What not to do in Placements!!! - A Retrospection

Pre-Placement Phase

“Hey Where did you get placed dude”, this is the most common query posed to IITians when new year is springing up. Usually in IITs, placements will start in December. “How is your preparation, going on well??”, this is the question I have received one month before my placement. “No, Not yet started, I have my institute seminar, I am busy with presentation” was my answer. Institute Seminar (IS) is the etiquette followed in IITM for formal finishing of MS. Struggled a lot to complete implementation of my work with so many experiments to finish my work by the time the institute seminar date appears on the calendar. One day before my IS, I have realized that some results got messed up. Crazy…..went back to the console to run the script that starts 100 terminals on the screen that appears looks like an animation movie. Took the results and went back to gnuplot to redraw the graphs. The tool is cool but I struggled to make the lines thick. Finally done with the presentation with the updated modifications. Wow! presentation is looking good with
nice equations and graphs with colorful lines, and tables with ratios and stuff. Felt happy like a mother giving birth to a baby. Fast Forward >> >> a bit I completed my seminar and now I have to start prep for placements. Job is the tag for so called settlement. So I too opted for a job withstanding positive pressure from parents. After a long struggle almost continuously for 3 months to bring an end to my implementation of research work and IS, sudden drop in work levels and showers of relaxation inundated me. Started enjoying for a week and placement chart is slowly filling up with so many companies. Confidence rouse and ego said “u will easily get placed dude dont worry u have lot of CS companies”. But, I feel tensed because good pay companies are coming only till Dec 7th and again a break due to Inter-IIT sports meet and again starts on 24th. So the desire or target ahead is getting placed before 7th. BP rised and blood started travelling at super sonic speed as if it is finding a way to escape. “Whats the big problem if u dont get placed before 7th” raised by one of my friends. One of them said ” dude…….above 7 are coming before 7″??????It implies companies paying a rich amount are coming early. So if u want a good pay that is above 7L u have to be placed before 7th dec. My conscious said 7 is too much 6 is OK.
So, logged in to the placement web site and saw whether any companies are present that pay more or less 6. Ok..chances exist that u will get 6 easily even u dont get placed before 7. Pay is the only metric which we measure companies. More pay, more work never comes to our mind. Comparisons often prepares you with a mindset that u dont have even scope to think abt it. Leaving philosophy apart, I am bit relaxed as there are few companies with reasonable pay. Then my ego said ” you are IITian, ur frds who completed B.Tech with you are also getting between 5-6, whats the difference”. This is the problem with a human as there is always differences between “what you says and what your conscious says”. I dont know in what situations do they come to consensus. Listening to this statement from my consc.., I have a few more questions infront of me to be answered. Your neighbor who did B.Tech in NIT is getting 6, your seniors all of them are getting paid above 6 and so on….. Bloody comparisons human life dont get well if we have comparisons. The funniest part is sometimes we will do what we know is not correct. I decided firmly that I should be placed before dec 7th. Started praying to god. Stupid part is, I also created tension environment at house. Mom and dad started serious prayers that includes fasting blah blah blah…., I guess they couldn’t have did that much for themselves in their life time. After all a job whom nobody knows is that the life!!!! .

Finally preparation started with my friends, to our bloody tension juniors are also sitting for placements. Again comparison “whether they get placed first or I get placed”. If they get placed first what is my prestige ( as If I am maintaining it since a long time and now somebody is going to screw it up). Bloody hell….bloody human mind thinks a lot of unnecessary stuff . We are gradually in to the prep rewinding our so called concepts (which we think we know ….all of it that we have taught in B.Tech is crap) and solving puzzles. My mind graph during prep times is like a sine curve. I am tensed whether it stays at X-axis during placements.

