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Campus has split into two kinds of people over the last few weeks….those who have taken placements very seriously, and are slogging their asses through paper presentations, certifications and competitions…and talking about stuff that I still have no idea about.

And there are those who’ve cocked a snoot to it all…..those of us who’ve vowed to get sloshed thrice a week, finances be damned. Those of us who truly live like it’s the last 2 months of our lives, not just the last 2 months in college. All that bull crap I wrote about us waiting for placements day turned out to be that….bull crap. It seems we wouldn’t mind another Thursday morning where one wakes up, switches on the music, hollers across people through IM multicasts, grabs a massive bag of crisps and grins at the fact that you wouldn’t have to move your ass an inch all day.

And then again, there are those of us in the middle. Too way past being the guy who worked his butt off for his 10th Grade, and not yet the bohemian with a stash of 100 plus beer cans in his room. There’s the music for company, and there’s sycorax, (God bless the girl), but the rest of the day’s this constant question mark about what I should do.
The worst part is, others have found their answers…there’s a group of 25 year olds playing Monopoly everyday. And another bunch who’ve huffed and puffed through every rat fart school’s annual day fests, winning whatever they can. The people with the “do everything to the very max” credo…

Moi?

Thoda reading, thoda beering, mostly lazing around in a way that cannot be adequately explained. To each, his own method of madness. And happiness.
I shall meet new people. I shall pretend to be interested in GD topics. Maybe I will find whatever it is I am really searching for. But these days, joy comes packed in the shape of a laptop screen, a 2.1 Creative speaker system and a pint of Mallya’s finest.

To give you a clearer idea, I’m posting the contents of the Post It’s I’ve written on my desktop (nifty software, but only if you actually plan to do anything on the list)

To read:
Damodaran – (Investment Valuation) – By month end.
Wiley – (Modern Banking) – By month end
Hull – (Options, Futures and a WHOLE BUNCH OF MINDNUMBING CRAP) - 1st 10 chapters – by 20th
Chopra Meindl – Supply Chain Management- Mid Nov.

Learn Excel, SAS and Powerpoint.
Enter atleast 1 BSchool competition. Present 1 paper in your shameless life.
Exercise. Footballing once in 10 days does not count.
Spend weekend getting the time of your life. Alcohol is optional, but is found to help.
Write that Knopfler post again.
Get phone display fixed.
Spend weekend with family before they pack up and leave again.
Start reading fiction again.
Enroll for bike learning license

I think I’ve written this more for myself…so that I can look back at this post 8, 10, 20 years later and smile.

Currently listening

Lithium - Nirvana