first day at IIT (unofficially)
For all those who are not very serious about this global warming issue and at the same time cant afford an AC in their cars, its time to wake up to reality. Only yesterday I was thinking "life aint that bad" to "life cant be worse".
It was my first day at IITD. The first day of the next 365*2 days.. To say the least, it was terrible. First of all, this heat sucked the hell out of me. And did I forget to mention about the traffic light signal. How much you hate it when i turns red the moment you are ready to cross the road. And it happens over n over again. Irritating!!
comes next, you finally reached that place, park your car and moved on. Then suddenly you realized that you have left your key inside the car. Now what?? The car is locked!! And this time I learn the trick of opening a car using a scale. and I wonder, if it's so easy then why aren't there so many robberies (stereo esp).
While I was there and completing all the formalities I had this tendency of comparing everything to DAIICT. Had lunch at the mess there and I missed our Brijwasi caterers. I had a look at the hostel restrictions. we are not allowed to leave the campus after 11 pm and at DAIICT, the time limit was 1 am. The campus is ten times the size of daiict, and our class rooms are a km away from our hostel. To add to the agony, we are not allowed to keep motor vehicles inside the campus.
Finally, I headed back to home. And I thought 'just last one hour in this scorching heat' BUT......... I took a wrong turn! One small mistake and a lot to pay. You cant find a U-turn till next 5-6 kms on such roads. Keep moving, apply breaks, traffic jam, sweating, fm playing at the back but you could hardly enjoy your fav song, etc etc etc
At home right now. It's heaven!
journey to IITD
After a lot of apprehension, debates and helluva thinking I finally decided on IITD-MBA course. Before you comment anything; “yes, IITs also have MBA programs”. :x I hate people asking me such insane questions.
The journey till now had a lot of ups and downs. From the time when I promised a BIG party to all my friends if I converted IITD to the time when I was least interested in going there. People say that you don’t appreciate what you get. But this time, the reasons are simply different and I would just say, nobody knows what time has in store for you.
Starting from my gd/pi experience:
Group Discussion
No. of members: 12
Topic: Right Left 1 2 3
It’s also a mystery how the panel arrives at such a topic. The panel looked left, asked the last person sitting there his badge no, then looked right, asked me my badge no and announced the topic. For a minute I was zapped. But then I also like abstract topics.
The GD started. I was the second or the third one to speak. Now observe the first point I made when others have already started discussing on the 123 nuclear deal.
Me: friends, I think it’s the “Right” choice to “leave” the movie “one two three” as it’s a big flop this weekend. (I had the guts to say it)
After that it’s a fish market where at times I even shouted at the peak of my voice. At other time, everyone was speaking simultaneously and saying the same thing “Let others speak”. That’s MBA GD for you!
The worst of all the GDs I had so far.
Coming outside I had this feeling that nothing could be worse than this. I mean my PI could not be worse than this but I was proven wrong.
A panel of two males and one female was waiting to rag me. Let’ say m1, m2, f1
M2: tell me something about yourself.
Me: My name is richa and richa means hymns of Vedas and Vedas stand for the Truth and then blah blah blah. (they seem impressed)
M2: why MBA? (all typical MBA type ques. Even the panel has no innovative ideas)
Me: an IT company that can be used for the development of rural India. Also told them about my internship at Microsoft (thought they would be impressed with the name MS) where I studied how GIS could help rural people by giving them data about weather, land et etc. (one BIG mistake I made: I said GPS instead of GIS and now you listen what happens next).
M1(he interrupted out of nowhere): what did you say GPS do?
Me: sir, ………….(Explained them everything that GIS do).
M1: hmm…. (not convinced AT ALL) no you’re wrong.
Me(very confident): No sir, that cant be the case. I did my TWO Months internship at MICROSOFT (MS again). I know this much.
M1: it means you wasted your two months. (how crude can someone be)
Me: no sir, blah blha…….( explained even more about GIS. The only problem being that I named it as GPS)
M1: so tel me one basic thing which even a person who’s read about GPS on Wikipedia would know… (asked me something)
Me: sorry sir, no idea.
M1(threw 2nd ques): ok which satellite is used?
Me: sorry sir, no idea.
M1: which is the latest development in the field of GPS?
Me: don’t know.
M1: (five more ques on GIS)
Me: (was just shaking my head and looking at his face.)
M1: you did you r engg from DAIICT? Prof Sahsrabuddhe (the Director)??, Prof DNC (a well knowned prof in the field of VLSI)?? (giving an expression as if I have degraded the image he had)
M1(continuing): and you say your name stand for the Truth then why did you lie that you knew.
Me: ( I didn’t know I was lying)
M2(interrupted): its ok richa, you can say that you don’t know it’s ok.
Me: sorry sir, I don’t know. (jaan chhootee)
F1( the lady prof about whom I was given a good feedback): so richa, are you comfortable with finance.
