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Hero to Zero

This post is the outcome of certain analogies that I developed while I was lying in my bed after going through numerous slides on how to save the world! Just a few days back, I was quite charged up: I got the placement after lot of struggle, people (genuine people) appreciated my efforts, I was quite energetic and ready to go! I tried a few things, but after that the pressure of subjects started. Quizzes, project reports, presentations, assignments and finally end-term exams. While I was lying there, I felt like that scientist, who just discovered a new element, but when he reached his home, his wife asked, "Tarkari laye?" which of course he forgot! This is a bad feeling. As we end our college, and become part of the new workforce, the chores of the daily life should not be such as to extract the creative juices and enthusiasm out of the soul. Here I am waiting for few hours and few days to pass so that I can go home and have some fun, those useless exams awaits me in between

Aftermath

I posted the previous blog on FB. All hell broke loose. There were a few who loved it. A few who were concerned. Finally, seeking a few advises, I removed it. The process was nice, however. I chatted with my sister after many days, and it was chat between two similars: one out of whom has changed over a period of time majorly because of the harshness of the world, and the other is in a process of joining the same world and motivated enough to give the best shot to change it. During the chat, there was concern shown towards me. I was tending towards a more idealistic scenario which even I know won't exist. The same was told to me by my sister. I was not ready to accept that though. It was not convincing even though she has 8 years of HR work ex. The reason it was unconvincing was that even she believed in what I was saying: probably she only accepted that nothing much can be done to change the situation, a feeling that " ek chana kya bhaad phodega ". I am ye t to face thos

A note to my Prof

Dear Sir Finally, even I was able to fool one company after trying to cheat other companies by giving them similar bogus answers in the interviews, showing fake interest in the organizations, telling every interviewer how great their job offering was (which was, by the way identical for all the companies) and blowing my own trumpets, which were all false by the way. Now has to pay me for all this. Though the process started on December 12th, 2010 with CV calls from , the actual interview process was from 21st of December. Whereas there were the most ordinary who got through their first pecked company within 2 hours of attending the whole Placement process, and there were certain lesser mortals who did this within 15 days, I was among the best! I was one of the longest standing candidates in the history of XLRI (an additional CV point). I took a total of 52 days to achieve the feat. I saw next to every process and I also know why is every company so great, or rather GREATEST. I am mo