Scribbles of a Lazy Geek

Okk, I know its all getting a little toooo … long :P … will try to finish it all up now :)   Generic Training is meant for those who aren’t from CSE/IT background. The first module was PST – Problem Solving Techniques (a non-evaluative module), so no Module Test for this one :) … It was just some basic Algorithm etc and stuff.   The first evaluative module was CHSSC(Computer Hardware and System Software Concepts). It was just some basic computer funda’s, which I luckily had studied in Operating Systems and 8085 in B. Tech (now that’s another thing how much I knew about it  ). I was nervous like anything on the night before the exam, but in the end it all went fine and I cleared the exam with an ‘A’! Slowly I started settling into the routine of studying ‘daily’, which was something new to me :P. A night before an exam I used to sleep at around 1 or 2 at night, slowly the sleep time started getting...

Oh…yes, first day at my first (err .. second) job. The first few days are supposed to be induction, and many people had told me that we can enjoy this wonderful campus only in these first few days, later these people wouldn’t give us time to even meet your room mate (and they were right.. to an extent). The horror stories had started pouring in even before the ‘actual’ training started. I met Mehtab (another school mate of mine) in Mysore , and he told me that he had not slept for the past three days , and Combiflam and Black Coffee were his food and water for that time. :O . He had his ‘compre’ on the day I joined. Now, for those who are wondering what this ‘compre’ is, it is the short for Comprehensive Exam. This ‘compre’ is the same like the final exam, where the entire syllabus comes in the paper. I was scared to say the least! He had stories about people fainting during the exam, exit from the company for failing to clear the module exams (something like the sessionals/minors...

After giving the interview, I waited for 28th Jan, my new DoJ at Aztecsoft, patiently again. Somewhere in mid Dec I got a mail from Aztecsoft about my DoJ being postponed further till May ’08. This was when all hell broke loose again . I dint informed it to anybody that my DoJ had been postponed, and thought of telling them only when the result of Infosys interview was out!!! But, I was meant to experience this too…. A guy by the name of Avnit Anand(whom many of you I guess know, as the Agarsen ka topper ) just did his part and my parents came to know about the new DoJ through him…. .. Finally on 6th Jan I received a call from Infosys Bangalore about my selection and , I was told about my joining at Mysore. Things smoothened out again! I packed my bags and boarded the flight to Bangalore on 12th Jan. The only sad part about my joining Infy on 14th Jan was that I would have to miss my Sis’ wedding :( . This would be one of my biggest regrets :( , but there was hardly anything I could do...