Monday, February 2, 2009

The End of Vacations.

So, finally my last college vacations are ending, and thank God I have lived to see this day again.. which I thought would never be possible as the vacations never seem to end.

So, what did I do in Vacations?? Oh, this is as tough a question as "What are your weaknesses" in an Interview. Ya.. because you have to speakout an answer even if you don't want to answer it.

First of all, My Congratulations to President Obama. He surely has and will pump doses of fresh Oxygen in US Economy. Talking of Obama, I still could not understand why the term Black was being associated with Obama more than his first name on 20th Jan by Aaj Tak, the totally f* up news channel. I don't expect FBI to arrest me for this, like they did in US for some blog articles regarding racism.. Oh no.. not that word again.

I did manage to change the subject but not for long, and a question always has an answer.
I spent quite some time travelling to Punjab, Mathura, and MP in the vacations.. as it's the last time I would be able to meet my old family members before starting with my job with D.E Shaw & Co. at Hyderabad. I also started reading some management articles online and really feel how much more inclined I am towards Management aspects of thing then towards hardcore coding thing. I also developed a taste of reading more Psychology based Novels, and those who have read some, kindly advise me more of same.

I have also started work as GreenHat Ventures Campus Associate and in effect I will be again contributing my part to improve the college placements by boosting inhouse talent and skills, and making my juniors more aware of opportunities and improving their Career Quotients which we engineers usually lack because of our Mind-set. But more on that later. For those who thought "again" was wrongly written above, I am more than pleased to tell that I have written a placement Manual exclusively for NSITians, keeping in mind what are Software companies expecting from NSIT grads, and it has been received with much appreciation.

Also the MBA season has long gone, and my personal congratulations to all friends who received calls from IIM's and especially those who scored a BLACKI. Hail-o-NSIT that recorded 250+ IIM Calls, with 2 100%ilers(last updated in March). Ghosh.. we have outskinned IITians. Cheers.

I also had a little taste of outsourcing this month, just for the sake of it by providing Online Tuition to children in US and also getting a good pay for it. One only needs a mike, decent net-connection and the right opportunity for it.

Thus went my last few weeks at home. Please keep posting comments, so that I am encouraged to write more.. Writing is a good habit, in retrospect, this makes me think why didn't I started writing earlier.. Oh lazy me... Nevertheless Cheers again!!! Tata.

5 comments:

Anupriya said...

OMG! I didn't know you were such a chhupa rustam. You did quite a many things these hols which is in contrast with what i did.

Well, coll is starting next week. I dunno if i'm looking forward to it or not.

BTW, I had an idea similar to your Placement Manual when placement season was going on, and i'd waited till I would get an A grade to write about what mindset NSITians should have when going into the placement season. I'd wanted to write it on NSITLounge, par alas, that day hasn't come till now. I don't wanna be a loser kinda person giving advice, nobody would listen to me. So maybe one day, when i feel confident enough that ppl would listen to me...

IA said...

nice blog...

wow! u gave tuitions to US kids... gr8 to hear tht!!!
and i must say a nice initiative to write that manual... :)

good luck with everything
and keep posting :)

UJJWAL said...

nice blog buddy!!!

and ya you prove to be a dark horse in the race who does smorgasbord of things but still try to keep a low affair by saying I did nothing...u had really a fruitful vacation I guess..

Anonymous said...

yaar , i am also interested in giving online tutions ..please provide me the site link which is reliable.

Chapel Hill Savings said...

i can't believe we are actually congratulating Obama...or is that tongue in cheek?