Almost our placement preparation went like a war where each one of us are soldiers fighting for their country posing questions as bullets against each other. Finally the day arrived, questions arrived “what r the companies tomorrow”. Heart started beating at pulsar 220cc maximum speed. Thinking ……its all due to environment so to make a colorful day the next day mind should be cool. So went for a movie and started enjoying even there is no inherent enjoyment. Too many regrets on the day due to that movie which got bumped off heavily from tollywood box office.

Placements-Phase

1 st Day

Finally the day has arrived where every student got ready with weapons to win the war. Today the companies are google and microsoft, said one of my frds. Google has put 8.5 CGPA cut off and microsoft I guess there is no as such. Woke up at 6 and went to the hall with heavy feeling of hopes, future settlement, doubts. Innumerable thoughts began to flow as I step in the hall. Google guys arrived with large baggage. My eyes wondered whether I would be ever one of them in my life time. They are really great chaps as they are working for a search engine giant which every human in future visits it atleast once in a day.

Exam has begun and ordered mind to start its job of thinking. It said these are easy, then I looked in to the paper they are just straight forward questions from standard text books. Hopes started rocking till I approached the last question. Algo !!!!yes it is!!! I am dead and written some blah blah which is absolute bull shit which I had known after I left my exam hall. Slowly taking the dissappointment steps walked in to my room. I met Mr.reddy who is my well known friend and senior. He was in oracle and planning to quit to join one of the top research labs. Take it easy man….microsoft exam starts after an hour. With very little hope left, started filling up confidence fuel in by body engine and went for exam. Initially they have given a nice watch, book etc etc. Not interested at the moment as we r keen on question paper. As they dropped it at my table, started opening it curiously similar to a monkey jumping for fruit. Only 6 questions most of them are algos and one puzzle. We suffered from algos fever during preparations.

The test went for around an hour. There were about 12 from microsoft. They were in large number apparently to speed up the selection process. Exam over….again no hopes….I asked one of my friends any other companies today. There is one with name credit suisse(a financial company) but we were not short-listed. So end of the first day session campus placements for us. We(three of us) returned to hostel thinking nobody will be short-listed for microsoft. Each were in their individual moods of disappointment and 30 minutes passed away my friend(adi) got SMS “you are selected….come for second round test”. He screamed and rushed immediately to placement office for the second round. We, the other two thought that oh..atleast we have a relief now and hoped that he will get thru microsoft. I took lunch and went to sleep. I got SMS “second round finished and I am in tifanys”. Immediately woke up, rubbing my eyes, I called him to find out the details of other friends and the test. He spoke in a very low voice “gone….it was easy but…”. Oh …I said and asked about other persons who got in to second round. My tension increased when I heard the names because I never thought they were my competitors. My confidence now has gone to negative-X axis. After a while I moved slowly by walk to my lab, there were five of them who are victims of microsoft. We all laughed together as if ‘we left MS bcoz we dont want it’. We are back to preparation recalling what are the mistakes of the day. Like quote of the day we are thinking on our “mistakes of the day”. we realized the first mistake is unable to put algo in the form of program on the paper. So we started practicing algos by writing on paper. One of my friends wrote down all the algos on a book and slipped to his room to practise writing programs for those algos on the paper. Then me and adi started practicing them, with heavy moods of disappointment. Four hours passed and microsoft results were announced, one of my friends B.Tech friend got placed in microsoft. This event can be happy but added a spoon of disappointment to his thinking ” Oh am I not capable enough…..”. It was night we all moved to Minar for food, everyday we go for enjoying food. But on that day we took food just to live one more day. It was all tension and pressure flowing all over the body. We heard a big shout at our back, what is this, I said. “They got in MS and they are celebrating party”, said one of my friend. Oh very luck guys…they got in first day itself, thought all of us. We are back to lab to start our preparation marathon. Next day was yahoo!. So rushed through yahoo!papers.

