Bits and Pieces.
Once again, it's that time of the year, when the exams are near, when the ink that runs the blog threatens to dry out excusing itself for other troubles one's mind has to go through.
So all I can do is submit yet another patchwork of some unrelated pieces of my writing,
1. Life at College's coming to an end, atleast for now. Things that I can no more have:
a) Lectures in the Old and New Theatres, eating at the Brunch Bowl and the Wright's Bar
b) Eating out at the GBKs, Masala Zones and Pizza Expresses/Huts before catching a movie at Prince Charles Cinema, Odeon or Vue whenever i please
c) Footloose and fancy trips to England's countryside, the lake district , Scotland or Belgium or the Netherlands on shoestring budgets.
d) Catching that fantastic view of London over Waterloo Bridge at night.
And things to look forward to: ?
a) A daily 12 hr grind from 8 to 8.
b) Sandwiches for lunch on the desk, may be innumerable trips to bring breakfast, tea and lunch?
c) A nice home to get back to, perhaps and a lot more stuff that's affordable, only there's no time to enjoy it perhaps.
d) Minute-to-minute checks to see how much money I have accumulated so far?
2. To imagine life as a highly paid sales guy who has to sell to people born with gold nappies under their bums is not entirely pleasing.
Atleast that's what I picked up from the movie Syriana, even as rich Sheiks with no semblance of intelligence get, by simply being born, what most people have to work their entire lives to get.
3. It's bumper time, atleast for Indian graduates in the US and those at the IIMs. Nonetheless there will always be a few gloomy faces - especially those who would bet their lives that the frightening CGPA is the most foolproof predictor of future success.
(9 pointer Elec/CS toppers, average 8 pointers, lowly seven pointers, Cul Secs and Not-even-Sac Secs find themselves in the same boat, with similar pay in similar firms - so what decides who comes out on top ? I don't know but I can safely bet that it won't be the CGPA.)
True, High CGPA indicates a drive among young men not very common, but those in the middle ranges cannot count on a number printed on a sheet of paper to take them through the cut-throat concrete jungle that business districts in the world's prominent centres have become.
Nor are those numbers going to assure smooth sailing in academia, not with the politics professors have to play to stay in the game these days.
4. Coming back to the CGPA, nothing haunts the average male IITian more than a question about that feared number.
"Why is your JEE rank not correlated to your CGPA" is a common question that these hapless victims face, that I feel compelled to suggest, " Why was your JEE rank not as great as your CGPA then " as a reply to the chap who asks that question.
For such a question can only come from someone so insecure not just about one number but two(his JEE rank!) that he is adopting a time tested strategy of searching for security by fishing for people with lower CGs and pointing it out to them!
Moral-of-the-story : If you want to sell something to an IITian (These chaps tend to have big paychecks,unfortunately not always big hearts as is always the case with this kind of people - see 3 above) start with anything but the CGPA, starting on hostel life is a good bet.
5. As for the rest, I am doing fine and will be in India in June to seek your blessings whereupon I know i will be asked my grades and my pay converted to the highest possible exchange rate - I will however resist until early July after which I shall take leave to return to my 8am-8pm paradise.
PS: If No. 1 sounded like one of those stereotypical write-ups romanticizing foreign places to which most readers haven't been to, while ignoring similarsights at home, it was not meant to be.
I must say it's only true that the view over Waterloo Bridge is indeed wonderful, and so is the view over Tank Bund in Hyderabad, only I have not seen it with as much intensity as Waterloo, which i see twice a day everyday.
If that sounded apologetic, it wasn't meant to be. Bah! One of thse post scripts that leaves you with a tinge of dissatisfaction, I must say:)
So all I can do is submit yet another patchwork of some unrelated pieces of my writing,
1. Life at College's coming to an end, atleast for now. Things that I can no more have:
a) Lectures in the Old and New Theatres, eating at the Brunch Bowl and the Wright's Bar
b) Eating out at the GBKs, Masala Zones and Pizza Expresses/Huts before catching a movie at Prince Charles Cinema, Odeon or Vue whenever i please
c) Footloose and fancy trips to England's countryside, the lake district , Scotland or Belgium or the Netherlands on shoestring budgets.
d) Catching that fantastic view of London over Waterloo Bridge at night.
