Inevitable transition!

Phew! Inevitable transition it is. Life goes on at such a fast pace and I end up noticing that only after a good half of it has gone by. And by that time it will be too late. Live life to the fullest every moment, enjoying every detail of what ever you do. Personally, I do like to go back and change here and there. But on the whole I am thankful to Almighty for where I am now.

The last 1 year of my life had taught me so many things that I had never learned till then in my entire life. The most precious part is the friends I managed to get. The different kinds of people I got to meet.

It has been almost 1 and a half months since my semester exams are over and I didn’t get time to write what I wanted till now. Now to rewind, I became an engineer, officially on Friday, the 13^th of June, 2008. I was pretty ecstatic about finally being a graduate.

Thank God for keeping me so engaged. I got a new part time job for two months as faculty at TIME. When I started teaching my respect for my teachers grew more than ever. I like the new role of a teacher. There are times when the class room is filled with half interested students (no offense meant to any of my students). I also get to interact with some of the energy bundles of my city. One thing is for sure, being a good teacher also means being young forever. The way the eyes look at you eager to learn is something which makes us feel so good about.

So apart from all that, I thought I should write something about my experiences of cat preparations. It all starts in a much disciplined manner. Every other student (around 40 in a class and 10 such batches in your city) poses as a serious threat to you if you are seriously preparing. During the course of time, I found lots of interesting groups.

One group who were not bothered at all about CAT and the other exams. I wonder why they come for classes. But they are the group that pumps in the money to the coaching institutes. A majority of them end up not even taking CAT.

Then there is another group, they start off. Very deceptive! Once the first company comes to campus to recruit them, they disappear.

Then I have come across people who have been preparing so hard for this particular exam, which is the mother of all exams, for over 4 years but each time they lose out because of a 0.5 percentile short in 1 of the 3 sections. They are the unfortunate of all.

From all these what I have understood is that to crack cat, you need to put in tremendous amount of hard work and a bit of luck. Yea, there is the saying, “the harder you work, and the luckier you seem to be”. But I have also seen many cases where this has been quite contrary. So what I will suggest to all mba aspirants is to get the list of probable B schools, of course starting with IIM A and most important is to set a time limit (the time by which you will get into the B school)

Now after college, I am off to another college. Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi is one place that I am sure will be a jam packed experience. Lets wait and see.

All is well that ends well!

“You have the power to act, only act. You do not have the power to influence the results. Therefore you must act without the anticipation of the result without succumbing to inaction.”

This is a quote from Bhagvad Gita.. And true it is… However qualified we are or what ever profile we have there are moments of distress and doubt we go thru. The perfect example of such a situation is when we are sitting in front of the computer having typed our roll number and waiting for the result page. I feel helpless and we definitely don’t have the power to influence the result…

Now, Indian Institute of Science spared me from that anguish. When I landed from Delhi and was identifying the baggage, I got a call from my dad saying that I got through IISc, Bangalore. They had sent it via post to my house. It was a wonderful feeling…. to know that you are not a complete failure… 1 down … 4 more to go. I was thankful to God… More than happiness, it was relief.

I had been through the same state at 7pm, April 7, 2008. SJMSOM published their results. I did not get through… That was the only place where I really hoped with all my heart to get in. I didn’t. But in the last 6 months, I got to understand me, what I really wanted and that I can handle failures… Or rather, God always gives me strength to handle myself in such conditions… The results coming out definitely began on a sad note. I was disappointed or should I be? What should I expect when some one with all India rank 18 did not make it or my friend with a rank less than 200, 2 yrs work ex and impeccable academics records didn’t make it? But then I got to know that they took a meager number of freshers and I was the last rank to be called.

So on April 7, 2008 my best friend sits in front of the computer for 2 and a half more hours to bring me some good news… VGSOM, IIT-Kharagpur published the results by 9.30 pm… I got through. I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t feeling anything. What use? I will not be going to some corner of West Bengal.

Then on April 9^th IIT-Madras came out with the results. I made it! I was pleased. Any convert feels good. Then the wait started for IIT-Delhi.

Everyone unanimously agrees that IIT-Bombay and Delhi are indisputably the first 2 of the IITs for the MBA. But I have seen all the presentations and I think VGSOM is also doing a good job with IISc following closely.

