!!!THE STORY OF GETTING PLACED!!! Part-1

Its been a while since I logged into blogger. Had it been not for the same password for all the applications GOOGLE offers I feel it would have been pretty difficult for me to even retain the password. Anyways for now I'm back.

Life has moved at its own pace, has had its highs and lows, the roller coaster is chugging along. Lets begin with the narration that might interest people. I'm about to tell you MY STORY of GETTING PLACED.

Lets begin it from the end of semester VI. 

The semester has ended at yet another mile stone. I have gone down in pits as far as my result was concerned. The most important index of our study here in MNIT (my SGPA and CGPA) have reached their all time low yet again. With the placement season about to get under away inn the semester to follow this was quite a big blow. To add to the voes I did not have any idea where I was going to have my practical training from. But somehow things improved a bit and finally the matter related to training was solved.

As the holidays neared their end the tension of completing important subjects so as to enable getting a job soared higher and higher. Days were decreasing and course seemed to have attained so much enormity that nothing was working. I felt the need of some boost to enhance my studying hours.

I eventually got the boost from an incidence which goes as following.

Just a week before the start of the VII sem, on a lazy weekend, my mom was on a household clean up mission (along with some unwilling help by my sis). They were scouting entire household to spot items which no longer look necessary and dispose them off to give a fresh feel to the house. Mom did find some no-longer-required stuff and decided to pass it on to the maid (as is a common practice in Indian households).

In the evening when mom handed over the stuff to her, the maid in a very shy manner asked her for an advance on next month’s wage. My mom probed her as to why does she need the money. The maid disclosed that both of her children are in school , 10th and 12th std. So she needed money to fill up the forms of 4-5 different colleges to ensure that he gets an admission in some decent place. When mom further probed her as to how much did he score in the board (Rajasthan board) she said he did reasonably well… 60 odd percentage. Then the maid added (and if my mom is to be believed , in a rather philosophical tone), "bibiji humein maloom hai ki wo aise doctor/ engineer to nahin ban sakta hai. Par humare bas mein jo hai wo to karwa hi denge. Kahin courier compnay ya sabun /tel ki company mein ho jayega to hum khush ho jayenge. Humare koi bhaut bade sapne nahin hain, bas kuchh ummeedein hain, wohi puri karna chahte hain".

I always used to wonder what lies beyond dreams. I think I got my answer. Hope. But that HOPE shook me to the core. Though my parents had never said a word about my studies ever since my AIEEE06 exam (that led me to MNIT), but i could feel the burden of their ever rousing expectations. Time flew there on and I found myself standing at the gate of the college. Yet another semester was about to get on its way in a few days' time.

Continued ...!!!THE STORY OF GETTING PLACED!!! Part-2