Sree

Last week some of us went for an amazing trip to Goa. The group comprised of myself, Ajitav, Sunil, Macha, Pankaj, Karthik, Kamle and CP. For all of us, it was our first time to Goa. We started our journey on 15th Feb night. We had booked AC Volvo sleeper tickets. It was my first time on a sleeper bus. Overall the journey was comfortable except for the AC. Each sleeper had it's own small AC that could be switched ON or OFF. But the AC on my sleeper had it's switch ripped off by some former passenger and the owners didn't find it very useful to fit a new switch. Thus the damn thing was blasting cold air directly on to my face. By morning I felt like an Antartican polar bear minus it's fur. No sooner did the bus stop at the Panjim bus stand, the next day morning, than we were hounded by tour operators offering their services which included everything from arranging a guest house for all of us to stay, arranging for rented bikes if needed, arranging sight seeing trips et...

Making sure a company pre placement talk goes without a hitch has been one of the greatest challenges for a DPN (Department Placement Nominee), especially if the pre placement talk is that of a company that he himself was handling (Each DPNs will be handling a handful of companies). The most critical aspect of this was to make sure that sufficient number of students were present for each PPT . The following happened during one such PPT of a particular company. The PPT was scheduled to start around 8 pm. At around 7:50 pm the students started trickling in and by around 8:10 pm there were sufficient number of students. But then there was no sign of the company officials. The DPN (let's call him Raj) handling the company was already getting nervous. He tried calling up on the phone of the HR. No use. No one was picking up the phone. The audience, comprising of the "disciplined" students of IIT Bombay, were trying to communicate to him how much they are loving this. ...