Meanwhile we had a great words of inspiration by Mr.reddy to encourage us. Even they are filling up some level of hope but we still not sure what would happen in the coming week. We are in a state that we dont know how to react when somebody says “I got placed”. We just said “congratulations”. We are happy because they wont be there for the next day to compete. There was a intelligent rule in IIT, once a student got placed in a company he is out for the rest of the placement process. This rule is very typical, as the same person appreciates and dislikes this rule. The person who is about to place will think “this is a great rule”, after he got placed he thinks “this rule should not be there”. !! This can be surprising but this is fact. Everybody sees everything only from his side and forgets there are three more sides in which we can view.

2nd day………….

They asked us at come at 7.00PM what a crazy time. We rushed 15 minutes before. We are the first to enter the hall. We cracked jokes on each other saying that ” you will get definitely yahoo…. n so on…” . Finally yahoo! guys arrived, there were 5 of them and one HR. HR is tall, but old. He is very energetic. We dont have energy at that moment so every other person seemed energetic and confident. They asked some questions after prolonged PPT and thrown goodies whoever answers first. This gave us confidence that placement people are repaying 1000(what we have paid for placement fees) in the form of T-shirts and other stuff. The shouting and mess created by the students in the hall reminded me of my childhood days where we shouted like that for chocolates. After a while the whole hall turned silence and they arranged for exam. Exam started and all questions related to perl scripting, linux commands, algos and C fundaes. It was ended by 11 and we came out. I thought I have written OK,but not fully confident because selection process wouldbe relative. System administator role which I am performing one year back helped me in answering very few questions. Some were happy after exam bcoz paper was easy and some were unhappy bcoz its easy so that everbody will answer them and luck decides who will be the winner. We went back to lab to see the placement calendar, tomorrow companies are amazon and trilogy. we spent some time in the lab rushing thru old papers and one of my friend bought the book with his full hand written programs for algos. Me and adi were practicing but we are not perfect in writing them. Anyway we went to sleep dreaming the dawn of the next day with names in the notice board.

3rd day

Still yahoo! results are not put up, we attended amazon test. It was cool and algos are direct questions which adi had taught me the easy logic of writing a program. I was told amidst the amazon exam hall that I cleared yahoo! written test. I have to come out and hence I missed Amazon T-Shirt. I cleared yahoo! it was sudden surprise and I am happy. It is not over we have to clear interview and then a programming round said my conscious. First I rushed to barber shop to shave and then went to room picked out some formal pair and put them on with half-in shirt and took print out of resume and reached the interview hall. This was my first interview in my life for a job. Coordinators called my name and entered the hall. Hi Phani Kumar!! said the interviewer. he introduced hiimself and asked me to be seated. I reminded that I have read in a rediff article that we should wish them “good morning sir” if there is one and “good morning sirs” if there are more. I wished “good morning sir”…… He first asked me about my project. I just explained about it. He just nodded but I am sure he could not have understood a bit of it. But that was not he want. He asked me “are u comfortable with OS”, yes I stammered. Fortunately some of the important concepts I have learned from ashok who was my little-os guru. Almost he asked about all os concepts including paging and comparison between windows and linux. He asked abt linux commands which I answered almost. One question I could not answer was ” to sort a file with names in it using shell script ofcourse with some constraints in the format of output”. I explained some blah blah which he was not satisfied. He told there is simple “sort” command that will do. I scolded myself that ” I should have gone thru the linux commands once”. Next, he asked me port numbers of different application layer protocols. I told some answer and confused him by confusing myself. Finally he said please write on a paper and he kept calm for some time. I scribbled something in which some were correct. He asked me finally “what is the port number for DNS”………….”Thats all from side phani kumar thank you” he said.” Thank u sir ” I said and left the hall. I got a feeling that I am completely free from all the tension I was carrying along. As soon as I came out everyone are waiting for Amazon results. Paper was a bit easy so everyone has a hope. Finally the results are out I saw my name in notice board among 12 who cleared amazon. Then I rushed again to the interview hall. Waited outside…..my name was called and I entered. Oh..the interviewer is very young person he said hi and I said hi and I laid down on the chair. He asked me abt the project and some non-academic stuff. Then he jumped in to questioning abt OS concepts. He asked me the page replacement algos. Then he asked me finally to write reg-exp of $12,130,150. I wrote with so many *s but he was not satisfied and said we will inform u if u get in to second round. I came out but I know I did not perform well. There was tensed environment outside as yahoo and amazon interviews are going in parallel. About 20 students running between the places. Some of them dont know to which interview they are going.