And things to look forward to: ?
a) A daily 12 hr grind from 8 to 8.
b) Sandwiches for lunch on the desk, may be innumerable trips to bring breakfast, tea and lunch?
c) A nice home to get back to, perhaps and a lot more stuff that's affordable, only there's no time to enjoy it perhaps.
d) Minute-to-minute checks to see how much money I have accumulated so far?
2. To imagine life as a highly paid sales guy who has to sell to people born with gold nappies under their bums is not entirely pleasing.
Atleast that's what I picked up from the movie Syriana, even as rich Sheiks with no semblance of intelligence get, by simply being born, what most people have to work their entire lives to get.
3. It's bumper time, atleast for Indian graduates in the US and those at the IIMs. Nonetheless there will always be a few gloomy faces - especially those who would bet their lives that the frightening CGPA is the most foolproof predictor of future success.
(9 pointer Elec/CS toppers, average 8 pointers, lowly seven pointers, Cul Secs and Not-even-Sac Secs find themselves in the same boat, with similar pay in similar firms - so what decides who comes out on top ? I don't know but I can safely bet that it won't be the CGPA.)
True, High CGPA indicates a drive among young men not very common, but those in the middle ranges cannot count on a number printed on a sheet of paper to take them through the cut-throat concrete jungle that business districts in the world's prominent centres have become.
Nor are those numbers going to assure smooth sailing in academia, not with the politics professors have to play to stay in the game these days.
4. Coming back to the CGPA, nothing haunts the average male IITian more than a question about that feared number.
"Why is your JEE rank not correlated to your CGPA" is a common question that these hapless victims face, that I feel compelled to suggest, " Why was your JEE rank not as great as your CGPA then " as a reply to the chap who asks that question.
For such a question can only come from someone so insecure not just about one number but two(his JEE rank!) that he is adopting a time tested strategy of searching for security by fishing for people with lower CGs and pointing it out to them!
Moral-of-the-story : If you want to sell something to an IITian (These chaps tend to have big paychecks,unfortunately not always big hearts as is always the case with this kind of people - see 3 above) start with anything but the CGPA, starting on hostel life is a good bet.
5. As for the rest, I am doing fine and will be in India in June to seek your blessings whereupon I know i will be asked my grades and my pay converted to the highest possible exchange rate - I will however resist until early July after which I shall take leave to return to my 8am-8pm paradise.
PS: If No. 1 sounded like one of those stereotypical write-ups romanticizing foreign places to which most readers haven't been to, while ignoring similarsights at home, it was not meant to be.
I must say it's only true that the view over Waterloo Bridge is indeed wonderful, and so is the view over Tank Bund in Hyderabad, only I have not seen it with as much intensity as Waterloo, which i see twice a day everyday.
If that sounded apologetic, it wasn't meant to be. Bah! One of thse post scripts that leaves you with a tinge of dissatisfaction, I must say:)
posted by Mohanakrishna C at 12:18 AM
2 Comments:
"Why is your JEE rank not correlated to your CGPA"
got screwed in 3 companies with this question at placements 2 weeks back! sucks!
and where are you headed after this? some i-bank i suppose?
and thanks for showing me the view from waterloo bridge!
@SK
Yes, that question is a tough one or irrelevant, depending on how you look at it.
Maybe your work at ATK will make it the latter.
As for me, I am rather conventionally headed to Lehman brothers in London, I guess a lot of chaps from IITM/IIM must be coming over too.
Good Luck, and I am glad you think that way about the view from Waterloo bridge.
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