When angry, count four... This is a famous quote by Mark Twain. Now when some one is angry, people say that the person loses his rational capacity. Anger is a short term of madness. When I am angry, I also forget that I have to start counting. But this definitely works, but the problem is more than 90% of the time I forget that I have to count. Personally, I get angry very fast and cool down faster than that. I blurt out something, thanks to my short temper, but it takes me less than half an hour to regain my old self and I am full of apologies. All my close friends know this, and only they can understand me.
I have met people who are worse than me (though, that group is a minority ;)). Every one has the right to feel irritated and wretched at some point of time. But when someone starts shouting at me angrily, I just keep quiet and listen. I think I have immense patience in hearing out people when they are in a wretched situation.
There will be lots of things going in my head at the same point of time. So there will be many instances, when I may appear thoroughly attentive but I won’t be hearing anything that you are saying. But I replay it after storing in my buffer. So there will be lots of instances when my response can be too slow and you can call me tube light.
Another problem is that if I get into a hassle with anyone, that will stay in my mind and I will have no peace of mind until I sort it out. The biggest problem is that when something like this stays in mind, it adversely affects my dealings with others. That frustration comes out in the form of anger even to the slightest folly that any one else does. This is a very childish and immature behaviour of mine. And I am sure that everyone will feel insecure at some point or the other. I am trying out things that take me out of that situation. Sitting alone, not talking to anyone, taking a drive, listening to music and now writing this blog... yea, that’s definitely helping :).
I take a lot of time to get close friends with anyone. Maybe, it’s because I have been taught never to trust anyone and I am prejudiced about some matters. But once I am friends with I claim to be the most sincere person anyone can find. I’ll see through any flaws of my friends. But the best complement that I have got from my friend (who is my worst critic, as well) is that I have improved so much in the last 4 years. I thank my life in Cochin for that. And that’s one of the main reasons why the last 4 years is so dear to me.
Everybody who knows me will have a different impression about me. The thing I hate the most is that most people is too judging. Unfortunately, my home town is also filled with a bunch of narrow minded people, worse than anywhere in the state. So that’s my policy, I don’t go after people begging to correct their impression about me. I think there is no need to do that. We cannot convince anyone about anything if they are already convinced themselves. So I tell myself that they just missed the opportunity to be my friend. Sometimes, I lose it. Everyone does at one point or the other.
So this will be how I’ll react to the most pathetic situation I am in. Hmmm... I think everyone will be in the same situation at one point or the other. But, the reason why we are all unique is because we all react to these circumstances in a totally different manner. I am a 100% predictable person and my close friends can guess what I will do next with a probability of being right equal to 1. But I am not at all a bad a human being :). I am very emotional and a tough nut at the same time and I like it that way.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
FM - Free Music!!!
At least now I should write something about that topic that I claim to be I am most passionate about i.e., music. I am an ardent lover of music. People find my tastes in music quite confusing. I have been trained in Carnatic Music for about 10 years during my school days, under Perumbavoor G.Ravindranath. My guru is a well known musician and I consider it a big blessing that I at least got a chance to say this. Music is something I got from my father who himself used to play the mridangam and tabala and was part of the music troupe, that he and his friends organised in their college days.
Since I am trained in carnatic music, it doesn’t mean that I enjoy only that. I listen to all types of songs and albums in any language. But the problem when I listen to songs is that most of the time I just care for only the music and not the lyrics. And most of the time, the kind of music I listen to depends on my mood. To me, that gives amazing results and its the way I rejuvenate.
I listen to all A.R Rahman’s albums – be it English, Hindi, Tamil or even Malayalam (Yodha). Even if his critics write off one album as not reaching the usual standard, I will possess it. I think he is one person who is a phenomenon in himself.
We don’t have a dearth of singers in Kerala these days. Thanks to the ongoing reality shows. That reminds me of the news I saw in a national news channel about a 16 year old girl who is suffering from depression. She was one of the top 10 contestants in a leading channel’s dance reality show. This calls for a serious introspection as to whether these reality shows are just the glitz and glamour that we see. It seems that this girl is now out of the competition and she has stopped even having food from that day. Should we have something like an age limit to participate for such reality shows? That’s food for thought.
