Pertinent Observations

Woke up this morning with a slightly painful left shoulder. When I thought about it carefully, I figured out I had had a near-death experience yesterday night. was driving home after a dinner out yesterday night. i was somewhere betweeen the Forum and Christ College when it happened. A branch arbitly broke off from a [...]

guess this will be my last post from IIMB. I’ve packed up most things in my room (everything except my comp). I’ll soon be moving everything to my car and driving off. moving home for the next one month. finally it seems to be hitting me that I’m not part of this place any more. [...]

I’ve started packing up my stuff to take home. The books and reading materials have been sorted out. the ones i’m taking are in one neat pile. I’m currently gathering my stationary. Just put in that Hero pen with which I had written my JEE. And the reynolds pen-pencil which I had used for my [...]

i graduated yesterday. a non-descript graduation ceremony, except for the fact that Mukesh Ambani decided to bunk it so a SN Agarwal gave us our diplomas. Parents turned up. And we went for a dosa dinner after that. Hit the dance floor at L^2 after a 3 hour long phone conversation, which left me with [...]

I’m all set to graduate. The convocation is scheduled for 6 pm tonight and our gowns will be handed over at 4 o clock. i just collected my “IIM Bangalore Batch of 2006″ sweatshirt. however, the thing is yet to sink in. i still somehow can’t believe that I’ll be exiting IIMB so soon, and [...]

Given the latest antics of the congress (the attempts to push through the ordinance, the resignation drama, et al), I seem to have lost whatever little respect I had for the party. //

Thanks to the press conference I attended yesterday, I seem to have gotten some footage in the papers today. Mostly arbit. The Hindu has written one huge article on IIMB placements (mostly numbers, straight out of the printed press briefing), and to accompany it, has put my face along with three others! Don’t know what [...]

Earlier this afternoon, a member of the IIMB Media Cell found me jobless enough to to attend some placement press conference. Was attended by both print and TV media. After a short interaction with our director, and a report reading session by a placement committee member, four of us “successful candidates” (all 2nd years here [...]

Now that placements here are almost done, newspapers and TV channels are flooded with news about the IIMs, we have gone to the press saying we have the highest salary across IIMs, IIMA has contested that, people are debating whether we deserve such high salaries, etc., it’s time to clarify a few things. //

While I was talking to a couple of hours back, I started reflecting on the various interviews I had on “day 0″. Just for the heck of it, I’ve been trying to figure out why only one of the four companies I applied to offered me a job. Think I’ve figured it out. Problem with [...]