Post Placement Update
Placement week has passed IIM Calcutta, and the campus has felt the impact of the global slowdown in a very real way. Contrasted with the better than usual summer placement figures for last year, this year was surely a let down. Apart from that, everyone got to undergo the high-pressure we’ll-find-a-job-for-each-one-of-you-in-5-days placement process. So I would not be wrong if I described the mood on campus as “solemn”. There are many reasons for this, something which I shall explore in the next post.
Elections are fast approaching (faster than I would like), and I for one am amazed at how big a deal it is. Potential candidates, their possible posts, their chances of winning are the stuff of corridor discussions. The mood is mostly very cynical, particularly given the fact that most people have not landed the kind of summer interns they would have hoped for.
Anyhoo, the eternal optimist in me tries to focus on the classes and the acads – something which is secondary, even tertiary here on campus. That is the saddest part really – a kind of disconnect between the admin, the faculty and the students. It’s rare for me to sound so gloomy but these are things that need to addressed. And sweeping problems under the carpet and pretending they don’t exist is a habit we seem to have become fond of.
In conclusion, what was probably the last paper-based CAT took place last Sunday. I’m glad that the weight assigned to the English section was substantially higher. And to top it all, friends from college who were taking it seem to have done quite well. Here’s wishing them good luck. FSM grant them the they have the power to make the right choices.
Cheers,
PS: I’m not prepared to tell where I will be interning this summer. You can of course ask me personally and I’ll be more than happy to share.
November 19th, 2008 / 408 Comments / Trackback