My parents were not keen at all on me going to Kharagpur. The results were supposed to be out on April 11^th. I was preparing myself as if I am going to some unknown land. I used to ask about Kharagpur to anyone has been at least 500km near that place. People tell me all horrifying things about that place. East India is one place I have never been to in my life. My friends started teasing me about me speaking Bengali. Someone who had been there few weeks back said that the place is atrocious with the refugees from Bangladesh coming in. I was devastated. 1 year of slogging to end up in such a location! But I am choosing it over Bangalore. I am making the choice. Hiding my apprehension I was trying to look at the positive sides of the place… That’s the place that offers 6 months of internship. So, I won’t have to be at Kharagpur for 6 long months. My best friend tries to cheer me saying, ‘Think of the brighter side. If you travel a few distance from Kharagpur you can be a foreigner at Bangladesh.’ Yes, my best friend doesn’t leave any stone unturned to cheer me up!

I had my worst experience at Delhi. Now I just wanted to convert it so badly. So badly that I don’t have words to express the urge I had. The fear I had about converting DMS wasn’t the fear that I am inferior. But I had seen the competition. Only those who wanted it attended it, since it was the last interview of the season. Everyone there were like me. Only the first 400 candidates who made it were called and I stand there with a meager rank of 345.

So came April 11^th, 11.00pm. The results of DMS, IIT-Delhi came out. I was dreading this moment. I typed my number myself, because I wanted to see it myself for the first time. I have never been the one who sees my results…either my friend or my mother does it for me. So there I sat waiting for the page to come and it seemed like hours. I just read “selected” and I just screamed! That was my initial reaction. I never get over excited when I see my good results but I couldn’t help it. The first person I told this to was God… Big thanks! I got through the main MBA programme at DMS, IIT-Delhi and I will be joining if He permits.

The capital

I couldn’t think anything better than this for the title because that’s the first word that comes to my mind when I think of Delhi. So here goes my experience from March 27^th to March 31^st at IIT, Delhi.

It couldn’t have been worse... In just a sentence that was the experience. But that is very relative... Compared to what I had gone thru, my gd/pi at IIT-D was the one where I had a hard time not only during the process but also the stay. I will start off with the flight that was scheduled to depart at 16.30 and was half an hour late... We landed at Delhi right on time. The car that was arranged took me and my mother to IIT. This was the only place where no one I knew had gone before.. The stay was at the ground floor of a prof’s residence... The place had been cleaned up for us and so had its own inconvenience... I won’t talk about something unimportant like that coz I am thankful that I got an accommodation inside the campus itself. We reached there by 10 pm on 27^th.

The next day we woke up. By 10 am we were feeling so bored sitting inside that we thought we will just have a look around the campus. As soon as we stepped out we realised our folly. The sun began to burn our skin... It was piercing deep into my body... With the map I tried to get to Department of Management Studies (DMS). We walked for about 25 minutes asking for direction every minute. We even crossed a small bridge on our way and ended in front of DMS. It was in front of the JNU gate of IIT, Delhi. The building was remarkable... It was huge... maybe I underestimated it. After talking to a senior, we walked back to have lunch. The whole day, I was idling in the room... I also met a few friends who had come over from Kerala for the gd/pi process. The guys were complaining that their accommodation was poor. Each one had a single room at the new hostel at IIT-B and the facility here was opposite to that. They were literally shut in a basement where many mattresses were scattered on the floor. At night, I went to the girls’ hostel and found that only 3 girls were there for the next day’s process. The seniors were very warm and I also met a mallu in 1^st year.

On 29th morning, we had breakfast and came back before the sun came out too hot... We had realised our folly only after seeing the sun burnt faces of ours that no one go outdoors in the summer there. My spirit was a bit dampened seeing my face black washed. We had our lunch and walked for 10 minutes to catch a cycle rickshaw. It was a 15 min ride to DMS. We had to register and the document verification was done then itself. It was 1.45 pm and I was thinking I had just 15 min for it to start... The whole process was supposed to finish off in 2 hrs.

Different people have different ways to relieve tension... If one sees me biting the nails then one can be sure that I am tensed to the core... I know it’s a very bad habit but then it’s how I fight tension. Another moron like action I do is skipping food... I won’t eat anything before my interviews. Not only for the present interview season, but this has started right from the first one I attended for my job, 1 yr back. So there I am sitting in the seminar hall, waiting for the presentation to start with a half-full (quarter to be exact) stomach. The volunteers came forward and asked a few of us sitting in front whether we were the 2pm batch... Of course, I thought, it was 5 minutes to 2 and will the 1 pm batch be sitting there... To my surprise, one of them asked the candidates in the 1 pm slot to come out. They were just going for the gd!!

