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.

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