The Placement Mania

It was a pleasant morning until she got a call from one of those non-existing classmates about her selection in the 2nd round of Microsoft. "Shraddha! Jaldi aao.....the test will be starting any minute", called the voice on the other side of phone leaving her aghast and clueless for she never comprehended in seven heavens that her name would be listed for 2nd round!

The Placement season is HERE in NIT Durgapur and the buzz never stops about those lucky souls that got placed in MNCs or about the prospective people for the next rounds. Companies keep coming and the senior-junior relation just gets closer. "which company are you sitting for? what kind of job profile are you looking forward to?" are few of those conversation-starters among the janta of NIT-D whereas the rather avoidable question for everybody in final year is mostly regarding the status of their placement.

Meanwhile, Laasya is busy biting her nails whether her online test for a certain finance company has got her through or not......thus making herself and her friends' circle anxious about the result. And when the result is announced, she climbs upto 7th heaven and quickly returns back to reality to brace herself for the upcoming obstacles, the most venerable test being "Group-Discussion Round".

While there are most people who have no idea what to speak when the topic of GD round is announced, few flaunt of their soft-skills and eventually stumble out for being too flashy and over-communicative or jumpy in such rounds. Well, its a known fact that managerial skills are tested in such rounds and the last thing you would want to do is project yourself and only yourself on the screen leaving the group behind!

What to say of the dreaded H-R round which has had many a victim although they passed successfully through the first few rounds, the Technical, the Aptitude, the Reasoning test. But finally, you've got to have that one streak that no one has and wins you a ticket to the company placement! 

So, here am I, typing off the cliche details of the Placement season, finding bliss in typing on my friend's laptop( the keyboard is too god! Thanks a lot Sravani!), and relieving the so-called stress. I shall now end my opinion here, for i have a company placement test tomorrow!

Wish me luck guys! Hope i get the golden ticket!

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dealing with results by reading about amor deliria nervosa

Spending days of sleepless nights and giving exams is rather easier than waiting for the result...especially when you are expecting something out of your hard work.


it feels like butterflies are flying in the stomach and you start praying to the almighty for everything to come out as expected.the moment internet browser starts to load the page, my heart beats faster than it should and makes loud noises which i fear someone might hear.and when the internet connection is slow, the torture is too much to take.i, at times fear i might collapse;but no,i have to remain strong.and it will be the most annoying moment when your friend calls and talks nonchalantly and at the end of the conversation you find out that results will be out some other day.annoying-because you've got to put up with all that distress once again.why am i saying this?because today is my D-day.results are going to be out and few people think its not today.and i seriously don't know what to do.


Well,to keep myself  preoccupied from last two days  i've been reading lauren oliver's Delirium and its sequel Pandemonium.Oliver has really done a great job and we can see it in her works.the world she describes presumes and proves that love is a disease and it should be cured,else people die when infected.there are many rules for the uncureds(people who are not yet cured of for amor deliria nervosa: scientific term for love).people can be cured only when they reach the age of 18 because children under 18 when undergo the procedure for the cure can have bad effects and sometimes it wouldn't even work.our protagonist Lena gets infected with amor deliria nervosa and tries to escape to the Wilds(place where invalids-the resistors for the system live) with her boy-friend Alex.but at last only she makes it till the Wilds with Alex sacrificing himself for her safety.

The second book-Pandemonium revolves around Lena trying to survive in the Wilds and joining the Resistance.she here meets Julian who is the head of DFA-deiria free america -an association which encourages or rather forces the uncureds to take up the cure and falls in love with him.two completely opposite characters, who fight together when they are in danger and atlast manage to survive and fall in love.its a beautifully woven story and in many ways different compared to the first part.also the last line of the novel leaves us in awe with the re-appearance of Alex who was presumed dead by Lena. this makes the reader wait for the next part-Requiem.
               

Frankly speaking ,i've enjoyed Pandemonium more than Delirium.the second part has more action thing going on rather than first one where Lena falls in love and starts to feel it and acknowledges that love is not  a disease and if it really  is-then she is glad that she is infected with it.the third part -Requiem will be released in 2013.i am desperately waiting for it.till then......................join the resistance and spread the deliria!!!!