Lessons better left unlearnt
When in light, everythin shall follow.. when in dark, even your shadow wont.
I always wanted to be somebody. Now i realize i shud be more specific
there are 3 kinds of people in the world. the movable. the immovable. And those WHO MOVE
my GDPI story..
At last the day i was waiting for had come.. I’ll update my result when i get it 
I had my K Interview at IIM B, 2.00 pm batch
PROFILE:
Acads:
X – 88.36 (matriculation)
XII – 95.91 (TN state board)
UG – 76 APPX, IT dept, SSN coll
CAT %ile:
DI – 99.xx
Quant – 79.xx
Verbal – 96.40
Aggregate – 98.18
Aggregate – 98.18
faculty . (i hope i’m right)
silent prof:SP, G sridhar (marketing mgmt dept) (silent cos heard that he was rather silent for the other guys as well
tech prof:TP, Anjan kumar swain (not sure if its his name)
GD
GD was about creative capitalism. 9 ppl including a girl
GD was about creative capitalism. 9 ppl including a girl
i think they gave us 2 min to think, and i felt it was too short a GD.. 10min wasnt enuf to even make a mark. (many felt that it didnt last more than 7-8 min) i was not satisfied with my performance at all. came in 4 times of wich i was cut twice. 
and thankfully it wasnt a fish market.)
and thankfully it wasnt a fish market.)PI
i was the second person to be interviewed.
sp: why dont u do an m.tech? y mba
me; i am better of planning and organising stuff that i think pursuing an mba wud be closer to my heart.
sp; which centre did u go for coaching?
me; time(thot i’d better be truthful)
sp; u are jus saying what they told u to say..
me; not like that sir… tried making a point but fell on deaf ears..
sp: but y man, u are already a manager? u have organized so many things and u don need to learn anythin.
me. no sir, the kind of competition and chalenges wud be higher.. and some crap like that.
sp. how ll u write ten?
me: what??
sp; how ll u write ten?
me; 10
sp; how many ones are there?
me ; thinking he was testing my lateral thinking i said jus “one”
sp; there are ten ones (as a matter of fact tone) if u are able to manage each individually, u ll be able to do them all..
me. what?? tried to make some sense but he jus said, i’m not satisfied…
thats all sp became silent..
for the rest of the interview he didnt say a word.. guess he thot he saw thro me.. i seriousl;y feel bad bout this part.
now tp’s turn
tp:what is a data warehouse..
me; told him a story. repeatedthe same points 3ice in different tones and stresses
tp: how is this data stored in the source database?
me:under diff schema. in a data warehouse it ll be stored under a unified schema.
tp: i don think thats how data is stored in a warehouse..
me……….
tp: u mentioned data mining. why is it done.
me: told him it was to extract info from large data. gave him an example of a small retail market, that i had learnt at coll.
tp:that i can see and tell itself. y do i ned to go for mining?
me: this is jus a small example i gave in. but in real life, data ll be of the size of terabytes. it is impossible to get info out of such big sources.
tp: imposible? whats imposssible.. gimme n example of such data then?
me; thot for a min and said that i cudnt think of an eg rite now
then he checked my markshets and asked what is cryptography
me; answered this part well. went on to add abt authentication also from security
tp; now send an info, i add some knowledge to it then send it to the destined person then how ll u find if the data is tampered or not?
me; explained message digest, but dint use a tech term at all missed out on that
missed out on thattp: u studied info coding techniques rit?
me; yes sir
tp; wat did u learn there?
me; we learnt abt how msg is coded, abt huffman coding, lempel ziv coding and things like that..
tp: things like that?? ( he found that i was not sur of the topic).
me; i started telling a story abt how computers communicate, and gave a lecture on that..
tp; some quest on that..
me, explained
tp; what is LPC? lineear predictive coding
me; gave a def of which i’m not sure of at all.. dunno if it was right..
tp; what are the characteristics of a voice signal?
me; (knew lpc was used in voice coding). i don have much of an idea abt it. but know that the voice freq is bet 20 hz to 20000 hz
tp; if i give a signal, how ll i know that it is a speech signal?
me; i don remembr sir..
tp: what do u think abt the sethu samudram project, ur opinion..
me; said a two points abt it, later realized that i jus gave facts and not my opinion
tp: what do u think abt the sethu samudram project, ur opinion..
me; said a two points abt it, later realized that i jus gave facts and not my opinion
tp;fine, then ur interview is over.
me; thank u sirs..
dunno really wht to expect of it.. other ppl had better interviews than i did…
hoping to god that the result comes out in my favor… hoping is al i can do
