Boooored to death!

Man! Life is gettin real boring.With nuthin to do, just waiting for the CAT results to be out,i am getting pissed with the amt of time and lack of things to do.Books,Movies,Hangin out...nuthin seems to be interestin nemore.

The worst part is that the pessimist in me will never lemme prepare for GD\PI before i get calls...aaaaarghhhhhhh....why the hell is it taking so long for the f***in results to be declared...man tis hard to wait for something you want soooooooo badly....just hope that when the results come out, i don't end up disappointed.

Anywayz,since i am getting bored, only one thing left to do....blog a lil more...
Spent the last one hour reading posts on PG, picked up arbit threads and found one interesting post from a dood in IIMB, this relating their summers
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This is the official web release of IIMB's summer placements (for the Batch of 2004), which concluded on Saturday.

Overview
IIMB’s Summer Placements this year broke all records, wrapping up in less than three days flat with forty-one lucrative foreign offers to its batch of 187 students. It is the fastest ever process at the IIMs and at any Indian b-school with a batch of comparable size.

Investment Banks from abroad, multinationals and the best Indian corporates came, saw and picked up like never before.

Snapshot
Total no. of companies scheduled for Summer Placements: 120
Total no. of recruiting companies: 74
No. of students in the batch: 187
Total no. of offers: 255
Total no. of acceptances: 183
Total no. of international offers: 41, twice the number last year
Number of slots: 3

Slot Zero
Locations of Foreign Offers : New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Singapore

Sectors: Mainly Investment Banking
No. of Slot Zero international offers: 41

Companies and no. of offers by them: Goldman Sachs Lehman Brothers New York Lehman Brothers Asia, for Tokyo and Hong Kong , HSBC London , Deutsche Bank , Barclays Capital , JP Morgan Securities London, Deutsche post Worldwide, Barclays Capital and Technofast Consulting , ICICI Bank International banking

This is possibly the highest % of a single batch going abroad for summers in any B-School this year. Speaks a lot about the calibre of this year's batch in IIMB


Last year’s Slot Zero recruitment: 9 offers last time from 3 companies.

Slot One
Sectors: All streams, including Consulting

Companies: IBM (1, ICICI (16), Hindustan Lever (10), Cognizant (9), Times Group (9), Tata Admistrative Services (7), Citibank (6), ICICI Prudential (6), Procter & Gamble (5)
Among the new companies on slot one were KPMG, Accenture Consulting, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. 13 consulting offers were made during Slot One. International recruiters on day one were National Kidney Foundation Singapore, Procter & Gamble Singapore and Olam International.
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Man! those are some awesome stats...41 international offers outta 183...phew!The number of stud companies is awesome....and this is w\o taking into acc the awesome companies in India i.e. Mck..etc.
The diff b\w an engg summers and MBA summers is like crazy..i am supposedly doin my trainin right now( get that smirk off ur face!)...thats right..sittin at home..and will get a certi in the end frm some company...can't wait to get into an MBA course and then do a real summers!
Anywayz, thats enuff for one post,time to watch a movie :D
adios
rohit