OK first of all I apologize for the long break. What was it? A month and a half I guess. Well I took a break not only from blogging but also from almost every single aspect of my life that could imbibe my time that would otherwise be successfully dedicated to ‘placement preparation’. Yes, I in my final year of college, just like every other final yr student (at least those who came for studying), was to the most part sucked into a whirlpool of written tests, interviews and the preparation they need.
You guessed it right, the fact that I am writing this now could only mean that it was all fruitful in the end and the other end of whirlpool, when I surfaced found it to be Cisco systems, Bangalore. J I am pleased to say my fellow audience, (forget the modesty, I am too happy to be worried about being humble now) I got myself an internship in eBay and got placed in Mu sigma and Cisco Systems. That said let’s rewind a few days and start from its inception (the word has become a cliché lately… Sad).
Starting with DE Shaw – what an engineering student will call the king of companies for its sheer magnanimity in pay package, on it went like a roller coaster ride passing through a blur of companies. Before the churning in my stomach grew to an unbearable pinnacle my stop arrived (sigh!!). But I sure can hear it rolling for my fellow college mates out there even when I am penning this.
Every final year student could split his final year as BP and AP standing for Before and After Placed. Yes, so is the change it could bring about on you and especially the people and environment around you. Call it prejudice or just my imagination but I really feel people actually respect and listen to you in AP more than in BP. It doesn’t end there. Even you yourself may find some things that annoyed you in BP are actually tolerable, if not funny in AP. You would become this all helpey-helpey, I-take-a-stand-in-everything, so-sure-about-yourself guy. Funny right? What all a “Congratulations, You’re selected” could do in your life.
