This is gotta be big!!!!

Writing a blog after quite a lot of interval.Probably a complete month.
Life has taken the much awaited turn...I have got into campus selection of Tata Consultancy Services.And there are other 309 students that have made into the legendary company.This is a feat for my institution,Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology(KIIT),as it has surpassed the last record of 297 by any company on a single day(that was also for TCS).The process was very tiresome basically because of the "Uncertain long Waits!!!" but now the only thing that is in my mind is that I have made it!!!
Thanks to our placement dept the written test was a cakewalk.Their research and guess work is tremendously commendable.Around 570 candidates sat for the test and around 520 cleared the written.We were speculating about what figure TCS is going to take from our college...and somehow I was certain from the very beginning that I m gonna make the band-wagon.But thats probably my tendency to dream the best of everything.Then when it came to the interviews....I was not interviewed the first day as it had turned quite late and hence we were told to come the next morning.It was a respite in disguise as I was severely tired and moreover the next day we got a lot of insight into the interview process by the candidates that have already appeared the night before.I waited and waited and waited for my turn to come.When I was called down stairs for the interview I saw around 25 ppl already waiting their turn.After a while I sat in front of a glass door from where I could see other candidates getting interviewed.I saw the interviwers' faces and somehow I felt relieved that they were not scary!!!
I always feel that I have been lucky through out my life 'coz I meet great human beings and I can say this more strongly this time as my interviwer was also a nice person to talk to...and I m not saying this merely because I have been selected.I felt the same when I left the room.Anyway when I first greeted him ,he offered me chair and asked me if I m fine.His smile was enough to tell me that I m not under butcher's knife.Then he asked if I was upset with the "waits".And I suppose I replied the truth I felt about the "Waits" with some sugar coating.Then he asked me to say something about myself for which I was quite prepared.But somehow when I started speaking I found myself expressing a lot more than I had actually written in my diary.And when I felt that I may end up boring him...I ended the "short" description about myself.The he again asked similar question on which I can go on speaking,"What are the things you are proud of?" Hehe.
I kept this answer pretty brief.He asked me why I haven't mentioned any projects and again I found myself speaking the truth rather than what I would have prepared if I would have thought of the question earlier.He then gave me a hypothetical situation related to corporate life.Simply put,it asked me to answer if I would feel bad if a colleague gets a better piece of meat "undeservingly"!And I said yes I would but rather than wasting my time thinking about that I would like to move on and wait for a better dinner to be served to me the next time.He seemed impressed and said "good answer!".What kind of relief that was ... you can understand if u have ever appeared any interview process.His next question was almost same ...just he made me the team leader and the less lucky guy was asking for the job(of the project) reshuffled.And I was to motivate him to stick to his job.I personally feel I was not very convincing in that one but I think that was not bad either.I was not asked any tech question that was another respite although I was equally prepared for tech questions too.I greeted him and came off the room.I saw people gazing at me and my big smile.If I too would have seen someone coming out of that room with such big white-line I too would have thought the interviewer has already assured him of the job.
After coming back to the hostel there were thousands of stories about the interview panel...speculations of "Elimination Panels" etc...and I was also one of the persons taking pleasure in listening and talking about the interviews.Earlier the results were said to be declared by 4 P.M. but the long chain of wait was still left and we were said that we have to wait 5 more hours before we can know it.We returned back to hostel and went back only at 9 PM.The wait continued...
Finally the results were declared at around 11:30 PM and as said "All well if Ends well".I was in the 310's list.Few of my really bright friends could not make into that list and that was a bit disappointing but thats how life is...I too wish them to get a good job ...may be in Wipro as it is the next company visiting our campus...probably on 1st april.
After all this was over...the days of 1st semester were back with bigger dearths.It promised physical pain for getting selected!Our seniors and batchmates were waiting near hostel-gates with leather belts and "Bamboo" sticks to welcome and wish us.The next 3 hours were really terrible.As we say,in a riot, the mob has no face...it just knows to decimate.Same happened here...people we haven't seen in the three years were there expressing their "Happiness" with leather belts.I could not do anything except for getting "red-lines" on my hips and back.Anyway thats a part of hostel life.can't help it.
Tomorrow I m gonna break the "good" news to my parents,relatives and friends.But I 'll miss a person whom I wanted to thank and hug for standing with and for me always without doubt or question.If you are reading this now,thankyou for being the most wonderful person I ever met in my life.