Till today unsure how I cleared the entrance exam for MCA(Master of Computer Applications) which all the students had to clear to secure an admission to the most prestigious College/University in South India - Christ College.
I vaguely remember my bachelors' degree classmates Aditya ,Gaurav and Balu talking among themselves:
'lets just go give it a try, what if we clear the exam?. And also its chance to check the beautiful girls in the campus '. Christ college is renowned for Good looking girls.. hahah and especially NRIs(Non resident Indian) students.
Jancy the ever studious one, preparing for the exam like 3 months in advance. As I remember it was 4 of us who wrote the exam .Jancy genuinely wanted to secure an admission for MCA and prepared well for the exam.As for me , my big brother(who is like a father figure to me ) had given me the ultimatum to give it a try .My preparations was close to nil. Surely I cant speak for the other 3 boys whether they prepared or not.
I was not tensed at all cuz I was 100% sure that I wont clear the test, then why to take tension ? We popped into Gaurav's car and drove to the venue laughing and making fun etc as if we are going for a party. It seemed fun.
During the test somehow I felt that questions were kinda easy and simple and I am answering it right. It was all aptitude questions. But again I thought I am wrong its a just a stupid feeling that all questions seems simple. I completed the exam totally calm and cool.
They said the results will be announced later and we were asked to check on their website on a particular day .On the day of results I went to a cybercafe to check the results. Those times one of the pass time activities was chatting in online like yahoo chatrooms. I started chatting , forgot to check the results in time. (Reminds me of ASL please? hahahah .. ASL stands for Age, Sex and Location)
After sometime when I checked my result in the website it said :
'Congratulations. You have been shortlisted for an interview' .
I got a major shock and I could not stop staring at the screen. I thought it might be wrong . May be I have keyed in the wrong number to fetch the results. I immediately closed all chat windows , all browsers and breathed properly. Carefully opened the website and keyed in the number again.
It definitely said :
'Congratulations. You have been shortlisted for an interview' .
Well it is true. I have been shortlisted. But how? I couldn't believe it.
I immediately went out and called Jancy to check if she has cleared the exam. From her voice I could easily understand that she did not . Neither the boys . It was just ME!
I cleared the interview subsequently (another miracle!) . I remember the interview panel asking me what is my favourite subject and I said its 'Computer Networks' (just because I wrote an exam on Computer Networks before the interview so that if any questions asked on it I would remember something and not look stupid .Computer Networks my fav subject??? Gimme a break!!! ) Another question followed. How many sacraments are there? I couldn't remember any sacraments in Computer Networks.. It was the Christian sacraments :) Well the name of the college is Christ for a reason! Amen!
(My interview could be another post by itself)
I must admit that that was a turnover in my life. A big turn! Christ college made me a programmer, an analyst , a better human being etc.I grew up from being not able to understand the difference between source code and object code to actually start programming. I fell in love with Java irrecoverably during 4th semester of my MCA
I recall Sunil used to call me 'Java Jose' because I read Java books in other boring lectures.
Java has been feeding me for past 11 years. As a tribute I buy only Android phones. And that somehow makes me anti-iPhone and anti-Apple. I take extreme pride in that.
P.S : This post is no way demeaning any of my friends who wrote the exam with me .
Jancy got admitted to another college and currently working as a QA Analyst in Illinois,USA after working with UPS for a number of years in New Jersey/New York.
Aditya is the State head of an Insurance Company in Bangalore,India
Gaurav is a business tycoon having a global impact. I am not sure where he is based.. hahaha
Balu is into Software field and working with a MNC and in Bangalore,India
Each person had their own destiny and this was mine!!
To be continued...
I vaguely remember my bachelors' degree classmates Aditya ,Gaurav and Balu talking among themselves:
'lets just go give it a try, what if we clear the exam?. And also its chance to check the beautiful girls in the campus '. Christ college is renowned for Good looking girls.. hahah and especially NRIs(Non resident Indian) students.
Jancy the ever studious one, preparing for the exam like 3 months in advance. As I remember it was 4 of us who wrote the exam .Jancy genuinely wanted to secure an admission for MCA and prepared well for the exam.As for me , my big brother(who is like a father figure to me ) had given me the ultimatum to give it a try .My preparations was close to nil. Surely I cant speak for the other 3 boys whether they prepared or not.
I was not tensed at all cuz I was 100% sure that I wont clear the test, then why to take tension ? We popped into Gaurav's car and drove to the venue laughing and making fun etc as if we are going for a party. It seemed fun.
During the test somehow I felt that questions were kinda easy and simple and I am answering it right. It was all aptitude questions. But again I thought I am wrong its a just a stupid feeling that all questions seems simple. I completed the exam totally calm and cool.
They said the results will be announced later and we were asked to check on their website on a particular day .On the day of results I went to a cybercafe to check the results. Those times one of the pass time activities was chatting in online like yahoo chatrooms. I started chatting , forgot to check the results in time. (Reminds me of ASL please? hahahah .. ASL stands for Age, Sex and Location)
After sometime when I checked my result in the website it said :
'Congratulations. You have been shortlisted for an interview' .
I got a major shock and I could not stop staring at the screen. I thought it might be wrong . May be I have keyed in the wrong number to fetch the results. I immediately closed all chat windows , all browsers and breathed properly. Carefully opened the website and keyed in the number again.
It definitely said :
'Congratulations. You have been shortlisted for an interview' .
Well it is true. I have been shortlisted. But how? I couldn't believe it.
I immediately went out and called Jancy to check if she has cleared the exam. From her voice I could easily understand that she did not . Neither the boys . It was just ME!
I cleared the interview subsequently (another miracle!) . I remember the interview panel asking me what is my favourite subject and I said its 'Computer Networks' (just because I wrote an exam on Computer Networks before the interview so that if any questions asked on it I would remember something and not look stupid .Computer Networks my fav subject??? Gimme a break!!! ) Another question followed. How many sacraments are there? I couldn't remember any sacraments in Computer Networks.. It was the Christian sacraments :) Well the name of the college is Christ for a reason! Amen!
(My interview could be another post by itself)
I must admit that that was a turnover in my life. A big turn! Christ college made me a programmer, an analyst , a better human being etc.I grew up from being not able to understand the difference between source code and object code to actually start programming. I fell in love with Java irrecoverably during 4th semester of my MCA
I recall Sunil used to call me 'Java Jose' because I read Java books in other boring lectures.
Java has been feeding me for past 11 years. As a tribute I buy only Android phones. And that somehow makes me anti-iPhone and anti-Apple. I take extreme pride in that.
P.S : This post is no way demeaning any of my friends who wrote the exam with me .
Jancy got admitted to another college and currently working as a QA Analyst in Illinois,USA after working with UPS for a number of years in New Jersey/New York.
Aditya is the State head of an Insurance Company in Bangalore,India
Gaurav is a business tycoon having a global impact. I am not sure where he is based.. hahaha
Balu is into Software field and working with a MNC and in Bangalore,India
Each person had their own destiny and this was mine!!
To be continued...