The presentation lasted for 15 min. It was pretty impressive. After the long wait (the senior allotted to our group was trying his best to make us at home) we were called for the gd. I was in panel D and I was the 4^th person. Only 7 in my panel were present... Thanks to all other B schools except IITs and IIMs coming out with the calls. The panel comprised of 4 gentlemen and a lady. They were looking very tired. One of the panelist wished us... we all wished him back. Then he mocked back saying won’t you wish the madam?

Now the fun starts... One of them said that since we were the last group of the day, we get the privilege to decide the topics... Now, the panels before us had all sorts of topics like ... ‘To decide not to decide’, ‘Left, right, 123’ etc. So the group (not me) was happy to decide the topic... A self appointed leader said a few sentences and said we should discuss on “whether gd/pi process is essential for b school admission”... I had enough of it.... I felt it was like piercing ourselves with a sword... If someone had walked out of the room I would have followed. I couldn’t believe my ears when the same person said “I don’t think we need time to think about that, we can start”. But we were told that we should think for 5 min. I couldn’t mess up this one and so I said that we should be given some time before starting to discuss. So everyone agreed. Then the panel said, ‘we were just having fun... we had the topic ready... So your topic is Reservations- good or bad’. It fell like a bombshell on me... Of all the topics, this one??

I knew that I was at a disadvantage as anyone prepared will have the same topics to talk about and hence there wasn’t much fruitful discussion. So it went on to be the most ordinary discussion ever with 2 people dominating. I couldn’t put up a good show coz of the situation that it was. It came out to be the worst gd that I had to go thru this season.

It was over by 4.30 pm and I was having a severe migraine by then. The weather was also very unfavourable. I met 2 mallu seniors. They were telling me that this was “pleasant climate” and that the summer is yet to come. 36.7 degree and pleasant climate???

I was called for my interview by about 6.15 pm. By then, I have had enough of Delhi. I was so tired and my head was breaking... I went in and thanked all Gods that it wasn’t the same panel as gd. It was supposed to be a friendly panel that I was in.

There was a lady and 2 gentlemen. One (the industry person) was going through my mark sheets.

The questions asked were:

Tell us something about yourself.

Why MBA?

What is the foreign exchange rate of dollar, pound and euro?

What is the effect of appreciating rupee on import and export?

Since I had written my interest as HR in my SOP, the industry person asked how I can be successful.

He was trying to state that HR managers are failures and now that everyone gets guides to study what will come to them for the HR interviews, its nothing innovative and that anyone can get thru an HR manager fooling them.

I was also asked about my preference and the other calls I got.

The whole process lasted for 15-20 minutes. It was 7 pm when I reached back the room. We went to a friend’s place and the flight back was only on 31^st. I call this the experience of the season. After the sun burn and black wash, I have severe migraine. The next day I was down with food poisoning, vomiting even the water I drank. I reached Cochin, only God knows how, the next day.

There ends my season this year... Waiting for april 7^th that will bring me good news (fingers crossed). On the whole it was a fantastic experience, something that I had never experienced. 5 interviews in a span of 1 month (SJMSOM was on Feb. 29^th and IIT-D on March 29^thJ) ... The most exciting one was SJMSOM as it was the first B school interview I was faced so it will be my personal favourite. I was too naive then, not knowing anything ... not even how a B school looks like. So it was definitely the one I was looking forward in the beginning and it was the best call I have. IISc went very smoothly. IIT-Kgp and IIT-M were the ones I was very cool. I wasn’t tensed at all and that was the sole reason I was tensed there. IIT-D tested my physical perseverance apart from the GD/PI.

Each place I visited was unique in its own way and each had their unique advantages to boast about. Where I will spend the next 2 yrs of my life is written before hand by the person who knows better than me, what’s best for me. So where ever I get thru I know it will be for my good coz that’s the place where I will be able to do my best.

Chennai!!!

From Bangalore my mother and I caught shadabdi to chennai... It was raining... Well, i felt like the place was welcoming me :)

So we reached chennai on march 14, 9.30pm... My gd/pi process for iit-m was on march 17th morning...
I was so tired by 14t that i was even telling my mum that we will return home straight frm bgl without going to chennai...

