Ich bin Chanduji..

as named by our beloved chairman mr.PRAVEEN DWARAKHNATH and his counterpart the nano senior, mr.SHIVARAMAN, the symposium was named as THE SEVENTH SENSE, – one beyond 6th sense, and we started the work as early as we could, which involved:-
1. sponsorship

2. publicity

3. event segregation and finalizing

4. other works.. vettals and ottals.. i mean cut, copy, and paste works…

5. on the whole, event organization…

yes, the work began immediately after we came from the industrial visit. it began from the 9th of September, we started meeting daily. our committee comprised of the great legends:
our beloved HOD Sridhar sir, our thalaivar Bhalaji sir and our beloved staff members, Sabha sir, YOUTH Karthik sir, Murugan sir, Labbai sir, Ganesh Kumar sir, and a few other staff members, who were the part and participle of the association. it then comprised of the student members including me, RAGHAV, PRASANTH, SYED RAHIM SAJITH, PREETHI, RAJI, SUNDARI, JASMIN ELIZABETH MATTHEW, SAHIL-the great drawer(hey.. artist ya), beloved seniors: VIKAS bhaiya, nano SHIVA, 420 PRAVEEN DWARAKHNATH(THE GREAT CHAIRMAN), network NARASIMHA RAGHAVAN, terror VISHWANT,SARAVANAN, VARUN, RAJESH, MADHU, SARANYA, DIVYA, AISHWARYA, and a few others.
we then segregated the events in a generalized format and then started working for the sponsorships. when u mean sponsorship, you just think of one sure shot who would sponsor any kind of a technical event. yes, its the family of COGNIZANT. they were the first sponsors who were ready with their amount. the next came as a very biiiiiig surprise for us, our beloved chairman, MR.PRAVEEN DWARAKHNATH got TVS as sponsors, sponsoring a brand new TVS APACHE bike. that was a great achievement. no other symposium had ever given a bike as the prize. so it was decided that, the one with a maximum points at the end of the final would be winning the bike.
then, there was only 3 weeks more for the symposium when we thought of something very different. praveen thought of having a rock show for the event, in order to help the fund flow into the association to help the conduction of events easier and in a very great manner. as decided and finalized, the rock show was priced at rs.200/- per ticket and the sales began.

in the mean time the posters and the pamphlets were made ready and were sent to various colleges for participation and publicity. also the students were roaming in and around for sponsors. the name seventh sense was all over heard in the college and when the rock show tickets were released, the name even went on bigger. the whole college was expectin something biiiiiig. other department the rumors spread like forest fire that the college management was giving us 3 lakhs for event conduction, which was a white lie. we got only 1 lakh from the college and now only we started getting from the sponsors.
then came a very big blow. we heard the news from shiva that our beloved hod was unable to proceed with his post and said that he would discontinue as the hod. we also got the news that a new hod was to come within a week. oh no.. how horrible!!! but, you can’t say so… who knows the tortures and pressures he might have been facing??

