glimpses of the real me: part 2

so summer of 2004,went by i took admission in a coaching centre along with one of my dear friend kaushik and started again from the scratch, but this time on i had decided to try everything be it engineering, b pharma,hotel management,fashion designing etc. etc.( the common confused teenager who doesnot know what he is upto), came the time of forms and i dropped a bombshell by saying i wanted to fill in hotel management and fashion designing forms, somehow i knew i was not a engineer type species who could study hard, so as they say "when you aspire for something, the whole world conspires to let you achieve that thing". i got a air 212 in the hotel management jee, people said it was very cool i would get through ihm, pusa, new delhi, the so called best hotel management institute in the country, i decided to give it a try not because i didnot have any other option i had offers from nift mumbai , bit mesra(b pharma) and numerous other engineering colleges which i thought were stupid but now in summer of '10 i know they were not that bad either.
i was excited, excited in true sense of the word, i got through a college (though not engineering, but again it feels good to get through any college which is best in the country in its field).
kaushik got selected at uiet a engineering college under punjab university and my girl yeah the same one i mentioned in my previous post got selected in another college in faridabad.....so fast forward to 16 july 2005, first day ihm, pusa:
there i was sitting and waiting for things to get going, first day at college people have such mixed feelings of happiness, fear, tension, anxiety, a sense of achievement everything, time flew by in college( college episodes would require another blog which i will post pretty soon)
so another fast forward to end of 2007, placement time, around the campus just the same news in different words were flowing, taj is coming , hyatt is coming, x is coming, y is coming.....poor me got eliminated in the final round of taj, so finally my day came and when i narrated the answer i answered to all companies that were retail i got selected for itc retail, then aditya birla group and then irctc(the so called psu and which experts thought was a once a lifetime opp.), so joined irctc and left college with a sense of satisfaction of having achieved something.


but when you gain something you loose something, i lost out on my childhood love, out of sight out of mind, or a so called gap she considered between a hotel management grad and an engineer, whatever i had proposed her finally last durga puja, she said no in a very noble way and that resulted in my percentage dropping from 76 to 67 in a years time, thankfully bhm is a three year old course :p

still to come in my next few blogs about experience at irctc and plans for a mba....