The last time i visited chennai was when i was in the 10th std... But the place has changed so rapidly...

The culture there is very different... complete contrast to the other metros... It has got its pros and cons... You get everything now in chennai... from food courts, to ccds to pizza huts... Now these r the main things which bother me ( food outlets)..

We stayed at my mum's friend's place... We went to the city centre, spancer plaza and t nagar... It was more like a holiday for me... shopping all the way..

On march 17th morning we left for iit-madras.... The campus is so huge... But the department of management studies was near the gajendra circle... So we just had to take the straight road from the entrance...


There was a presentation after the registration.
The group task was conducted shortly. We were divided into groups. The panel was the same for the gt and pi.

The topic for group task was about choosing a political party and how to bring about professionalism in it. We were given 5 minutes to write our points on 1 sheet. Then there was open discussion for about 15 min. There was not much co-ordination. Everyone was adopting diplomatic stands not criticizing any party as such. The prof gave the feedback that no one was assertive and that none of us were straight.

PI was by the prof frm doms and another frm civil engg department.The questions asked were:

Explain the main project.
Whether there is a problem in engineers choosing mba after their engg?
Since I had written interest in hr in my sop, I was asked to explain how much I knew about it.
Compare the hr in a small office to that undertaken by the human resource development in India.
How to eradicate poverty?
Why funds are going wasted even though it has been properly planned?
Which all books do you read?
I was asked the story line of one of the books.
There was a brief discussion on my extra curricular activities.


The interview lasted for 20-25 min. The whole process was very well conducted. The seniors were managing everything very well. They were all very helpful..

After the process, one of the seniors frm kerala took me to her hostel and gave me a tour..
I also met my school mates doing there B.Tech there...

On the whole it was good... But then there is the wait till april 7th...

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

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

I went to one of the most beautiful campus in India... That was IISc, Bangalore... The campus is unique in its own way... Nuthing like the other IITs i have seen....

We reached bangalore on march 11. We were staying in an apartment (which itself was very cozy) which was just 2km frm the central railway station and iisc.

I reached the campus at 7.30 am on march 12th though the reporting time was 9 am. We had breakfast from a good restaurant inside the campus and had a long walk back to the Department of Management Studies. There was even an underground subway inside the campus (which is the same size as the one you can find in Trivandrum).

We were supposed to register before the presentation and I found many absent. Here there were 6 girls including me. Around 60 or so people were present.

During the presentation, the prof gave a statistics... Total of 30000 were supposed to write Jmet. A total of 28000 odd took the exam. Of the students who qualified, IISc got 650 odd application and they chose 250 for the process. After the gd/pi they will select 20. The unique thing about IISc is that they have no waitlist.... So those 20 to whom they give the call are the only students who join there. If they happen to not join for any reason then they will leave that seat vacant wasting another student's chance...

I met 3 mallus during the process of which 2 were frm MEC, 2006 batch and 1 a pass out frm CET. There was no active participation of the students like what I saw in Bombay. The seniors there were mostly interacting with us and very willing to help us out for anything..

Everyone was split into groups. There were a total of 5 groups each with around 10 people.

GD:

Since mine was the 4th group we had to wait till the 1st 3 finished their gd.

The gd topic was ‘Bollywood heroes are poor role models’.

We had been given 5 minutes to think, 15 min for discussion and 3 minutes to summarize. The panel will just give the topic and ask you to start. You will have to time yourself and carry thru the different stages of the gd. The gd didn’t go too good as people were practically shouting without showing any lenience to anyone. Even though some people tried to bring some useful points there were mostly repetition of points by the same person or irrelevant points. All together it was not a good one. I tried my best to be an active participant thru out but in vain... People were practically cutting you and speaking... so it was more like a war of voice... The person with the loudest booming voice can survive there.... Just like any other field... Survival of the fittest !!

PI:
I had the PI only by 3.30pm even though my gd got over at 11.45 am. So we had a relaxed lunch... There were 2 panels for the PI. I was in the non statistics panel.

The panel had 6 members including a lady panelist. ( 2 of them were mallus). The panelists of the gds need not be the ones for the pi. But for me they were also present.

Some of the questions asked to me were:
Introduce yourself.
Why mba?
What is the sum of the first 100 natural numbers?
What is the sum of the cube of first 100 natural numbers?
What is fourier transform? Why do we need it?
Rank the IITs according to your preference.
Compare IIT B with IISc. (Most of the candidates were asked this)
What role should the management assume to deal with the union problems?
Why is the industrial growth very low in Kerala?

