A Placements Story
About this time last year, when I was about a quarter of my way through my third year of engineering, I remember that companies started dropping in at my college to offer summer internships to students. I recall being excited and nervous, looking at the wonderful opportunites that I had, and the potentially dazzling futures that they could lead to. A whole year later, I can look back and say, well, things didn't go exactly as I'd hoped. I think it's natural for all of us to believe in ourselves, to believe that we are smart, and capable of extraordinary achievements, and perhaps it's not wrong, perhaps we all are capable of accomplishing the things we want to, but often it's not written in our stars to get things the way we want them. The companies that graced their presence at our college, offering these internships, included some big names like Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and some more. Unfortunately for me, back then, my grade point wasn't the g
