PS II - welcome to the professional world!

I am there, standing in FD3, right in front of PSD, collecting my PS diary which I have to fill during my PS2, which is going to last for the coming 1 year. People are quarrelling in the queue to take the diary and other paraphernalia as soon as possible and get out from there. The scorching sun and the sweat dripping from the head and crawling on the neck like some worm, drop by drop is a horrible scene to bear in the summers of Pilani. And this summer was no exception to that. Many doubts and apprehensions about PS2 were going on in everyone’s mind. And no doubt that PS2 is an opening into the professional world, and hence all the students were apprehensive of growing into professionals.

At last the day came when every one had to get registered for PS2. As a part of this, I went to the registration place equipped with all the necessary documents and completed my registration along with my one and only one PS mate, who happened to be a girl, fortunately sometimes but unfortunately most of the times!! Then we were instructed to go to the PS station and report there immediately. We followed the orders with out any secondary idea in mind.

Reached the PS station and were amazed to see the building from the outside. We came to the 4^th floor in that same building and were shocked to the core to see glass walls and the brand name across the glass walls. It is an IT firm and that is the way it should be, it should come as no surprise to us, but since that was our first encounter with a professional world, we were little afraid but were surely more excited. We were made to fill the necessary documents and we were welcomed to the professional world officially by the senior officials.

It was so exciting on the first day, as it was a totally different milieu different from the campus. No attending classes, No tests, No tuts and No grades. I was very happy. But the actual scene started to appear before me, it’s actually a calm and silent place like BITS library, with people talking very rarely and that too in a very low voice. I could hear only the key board sounds and nothing else! May be it was due to the boredom caused by constant reading of the unknown material given to me as an introductory kit. The same scene continued for the 1^st 1 week until I was given some challenge, which was a small test to test my knowledge and also to understand my self-learning capability. It was not an easy task, which is always the case in the beginning, but I could solve it before the dead line, which is again not any rare incident! : P.

The days are passing and I am getting accustomed to the environment here with out having any idea of the hurdles that are a part and parcel of everyone’s life. Thus I made an entry into the professional world!!