As the year comes to an end, we start to evaluate our performance in the whole year. We try to classify it if it was a good or bad year with different parameters in hand. For me this year was one of the toughest years to start with. I had to make a lot of important decisions, many of them went right and rests were bizarre. In fact, the decisions I made in this year have made it crystal clear that next year will be the toughest year in my life. Why? That is a different story which I will tell you some different day. For now, I would like reassess what I have done in this whole year.
To begin with I had a real bad end to 2005 as I had given the worst exam of my life. I was sure that I would get less than 70 percent, my new lowest total…. I had to make a come back in the coming semester to gain confidence for the campus interviews in the month of July. I started the year by enrolling for the IMS classes as I decided to prepare for CAT. It was a calculated decision taking into account the amount information I had and other factors. I realized that to compete with the best I must learn more than what is taught in colleges. So I teamed up with Divin, a guy with big heart. We started learning Visual C++. We proposed to have a special registration mechanism for our college’s cultural festival called “Pratibimb”. We were appointed as registration head for the Pratibimb-06. During the same period I got a call from Aditya Raut, Magazine GS asking me whether I would take the post of Publicity Head. I rather open handedly accepted it. I had to work really hard to get the software for Pratibimb working. I also had to be impartial knowing that previously there had been cases of cheating to make a specific department win or lose. I was really lucky that we had a good committee that never forced me to do any bad practice.
It wasn’t just festivals though; I also had to give vivas and exams. It wasn’t an easy time either and I wasn’t alone. Sidscope and I had to study and study and study to get back into form. The worst period was during the term test, when we had term test after every 2 days with lots of assignment in hand. And if that wasn’t enough then we were going to have vivas within 1 week (in fact 2 on the same day). Everyone went through the difficult period at the end with one month to go for the exams. I gave the exam with a will to make a comeback in the top ten and really paid off. I was again in the top 5 tied with anup at 5th spot.
Then came the 7th semester. I decided not to concentrate much on academics because as it is we fetch our marks because of last month study. I also had to give CAT. During the sem I realized that I was too late to improve for the personal interview for the IIM. Thus even if had passed the CAT, I would have been humiliated in the PI. Still I wanted to give the exam as I wanted show myself that I can do it. The real test though came in August when Google came for Open house in my college. It was the first dream company to come to my college that year. I never thought that I would ever reach to next stage of interview but I did it. Not only that I cleared all 4 interviews. The decision is still pending, I still have hopes. By the time our vivas were scheduled, I came to know that I had been careless in study and had to work doubly hard for preparing for the vivas. Vivas came and went, Exam came and went, but this time I tried not to feel bad about the mistakes I had made in them. I am still learning how to give my best performance in these exams. Let us hope I achieve it in my last Sem.
I am sorry because I can’t go into the details of every important event of 2006 now. But assure you that I will. About the coming year (or rather this year) I have great expectations. This is going to be the toughest of them all. Wish me best of luck.
To begin with I had a real bad end to 2005 as I had given the worst exam of my life. I was sure that I would get less than 70 percent, my new lowest total…. I had to make a come back in the coming semester to gain confidence for the campus interviews in the month of July. I started the year by enrolling for the IMS classes as I decided to prepare for CAT. It was a calculated decision taking into account the amount information I had and other factors. I realized that to compete with the best I must learn more than what is taught in colleges. So I teamed up with Divin, a guy with big heart. We started learning Visual C++. We proposed to have a special registration mechanism for our college’s cultural festival called “Pratibimb”. We were appointed as registration head for the Pratibimb-06. During the same period I got a call from Aditya Raut, Magazine GS asking me whether I would take the post of Publicity Head. I rather open handedly accepted it. I had to work really hard to get the software for Pratibimb working. I also had to be impartial knowing that previously there had been cases of cheating to make a specific department win or lose. I was really lucky that we had a good committee that never forced me to do any bad practice.
It wasn’t just festivals though; I also had to give vivas and exams. It wasn’t an easy time either and I wasn’t alone. Sidscope and I had to study and study and study to get back into form. The worst period was during the term test, when we had term test after every 2 days with lots of assignment in hand. And if that wasn’t enough then we were going to have vivas within 1 week (in fact 2 on the same day). Everyone went through the difficult period at the end with one month to go for the exams. I gave the exam with a will to make a comeback in the top ten and really paid off. I was again in the top 5 tied with anup at 5th spot.
Then came the 7th semester. I decided not to concentrate much on academics because as it is we fetch our marks because of last month study. I also had to give CAT. During the sem I realized that I was too late to improve for the personal interview for the IIM. Thus even if had passed the CAT, I would have been humiliated in the PI. Still I wanted to give the exam as I wanted show myself that I can do it. The real test though came in August when Google came for Open house in my college. It was the first dream company to come to my college that year. I never thought that I would ever reach to next stage of interview but I did it. Not only that I cleared all 4 interviews. The decision is still pending, I still have hopes. By the time our vivas were scheduled, I came to know that I had been careless in study and had to work doubly hard for preparing for the vivas. Vivas came and went, Exam came and went, but this time I tried not to feel bad about the mistakes I had made in them. I am still learning how to give my best performance in these exams. Let us hope I achieve it in my last Sem.
I am sorry because I can’t go into the details of every important event of 2006 now. But assure you that I will. About the coming year (or rather this year) I have great expectations. This is going to be the toughest of them all. Wish me best of luck.
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