They are tired by waiting,answering,wandering for so many reasons.. Most funniest thing is one of my friends went to yahoo! and he dont know it and he thought he is in amazon interview. An answer by him to one of the questions he said was “ur company amazon.com is famous for book selling in which we can apply learning algos” which is apparently his project. Finally he bumped. I was waiting for amazon second round short-list. Yahoo! people are conducting two rounds for some people. So I was waiting outside and hearing discussions by the people who got interviewed by yahoo and amazon. So many questions and so many interesting answers. I slowly injected them in to my mind. But I neither got a call from yahoo nor from amazon. I left the place with my frds for a tea and as I came out I recieved a call saying that u got in to programming round (or final round) of yahoo!. It is going to be conducted somewhere 0.5KM from placement hall. While I am going, a lady joined along with me to the final round. I am riding fast but she is riding slow. So I reduced my speed to give her company and finally reached the hall. My body is full of sweat and everybody are inside waiting for the exam. I counted the number of people with which I have to compete. Oh 1..2..3….10 were there. After a while they have given us 2 questions which we can program using any of the languages from C,C++,perl,shell script. I started coding with C, it was very difficult to do it because it is database type of program. I figured out it will be very very difficult If I code in C, after 30 minutes of 180 minutes total time. I am just looking around to see what others are doing. Everyone are very serious and doing it. Somebody are writing in perl and some body in C. I prayed to god and kept silent for a while. A few incidents that were happened 6 hours back were flowing in my mind. I reminded of sort command which my interviewer said. It was just striked “why dont I do it in shell script”. But I dont know any commands or syntax to solve such a huge program. I opened “man sort” . I mastered sort command in 30 minutes along with another commands usefull for solving. I experimented them but I am getting syntax errors. I know the command name but using it is becoming difficult bcoz of typical syntax that shell scripting follows.

It was already 1 hr 30 minutes but I have not done anything. I am trying randomly command with so many options. Finally one command worked and I started coding but I am getting syntax errors. I called the yahoo! person who interviewed me and showed this. He asked me to remove a space and surprisingly it worked. I solved the second program first with those few commands I have learned know and it was complete. I have moved to first question but could able to solve it partially. Suprisingly, the programs were just 4 to 6 lines when the code is in scripting language. But the same program in C takes around atleast 1000 lines. “Time out” said one of the yahoo! members. One of them came for evaluation and I explained him about the effort I have put for solving them . I said ” I dont know any command but I just learned them using man pages”. He looked at my program and said wow!! gr8 attempt very good he said. I was shocked and my hope of selection in to yahoo! would become true? 10 lakhs per annum and I reminded of the a video of yahoo!work environment which they have shown during PPT…I am just dreaming…. one of them said u can go.. I left the place and have to rush because there is one more written test of versata at 11.00PM. I am very tired and went to room and dropped my formal clothes and came to the exam hall with ordinary wear. My mind is still revolving around yahoo!, there is some hope and there is no. I am in tension and looked at versata HR who looked very pretty. I dont feel like enjoying her beauty as I am in sheer pressure. PPT was going on then and they gave away T-shirts and after a while we moved to exam hall. One of my friends were just coming and said about the people selected in yahoo. I was not among them . Shit.!!! I was disappointed a lot after reminding the effort I have put to solve their programming questions. “They dont want such kind of people” I said to my conscious. I sat down I looked at versata question paper. I am not in a mood to crack it. I just scribbled something and left the hall. Whole night I was in disappointment. I would not felt that much if I could not solve them. But my struggle came to my mind which I am not unable to keep it aside. This is a first interview and first failure.

