All play and no work make me a dumbass !!!
What a harrowing time am I having for the last few days !! My courses are getting heavier by the day, worst of all, I am getting dumber by every passing moment. Some new stroke of genius has resulted in me writing my class notes in Hindi. Ofcourse, this is applicable when my pee-wee brain is absolutely incapable of understanding what the professor is so meticulously trying to convey. Subsequently, begin my chronicles, in Hindi, our national language … poems, prose, you say it, I’ve written it ! Today, I wrote an enhanced version of Kabhi Kabhi mere dil me khayal aata hai … needless to say, it was crappy, in hindsight ofcourse.
A very important lesson I’ve learnt in life is NOT to watch movies till 8 in the morning for 3 days at a stretch, when you have 2-3 assignment submissions lined up in the next week. No matter, how gripping the movie is. You might say, “you dumbass, it took so long for you to figure such a basic thing out ?? … “. Well, to give you credit, for the last few days, I’ve been asking the question myself.
We had a career fair some days back, surely, one of the sad experiences of life, atleast from my perspective, which would be similar to the perspective of a person who doesn’t really have a lot to boast about in his/her resume’. There were people all around, some looking for a fitting employer, employers looking for talent, and then, there was me … hoping that some one would be stupid enough to notice me. Surprising that I say this, ’cause you’ve to be larger than the sun to not notice me in a daily-life scenario (relativity of course … ).
Career fairs are, sometimes, humbling experiences for people …. for me, humbling experiences are a daily-life affair in classes, so I should ideally be very comfortable in a career fair. And so I was. Where there were people being asked a million questions at a booth of a certain company, and a paper-pencil test in order to guage suitability, I was being assured that your resume’ would be looked upon, don’t worry man! I stood there for a split second, hoping for a quiz, one of the rare instances, when the lack of a quiz disappoints me. Then there were companies, whose representatives got yawning when I spoke, as if they were descendants of the “sleeping beauty”. Of course, there are always the ones who conclude by saying: “Oh interesting, when you think that can be successfully done, come to my friend here (pointing to another boothmate of his), and we can file a patent …”. Of course, this statement is aptly received by me with a confident gleam of my face, only to realize after a second that I’ve been had for … :) My friends of course, fellow UT people, on the brink of greatness, had a great time. Some blasted every company representative in sight with their trademark confidence, whereas some brought cookies home (of course, these sets intersect).