Me: (finanace! :O did a lot of prep for it while preparing for SPJain finance interview but still not so strong area) YES MA’AM (My pseudo confidence)
F1: asked me genereal terms like what’s GDP, howz it calculated, inflation, relation between inflation, exports………
Me: answered all of them UNCONVINCINGLY and I have no idea how many of them were correct. (one good thing was that she’s not grilling me over it, unlike m1).
M1: last ques richa. Which would you prefer and why? D.A.V or D.P.S (my two schools so far)
Me: (wow that’s my ques) OBVIOUSLY DAV. (not fake, I believe it)
M1: why?
Me: (gave him a 5 minute long good answer with all my past experiences. That’s the only good thing abou my PI) (and I think he’s impressed because it’s like which will you chose IIM or IIT and I said IIT)
M2: ok richa, any questions you would like to ask?
Me: (I just wanted to exit the burning pressure cooker room) (I even thought of shouting at m1 for being so cruel to me as I was so damn sure of not converting it and therefore had no problem in doing so.) NO SIR!
M2: ok you my leave now.
Me: (THANK GOD!)
REVIEW: BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD
My other gdpi were far far far far afar better than this one.
April 7: IITD results out.
“sorry richa, you have not qualified”
Yeah yeah, I already knew that.
Four days later:
One of my friends mailed me: “CONGRAT S Richa, You will clear the WL. last time it went till no 58.”
What’ s he talking about. I checked my result. They didn’t give me any WL no. I opened the site again. There is another pdf for waitlist students and my name was there at no 29. Yipieeeeeeee!
My sole ray of hope!!!!!!!!!
I was happy of the news though was still not sure of joining it or not.
At the time I was leaving the college:
P1( one of my friends): yaar richa, don’t go to IITD. Try next year. I know you can do it. But no iitd. You deserve much better.
P2( another of my acquaintance in college): why do you want IITD. Why do you want to run after it. Wait for 2 years and then try.
X1(one of our profs): wat are your plans after collg?
Me: sir, TCS most probably( till that time IITd waitlisted)
X1: otherwise??
Me: sir, am waitlisted at IITD for MBA course.
X1: IITD!!!!???
MBA!!!?? (with a look of disbelief on his face)
Me: yes sir, is it about MBA or about doing it from IITD??
X1: I think you should wait for 2 years and then decide. And I seriously hope that you do not clear the WL.
Me: ok sir, I will think over it. (hmmmmmmmmm)
At the time I reached home:
Papa: wats your wl movement at IITD?
Me: some crap.
Papa: you will convert it and then you go to IITD.
Mom: my dream college. I always wanted you to come back home. And IITD is also not a bad college.
Me: hmmmmmmmmm
Confusion continues for more than a month.
What is it that I want?? (A BIG QUESTION MARK)
It doesn’t really matter.
It’s IITD for me now!
IITD here I come..
Run Lola Run Run Run :'(
Laila and majnu, Romeo and Juliet,,,, Manni and Lola; and you'll get Run Lola Run! I can't find words for my over-the-brim flowing emotions. I don't know whether I want to cry or I want to laugh or pull my hair or just take a stick and break this pc.. Was that a joke?? What were they trying to portray in the movie? Even if I got the moral, it was too long a torture to bear expecting something good to turn up.
What the name suggested to me was that there's a girl Lola and she'd have to run hard, probably in some race or something similar to it. But no, she's running so that movie can go on for one and a half hours. She couldn't even find a taxi or an auto when what one saw in her background was a whole lot of vehicles moving. ninety minutes is too short a time for any movie but for THIS it feels like eternity. The story repeated thrice and ended up in the same way it started making me wonder if I was sleeping in the movie and imagining things or this is exactly what is happening. A good way to make audience remember each and every dialogue of the movie.
In short, if you want to play a joke with your friend advise this movie to him/her and you'll have the best revenge of your life. Oh Lola why did you do this to me??
What do you do when you don't get what you deserve? Are your expectations too high or are you just a fool to run after something that's never made for you. Why do you still want to hold on to something that's all gone? Why do you still want to gather the broken pieces and dream of building a palace out of them. Who can you blame for your failure - you yourself or your luck!
This little post is dedicated to one of my school friends.
When your luck betrays you and your hard work fails to support you, your morale is lost. It's a one time thing but tends to have a long lasting effect. It's in your hands how to get yourself out of that situation. No word feels convincing. Every moment attacks like a sword. Time will heal your pain and has a surprise in store for you; but who has the patience or hope to see light at the end of a long tunnel.
Life's test is the most important of all and the only weapon you have is your attitude, which can either take you heights or burn you down to ashes. And this test is always a surprise one; God has nothing against us but wants us to learn something, direct us to the right path in a harsh way. Sometimes we can't understand as it all seems irrational.
Always smile at your problems, make them feel embarrassed and they will soon be gone. Don't let them control your life.
It's all easier said than done and am a perfect example of this.
