The week that followed the festive season was filled with completion of assignments,updating myself with the lectures that happened in the course of time when I had missed classes and catching up on some fun with friends that I was craving for quite sometime. I also got to meet some of my school friends who surprised me by visiting my locality to have the Ganesha Darshan.
In the professional circuit, the week saw more teachers giving out the important questions for internals, a few mass bunks and some exam fright. One month of VII sem just flew by. Alas! It was internals time again. The preparation for internals after being detached from books for sometime by now, seemed a tough ask. Nevertheless, I had to overcome this obstacle and I am pretty pleased with my effort. A few papers were a breeze whereas a few just rattled our brains. The transition from every-Monday internals to six exams in three days were a little stressful but we somehow managed writing them. I was extra convinced on the benefits of group studies prior to exams.
The end of exam season did not get much relief because we all knew that the hill was just getting steeper. The placement season is to follow. We had our second and probably the final placement and training session where we were told about writing a winning CV. I worked on my CV for a few hours before I finally got it printed for the placement officer's approval.
Google was expected to come to the campus for recruitment on Sept 15 but fortunately, the date got postponed. I got an opportunity to attend the Google's DevFest 2011 for which I had registered quite sometime back. The learning experience was great.
We had speakers from different parts of the world coming to talk to us about Android Development,Google Apps, Maps,Chrome, APIs and Cloud. The sessions were informative but unfortunately, my friends and me got a little saturated towards the end of this event. The Google goodies, the ambience, the company, the exposure were all major positives from the event.
The next day at college did not witness many teachers taking classes. Loads of talks about placement and writing CV's was in the air.
One of my favorite events in college every year followed, Verve 2011. Participating in Verve gives me a lot of joy, especially after a very very memorable Verve 2010, probably one of the my best Verves. I chose to elocute on Martin Luther's "I have a dream". The experience and the performance was personally very satisfying. The thought of not attending another Verve is not very pleasant. Nevertheless, the placements are the biggest priority right now.
Mindtree,DeShaw,Amazon and Emphasis are on cards this month end... More preparations, more tests, more bunking classes and above all more stress... But all I'm trying now is to keep it simple!!
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