4 th day…..

Being tired so much the previous day..I slept off the whole night and wake up at around 9.00AM. I didnt feel like going to check versata short list. Two of my friends went and saw it but none of us got shortlisted. Today, we have a time to relax as there are no other companies. There is one financial company MORGAN stanley where me and ashok are not shortlisted but adi got short-listed. It was in the evening. We thought we will approach them and request them to allow us to write the exam. I stopped going to lab. I am in shades of disappointment of loosing yahoo!. I heard the previous day itself one of our labmate got selected in yahoo. She is my junior and my seniors called me on mobile and asked “what da she got selected and u r not selected till now, is she that brilliant”. So many questions haunting my mind and I am unable to come out of the disappointment though I know we cant do anything much about it. But that was my first complete and full-fledged effortwhich came to failure. Being the whole day in depressed mood I slept off and woke up in the evening. One of my friends adi got shortlisted for morgan written test. He has already left. Me and ashok started on cycle and reached placement office first and requested the lady in the office. She said ” I cant do anything, please approach ravi shankar of morgan”. Here I got a chance to appreciate placement people. They have done excellent job in scheduling and conducting placements. They helped students a lot. Kudos to placement people. Then me and ashok waited for a while and innova came and stopped before placement office. 6 guys got down and entered placement office. We are waiting to be caught by the glimpse of any of the morgan guys. But none of them considered us and left to the place where they are going to conduct the online test.

We went behind them on cycle. I was riding and ashok sat at the back. It was very hot that day and location is near ocean department. We went there and saw already two guys talking to morgan guys. I asked him “sir can we write the exam?”. He said ” to prepare short list, our people has done a thorough scrutiny almost 4 to 5 times and hence I cannot help you”. We said thank you and left the place. I decided that it is sure that I wont be placed before 7th and hence I went to placement web site to look at some companies coming after dec 23rd. I saw some of those companies and registered for the companies who are even paying 5. Confidence dropped to negative levels. At this point of time I decided that I will sit for those who will pay atleast 5. Night it was very dull. My parent stopped calling me thinking that I will feel stressed if they call me. I called them and explained all that happened till date. We have not registered for the winter mess, so we are dining daily in quark minar. It is opened till 2.00 in the night. We used to gather there and discuss the mistakes we have done, cribs and so many things…. I could not able to eat much as I have done early and hence my protruding paunch has stopped a bit. Somehow, I observed the people after coming to IIT, will put up some weight. Everbody dont appreciate IIT food but they gains minimum 5 to 10 kgs during their stay.

5th day…..

Morgan results are out and adi got shortlisted and he went to get prepared for the interview. We are all confident that adi will get in to MS. We somehow predicted that its going to happen. AFter a while, we went for lucent exam and it was very tough and after that we rushed to exam hall for adobe. It was 3 hrs exam which irritated us a lot. all are verbal,analytical,quantative and so on…. While writing exam one placement coordinator came and announced lucent results in which my name was spelled out. Showers of smile sprinkled on me but disappointment on some of my friends face. After finishing the exam, I rushed to room and get the formal wear and entered lucent interview hall. I was kept waiting and somebody is being interviewed. As soon as one lady came out after interview, I approached her and found out about the process. She said they are asking only about your question paper. I screamed how cum I said “my answers most of are random”. She said “even same with my case”. I said “what did u say”. I agreed that I have put them randomly, she whispered in low voice. After that I went in to interview and only one guy is sitting and he is very fierceful.

