Sunday, May 4, 2008
Eve of last theory paper
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Influencive I
We ITians have a special privilege of residing on border line of this category of IITians. We accomplished the arduous job yet didn't got the pie. Sometimes we are considered as IITians and very next time become part of mushroomed unfamiliar engineering college. I had opportunity to represent my university in Table-Tennis in Inter-university and there my IT-Track was providing me identity of IITian and in the same trip I met an uncleji who didnt know about the college and told me that I had forgot how I admitted here it must be some state entrance test or AIEEE and can't be JEE.
Now we had NEWS that cabinet proposed the upgradation of IT-BHU to IIT-BHU and know that in a year or so this institute will joie de vivreradiance with the addition of dearly missed I attached to it.
I don't know the big flashback of this institute but still witnessed a lot of drama being played for the addition of I to its name. We entered the institute in 2004 and the word was on the street about upgrading this institute into IIT. Then the stage was set for upgrading this institute along with few others to upgrade. I remember the reaction of our batch mate Srikant ' Sabu' which he posted on yahoo groups in response to a mail forwarded by an alumni describing how other IITs are running campaign to stop the upgradation process.
The drama took halt the visit of a committee meant to site the feasibility of upgradation. After a long intermission of drama 'IIST' was the word that shook IT. Though govt. claimed upgradation but was obvious degradation of such institute. I recall Shahrukh's famous dialogue
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Every man should…
Every
man
should…
Believe in his own ability,
but not be overconfident, never shy away from
hardwork, be down to earth,
yet dream of reaching for the
stars, try and make things happen rather than
waiting for them to happen~
He should fall in love atleast
once in his life, treat the woman in his life like
a princess, contribute equally
to a relationship, know what
to say, how to say and when to say it and when
to just give a quiet hug, try
to remain calm when she
is driving, atleast pretend that he is lisening~
He should have good
sense of humour and know
when to use it, now his way around the kitchen,
take failures in his stride and
never stop trying, never
flaunt his masculinity too much, make it a point
to send his mother a
token of his love, live
his life like an emperor, yet be child at heart
Hi guyz must be wondering, what happened to my prose....
Tell u its not my style..... this is the greeting message gifted to me on my 21.5 birthday by my friends...(paper magic/every man should/1222 printed in india by archies india limited)... Found it nice so wished to share.......
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with college education
Sometimes I think we are going to implement these theories in month or two and we had no clue what we had learnt in previous semesters. Not so far back, in BPCL interview I was asked about pumps and all and I was tangled in jargons like an art or economics student (not to mention I had recently passed course of turbo-machinery ) .
My interviewers (mostly MBA grads) were asking questions using alien mechanical mumbo jumbo. Apart from that interview, in each and every interview or vivas I was packed down like tender footed person. This is the status of final year, lets move on to find a reason to this miserable condition of more than 90% B.tech Grads of ITBHU.
Lets start with a poem written for all one night stand fan club....
जिसपर दिल लुटा देते,
हर एक ने दिमाग खाया किस-किस को निपटा देते,
अब syllabus देखकर सोचते हैं
कुछ दिन और होता तो दुनिया हिला देते …
Like these analogous vegetables had some difference between them, there is one and weighty one between pre-B.Tech me and post-B.Tech me..... BPCL wouldnt had recruited me then even when I had promised them to work 4 them my entire life........... :)
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Getting Started
And as all my friends say "Chandu ka katna hi hota hai" so starting with the experience of getting a job worth 24 lpa (as quoted by chairman of co.) The co. that fooled almost entire IT, distributing a package of 24 lpa, job in USA and a MS degree from a US university to almost half of three figure no.
The fact is he is "thekedar" of software engineers who will give us work in US and will take commission from us. The irony is one who should be employed by us is employing us.
It was like any other placement day in IT a software firm offering 18 lpa was visiting campus. Not sure of our soft skills we guys were enjoying Sunday and co was giving away its presentation. After presentation i heard that anyone can apply and can give interview in casuals the idea of facing interview in casuals really fascinated me and in t-shirt and jeans I headed towards Training and Placement cell.
The news of this uniuqe hiring process spread faster than untamed forest fire and there was rush outside the interview room. After waiting for few minutes i got interviewed along with Pandit, Chotu and two other students of ceramics. Here's how interview progressed
He asks for CV and then
Interviewer to Deepak: Deepak tell me your branch
Pandit: Mechanical
Interviewer: rank
Pandit:8th ( fatta decided by us in beginning)
Interviewer: Any software experience
Pandit: No
Now he turns towards Chotu and repeats same question. Chotu has same answers ( except branch rank he quoted it 15th)
Now its my turn and I was asked same questions and gave nearly same reply. Same questions were asked with cera students and they replied almost similarly with one two answers varying slightly.
Now he "thanks us" all of us shocked what is this interview over. We thought it might be shortlisting procedure and will face main interview afterwards.
We all moved back to our hostels and spent an hour or so planning tour itinerary. Pandit shouts shortlisted candidates' list is displayed. Hoping against odds I made my way towards TPO and my name in the list took me to cloud nine.
I thought to give second round in same apparels but after seeing others in black and white I changed and went there to give the second round. The joke was over till then the guys moving out were saying all the candidates are selected this is briefing session.
This is not any co and we dont have any job we had made a new profile on naukri.com or other site which will do little more than that. By providing study material and arranging for visa. In lieu they will make us their servant working in other firm for them.
"सपनो का महल रेत के किले कि तरह ढह गया" now none was interested to wait but all was over and everyone was duped. After the conformational of tpr's that this wont be counted everyone dedicated their precious time ( AOE time). And briefing session was now done to group of students to say the end to the drama.
Rest story is known to all students of IT और बाहर वालों सावधान ऐसा prank आपके साथ भी खेला जा सकता है|