Kerala is listening to radio now. We have got so many FM stations that sprung out of no where in the recent past that most of us who have been allergic to radios have started listening to it. It’s nice in a way. I can talk about Trivandrum, my home town. It was a sudden transition. One day 3 FM stations started broadcasting. Till this date, we have Big FM, S FM, Radio mirchi, Club FM and our very own Ananthapuri. Trivandrumites are waiting for Best FM and Radio Mango. I was so proud when the channels started broadcasting here before Ernakulam. In my mind, there is always a conflict between Cochin and Trivandrum. Trivandrum is my home town (my parents are also from Trivandrum) but I owe a lot to Cochin for making the person I am now. So these 2 places are very close to me. I also find lots of people debating about which of the two places is better, but in vain.
So back to these FMs, I think it’s a superb idea to have something that offers music for 24 hours. I listened to the channels at Trivandrum and Cochin. Here I have to go with the ones at Trivandrum. I found that more than half of the broadcast time by the stations at Cochin is taken up by the commercial ads. Of course, Cochin is a bigger commercial place than Trivandrum, but when it comes to FMs I am happy that I hear it from Trivandrum.
FMs started dominating God’s own country only a few months now. I was really proud to say those times that Trivandrum had 5 FM stations while Cochin had just 1. I went to Chennai and my family friend turned on the FM station. She started changing the channels one by one. To my disbelief, I saw that even after she changed more than 5 channels it wasn’t repeating. And then she said that there were 11 stations there. All right, there went my FM war. It was even bigger when I went to Delhi. The sweeper at IIT-Bombay does his work listening to the FM in his walkman. Of course, FM has created a revolution especially in hotels, retail outlets etc.
But I don’t approve the standard of the programmes in these channels. Some are hilarious and entertaining, but all radio jockeys (RJs as they are fondly called) should be themselves rather than trying to imitate those in the other national channels. If one listens to the channels in Trivandrum one will find that a good number of programmes have the RJs doing a mockery of the Trivandrum slang. Yes, it is done in good humour and they do succeed in doing that to a limit. But when it crosses a limit everyone starts feeling a bit monotonous.
And the prizes, that is one thing that we shouldn’t forget. They are doing a good job roping in sponsors. But when we sent a single message worth Rs.3 they won’t even let out the probability that we can win. Another good thing about listening to it from Kerala is that we can hear Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam songs. I think that is our speciality. The youth here are familiar with all the latest films and music in these 3 languages, while a person who knows Hindi will just stick to Hindi or English.
But the big question is how long they will survive? With passing time, more channels will come in and tighter will be the competition. They have to keep on innovating and changing according to time avoiding plagiarism. As it is rightly said in “It happened in India” by Kishore Biyani, that the main way to survive in business is changing them according to the customer’s needs and keep on innovating. There should never be a shortage of ideas and also spontaneity among the RJs. The same applies for the advertisements being broadcasted. They should be catchy and convey the information to the customers they target. For this, they have to keep on changing their strategies and sales promotion tactics.
But good or bad, God’s own country now has a musical atmosphere. This is one media, like the newspaper, accessible to the rich and poor alike. We can listen to music 24*7. And we can listen to it when we are driving, working in kitchen etc. But the same doesn’t apply to television or any other media. My uncle was telling me that when he is caught in the infamous traffic jams in Cochin these days, he is unusually cool. Thanks to FM, its RJs and the wonderful songs they play to ease out our tension. Music does wonders! My mum listens to it for a totally different reason on her drive to her office. She listens to our very own Ananthapuri on her way to office in the morning. Her sole reason for this being, they are the only channel which gives the time at 9.15 a.m. So she will be able to know how late she can be. Nevertheless, the FM stations are doing a great job. The broadcasters are careful to please their audience in all generations. Personally, I feel it’s a very exciting industry and I definitely want to see how each channel will respond to their competitions in the long run. Of course FM can now be rightly expanded as Free Music.
Since I am trained in carnatic music, it doesn’t mean that I enjoy only that. I listen to all types of songs and albums in any language. But the problem when I listen to songs is that most of the time I just care for only the music and not the lyrics. And most of the time, the kind of music I listen to depends on my mood. To me, that gives amazing results and its the way I rejuvenate.
I listen to all A.R Rahman’s albums – be it English, Hindi, Tamil or even Malayalam (Yodha). Even if his critics write off one album as not reaching the usual standard, I will possess it. I think he is one person who is a phenomenon in himself.
We don’t have a dearth of singers in Kerala these days. Thanks to the ongoing reality shows. That reminds me of the news I saw in a national news channel about a 16 year old girl who is suffering from depression. She was one of the top 10 contestants in a leading channel’s dance reality show. This calls for a serious introspection as to whether these reality shows are just the glitz and glamour that we see. It seems that this girl is now out of the competition and she has stopped even having food from that day. Should we have something like an age limit to participate for such reality shows? That’s food for thought.
