation was pretty impressive.

Then they put the list of the panels... Mine was at instrumentation dept... That was another walk from the hall.... By now i knew the whole campus and was practically leading the others too...

GD:
It was a business case study. The strength of the group was 12 of which 2 were absent in mine. I was the only girl in my panel. About a loss making company which had to cut down the employees’ benefits. Everyone was given around 10 min to think. After that everyone had to speak their points for 1 minute separately. After that it was open discussion for 10 min. Even though there was a fight for the air time in the beginning, towards the end there was not much left to speak as the case was very much restricted.

Over all it was good... 2 of the candidates were helping the others by not speaking at all.... I understood by then that i love case studies...

PI: My panel had a prof and a madam. The same panel was there for the gd as well.

The questions asked were:
Introduce yourself
Explain the main project
There were some basic questions asked about the main project.
Why do you want to pursue management right after engineering?
What are the problems faced by the women managers?
Who is your role model?
Which all colleges have you got call from?
They asked me why I prefer to go north and not IIT-M
Then there was a brief discussion on my extra curricular activities.

The whole interview lasted for 15 to 20 min. The panel was very friendly so i didnt have much stress or anything.
After that we roamed around the campus and returned... I wasnt able to spot any mallus for this process