PLACEMENT DAYS….

Placements for the batch junior to us started 2 days ago…the first company that came for placement was TCS. As soon as students got to know about TCS coming for placements, an usual aura in the hostel changed. A wave of realization, of the need to settle their lives and to realize themselves a future technocrat came over among all the juniors. Students who were seen sauntering around the campus (in the evening especially) cud now be seen engaged in some sort of serious stuff, on which their future as engineers was hinged upon. Coming to the details of each day:
First day: The written exam, testing their general aptitude skills. Exam basically had three sections,
1. verbal
2. quantitative analysis
3. Analytical reasoning
Exam was not all that difficult and the tests of all the groups of students schismed into slots got over by 9.30 at night. Result was announced at around 11 at night and more than 80% of the students had qualified.

Second day: Then came the day for interviews. Hostlers among these 80% , cud be seen for the first time getting ready n following the conventional rule of having bath early in the morning and getting ready and then praying to GOD to help them turn the tide in their favor. And finally left for interviews which continued upto 10 at night.

Third day: Then came the last day with no further test but still the most awaited day ,as it was the day when the results were to be announced. News came that the list would reach college at 10 in the morning. So the hot topic of discussion on the breakfast table now was TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES and our TPO ,who according to students had the result but was late in coming to college. So the students were now being nosey.
Somehow the day passed and results were announced at around 8 in the evening, when I saw a mob of girls standing outside the mechanical block screaming and yelling out of happiness, for they were now part of TATA group of PEOPLE….