Life Reloaded!!!

Few more results out including Summer Internship where I got B+. CGPI drops to 8.98 :( Oh and happy birthday Nik :)

Many years ago a young Jonty Rhodes was batting with the legendary but ageing Graeme Pollock. After Jonty had called him for one single too many, the great man called him mid-pitch and said: " Young man, the athletics stops now and the cricket begins! " Source - http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/480388.html

When 6th Module’s timetable was declared during exams, we were little scared about the fact that we had been assigned Prof. S. S. Bhattacharya for Leadership Development class. Though he had a reputation of being a really passionate speaker, he also gave one of the toughest and the most innovative paper for section A & B. I missed the first class since I was at home during Ganeshotsav. There is one most important rule in his class – Come on time. For people who are not familiar with NITIE, this might not be so big thing. But NITIE people know how late one can be for a lecture. I thought Prof. Khanapuri was lenient with our batch as he did allow some late comers to attend class (which was unlike his reputation as told to us by our seniors). So during the first lecture 7 people made it to the class whereas during 2nd lecture 8 people were allowed to enter. In fact, at the time of 2nd lecture more people were standing outside than there were people inside the class. During his fir...

Section C’s defense breaks down… A General and a Soldier fall..

Time – 11AM Before we got into case solving mode in Business Ethics class, Vaibhav Gupta shows me latest score he received on his mobile. It was 124/8, Bhajji has just got out and my reaction was - Sid – Damn it! Can’t they last for even 10 balls? After a few minutes, VG asked me to check the score on GPRS. Sid – Nah man. What’s the point in checking score now? Honestly I have lost hope now. VG – Come on! Hope is a good thing, may be best of things, and no good thing dies. Sid – Hehe… Lets see! And we again started tracking score during the whole lecture..   Time – 1.45PM India wins the test match by 1 wicket And what an atmosphere in Hostel 5!!! Unforgettable!! I went to VG’s room and said – Yes man, hope is a good thing!!!

A particular professor in my college has been asking us to sell the Gandhi’s Auto-biography in corporate offices. The reason for this, he says is that it will improve NITIE’s image. I really wonder how it is going to improve or establish our image in the market place. According me, the only to prove that a college is good, is the Alumni network of that college and performance of the current batch in various festivals/ certifications/ exams. Because when someone like CRISIL comes to NITIE’s campus then it would like to see our financial knowledge. If it doesn’t see any talent, it would reluctant to come next time. On the other hand, if it finds more than a bunch of good people, then it will be more than happy to come again. How can selling books make us more “visible” in the corporate? It makes me little frustrating especially when the Prof tells us that we can even ask corporate to pay us money if they want us to come to their campus. Now, why on the earth company would want to pay to ...

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen   Source - http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/342.html

Well, September just passed by and we realized that it is 2 more months for the Final Placements. Time to gear up for the Ultimate Challenge of 2010!!!

Today we celebrated our annual function where Juniors show their singing, dancing skills to the rest of the college. I was given my Class Representative certificate by the Director of NITIE, Dr. Subhash Awale. Feels Good