Epoch

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

H. W. Longfellow

The following events took place between 12^th Feb 2008 and 12^th Feb, 2009

February '08

• Infosys recruitment drive at MMEC, Mullana. I got selected by my dream company. How? Check this out.
• Immediately after the selection, I head off to Lucknow for my cousin's marriage.
• Within one week of the placement drive, "Trojans" was born. Nishant and I founded the society for the students of computers department.

March '08

• Literati '08 held at NIT Kurukshetra. One event Junkyard Wars caught my fancy. It would not be until November that I would be able to realize my dream. Read my exploits by clicking here.
• My love story took a nosedive. Read about it here.

April '08

• ISTE organized Synergy - 2K8. Five events in the space of three days. Encoding, Paper presentation, quiz, Big Fight and Webhunt. I paid my tribute to those crazy, whacky net puzzles like Klueless with my own Webhunt. Click here for details.
• Won first prize in Trojan Hunt, Nishant's rendition of NIT's webhunt. I would not have participated if it had not felt like a challenge from him to me. He's good! He managed to bag second in my WebHunt. Quite a few eyebrows were raised but both of us knew the truth. We had not cheated. Our consciences were clear and that's what mattered the most.

May '08

• A major fiasco - the closing ceremony of Trojans. Somehow, the show fell to pieces. Oh well, the less the said the better.
• ISTE's end of the year party at our favourite dhaba. I raised a toast to four very special seniors; Aashish Aggarwal, Varun Soni, Vikas Goyal and Sandeep Dhiman. If it had not been for them, I would still be just an unknown face in the crowd at MMEC.

June '08

• The semester papers started after preparatory holidays that lasted for almost a month. Life was hell in the scorching summer.

July '08

• I took my tiffin-box of a PC to Chandigarh and got it upgraded. Wrote as many articles as possible for my blog. No, I'm not going to place links to all of them. If you are interested, look them up in my blog.
  
• My love story found a new chapter. Unfortunately, the sequel had an even more agonizing ending. Damn!

August '08

• Found my lost groove with the help and support of a great friend, Prashant Diggi. Playing Pro Evolution Soccer 6 at his home brought back my touch on the real ground. I have no explanations for it. Playing football on the PC improved my game on the ground too. Magic!

September '08

• My final year at MMEC begins. ISTE has a new President. And all hell breaks loose.
• Abhivyakti-2008, our college fest taught me a valuable lesson. Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. Every night during the fest was like an audition straight out of Roadies.

October '08

• Symptoms of imbecility were being shown by the President of ISTE. I was confused, nervous and unsure.
• Infosys Campus Connect (Soft Skills training) was held in our college. Fortunately, it managed to bring me back from the dead.

November '08

• ISTE Week was organized and we went where no MMECian had gone before. Six events in the span of 4 days. The events themselves had never been conducted in our college before. Reverse coding, Half-A-Minute, Turncoat, Youth Parliament, Big Fight and my favourite: Techyard. The mini fest got rave reviews and woke up the college management. And I had regained my confidence. The details are all placed here.

December '08

• Exam time again! 9 more papers and I would earn the title of Engineer.
• Presentation - the only thing I contributed to my team's minor project. Heck, I had been too busy pondering over what I could do that I actually did nothing. Embarrassing; but I had learnt another lesson.

January '09

• Watched 'Slumdog Millionaire'. I just can't understand these self-professed protectors of Indian culture. Great Indian Hypocrisy! My sister has already copyrighted the title so I can't write anything else about it (Do I even need to?). I'll place the link to her blog as soon as she publishes it.

February '09

• The Final Frontier! Last semester at Mullana. I've written a lot about my college. Check out the stuff here and here. Love it or hate it, its my college anyway!
  
• Infosys; after a gap of exactly 365 days; sent us our joining letters. Its official, I'm an Infoscion! Absolute bliss!

The preceding events happened between 12th Feb, 2008 (The date I was selected by Infosys) and 11^th Feb, 2009 (the date I got my offer-cum-joining letter)