Valai Veechu! :)

Hola! :)

Being in final year is big fun in itself! You come across a few things that are fairly new to you, except the fact that you know they 'exist' in 4th year! Yes - the placements!

You hear about them a lot, but there will surely be no one to tell you how it works, till you manage to the fourth (and hopefully final) year! I am here to tell you what happened so far (till 20/12/11) in SRM University!

Point Number One!

BUILD UP - We got  plenty of it! தாங்க முடியாது (unbearable) !PD Classes we heard "This is life! Get placed in the first company. Else it will be tough. The companies coming after TCS will know you are still unplaced... a ... b ... c ..."

Point Number Two!

THEY ' LL SCARE YOU TILL YOU SHIT YOUR PANTS - Yes, there's no escape in this! We will never know till you reach the December of the final year that there will at least be 25 companies coming to the campus, just for non-placed students!

Point Number Three!

GOT USED TO WEARING FORMALS (For boys only; Girls - you lucky _____!) - Even though we will look like Maths Teachers of yesteryears, that's what they want in interviews! Especially the Black shoes - I managed to fall down twice walking with them! Be careful கை புள்ள (machi)!!!

You cannot show up like this!

Point Number Four!

FOOD - We lost quite a few kilograms! In TCS placements, no faculty had told us we would be sitting till night! Why??? ஏன் இந்த கொலைவெறி மக்களே (why this kolaveri people)? You know very well we would be starving out there! Why couldn't you tell us before???

Point Number Five!

PLACED - It got over 'just like that'! Some times we have felt... "That's it?"

Point Number Six!

THEN COME THE CORE - After getting placed in IT companies, we have to sit for the core ones! People like Microsoft, Global Scholar, etc. come and we have to sit for all those!

So far, it was all normal to SRM! Let me share what will happen from now on... (Thanks to our batch!)

* Microsoft came in the last week of October. They said results would come not later than December '10. Results not yet published!

"இனி சென்னை பக்கமே வர மாட்டோம்! (We will never show up anywhere even near to Chennai!)" - Microsoft அதிரடி பேட்டி! (Guess our answer sheets did the trick! We never asked for subjective aptitude! Your headache that! Now, publish our results!

* Some companies did not select even one student!

"இதற்கும் எங்களுக்கும் எந்த சம்மந்தமும் இல்லை!" -  மாணவர்கள் சரமாரி!

("We have nothing to do with this!" - Students )

* "அடுத்த வருடம் TCS வருவதே சந்தேகம்! Juniorகள் நிலைமை கவலைக்கிடம்!"
(TCS coming next year is highly doubtful! Juniors very much worried)

(Reports have it that TCS took more people in Sastra University compared to SRM. See - confirmation!

MBA placements in SRM affected due to this!)

* "நாங்க தான் டா gethu! இனிமே எந்த company வருது பாப்போம்!" (We are the DONs! Let's see which Company shows up from now on!) - 2012 batch students terror interview!

* "நாங்க எழுதின எழுத்து அப்படி!" (It's our WRITINGS!) - last bench guys of CSE department

* Some company gave feedback "These people don't even know to write 'for' loop!" :D

"நான் கேட்டேனா?" (Did we ask?)

* Oracle வருது ன்னு சொன்னங்க! பயபுள்ள தப்பிச்சுட்டானுங்க! ( We heard Oracle was coming. Lucky fellows, escaped!)

* யார் holidays அ யார் கெடுக்கறது??? (Who are they to spoil our holidays???) Mind it!

* "எங்க மானத்த காப்பாத்துங்க!" (Please save our faces!) - பல்கலைக்கழக ஆசிரியர்கள் வேண்டுகோள்! (Professors request students)

* "இது எதிர் கட்சி சதி!"... குமுறுகிறார்... (.)

p.s. (Disclaimer) This is just a funny report of the reality. SRM is actually good with many companies coming in! You will surely get a nice job, and if lucky, there's enough room to take your girlfriend to the same company! Plan accordingly! You can get dual placements - one in IT, one in core). SRM has it all! A wonderful campus placement record. Nothing to worry at all! :) SRM rocks - I stay with that!

மீண்டும் சந்திப்போம்! (See you again! Au revoir!)

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