Overall it went ok... the other panels were even asking basic mathematics like fourier series, differential equations and integration

There were people who went in the beginning who were asked to explain CMOS manufacturing ... Hearing this question me, Iyas and Anand (both 2006 batch EC, MEC) were running to meet a batch mate of their's who was doing his M.Tech there ( after quitting Nvidia)... yea you can find all sorts of people at IISc... He was explaining the whole process of manufacturing over lunch....

The campus is really beautiful and anyone interested in research will find IISc the best place. One will find plenty of options there....

My first ever B school interview!!!

Shailesh J Mehta School Of Management (SJMSOM), IIT-Bombay... This was the first B school from which I got a call from and where I attended the interview. I got the call on february 9th. I remember the date well as its just one day after my mother's b'day and the day i got my new laptop!!

My dad accompanied me to Bombay. That was my first visit to Mumbai, the city which i have heard so much about and which is my father's fav city. So my dad had to take leave and come with me. These are the one of the very few situations were I wish I was a boy... I could have gone alone without disturbing anyone. The slot allotted for me was february 29th, afternoon slot.

We reached there on feb 28 by 6.30pm. The campus was well kept... everything in order with sign boards at every nook and corner. We stayed in the staff hostel as we were late to get the guest house... The guest house over looks the lake.... There is a small pond in front where we can find the gaggle of geese.

We had an early dinner and slept off.... I woke up early to luk thru my main, mini proj and seminar.... did a thorough revision. Had lunch, got dressed and went to SJMSOM.
I had the fright of my life wen i got into the seminar hall. About 55 candidates were sitting inside and just 4 gals including me. About 85% of them were in full suit. About 90% of them having work ex of 2yrs +.

There was a presentation by one of the students at SOM, which i found out was an ex-MECian, Prasanth Narayanan :)... I had also contacted another ex-MECian, Joe, who was studying there. But since he didn't have duty that day, he didnt come over. After the presentation, we were asked to assemble according to our panels. My number was A4. It means I am the 4th person in panel A.I had reasons to feel intimidated.... when i was there i knew that they will chick me out, if at all they do only coz of 2 things ... my jmet rank ( which was the last rank to be called) and coz i am a fresher.
The whole process was very well conducted and bang on time. So at 2 pm we were send in for the group discussion.

GD:
As some have discussed, it was a case study. A group of hourly based workers were not motivated and hence they have poor productivity.So what will you do if you were the personnel manager?
The gd was ok. I started first. Then i found it difficult to get in for the next 5-10 min. After that i got in with 2-3 more valid points. (valid .. for me ;)) It was not exactly a fish market but there were at least 2 ppl trying to put forth their point at any point of time. So it was hard unless you had a good voice to fight your way into it.

After the gd we were taken back to the seminar hall.... we were supposed to fill up a form. We have to enter each sem's marks... just engg marks.. The extra curricular column has to be filled only if you have certificates and that too no school level achievements... only those starting from college... The certificate shud also state clearly whether it is state, national or college. Each entry is thoroughly verified by the students in charge.

We were provided snacks (samosa) and tea.... My father was also allowed to sit thru the presentation and all the students were very friendly and helpful.

PI:
There was a professor and an alumnus.(the same panel as the gd) ... one was the hr head of deloitte and the other was the prof who takes international business and ipr for the students ..

Some of the questions asked were:
Introduce yourself.
Seeing that I was electronics and communication engineering student, one of the panellists asked me to start by explaining mobile communication.
I left it half way as I haven’t learned it till last sem.
Which all papers have you studied last sem?
What did you study in electronic product design?
Explain aesthetics and ergonomics.
Tell me how to design the room aesthetically.
What are the different types of layers? Explain physical layer.
How does google come up with the search results so fast?
What is the basic features differentiating linux and windows.
How is linux maintained free from virus attacks?
I answered wat ever I could. It didn’t go too good as the questions were way beyond my comfortable zone. ... But i tried my best to make an attempt to wat ever i cud...
The interview lasted around 15 min. The other 3 who went in had it for about 20-25 min... i guess the prof had made up his mind in the 1st 5 min he saw me.... Have to wait till april 7th for the results...

The whole process was so conducted so well that everything went right on time... Just Perfect...

We left the campus next day m'ing (me looking longingly to come back )