Knowledge is deceptive

Nothing sounds sweeter than my name to me ,but what if it is Janani B.E....instead of just Janani... Engineering is the dream of most in India...whether or not u become a complete engineer but the degree and the extraordinary placements engineering colleges provide has turned the face of the country and today evidently every house hold in India has a B.E holder working in some reputed IT firm. This blog is just things to follow to pass an engineering exam.... ->Do not buy the book and get carried away by its size rather wait for your friends to buy, analyze which book can help u most in the way of content , do not worry much about the context. ->If u think u can give a good exam by listening to classes or taking notes hold on friend...u will just mess up with things if u have your own notes...obviously u cant take notes for all the topics so better not do it..rather borrow few books and analyze each and every topic. ->when u prepare for the exam make sure u can write something on everything....do not leave any topic unprepared unless u know, u r very through with its counterpart and ready for even a problem or a design from it. ->Use the study holidays effectively ... no matter if u have slept the rest of the semester...you can still make it if u make use of your study holidays. ->If u choose to study from a local author's book ,have the prescribed book by your side and compare the diagrams and equations so that u do not make any highlighted mistakes. ->Write the exam with a good pen...do not change your pen in between...try to draw lots of diagrams and present it well. ->If u r not sure about any answer, give not committal answer instead of "this is" 0r "that was","this can be" or "that could be" is always better. ->Check your answer paper for correct question numbers and formulas before u submit it. Practically we study only 10% of the real subject to pass an exam,so engineering is just a DAZE and never a MAZE.

Almost an engineer

The odd semester results were out, I got a SMS from my friend, I was in the local bus traveling to my aunt’s place with my ipod plugged into my ears and my favorite song from k3g was playing., suddenly I cud hear nothing but the fast drumming of my heart pretty rhythmic, after some five mins the bus stopped at the crompet terminal I got down and walked very slowly ,got a few candies on the way ,as a present to my cousin for his birthday, well what better could one shop when his engineering carrier is on stake the other side.

I stepped into the house , generally the News of the results coming out spreads faster than flue and obviously my aunt was anxious to know mine, I was asked to check my marks immediately ,I plugged off the ipod and plugged on the Internet, logged into a site clicked the result page ,typed my register no,,,,”loading”…….”please type a valid number”.Well now I was surprised I though my exam paper was invalid now even my registration number is, I tried again the same error message…again I tried this time expecting an error message but the results came out.

Janani.R…Registration number:&%$@#!! ,is almost an engineer now. Yes I cleared all my seventh semester papers and managed a 81%, My aunt was saying something but I could'nt hear anything but a faster drumming of heart out of excitement.My aunt was overjoyed and got me a couple of dresses.

“Anna university…..Jai ho”

Interview stunts

“Campus interview” the most fascinating term since the first day of my college .I had just received my fifth semester results and got “ all pass “ fighting through the ever unpredictable correction of the Anna University. Myself and Ms Brains (she is really too much ) were very curious to find out the best institute that could teach us the so called aptitude and English to clear the first round of the interview and after spending a considerable time on this investigation , we found out an institution in the corner of the city that excels in training people for this .When I told my mom about this and I would require some 3000 rupees she was very happy to see her daughter so very responsible as she was already feeling the pressure of all her friends children taking up classes ,she readily arranged for the money and gave it the very next day. I had to consult my grand mom, my family astrologer, as to when can I pay the fees and I at last paid the fees on the day I was instructed after analyzing the planets and their position.

I was suppose to attend classes every week end, I just attended first class after which I had some or the other reason to avoid it , finally myself and Ms Brains decided we would attend the crash course instead and planned to enjoy rest of the semester and at last finished with our sixth semester exams . As a part of the placement training program of our college we had classes for a week after exam on to how to solve problems in maths , verbal skills , prepositions vowels consonants and stuff. After this college training I went to finish off my course, again just one class stopped with that, realizing the fact that I know better English than the faculty there .

It was just ten days to the first interview of my life and Ms Brains was already placed , I prepared my resume well in time and spent days and nights solving R .K .Agarwal’s books. Visited all possible temples in the city I don’t remember what all I promised to offer GOD if he would get me placed and as the day approached the fear grew with some kind of a gloomy feeling , I would wake up in the middle of the night to revise the formula in maths . I would ask my sister some fifty times a day if I would get placed till she completely gets pissed off.

Finally it was the last evening before the interview I went to take the print out of my resume “when I slipped from the stairs “I felt a bit sentimental about it but let it go then again when I came back home a “black cat crossed my way from left to right “ this time I was not going to let it go but I just thought to myself if it doesn’t cross again nothing bad will happen “immediately it crossed again “ I felt terrific . I came home at 10 pm had my food reluctantly ,secretly cried, cursed the bleady CAT a hundred times and took the material out to study “The power went off”now I was crying badly, my sister called up the Electricity Board and asked them to put on the power and the power came back at 12 . I had a sleepless night. My alarm rang at 4 in the morning , well it was not necessary I was already awake I just thought to myself bygones r bygones ,now the tally was if the power doesn’t go off again I will get placed guess what it went off immediately and resumed at 5 in the morning. I went through a few book almost sure I wont get placed and reluctantly dressed up for the interview recited Vishnu sahasra naman and prayed for less damage and took the direct college Bus . The radio in the Bus was on and Suchi the RJ was reading out the RASI PALAN for the day I was listening sharp ,she said meena rasi= tolvi (faileur) I felt I cud jump into the radio and squeeze her head off.

Completely pessimistic I went to college saw a few very much like me saw a few bit more confident. I gave my written test it was not bad though but I was very definite I would not get through considering all that happened since last night. After the PPT the results were announced and I was on the fifth list, the first member in my panel to attend the interview and my interview was in 10 mins from then , I prepared for the initial question like “Tell me about yourself “,”your hobbies” etc. I was called in for the interview ,to my surprise was a charming guy on the desk Rajive “He was as sweet as anybody cud be , the interview went on well with a few personal and many technical question and when it ended i was flirting with him . I waited for two hours and at last my name was read out in the selected list of candidates.

Now that I got placed I coolly call this IT induatry as ”corporate kathrika” ,the toughest got kathrika though and the black cat became my pet.

N.P. This is my first blog and in case of any mistakes its understandable that I am still learning to blog .