Saturday, February 28, 2009

my first gdpi..

I went for my group discussion and personal interview. It was my first experience of the same. I was confident till the last evening but since night could feel the butterflies in my stomach.
We gad to reach the college early in the morning, which meant, i should sleep early and wake up early.
But whole night, I could not sleep properly. I was getting up every next hour and looking at the time..!
Finally the time came when I had to get ready.
My parents accompanied me. We took the auto and at a particular place, waited for the college bus. This bus had to take us to the respective college.
I bought a newspaper at the bus stop so that i could check the headlines.( i was advised to do so..)
Finally the bus started. I didn’t want to eat anything but than i had tea and ate my breakfast in bus just because i wanted to sound louder in gd.
We reached the college and we were asked to sign an attendance page. I could not find my form number on the page(and suddenly I realized, my name was not on net but i just had the hard copy), but than someone advised me to check the front page(which i missed in a hurry..) and there i signed against my form number.
We entered the college...Parents were directed to the other side... And students towards the seminar hall.
I reached the seminar hall and entered confidently. I knew i was looking smart. :)
I occupied my seat..whereas round i could see many students who were present there to give me competition..!
I went to the washroom twice..And checked the mirror with smile and looked more confident and nice.. BUT these butterflies were disturbing me every now and than.
Suddenly, many final year students gathered in the hall to start the whole process.
I was a little shocked because there was no teacher present around but then presence of only students made me feel comfortable.
Opposite to my expectations, they started distributing sheets to us to write an essay.. And we were given a long topic.. (INDIA'S ANSWER TO OBAMA? WHO WILL BE THE OBAMA FOR INDIA,WHO WILL MARCH THE COUNTRY FORWARD)
We were given good 15 minutes, which were more than enough for me because i had nothing much to write.!
They gave us 10 minutes as break to have team or something and i could only think of loo :)
I was back and everyone else was too..
They started calling our names according to the group and panel number assigned to us.
They called a sardar first..i saw him..And a thought rushed into my mind .."He must be a good speaker. Who wont let anyone speak..God help his group mates.."
And suddenly i heard "RIKI!"
I though ohh! And smiled within..for being in the same group as him.
And we formed a group of 11 students. We all were passing smiles to each other, as if saying hi's and good luck'
and a girl in front of me asked ..'are you nervous?'..and i replied’ a bit'..she told me but i was really looking nervous!
We entered he room where a panel of two teachers was there to judge us.
We were given some important guidelines before starting a gd..and I can only remember " don’t let it become a fish market"
Our topic was "LIFE IS MIRROR"
someone started..Someone justified..i also entered the gd(with my hands shivering with nervousness) but i spoke okay..
Points were getting repeated..and i could think of no new dimension(which i realized at home..!)
The students who didn’t participated much in it, they were given extra opportunity..Like to conclude, summarize, add..etc.. so overall everyone spoke almost equally.
I was happy that sardar stud equal with all..
After 15 minutes..we were sent back to seminar hall..
While going upstairs, we all started talking..and asking "how was it..how was it".
No one was satisfied with the gd..but than no one could do anything.
In the seminar hall..seniors stared answering our queries..like placements, number of seats, fees, laptops, hostel, gym, beauty parlor!
and simultaneously, they were assigning group for pi.
A group having 5-6 students was sent for pi..and i was the part of this first group.(we were told, after pi gets over..we can return beck to our homes)
We went downstairs and waited outside the room.
to be continued..

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