The Art of defining people in two lines

Hey all, have not blogged for long and it is not because I have

been extremely busy, but it is mainly because of a kind of

lethargy which has crept in everything I want to do.

But this post is not about that. The placement season is on us

and with it a rising feverish pitch of resumes and profiles.

In this strange atmosphere we mostly normal people at

WIMWI turn into something else. Friendships are broken,

trust is sometimes shattered, new relationships are forged

having sometimes sinister purpose. Amongst all this we people

become most adapt at qualifying people, evaluating and describing

them in 2 lines.

Like some examples are (mind you they bear no description of

real people just generalized examples)

"Do you knw X he got a shortlist from ABC do you know who

he is? then another replies of course Highscholar,IIT 9 pointer,

ABS scholar and a QWERTY ppo....WOW"

And in this short conversation we have somehow managed to

achieve the impossible, what generations of philosophers have

tried and failed to do. Define a living being in words.

Another possible such description is

"X is a dud, Some non IIT engineering college, 3 pointer got

summers in day 1 in XYZ....WOW that bad"

I am not saying i am not guilty of the same crime, i am very

much a WIMWI'ian to the core but sometimes and very

occasionally the human being in me tries to fight back. I also

remember the IIMA interview preps and remember the

times when i used to read the interview experiences of so

many seniors. And i remeber how much stress the interview

panel gave on any passions the candidadate might have. Passion

for anything whether cooking, reading, poetry, sports or even

sitcoms was not judged upon for relevance, the only question

was the genuineness and the intensity of the passion.

And in light of the last 2 years that i have spent here (and all of

my college friends will vouch for how fiercely i defend IIMA and

how much i love almost all the traditions of this place), i will leave

this place with only this slight regret that IIMA is indeed considered

my many as a very big placement agency.