it was on 29th September the ECE department had their symposium and we were demanded by their HOD not to brand name THE SEVENTH SENSE with which we got the idea. though there were not many participants, all their eyes were on the brand new TVS APACHE which we took delivery on that day and kept in front of our very famous Hi-tech block. in the pic u can see me standing near the bike and giving a pose. what a crowd we had for the 2 days of display!!!
the new HOD named, Dr. JAYATI GOSHAL came and joined on the day of VIJAYA DASAMI – the most auspicious day. as usual we were working on that day with our last week works. i remember, it was on a monday and the symposium was on the immediate friday. we heard all the new set of constraints and other infos and the proceedings and orders she imposed to the staff on the very first day od joining. we had an immediate realization that SRIDHAR sir should have been the HOD atleast till the end of the symposium for the works to get on smooother.
then came the day of work, 5th october 2006. THE SEVENTH SENSE was innagurated by renowned dignitaries and eminent personalities and the registration began for the two day long battle!!! then arose a problem again. due to a problem created by a biotech guy to our department guy, the DEAN demanded and ordered that no biotech students shall be allowed for the rock show, where most of the tickets were purchased by them alone. so we had a very very tough time ahead and we were to be prepared for the worst. then came a heavy sigh of relief, when our beloved chairman PRAVEEN and SHIVA negotiated with the DEAN and the problem was solved. there was a heavy crowd and BOUNCERS were brought in by us for crowd controlling. the rock show began after an hours delay due to the heavy crowd of more than 2500 people. before the main band of the day could play, there was a small show by our college band THE CATELEPSY, comprising of my department students and a guitarist from mechanical department. the show went on very very well and it ended up at 9.50 pm.
the next day’s work went on excellently well and we were all set for the valedictort function presided by our TECHNICAL AND RESEARCH ADVISOR, Dr.PONNAVAIKKO, and our beloved SRIDHAR sir, and other dignitaries. the prize distribution was the most exiting of all. there was a tie for the first 3 prizes between 3 winers and a tie for the 5th prize between 8 winners of various wars(events). as per the questions asked by our ADVISOR, we removed the tieup and mr.VIJAY DANIEL of SSN COLLEGE OF ENGG was awarded the brand new TVS APACHE and the second prize was a LAPTOP and the third prize was a dhl gift hamper, the 4th was a reliance mobile and the 5th was a printer. the participants thouroughly enjoyed the event conduction and when they gave their feedback our thalai MR.BHALAJI was in happy tears. we cannot forget that day especially, when we were named THE TREND SETTERS of symposium. then our periya thalai SRIDHAR SIR, gave us a treat at vasantha bhavan in TAMBARAM for the tremendous work we had done. the team comprised of SRIDHAR SIR, BHALAJI SIR, SABHA SIR, LABBAI SIR, MURUGAN SIR, GANESH SIR, PRAVEEN, SHIVA, SIDDHARTH, VISHWAANT, SARAVANAN, RAGHAV, PRASANTH, SAJITH AND ME!!
yesssss… a truly wonderful experience and we were back to the pavillion from 9th october with our classes and this time as the whole department was celebrating, it seemed i was with a very biiiiig face sitting proud in my class with all the subject works and record works left behind… at this moment, i would miss something if i don’t forget to mention my classmates help. ARUNA and DEEPA who helped me to complete my record work. they took print outs for me(free of cost!!!! – what a great colleagues i have!!). and as usual i was able to finish my works on time. though i may be a bit low in studies. i have never failed in my other responsibilities. this was the timely moment when i got very close with most of my classmates and started enjoying my life even more!!!!!
then came my semesters and as usual , beginning of confinement and then a free bird into the sky for my holidays…. but not sooo faar.. i started preparing with my placement stuffs which i downloaded from the net and from the well known book, QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE.

SIXTH SEMESTER

here comes the placement stuff. the college reopened with a great fanfare! i made a public appearance in one of the tv channels as a performer!!
i presented a great poetry in pongal poetry contest in JAYA tv. the program was a joint venture with radio mirchi and it was a truly unforgettable day for me before pongal! we got our results that day and it was realllly good! i cleared in all the subjects for the second ever time in my career without applying for revaluation! and my gpa was also good at that time! i had got 8.31 as my gpa and i presented the program very well with my favourite rj that time: SUCHI of radio mirchi- (nw she’s wit radio one). yeah.. the poem was extrordinary explicit.. ok ok no comments.. it was just a compilation of mokkai! or PJ’s. i tried something like the most renowned fellow for rhyming in KOLLYWOOD. yes…. MR. T.R.
ok then beginning with my placement stuff, it was like RAJINI’s movie! eppo varumne theriyaadhu! aana varavendiya nerathula correcta vanthudum! aana sollama than varum!!!

ya my college was very very poor in communication where, we would get the timetable for tomorrow’s exam only today!
this was another one of my unforgettable semesters,where we few guys from all the main departments started to think of a big fest in our college which was to be funfilled with the technical aspects. i was made to think of this plan by a guy from mech. MR. vikas dokania.. i mean… MR.BIKASH KUMAR AGARWAL and then we had formed a team of 9 members started working for it. the members other than myself – my new good friends rather, were:
AMIT KUMAR @ AMIT ANNA from EEE

