Precounselling Hoax!!!!!!!

One fine morning, a month ago, i read in education plus of the Hindu that they are conductiong a precounselling session on june 15th. I decided to attend it. just because Hindu was my favorite newspaper. So i got myself registered, paid 50 bucks and reached Tagore Theatre at 8.30 which was well early.

They claimed that the program cautions us against the common mistakes that we unknowingly commit but it was something else when i reached there.

Frankly speaking, 4 hours of this 6 hours programme was just CRAP. I understand that this is a blog and that i should use my words wisely , but i am so tempted to say that it mostly consisted of BULLSHIT!!!!
The programme had two co-sponsers. One of them being SBT, gave us some useful informaton of student loans available. The other one was T.I.M.E. which filled in the BULLSHIT that i earlier mentioned...



The program was to start at 9 am.


It didnt start on time. didnt start at 9.15 .... not even at 9.30 ... and then i just realised that the organisers of the programme (Hindu officials) were as puntual as their paperboys who usually deliver the paper after i leave for school.... Hindu kept their reputation up...
I was with Adi and my mom and all three of us listened to the tunes of the 70's till 9.45am.....REALLY PROFFESIONALISTIC!!!

At last the programme started...with Prof Soman adressing us stuff that we know about medical courses available in the state. It was an extraordinary speech, but unfortunately, the content was not so useful. His style of speaking was awesome, superb... But the content was what everyone of us knows... nothing so useful about the speech except for his style of speaking... very bold, energetic and full of charitsma....
Then from nowhere comes in the educational minister mr baby and spoke about a martyr in cuba called jose marti (spelling might be wrong) and told us stories how jose along with che guaveara overthrew the government in cuba!!!!!!!

i mean... what does he want us to do?????
start a revolution, take up arms, overthrow the U.P.A. government, screw the U.S. nuclear deal, and sell petrol for 20 bucks??????

For gods sake, that was a precounselling session and not the D.Y.F.I.'s annual meet!!!!
I was seriously confused.... Then he talked about a lot of philosophy.... I dont want to explain what he said... It aint worth mentioning...
He then went on to blame the private college managements for all the havoc... As expected!!!!
But on the average it was good.......for a minister that is.....
You all have to admit that he is atleast better than his dropout collegue ministers....

And then comes the BULLSHIT PART 1.....
A lecture by T.I.M.E. on SoftSkills...
Which 12th standard needs SoftSkills now?
Right now our worries are not the interview that we are gonna face 3 years later during campus Placement... but its the admission itself... i never imagined the hindu to be so out of focus.
These kind of stuff doesnt help us in our present scenario. what we went there and need right now is proper guidance to get in a good college. It was really unnessesary.

After a break, Prof Warrier briefed us about the various engineering courses , the oppurtunities available, and the basic difference between certain branches like IT and CS, EC and EEE and AE, CIVIL and ARCHITECTURE etc etc...
this part was useful....
Later comes the joint election commisioner who briefs us the process and the common mistakes available...
Then comes PART 2  of B######T (i dont wanna use that word again and again).
Some guy from T.I.M.E. came up and told about their "excellent results" and that they are the no:1..
Yeah right... They are the no:1 losers... We know that already!!!!!!
The event ends with question and answer round where a lot of dumb questions were asked!!!

Overall ive felt that ive lost a day rather that getting some useful information. They could have just mentioned the common mistakes committed in the newspaper itself!. And i did really felt that hindu unnessesarily tried to commercialise the event by making T.I.M.E. their co sponsers.
T.I.M.E. didnt help us a bit and hindu should not have tried to make this event a publicity stunt.
Why should they keep sponsers when we have already paid 50 bucks??
Hindu committed a big mistake by letting T.I.M.E. in this event. Because by doing so, the hindu , which is considered as one of the best papers, tarnishes its own image.
Why do they have to do that just for some financial gains???
Very bad strategy, i must say.

And all those who missed it?
Just consider yourself lucky!!!!!!!!