Nirvana...

been in this B-school..
learnt my lessons..
earned my M.B.A..
got a career..

I wanted the "feel" to sync in..
Guess I have attained my nirvana :) .. Become stable and looking forward.. However unlike occasions before I have an element of patience added...
Good sign.. Isnt it ?

signing out .. may be for a month or so .. Vacation beckons..

I said - part 1..

In the interview panel: " what is the difference between tam movies and mallu movies ?"

What I said: "One is extremely colorful, dramatic, passionate, out of world.. other is realistic and grounded to earth.. Both reflect their respective cultures.. "

what I didn't say.. " one reflects my love.. other reflects her expectations :P " ...

In hindsight I started appreciating both.. :) ...
----------
Right now ... I can't wait to start my career ..

I utter a prayer .. For I can't control the fury within me... For I have waited so long for this opportunity.. For this is the beginning.. For a long beautiful road... For the massacre of lesser mortals...

" Let the Lord shower his mercy on the lesser mortals....
...
Amen."

To my wellwishers..

Pray for the atheist ..

I need to get into a FMCG.. Period.

If you ask me whether it is tough, It is tough for I have been into IT, Finance, Strategy and finally trying for sales..

My resume sucks..

My communication skills suck..

My preparations suck..

I just have one thing in my favor. I know what I want and I have convinced myself that this is what I want to do.. So convincing the interviewer should be easy.

This is a toast to the endless tea consumption, red eyes, night outs, nerve reckoning GDs and a LIFE after the ordeal ......................

XL-IIMC

First day score XL 4 - IIMC 4...

I sledged a Tam girl along with my juniors.. I really felt bad about it and may be it will be a topic for another post..

All is fair in love, war and XL-IIMC :)..

A toast to all XLers and Jokars :)..

cousins..

In less than 3 hours from now, our cousins from Joka(IIMC) will be here :P
The famous meet is on..
As we say Xlence is not for jokars :P

Ego Massage

"Hows the paper?" The proff asked me..

He s known for his terror in quantitative subjects and his papers are tough nuts to crack..

"Irritating, sir" I was about to reply..

Thought for a moment ,"Tough Paper sir !" ..

He smiled.. I can see that he was addicted to hearing those words... Ego massage works..

There was a problem where I was supposed to work on 11*11 Matrix for 11 iterations.. I thought for a moment - realized that managers are not supposed to do those mechanical work and left the problem without solving it..

still the element of seeing the world in Black and white remains with me ... why the F*ck should I attempt a question just because it increases my grade ? (especially in a subject which I like and where I would love to see challenging questions..) ..I wasn't sure whether I should be scared about this quality of mine or whether I should be proud about it.. I know I have lost "her" due to this..

Thus ends this post ..( I honestly didn't know how to end this post :P )

I read..

1. Law
   
2. Graph Theory as a part of Supply chain analytics ( The proff asked me in the class whether Graph Isomorphism is NP-complete :P)
3. Marketing
4. One Marketing subject which is more of HR rather than marketing
5. Finance - Income Tax

Is there anything else I can do in the next two months? I guess the only subject I haven't touched formally would be Medicine :D.
The only problem is that I have to sit through HR class , rush to Graph theory class and finish my day with a Law class... at the end of the day I don't remember or recollect any damn thing.

Backpacker - Computer Science, Finance, Marketing , Law, HR specialist ...

PPT

As of now, I m not sure whether it is a sign of maturity or death of a passionate angry young man..

But let me note this fact in this post.. I have stopped cribbing (Note: conditions apply :P..see the last line).

I do feel disappointed that things are not going my way but cribbing is a strict No-No these days.
------------------------------
Life in a B-school comes with its own strings. The biggest pain in the ass are the pre-placement Talks of companies. A cliched PPT will have following slides

1. why their company is a "hep" place to work(followed by few slides picturing people in the company playing innovative and thought provoking games like Hide and seek) .
2. Some arbit Magazine rating them as the best place to work ( conveniently omitting the fact that magazine would have rated their US offices :P)
3. Some Process flow in their company (with a font size of 8, No one would be able to read the slides)
4. some jargons like competence,challenges thrown in.

Finally the PPT would be followed by a Tea session where bakras of tomorrow will interact with Bakras of yesteryears :P.

My dream PPT:

1. Should end in 2 minutes
2. The compensation slide should be the first
3. The roles offered should be second slide
4. Any questions ? should be the third slide

------------
Condition : I ll continue to crib in my blog :P

Massacre of a Minnow

Finally I realised what is meant by getting "Raped" in an interview....
An eye-opener for further ones down the road...

frust - 2

what can the interviewer do if I fuck up my chance :P ?...

frust...

what can you do if the interviewer refuses to ask anything ? :( ...

Ad of the week...

Impossible isn’t a fact; it’s an opinion -- Adidas ...

Past.. Present

Dec 7th 2006

How can they complete the dissert in one day ? How can the college allow that ?

Dec 7th 2007

I am trying to complete my dissert. Oh yes ! I started just now and will try to complete in next 6 hours :)

Do I feel sad for it ? I do. Because I wanted to do some good work. I did. I tried inferring new things. But then ....... sigh !