<p>board exams last for a month?! (I don’t live in India) WHat exactly are they for? are they like a final exam type thing?</p>
<p>And I’m back, after battling through massive computer problems. :D</p>
<p>My Princeton Interview: Brilliant, intellectual, fulfilling, everything an interview should be.</p>
<p>Daily Round up: 26th: 13 posts 
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<p>Yesterday: 19 posts (I see a trend here…)</p>
<p>Today: Who knows? Hopefully more.</p>
<p>@ Naidu: The Board exams are the final examinations of your school career. They’re sort of the summing up of your entire life thus far. They’re centrally coordinated at an all-India level (With some schools outside India as well). On this site you’ll see people in 2 curricula, ICSE/ISC and CBSE. We both have our Boards, well now.</p>
<p>As they’re extremely long and intense, it takes about a month (2 counting practicals) to be done with them.</p>
<p>Will someone PLEASE tell me how their P’ton interview was like? I mean, what questions did they ask? This is my first interview. I didn’t apply to MIT! </p>
<p>SO HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLP!</p>
<p>(It’s on Mar 2 now)</p>
<p>Is it okay to say I Googled her? ^_^</p>
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<p>What did they ASK you?</p>
<p>My Board exams last from Mar 1 to Apr 5. Ugh, Just five exams.</p>
<p>@pinku: Board exams are hard if you’re enrolled in an IIT prep academy, haven’t been taught CBSE and are practically self-studying your way through the entire textbook and started one week before the exam.</p>
<p>Oh we talked about everything in the world. Slugs, Hegel, Communist Economics, Linguistics, Politics, Noam Chomsky, Being a twin, basically everything that you can think of.</p>
<p>Basically it can be broken down into 3 heads:</p>
<p>The story of your life - What you’re passionate about, why you believe what you believe, who you are…</p>
<p>The story of why you’re applying to Princeton - Why the US? Why Princeton, what makes you different.</p>
<p>The Informational part: Telling you about life at Princeton, the like.</p>
<p>Basically to quote a CC truism, an interview acts to tip you over into the accepted pile. Be natural, be engaging, but most of all be at ease. They want to really talk to you, so don’t be what you think is the perfect applicant, be you. </p>
<p>(And that was possibly the most trite post I’ve ever written. :D)</p>
<p>There’s some really good advice there in those last two lines. :)</p>
<p>My interview was very similar to Shrivats’ but that’s probably because we were interviewed by the same person. :D</p>
<p>Yeah, I hate you all and your great interviews. <em>grumps</em> </p>
<p>And I’m going crazy over my Boards mostly because a) I attend one of those Board-obsessed schools (I’m not telling you where, but let’s just say that it’s super-academic and a tad insane), and b) I want to succeed at something, please. (I strongly suspect that I’m going to have to re-apply everywhere next year, and I’ll need good marks for that. Also, I’d like to prove to my teachers and friends that I am not, in fact, mildly ■■■■■■■■, which is something I am almost universally suspected of.)</p>
<p>Yeah! I’ve got exams tomorrow… sooo wat! They’ll ask somethin’, I’ll answer that, come home, listen to music and then revise Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction (as if alpha-halogenation-of-carboxylic-acid sounds better)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/business/worldbusiness/23walmart.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/business/worldbusiness/23walmart.html</a></p>
<p>what’s with India and Wal-mart? I thought Wal-mart had already started building there</p>
<p>Ah well, the answer to that would be, simply, it’s Walmart. Not exactly a company famous for ethical practices with regard to sales or marketing. Though in all fairness, it is a bit of an ironical situation. I think what most analysts in India are afraid of is the phenomenon of Walmartisation, in which it sells products at below market prices for about 3 months when it enters a sector, thereby driving out all small businesses and then jacks the prices up again. </p>
<p>Also it’ll definitely have a major effect on the Indian retail ethos, which is primarily oriented towards smaller shops, generally family run. There’s a potential for a lot of grief in the future here. Hence the protests.</p>
<p>And it’s not only India really. The entry of Walmart into any major untapped sector is normally met with protests.</p>
<p>though, demonstrations with burning walmart effigies seems a little over the edge.</p>
<p>Never mind, forgot to consider the fact that there lives depend on it</p>
<p>The sheer size of India’s consumer market eliminates such a possibility anytime in the near future. Maybe after 5-10 years later when Wal-Mart and the like have a bigger impact, but not right now.</p>
<p>This looks like more of a political ploy.</p>
<p>Stores would be fully owned by Bharti; Walmart would only be managing logistics. The stores wouldn’t be even called Walmart.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, that demonstration wasn’t big enough to be published in NYT- Not even Indian papers have given much weightage to these demonstrations.
But their protest is justified.</p>
<p>True Lakshya, more of a political ploy. </p>
<p>(Though I have washed my hands of Indian Politics long back, it was nice to hear an eloquent budget speech from a politician who is probably unique in the fact that he can actually speak very well)</p>
<p>More of a serious series of posts really. :)</p>
<p>Greetings from WPI ! Thank you fro your interest in WPI</p>
<p>Based on the information you have provided you seem like a good candidate to WPI. You can apply for Fall 2008 in starting November this year.</p>
<p>a mail I recieved from WPI I never kinda sent em an email, i was just posting on theri forums.</p>
<p>That’s nice. :)</p>
<p>Actually, I enjoyed watching Rail Budget more. Lalu is definitely more entertaining than PC or even some of our film-stars:)</p>
<p>I wonder if someone was interviewed by PC for Harvard; or someone by Tata for Cornell.</p>
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<p>I have only 16 days xD.
(but looking at the downside, less gaps between exams, DAMN!)</p>
<p>“it was nice to hear an eloquent budget speech from a politician who is probably unique in the fact that he can actually speak very well)”</p>
<p>Mr. Chidambaram is a Harvard alumnus, my first impression of him goes back to the time when I was a little kid… He entered the Parliament with a laptop to present the budget… Media called him PC… the laptop PC…LOL</p>
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<p>That would be intimidating, wouldn’t it? Though it would be great in a way. (you wouldn’t have to wonder what sort of a person your interviewer is) :D</p>
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<p>haha, but googling would return too many results xD</p>