The CAT was there, the bell was where?

CAT’08, I remember how was in an all enthu mood for this exam 7 months before the exam. I considered myself a real smartass and came to the conclusion that I would sail through this exam. After all I am a Goddamn engineering student. Quants toh apni jeb mein hai.

 

So as it turned out I didn’t really take the thing seriously skipping lectures and mock tests. The only real preparation I did was to join online forums where other smartasses like me logged in and threw random inspirational stuff at each other instead of just logging off and studying.

 

It was after I filled the CAT form that I felt I was as clueless about it as a drunk rock star who has been just summoned to fight a war. So I did what all sincere boys do, I made a study time table which was part of my master plan to crack the exam. But most sincere boys don’t have to tackle one crucial factor which in my case led to the failure of the whole time table idea, my insurmountable laziness.

 

So now there were two weeks left for CAT and my preparations when compared to the people on those same online forums, (these were different people on the forums now, the earlier smartasses had mysteriously vanished) were a mere zilch.

That is when I decided that these two weeks belonged to me and I saw the Shahrukh khan speech in Chak de India! several times to inspire me through these days.

But it clearly turned out my wretched college profs had different plans.

 

In the first week I had the following things to do at college:

1) Five submissions.

2) Three vivas.

3) One KT viva.

 

So much for the whole Chak de CAT thing!

So it was the last 5 days I used to prepare for the toughest competitive exam of this country.

The night before the CAT is when I showed something which only real managers’ show, Panic.

Thus being a smart ass that I was, I tried managing the crisis by gulping down half a bottle of cough syrup so I could get sleep.

Well I did feel sleepy; well not in the night I didn’t sleep a minute, but in the morning just before the CAT as the cough syrup took full effect. A pulsating head and heavy eyes filled with sleep during the test is what I got after my genius plan of doing everything at the very last moment.

The results here for everyone to see.

 

DI: 40/100(97.xx%ile) Decent enough.

VA: 42/160 (94.xx%ile) Okay not bad.

And finally setting a record low score for any engineering student in the quant section…… Quants: 2/100 (26.xx%ile)

Overall: 84/360 (90.xx%ile)

 

Moral of the story:

1)      Before the exam if you think you are a ‘smartass’, then there are good chances that you would end up looking like the last three letters of the word after it.

2)      Just because you are an engineering student doesn’t mean you are good at quants. This is one of the stupidest CAT myths that I have just manage to bust .

3)      Don’t start preparation by joining online forums

4)      Instead use the old fashion get-off-your-ass-and-start-studying technique.

5)      It doesn’t matter that you are trying to crack CAT or feeding the poor and hungry, if you are an engineering student your Profs would always be there to screw you over.

6)      Do not watch stupid Shah rukh khan movies before the CAT, instead watch something like Karzzz or Deshdrohi which would discourage the whole movie watching thing and help in achieving point number 4.

7)      And lastly do not carry out any substance abuse. No cough syrup, no sleeping pills, no hash, weed, coke, heroin, vodka, rum, whitener, rat poison, mosquito repellant or toilet disinfectant 24 hrs prior to the test. Anything which makes you ‘high’ or ‘relaxed’ would have the opposite effect on your scores.

 

 

 

 

Mindful of nothing

It’s 1:20am, 1^st January 2009. The whole world is out partying, chilling with friends, welcoming the New Year like they do every year, I wonder from where they get the New Year enthusiasm year after year after year for every December 31^st eve. Don’t they get bored after a while and realize all this is fine once or twice, but the same shit gets boring when repeated every freaking year? I guess this is just an excuse for guys who don’t have a zero social life like me to hit on chicks.

 

Okay so everyone is out there having a great time, but what am I doing apart from cribbing about how I am left alone here in my home staring at a monitor on New Years Eve. Well what I am trying to do here on the very first day of the year 2009, a year I reckon would be special for me as I would complete my graduation and my life would hopefully have some sort of a direction, is something I guess only few poor souls would want to do on a day like this.

 

Yes I am trying to start a blog. It’s something I always wanted to do, after realizing that all the intellectuals and smart people that I meet online usually have a blog and since I am a huge wannabe intellectual and smart person that is exactly what I am trying to do.

 

So here goes my New Year resolution, although my resolutions don’t usually last a long time, like once when I had decided I would be a good student in college by attending all lectures in the coming year only to find my self in a hukka parlor on the 2^nd day with my lukkha college friends bunking almost the entire day by not attending a single lecture, I am hereby declaring that I would start a blog and would try my level best to maintain it.

 

But there are a few doubts I have before starting this whole thing (I know you don’t care but still):

 

1)      Would I ever get over my laziness and write anything after this post? well I don’t know.

2)      Do I have a good enough vocab to look uber smart and anywhere close to an online intellectual? I really don’t think so.

3)      What exactly would my blog contain? Never thought much about that.

4)      Where would I advertise about this blog so that more people read it? Maybe in my Orkut about me, the only problem to that being the number of profile visits I get these days, sometimes it goes as low as 1 in an entire week!

5)      And finally if I do manage to put something up here, who would exactly care and would be interested in reading the absolute random crap that I would churn out?

 

Hmm…But what the heck, new year, new enthu for a new blog, lets see how far this goes (no I am not being a skeptic, I really want to see how far I take this).

Let me quote a line from a rage against the machine song, although they were in a completely different context but fits perfectly here, ‘It has to start somewhere it has to start sometime what better place than here, what better time than now?’

 

Welcome year 2009 [J]

P.S: These designer ‘happy new year’ forward SMSes are really irritating me. [:x]