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Saw a search result leading to my post that said "worry-list" posted on Jan 01 2006. funny topic for the first post of the year i thought but then my posts have seldom made sense, even to me.

flashforward a year, give a month and.... pre-placement jitters and feeble placement prep long done, offers evaluated, agonized over, almost rejected then accepted, a blur that was the final term, lots of bleary-eyed nostalgia over what was going to be missed. the decision to switch tracks, lots of second-guessing. finding what you've not been looking for but have seeked in the most unexpected manner. suddenly two-month planning horizons don't cut it...or don't they? lot of questions about the kind of job that i can sink my teeth into still remain unanswered...but maybe simplified to an extent...am thinking its going to be an ongoing process...like the reduction of something radioactive...no, not in that unnecessarily explosive way like in WWI

catching up with batchmates and even total strangers is a revelation..into my my own thought process...the moment where you swap visiting cards and they look at yours and look up with a puzzled expression. theirs bears a logo that needs no introduction, has as many in their HR dept (annexe) for their western region operations as there are people in your organisation. you know the name on your visiting card is not going to be jockeying for a slot on Day 0 come placement week. neither is that reverence going to make itself apparent in the junior's voices when you tell them what you've done with yourself since graduating.

so, does it matter? and if it doesn't, why would it occupy an entire train of thought? funny. on closer inspection, you're now in a firm that traditionally never hired from the top-tier schools in the country. part of their 'low-cost management consulting model'. 7 months and another ISB-ian later, they've signed up to hire from ISB, for the first time. the opportunity to have a telling impact on an organisation and its workings awaits. not cut-and-dried by any means...but the opportunity is there.

the sixty-four million dollar question is, how strong will that urge to send out email from a domain thats known in all inhabited continents be? answers awaited...