Kerala is listening to radio now. We have got so many FM stations that sprung out of no where in the recent past that most of us who have been allergic to radios have started listening to it. It’s nice in a way. I can talk about Trivandrum, my home town. It was a sudden transition. One day 3 FM stations started broadcasting. Till this date, we have Big FM, S FM, Radio mirchi, Club FM and our very own Ananthapuri. Trivandrumites are waiting for Best FM and Radio Mango. I was so proud when the channels started broadcasting here before Ernakulam. In my mind, there is always a conflict between Cochin and Trivandrum. Trivandrum is my home town (my parents are also from Trivandrum) but I owe a lot to Cochin for making the person I am now. So these 2 places are very close to me. I also find lots of people debating about which of the two places is better, but in vain.
So back to these FMs, I think it’s a superb idea to have something that offers music for 24 hours. I listened to the channels at Trivandrum and Cochin. Here I have to go with the ones at Trivandrum. I found that more than half of the broadcast time by the stations at Cochin is taken up by the commercial ads. Of course, Cochin is a bigger commercial place than Trivandrum, but when it comes to FMs I am happy that I hear it from Trivandrum.
FMs started dominating God’s own country only a few months now. I was really proud to say those times that Trivandrum had 5 FM stations while Cochin had just 1. I went to Chennai and my family friend turned on the FM station. She started changing the channels one by one. To my disbelief, I saw that even after she changed more than 5 channels it wasn’t repeating. And then she said that there were 11 stations there. All right, there went my FM war. It was even bigger when I went to Delhi. The sweeper at IIT-Bombay does his work listening to the FM in his walkman. Of course, FM has created a revolution especially in hotels, retail outlets etc.
But I don’t approve the standard of the programmes in these channels. Some are hilarious and entertaining, but all radio jockeys (RJs as they are fondly called) should be themselves rather than trying to imitate those in the other national channels. If one listens to the channels in Trivandrum one will find that a good number of programmes have the RJs doing a mockery of the Trivandrum slang. Yes, it is done in good humour and they do succeed in doing that to a limit. But when it crosses a limit everyone starts feeling a bit monotonous.
And the prizes, that is one thing that we shouldn’t forget. They are doing a good job roping in sponsors. But when we sent a single message worth Rs.3 they won’t even let out the probability that we can win. Another good thing about listening to it from Kerala is that we can hear Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam songs. I think that is our speciality. The youth here are familiar with all the latest films and music in these 3 languages, while a person who knows Hindi will just stick to Hindi or English.
But the big question is how long they will survive? With passing time, more channels will come in and tighter will be the competition. They have to keep on innovating and changing according to time avoiding plagiarism. As it is rightly said in “It happened in India” by Kishore Biyani, that the main way to survive in business is changing them according to the customer’s needs and keep on innovating. There should never be a shortage of ideas and also spontaneity among the RJs. The same applies for the advertisements being broadcasted. They should be catchy and convey the information to the customers they target. For this, they have to keep on changing their strategies and sales promotion tactics.
But good or bad, God’s own country now has a musical atmosphere. This is one media, like the newspaper, accessible to the rich and poor alike. We can listen to music 24*7. And we can listen to it when we are driving, working in kitchen etc. But the same doesn’t apply to television or any other media. My uncle was telling me that when he is caught in the infamous traffic jams in Cochin these days, he is unusually cool. Thanks to FM, its RJs and the wonderful songs they play to ease out our tension. Music does wonders! My mum listens to it for a totally different reason on her drive to her office. She listens to our very own Ananthapuri on her way to office in the morning. Her sole reason for this being, they are the only channel which gives the time at 9.15 a.m. So she will be able to know how late she can be. Nevertheless, the FM stations are doing a great job. The broadcasters are careful to please their audience in all generations. Personally, I feel it’s a very exciting industry and I definitely want to see how each channel will respond to their competitions in the long run. Of course FM can now be rightly expanded as Free Music.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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
I had been through the same state at
So on
Then on April 9th 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
My parents were not keen at all on me going to Kharagpur. The results were supposed to be out on April 11th. 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.
I had my worst experience at
So came April 11th,
Thursday, April 3, 2008
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 27th to March 31st 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 27th.
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 1st 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 4th 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 31st. 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 7th 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. 29th and IIT-D on March 29thJ) ... 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.
Friday, March 21, 2008
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...
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
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
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