The nightmare named IIT-M interview...

Seems like, its true...Number 3 is unlucky...my third interview of life; nothing short of a disaster, and full strike on being a nightmare...the IIT Madras interview, conducted at one and only, IIT Delhi..

First thing first, IIT Delhi is much more easier to reach than IIT Roorkee, but ..and thats a big but, its again true that all good things come with an effort...IIT Roorkee looked b'ful..in sync with nature...whereas IIT Delhi looks messed up...pretty unmanaged n overlooked to be true.. Situated in the heart of city (where even a 3 bedroom flat wud cost u over a crore) it seems like turning gold into mud...well just my thoughts...

Interview slated at the time slot of 8...par koi darwaza nahi khula tha tab tak...everyone was waiting outside till around 8:20 when the rooms were opened and everyone assemebled in a lecture hall for a brief up by the professor of IIT M where he praised and applauded IIT M and its MBA course (to be true, IIT Roorkee again did this in a better way, but maybe bcoz they were in their own campus so had it much easier..)

After that the seniors took a name call to see who all are present and the GT/PI session began immediately..I was in Group one of GT...and wonder of wonders, out of the 6 members in our group, there were 3 girls (that too when in all there were 5 girls in between some 60-70 guys)..

A girl from our group was supposed to select a number from 1 to 5, she choose 3; and out topic turned out to be a sort of case study...it was "The BPO boom, and rise in salary levels of young executives have led to a lot of wealth in the hand of younger generation. This is resulting in social degeneracy of the younger generation. Mention the course of plan to counter this social degeracy" ... a min to think and jot down point, a GT of 15 min to(which cud be extended to a max of 20 min)...followed by 3 minutes to jot down summary (I'm sure v were given no more than 2 min though...inna jaldi rabb jaane maine kya likha tha...)

Khair all in all a smooth GT...we didn't have many points though...I mean what extraordinary points can one get for stopping youth degenracy...that too when u ask from a youth [:D] ..khair fromt here bak to lecture hall to wait for the turn for PI...and what a PI it was...sighs..no technical, so I should have been happy...instead it made me wish ki isse better toh technical poonch lete [:(] [:((]

Khair, an old lady (she was pretty smart and impressive, no doubts) and a young guy (probably an alumni) were there to grill me...pretty informal set up...it was some class room...they were sitting on two chairs and I was sitting facing them...no table..nothin between us [:S] ..Khair they asked with the usual about myself...and didn't stop me, till I stopped it myself...lag raha tha na, subah k ek ghante mein hi interview lete lete bore ho gaye...then Mam started asking me, y mba, d same technology and science thing...moving onto differentiate between information, knowledge and wisdom..handled them pretty well I guess...then she moved to my family, my siblings...how old are they..what are they doing and all stuff...sighs...

And then she transfered my reins to that young guy...and here starts my nightmare...he grilled me in all ways he could...shooting one question after another of general knowledge even when he came to know there is nothin general with my GK...from the secretary general of UN, to the indian member of UN, to the book by him, to head of Germany, from there to what Vikas Swarup is doing at present...and maybe I should be ashamed of myself..but I was blank...simply blank...After that agar woh mujhse mera naam bhi poonchte toh I might have not answered...

Khair after 5 min of hell, mam intervened...and said let me ask u technical since u r not comfortable with GK...and started asking my fav subjects...told her so..(par seems donon mein se kisi ko technical aata nahi tha...) she asked me what megadata is..which I corrected is metadata n briefed her a little about it...then they asked me to sell myself in one minute...(itni IDPD k baad...who 'll buy me???)...did that...I guess wrapped up in 35-40 seconds...I just wanted to flee the room to be true...khair, they finally left me after about 15 minute interview...sighs...

That round about summarises my meeting direct from hell...surely kissed IIT M a gudbye...maybe forever...pata nahi...It was good enough to make me resist ay interview coming next in my life...please bhagwaan aise izzat nahi lete chote se bacche ki....