He asked me about the details and opened my question paper which I have written. I was shocked to see as I marked some of the questions randomly. I thought I was lucky that my random answers got me for interview. He opened the answer sheet and asked me why did you put A for 1st question. I explained some blah blah and he looked like convinced and he asked me the answer modifying the question. After 2 to 3 trials I said “spanning tree”. He is satisfied with the answer and moved to next question. He is very serious and I got frightened by the way he is asking questions. He asked me about my project and I explained thinking that he anyway wont understand. But surprisingly he askd wonderful questions which werent striked my mind before. Somehow I struggled to answer. I left and I am sure 100% that I wont be selected. So directly came out to see adobe results. Out of 140 they selected only 3. Hah hah I laughed and went to room. The whole scenes made me very disappointed and I decided to sit for ZS that is coming in the evening. Meanwhile adi is in the interview and he cleared first round and went for product round. Its an interesting round where a team of people have to make a product for the given specification and advertise it. Our chap even cleared that I went into penultimate technical round.

At the same time me, ashok, reddy attended ZS PPT. Those people are very senior people and they were going on and on about their company. Atlast the pay slide came for which everyone waiting eagerly. He showed 7.5 but take home is 1.7. even though it is low I decided its enough for me and asked one of the coordinators there. Is it for MS CSe also. He said “yes”. When we came out I expressed my opinion before my friends that I would be sitting for MS. Even before that ashok said “I am dropping”. Reddy scolded me like a hell and asked me not to sit for it as there are hazaar companies coming for CS which have a decent pay. Finally I have to change my decision. We were eating some snacks provided by them and in between we called adi who finished his tech round and going for HR round. We left to hostel and adi came back with flying colors saying that he performed OK. I asked him about the questions that were asked. He answered perfectly and in HR round his answers were quite attractive that If I would be on HR chair I will definitely offer him the job. The day ended with some happiness as one of our friends is hoping to reach the destination. we slept off after having along discussion about the people who got placed and their interviews and funny things. One of them was ..apparently versata guy has performed 6 to 7 rounds and have taken only one guy. Lucent guy left without taking anyone. Only two days left for ending the first phase of placement process. We were already on depressed mood and went to bed.

6th day….

Woke up and went to write the exam hall at 7.00AM. feeling very tired and sleepy all of us sat on the benches for writing exam. Symantec guys arrived with their large baggage. I have no hopes and no dreams in front of us as all of them got vanished with the effect of previous days. We were given question paper which was around 2.5 hrs length. C, c++, java and analytical ability. I was scared of analytical. Exam finished and did not think of anything. Again rushed for cisco exam there were about 10 people. They were super-smart , their language accent is so pleasant. It was just one hour exam and all are networking questions which felt were difficult. We finished it and went rushed towards notice board. My name is one of the 42 people shortlisted for symantec. I was not that happy bcoz I already got bumped 3 times. I went to room and have enough time so I went thru OS concepts and symantec old papers. Meanwhile adi got a call that he got an offer from Morgan. He was very happy and ran to placement office to confirm himself. One more girl from my lab also got placed in morgan. I was preparing and ran thru symantec products also. I have enough time bcoz interview starts only in the evening. I took my lunch and left to room. For all previous interviews I was wearing blue shirt which I felt this time I should not wear. One friend named sreenu gave a shirt to ashok 2 days back. I took that shirt and even I wear shoes this time which I m not doing for any of the previous ones. The same shoes which adi weared for morgan. The surprising thing is that many of my friends became very sentimental as opposed to their character earlier. They will change pen, pencil, dress anything if they have not cleared written test or interview. The stress during these days changed the mentalities of people in so many ways. Anyway, Now I dressed like a full professional which I have not done anytime during my life time. I now went to interview place. I gave my resume and waiting for the call. After around 30 minutes they called me, when I gave the resume it was an old teared copy of my resume which I have overlooked. Coordinator told me “what is this? Is this the way u submit resume! this shows your……” he is not IIT student coordinator and he is outsourced person. I immediately ran with my loose shoes which were slipping off If I run fastly, took my bicycle and rushed to lab. I should not have done this, I am lazy, crazy, ignorant everthing, I scolded my self and reached lab. Lab was dark as there was seminar going on. But I interrupted them and went inside to take print out. While leaving lab my professor said ” all the best”.

