Bapu, Meri Naukri Lag Gayee

Here, I am, at the end of Placement day in campus…
Mind: Excited… this is what I have been waiting for, slogging for, dreaming about in the past two years…
Body: Dog tired, legs aching badly (all the running around from one process to another has to show somewhere, right?), begging for a loo break (which incidentally will be allowed only if another volunteer is present to escort you to the loo and back)
Soul: if there ever was one inside me, it is now in a state of nirvana… neither here nor there

I am happy… for myself, for my friends who also landed dream jobs, for the batch as a whole to have had this outstanding opportunity to get a great launch-pad for our careers…
I am excited… at the prospect of seeing some real money in my hands in a few months…
I am apprehensive… at the thought that all this money and perks do not come free, and I might have to slog my butt out for the years to come…
I am grateful… to the company that took me, to the Profs and batch-mates who stood by me as I came out of interview after interview without knowing when I will land a job, to God who answered my deepest prayers, to my parents for all they have sacrificed for so long…
I am sad… at the thought that this is the end of my student years, at the sight of all those poor volunteers sweating it out, at the sight of some of the company officials who have to face rejection after rejection as candidates scramble for the best offers, for myself when I lost out on some dream companies …

I am confused… as you can see from the above…

I have nothing much to write about… since I am already dozing off in between… mebbe, just mebbe, one day, I will write about the gaps in the Placement Process… but no complaints for today