the 4 awesome years of my life..

my third and fourth years in college..

d thrd year was boring. really boring. except fr some csi events i organised along wid nipun n sumit i didnt do nething. dat ofcourse helped revive d csi branch of dce. n led to a tech fest. a first of its kind fr csi.
i met wid an accident.
exams were pathetic. nd so was our fest. it was horrible actually.

nw d fourth year. dis changed me completely. nt so much hapnd. yet so much actually hapnd. d year started wid placements. THE placements. microsoft came first. n i failed to clear d written. dat dejected me completely. i mean how could i nt clear a programming test. i went home depressed. next was motorola. d very next day. dose moto ppl showed up 5 hrs late..! nd i culdnt clear even dat test. d worst part..romit cleared it. nw me n romit have always been competitors in colg. be it acads or placements or even sports. so his clearing d test was a blow. if he cud i thot i shud have too. dat day i cud literraly define what depression is. believe me. i had failed two tests in a row n i was really dejected nw. i cud've killed myself. i didnt want to go home cz i knew i'd go into real depression. so i stayed back. waited fr amit to clear his cognizant interview. he got d job dat day. n he was happy. d happiness of a first job. tough luck fr romit, he cudnt clear d moto interview. n nw it was his turn to go into depression. so i decided to stay back in d hostel n ask him to stay wid us. dat was d only stress buster. we stayed up..had dinner at 12. watched a movie till 5. den slept. n woke up at 7. we had to. it was google dat day. i had lost all hopes by now. only after 2 attempts..!! so google was only a formality fr me dat day. i woke up. brushed my teeth. n cz google pptcame in my way of going home i attended it. n gave d exam. n flunked yet another time. :) neways i went home. i was relaxed nw. much better.

2 days later came cisco. a dream company fr many. splly sumit n amit. dese 2 ppl had been preparing fr cisco fr over a mnth. only fr cisco, literally. well, surprizingly i cleared d written dis time. dn knw how. me atul amber. nw my interview was scheduled at 10:30 in the nite! so i decided to prepare some more. (p.s. a tip: never do dat. watever u'v done is enuf. more kills.) while me n atul were 'ghissing', came yahoo! so we decided to sit in fr it. surprizingly i cleared d yahoo written too..!! i was sure having some day man. bt i was nervous. it was going to be my first interview. so in i went. n wat did i do. i blew it up. i wasnt even called in fr d hr. i cud'v cried dat moment. it was sooooooooo bad. next morning was yahoo. yesi. another written in unix. i blew it up too. nw wat do i say. dis is life i guess. one moment it takes u into heaven. d other moment..into hell.

after these episodes i felt dat dere was actually no hope fr me. nd i shu consider myself lucky if i cud somhow get a job! so i decided to sit fr d next company dat came. flextronics software systems. low pkg. a brand bt nt a big one. ppl didnt want to go fr it. i had no choices. so i sat. n cleared it. d interviews were trying. really. i mean cisco was easier dan dis had only i prepared well..! neways dat was d day i experienced d ecstatcy of d first job. d happiness u get. d happiness ur mom dad get. its hard to describe. it was amazing.
bt it had a bad side effect. nw dat i had a job i culdnt concentrate dat well on other companies. attempts were lessend by an obsolete dce placement policy. n whatever chances i got i blew. meanwhile all my frnds landed up in good companies. d most unexpected reault was amit getting conexant. everyone was waiting fr dat job. only he got. d placements got over fr d timebeing den. we had a lull. den came dose usual classes. mid sems.

my life got a new turn den. i got busy. :) nd i was enjoying every bit of dat new found 'busyness'..:)

den came end sems. n i faired d worst among my frns. i got the lowest score i cud never have imagined. it shook me up. literally. never had i performed so badly.

den vacations came. around new years we decided to go to simla. again d same story. nobody was ready except us four. me gaurav nipun atul. amit got in d last moment nd sumit cancelled d last moment. it was amazing. morning we wake up. nthing on our heads. we dn knw where to go. nipun's at d passport office. sumit is convincing his parents. atul is at d station. we r fighting over d fone where to head. nd d next moment we r sitting in the 2pm train to simla wid our tickets confirmed..! so off we went to simla. it was an amazing trip. d journey itself was so exciting. we were stranded at kalka fr over 6 hrs waiting fr our train. nd we had to literally run on d trck to catch a running train to 'book' out seats..!! nd dat journey frm kalka to simla. between d mountains. it was breathtakingly beautiful :)

new years eve was chilly bt boring. bt d next day we went to kufri to catch up on some snow stuff. dat was an experience. i finally saw snow. real snow. :) we all rode 'pithoos' - a hybrid of horse nd donkey - to d hill. n i even made mine 'run' downhill. i had to hit him on his neck to do dat. it was scary in d beginning bt fun.
d dwnward journey frm simla to chandigarh was hmmmm..d less i say d better. ;) bt we had a great time.

den began my training. nd only i knw how much i enjoyed going to my organisation. :) i used to go dere daily. fought my incharge. daily. dat was d best time. :)
den began colg. d last sem. we had 3 subjects. nd believe me. i attended only 2 classes d whole sem. one fr each of d two subjects. fr d third i didnt attend any. i didnt have d time. :) during our seminar towards d end of d sem, wen i sneaked in to check out who d invigilator is, i told nipun dat dude we'r screwed..its an external. only to find out it was our own IPR teacher. d third subject..!!
den dere was d major project. only i knw hw i did dat. ;) bt it was a learning experience nonedless.

in d middle of all dis, i cleared d adobe written. dat felt amazing. i really got some confidence back in me after dat. bt i lost out in d interview. a one hr gruelling session. :( still i regard it as a high point.

bt m going to aricent nw. m a software engineer dude..:) so it'll be work nw. no more colg masti. i'll miss all dat. bt lets hope job d turns out to be fun. d worst part is d habit of 'doing nothing'. it'll have an effect m sure. i just pray it doesnt get me fired one day..!! ;)