AKANSHA KALITA – ECE

BIKASH KUMAR AGARWAL @ paisa paisa – MECH

FAKHRUDIN MALLURA – EEE

MAHIM MEHTA – IT

PRAKASH KUMAR PANDEY – EEE

SANDEEP DHALL – BIOTECH and

VIVEK IYER – ECE
we started by developing our communication skills for the placement by beginning our negotiations with all the college management people. yes.. a true fact indeed.. when we ended up in convinvincing them, we lost half of our lives… the tech fest was named AARUUSH which means THE FIRST RAYS OF THE RISING SUN.( i shall post about all the things we did in a new blog called – WHAT NOT TO BE DONE IN SRM! or HOW TO ORGANIZE A TECHFEST).
as all these things were in full flow of work, atlast we came to know about our placements which was scheduled after the semester xams had got over. yet we had a great rumors of what are the companies to come before the college gave us any proper info!
with regard to the subjects is was another splendid semester indeed with a new series od staff we had got.. i cannot forget about one, MR.MURUGANANTHAM who took us DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING. it was really a very very lively class and no one would miss that particular class in the whole semester. another unforgettable staff was MS.KARTHY who took the last ever mathematics subject for us – OPERATIONS RESEARCH. and rest all we had our old staff for the other subjects and the most ever boring subject that semester was ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS. i couldn’t ever cope up with it..
we had a special training session for the placements every monday for 6 continuous weeks from a concern called CAREER PLAN and they trained us really well. that semester we had a paper called personality development which was then changed to placement and training and we were really provided with a good stuff from these people.. thanks to the lack of staff in the placement cell and their good intention to help us get placed..
then began our semesters and we got an info about the placements before the penutimate exam of the sem and we were supposed to check our group mail id’s every now and then! we had to pay rs.2000 for the placements as our registration fee and we were atlast given the arrival of the first company TCS on 2nd july 2007 and the second – COGNIZANT on 6th july 2007. before that we were given a pre placement initiative by these first 2 companies.
i was really impressed by COGNIZANT’S initiative programme EVOLVE as it was named and it was really a entertaining session. i participated well by interacting in all the means i could and it was that day i dreamt of getting placed in that company but waited for the other company’s programme.
boo hoo i got my sixth semester results very early and got an arrear in operations research. since the first 3 companies allowed a maximum of 2 arrears, i escaped narrowly.
the second programme was a total opposite of the first and i really developed a disliking towards TCS. since this was the first company to have come i wanted to get placed in the first company that came like my friends had got placed in their respective colleges!! the day finally arrived!!!
i got well prepared with all my stuff i had and whatever they asked to bring us for the placement. we had the pre-placement talk of tcs on 2nd july and the tests were scheduled to be held the next consecutive day. i was really in a great exitement and was gearing up for the battle!!!.. the next day as per the heard rumors we were preparing with the old test materials we had with us. since it was an online examination it was a INKY PINKY PONKY situation for us. it was a 90 min paper and the xam started.. i had answered whatever i could and once clicked on stop the result would be displayed. the final time had arrived and i clicked on STOP. yesssssssss.. i was soooo exited that i got selected for the next round or to say the – final round of shaping my career..
the next day my interview was scheduled for the noon batch and i was getting ready with my technical stuff. i was not so bad neither soo good in technical. we were very very nervous and exited when we were sitting inside the fully airconditioned auditorium which was specially built for the placements by the college management. for many good things they have done we really owe them a lot!!!!
i went inside and 2 people interviewed me in the panel. they asked me all sorts of questions as they could and i was able to relieve most of the nails they screwed upon me! they left me after some time of 27 minutes. i came out a bit relieved yet a bit tensed whether i was able to satisfy them or not. i came out and started asking about others experiences on their interview and interviewers.. then we started back home after we came to know that the results were to be obtained on the next day.
the next day morning i went to NANGANALLUR ANCHANEYA TEMPLE to pray for everyone in my department to get selected in the interview and get placed in tcs. once i came to the college around 2pm i was totally bewildered because there were as more as 600 people to go in for their interview session. we were informed that the results would be around 6 pm and we came to know that it would be delayed even more. so i was in prayers and was hoping to get into onw of the renowned companies in the IT field. after all the curses and moanings and groanings of hunger we got the results at around 9pm and alas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! alll my friends except me who sat for the interview got selected!!! with a very very sad face i came back home late at night around 12am and was totally disheartened because i couldn’t prepare for the next day’s interview. my beloved friend KAZEE@ MR.KARTHIC SRINIVAAS came immediately to my rescue. he helped me by giving me a few tips of how to crack the code for COGNIZANT.
the day arrived and my dream company’s pre placement session was in front of me. i was once again impressed by their punctuality and wanted to get placed somehow in this company..

it was a written test and i got an info from my friend that i cleared the first level test before they could announce the result. yet i was waiting for the result and then i confirmed that i cleared the first level. with good and great hopes i geared up for the next day.
the next day morning my beloved classmate MR.AIYUSH TANDON helped me with a few basic technical stuff and it really helped me in the interview. i was in the first batch and when i went and sat in front of my one and only interviewer. i found that he was my college alumni and i was totally relaxed.. the interview went on for a half an hour and i did it perfectly well.. i was sure and very very confident of getting through.
the time came for the results to be announced……………………………………………………….

YEAH…………………. hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooray…………………………

yipppppppppppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i GOT SELECTED IN

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

and i was proud and doubly happy when a few of my friends were also placed in here and my dream came true!!!!.
then began my seventh semester with a great relaxation and tension relieved!!!