Archive for March, 2006

Show up, “You’ll be the (wo)man for the job”

The topic on which I am gonna jabber about, in this post, is Placements. People who haven’t yet attended it, might call it “The deciding factor in my Career”. People who have attended it would say “Somebody had to get selected, I did”. I got placed into a software firm myself.
During my final year at [...]

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Wanna say “Go India”.

The Football World Cup, the second biggest sporting event in the world, second only to the Olympics (Really wanna know who watches it, all people do is, check the medal tally at the end ), is about to get rolling in Germany. So, I decided, why not pledge my loyalty to the team I support. [...]

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Worth of an Engineer

Well, almost coming to the end of 4 years of engineering and with almost 24 hours a day to waste, I sat up thinking, how much are we worth, after we do this “Technical” degree. Well, if the money invested is any indication, then your worth is quite a lot, unless you are studying in [...]

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Beached High and Dry.

ps: My Final post on CAT.
CAT around the corner. Didn’t actually hit me till the day before the exam, ie 19th November, 2005. It was actually early for me. Usually, the seriousness of the day that follows hits me late in the night. (every semester this happens) The reason: TV channels. It was obvious that [...]

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Rome was not built in a day.

Note: The run up to CAT 2005.
Finally, the post on CAT that I had promised in another post of mine. I can say with a lot of confidence that it was the only entrance exam that I attended, thinking, I had a real good chance.(I still do) But as usual, it ended the way every [...]

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CAT: An Introduction

Note: This, as the title states, talks about what CAT is, in general. My experience on the November 20th follows, in the next post.
CAT, for starters, is an entrance exam for most of the management institutes in India. Many institutes prefer having their own mode of selection like XAT, MAT, JMET, IIFT, FMS. But, [...]

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Few things Nobody Bothers to talk About

Well, what do I see in the news paper today??? MDMK and AIADMK together??? Did I see Vaiko and Jayalalitha shaking hands? Of course I did. And printed below this picture was a sentence that any budding politician knows, as a rule: “There are no permanent friends or enemies in this business”. Well, probably a [...]

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For they seek peace, they prepare for War

NOTE: For people reading this, none of the content is true and if at all anything is true, its only by pure accident.
A whole post on the riot???? Well, let me try. As I didn’t want this post to be caught on g**gle search, I’ll call the college in question as SMEC. To start, we [...]

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