Just 5 months into the grind of things (boozing, sleeping, partying etc etc) suddenly an announcement of resume verification came for Summer Placements... and with just as much surprise the realization of why we all were here dawned... Out came the CV's, certificates, mark-lists... and frequent requests for "yaar mein kya daalun CV mein...??"...
Tiger was literally shaken after seeing some of his classmates CV's... I guess those times were really testing for all freshers... Specially all those who didn't have a long list of fancy accomplishments to adorn their CVs... What these freshers didn't know was that it was the work-ex people who were the not-so-hot properties for summer placements... all companies wanted freshers....
Once the CV frenzy was over the suit frenzy began... Some had their MBA interview suits ... as for me, I grew two sizes in the last 5 months and so I was out suit shopping (stitching as there weren't any readymades for my size)...
Before we realized... the cold fogging of Winter had engulfed IMT and with it came the Summer Placements...
"I am the Candyman...":
Summer placements were a pain in the ass... get up early in the morning.. remember what the companies said in the pre-placement seminars or go through the slides they had sent.. go through the entire list of companies visiting that day... learn about the company... for you don't know which company would short-list you for a GD or interview... all in all the very fact that you might not probably be called for anything at all overpowers you and you sleep all drunk.. get up barely in time for the companies...
Perfetti came.. shortlisted the entire college and conducted some weird activities... i surprisingly cleared each round and became the only non-fresher to get through... My gtalk status remained same for the next 6 months... "I am the Candyman"
Many got placed on day0 (1st day in layman terms) and it was time for jubilation... as the day passed and finally time to take headcount to get the booze arrived... I came to realize that my best friends/ my roomie/ my booze buddys aren't placed... there was a sudden death of all the fizz and I ended up explaining what went right in my interview and GD to all the less fortunate ones... to be frank I really thought there were atleast 100 other people who were far better than me... Somehow there was a unanimous undecided decision to celebrate after the placement week...
Remaining of the placement week was all about counselling, pep-talking, inspiring - one after the other who lost heart... I don't know how but incidentally after the 2nd day I started feeling left out ... feeling guilty for others not clearing... 3rd day I downed a couple of pegs and BAM! came back the happiness...for the remaining days of the placement week I kept myself to my room and limited all counseling and inspirational talks to J47 visitors...
After the week was over... things suddenly came back to normal... classes started... exams.. presentations... booze followed... people kept attending interviews of companies that kept coming in trickles... soon the entire environment was even more abuzz than before placements... there were more celebrations every time someone got placed ... and there was a reason to party almost every other night... somehow success seems sweeter when you have really sweat blood for it...
Love is in the air... from one chat window to the other:
One great thing about MBA was the amount of free time I had and the amount of time I spent online...
Long before joining IMT... I had met Veena on my parents insistence... We visited their house as per custom and after a brief moment of talking to each other alone we both decided that this would not work out for us as she wanted immediate marriage and I didn't...we parted...
One drunk night at IMT...For some strange reason I remembered her B'day and maybe the alcohol in me made me send her a birthday greeting... that was the start of 100s of Gbs of internet usage for her and me... we started chatting... then doodling... followed by video chat... soon we realized that we were meant to be together...
I planned out a visit to her home for the xmas holidays... and lo before we could think clearly our parents had decided to confirm our wedding... a formal event was arranged in just 1 week and I became committed....
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