Hello.

Greetings from the seasonal blogger to the seasoned bloggers. I have absolutely no idea how you guys keep it up. The very thought of typing out a long post scares me away. :)

I will not be delving into any issue in this issue. I'll just write some random stuff to please the little voice in my head that tells me how wasted my life is.

Life has been rather tough these past few weeks. Another bout of the mid sems brought home the reality that exams never stop sucking. It also made us face the truth: All seniors lie.

It has been 3.5 years now and we have let ourselves be fooled into believing every year that the coming year will be the easiest. It has not been so till now. But somethings have changed. The amount we care about exams has exponentially decreased. Even the studious guys start late in the evening before the exam. I see that as a good sign. :D

Bugged as I was with our seniors blatantly lying to us about life in college, I tried to do an expose of sorts on Dcetech. It was mostly about how percentage is what decides your job and how little a part ECAs play in it.

Maybe there is some part of us that knows the truth all along. But we do a mighty skillful job of suppressing those thoughts and moving on in our ignorance. I remember my mum's incredulous remarks when I told her marks are secondary, anything above 65 is great, all you need are ECAs. She would not believe me! And I would not concede. And so it died the slow death of an argument that can be concluded only in the distant future.
Of course, now I can see how right she was and how ignorant I was.

This reminds me of something a senior and a very dear friend once told me, "Always trust blindly in your parents. You might think you are smarter and know more than them; it might even be true. But in the end you'll see: they are always right."

Anyhow, as I was saying, I gave little importance to academics. I never studied earlier than a day or two before every exam. I left half the syllabus unread at times. By God's grace I flunked just twice. :D
It was quite embarrassing, I was never a topper, but I had never flunked either. So yeah it hurt my ego and all. I dreamt of bouncing back but never did. I did however manage to score the highest in the supplementary exams. ;)

Fate is a strict teacher. I was always on the good side of 65, albeit very close to it. But one result changed it all. And here I am today with a percentage of 64.7, not allowed to sit for most of the good companies.
Well, I can't complain much. I did get a job, in fact I was the first one to land an A+ in our friend circle. The fact that Deloitte pays less than what *some* people make with their A jobs barely bothers me. :D

Anyway, this was not supposed to be a placement guide or anything. So that will be it for placements.

I have fallen into this horrible spiral of procrastination. The problem is so severe that the only time I get out of my chair in the day is for my shower and crap. So, it has become a severe problem. I have not prepared for CAT at all. Others are done with packages and are busy acing mocks while I stare at the Facebook homepage all day.

Lets hope I can turn things around. It is not a good feeling to be doing nothing.

Congratulations are in order to Anoop for landing a free trip to Geneva. The lucky bloke had to pay just Rs.8000 for the thing.

It'd be great if people can suggest something for me to write on. I would love a discussion on anything under the sun.

Wish you all good health.

Drive safe!

Achint