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As today sucks, so will tomorrow


My life in the past couple of months has been so hectic that I might be the having a breakdown, atleast I’m hoping for one to relieve me from all this. First there’s the regular classes for which I have to spend the entire day in college doing absolutely nothing, for the weekdays without an exception. The classes are a total waste of time and the staffs are not even considerate towards our feelings and they just torture us into apathy. Then there’s the useless class for TCS placed students, the classes are worthless as it is and what’s more? They make us sit through almost every class demanding 100% attendance and again the professors have no clue as to how to go about guiding the students to ease the process of shifting from “campus to corporate”. They just use their old methods and drive us crazy with petty things like writing record notebooks rather than concentrating on the actual programming concepts and the different approach that the TCS guys prescribe.
Finally after all this hypocritical bullshit is over, I’ve a good time tending to guys who have problems in their projects, helping as much as possible for me. Then my week gets really great when the weekend comes, no I don’t spend my weekends in Malibu but I at-least have a pro-active session for the TCS-ION internship. I really dig the corporate style towards giving solutions and it’s really helping solve my issues and doubts regarding my survival in such a environment. I just hate crowds and never was good with people at once. But as it turns out I too can work in such an environment among peers and bosses. All I have to do is to shine and the glitter will come and stick with.

I’m really looking forward to be in a city, in a civilized place, where drivers empathize with other drivers and follow road rules. Where people are polite until you get to know them (the acquaintances are never that long-standing). Where people will do anything get what you’re saying when you’re taking about Taylor swift’s new album or the new movie starring George Clooney. Where I could actually watch a English or a English 3-d movie in English and actual 3D in the theatres. Well, I am concerned about active life-style filled with traffic jams, pollution (smoke, noise and otherwise) and the long travels for just about anything and never getting to any place at correct time for the first few months because I cannot account for traffic jams, train/bus timings and the number of people boarding it. What I’m really worried about is the fact that I will not be able to save a penny in a city like Chennai with my puny sum as a salary. I dunno how I’m gonna manage. But I sure am hoping to get out and get going…

Ciao,
Alan Neo.

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