I immediately went to the interviewer. I thought my slot would be gone and it was given to somebody and hence I have to wait. But to my surprise my interviewer is coming from outside. He said “thanks for giving me time to go to rest room”. I said I am sorry sir I overlooked my resume. He said its ok. He straight way went to OS concepts deadlocks, semaphores, mutex all blah blah and some distributed system concepts and interview went along for 45 minutes. I was told that you will be called for other round and I waited waited….meanwhile they are announcing offers to some people even after one round. I waited for an hour and looked around the environment. It was like a family, every person helping other person even if they havent met or talked before. The students who already got placed were there for moral support. One guy taught us the HR fundaes like “how did u introduce yourself”, “How did u choose my company” etc etc. After almost one hour I have recieved a call for 2nd round. I went inside and wished the interviewer. Fortunately our last names matched and we laughed and he interviewed for around 1 hour. He asked about OS and even he went to distributed system concepts like RPC, CORBA also. Immediatley I was taken to HR and she announced me an offer. But that announcement was not an official one. As soon as I came out I yelled “I got selected”, Immediately an young lady gave me shake-hand. I immediately called myhome and they were so happy. I am so excited that if somebody touches me I will be in tears. Finally I got placed.

Some were notified and some were not and hence everyone are waiting for the official announcement. Atlast “come guys”, said HR. He announced all the names. People who got selected screamed with happiness and some who were not selected left the place unhappily.
Now forgot about the effort, forgot about the disappoinment but memories still alive. It was a great feeling that I got a job after a journey of 6 days. Every day is a experience and every minute is important. I was so happy as if there is nothing to achieve afterwards in life. After all a job, life wont end here, lot of challenges and issues to face and that is life. I recharged my mobile with BSNL top-up and called all relatives and friends to inform the happy news. Some expressed happiness, some were normal, some asked about the package and surprised. I have spent 500 in two days for mobile recharge.

Post-Placement days……

Went to tirupaty, kanipakam, dwaraka tirumala along with parents and enjoyed at home for a week. Dad gave me special treatment and told that his salary would be almost equal to my PF. We all laughed and enjoyed. My mom looked after me as usual. I am just a loving son for her no matter what the son achieves, that is mother love, sweet love on the earth. Thats why matrudevobhava stands first in a famous sanskrit sloka that prays mother,father and teacher. She cooked all varieties that I used to like and feels tensed If am out of home for just more than 2 hours. She immediately calls me, when I would be with my childhood friends. My sister also felt very happy. Finally came back to lab to start writing my thesis, synopsis n stuff. Me and adi left to srisailam and mahanandi and I went to hyd in between. Again back to lab and awaiting for my god to let me free from the bond of MS-education. For most of MS junta, guide is god, lab is temple and research is prayer.

This is only from my point of view. There are people who faced the struggle for some time later and there are some who got placed on the first day itself without seeing the pain of placement struggle. There are people who dropped placements hoping to get a good company that they missed this time for coming placements. It can be a simple and part of life game for other people. But I would like to express me and my frds struggle in placements. This is one case study to learn what to do and what no to do in placements. Life just goes on even with everything or even with nothing. Time is careless, it just goes, our pains, gains, loss, struggle wont matter for it, so be carefull in taking a step and enjoy this one and only life of urs. Life teaches us lot of lessons but by them time we master them our life ends. When we expect or wait for something, the delay is inevitable, but by the time you abandon it or leave it, it comes your way. Finally, I would like to express heartfelt thanks to all my friends, well wishers , acquaintances , interviewers and my company. My next blogging would be on my whole MS life how my research started, shaped, published, ended …………….