It’s been nearly a year I posted on blog. I didn’t want my blog to be without any posts for 1 year. I’ve planned to explain all that happened in the past 11 months in short (hopefully) in this post.
Soft Skill Training:
This started one of the important stages of my life, the beginning of my 6th semester, my preparations for the placement activities and learning to interact socially with people. The classes were taken by Mr. Harish who is a professional in this. I started the journey of knowing the people in my college in greater detail, also started one of the memorable semesters in my life. By the end of the training, I had come to a conclusion that if you hesitate to talk to girls then you will surely have a very tough time in the corporate world and also that I could not handle the stress in extreme conditions. Thanks to Bhargav, Abhishek and Sri Ranjan I’d come to a conclusion that I should work on controlling my anger. Also I learnt that my body language wasn’t that satisfactory, thanks to Harish Sir. I had learnt that it is a very competitive world out there and I needed to work hard.
NIE Marathon 09:
The plan to conduct to a marathon arose when we attended a rally organized by a political party against the Mumbai terror attacks. But it was very disappointing for a few students like me as we found that rally nothing but a political campaign. We decided to do something in memory of all those who had lost their lives in the attacks; it was not a matter to be taken up lightly. We decided to organize a marathon during our college fest. After deciding upon the plan and pleasing some of the so called CORE committee of TECHNIEK’s we were finally given the permission to organize the event. What happened after that history in NIE. The struggle we had undergone is known only to those 23 people who were involved in the Marathon Organizing committee, organizing an event is no walk in the park. We’d spent literally our days and nights on making this event a success. Our main purpose of organizing this event was to pay tribute to the martyrs of Mumbai attacks, but probably that didn’t really happen. The main reason being the TECHNIEK’s core committee failing to provide us with promised facilities and time. In the end the event went on quite well, in spite of many obstacles of improper funding, lack of support from the college etc.. The Marathon Organizers we ROCK. Thanks for all those people who directly or indirectly made this event a grand success.
My life was a turn around because of Marathon; I interacted with so many people, made some really good friends. The time spent in organizing the event is truly memorable.
Placements:
Just after the exams we had the news of a couple of companies coming for campus recruitment. I’d completely made up my mind that I wouldn’t get into these companies because I had not prepared at all. The first company to come was NETAPP, I was lucky enough to have got into the 1st company itself. I will cherish that moment I heard my name in the recruited list. This surely was the biggest surprise in 2009 of my life. Thanks a lot god.
The Penultimate Semester:
I spent most of my 7th semester in the college in the canteen. Rarely did we attend any classes, we were so addicted to mass bunk that, we had to mass bunk at least 66% of a day’s class. Canteen had become our adda. In the mean time, the process of forming the project team and finalizing the project also started . This process saw a lot of dramas, betrayal from friends, tears in the eyes of helpless classmates who had a hard time finding a proper team, struggle to find a project in a company etc.. All was well in the end as every person in the class had got a satisfactory team.
7th Semester also marked the end of the lab life in Engineering, No more records & viva. We were having a great time in the lab, chatting for most of the time and working when we would feel that the lecturer would kick us out of the lab. 7th semester exams were probably the worst exams of my entire life, I hope that I pass all the subjects this time.
With all these 2009, one of the wonderful and eventful days in my life also came to an end. Thanks for everyone who made this year special. Cheers.
