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Dec 10, 2009 at 02:47 AM |
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You wait quietly, shuffling your feet in the snow
Powdered hat, face, nose; powdered feet below
I see the words you speak; I see them float
Down the white-spattered lapels of your coat
And though I strain my ears to hear you speak
I know I dare not hope for light on a day so bleak. |
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Preparing for Judgment Day |
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Nov 18, 2008 at 12:28 PM |
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I wrote an article for InsIght after a long while. Here goes... It’s that time of the year again. Placement season, case studies, puzzles, new clothes, résumés and what not. It’s a time of extreme joy and pain for us IITians. After all, most of us look upon placements as judgement day. The one month in our four (or five) year academic life where companies weigh our achievements, talk to us for a few hours and designate our rightful place in the food chain. With time, our fascination with getting an “A1 job” has only grown. We start to make planned tradeoffs between academics, organizational work and sports starting from our freshman years. Organizations get ranked based on how “successful” their alumni have been and clubs are formed (or joined) to inch closer to the perfect CV, the perfect interview and the perfect job. In a nutshell, we turn placement season into the environment we’re the most comfortable with; a fight-to-the-death competition for the best job on campus. After all, the more others want something, the better it must be. As über-competitive Indians, that’s how we make most of our decisions. It’s been three years since I went through the same phase and acted the exact same way (though at the time, I would have disagreed). I’ve since had several juniors ask me how to make these decisions, forcing me to think about this and talk to my peers and seniors in turn. The next few paragraphs are words of friendly advice, from a senior to a junior. Read More... |
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