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As I mentioned in my last post the achievements column in my CV gave me quite a head ache.I started thinking about the possible ways(shortcuts) by/through which I could make it appealing. One of ideas which struck me was to be an organizing member of the ‘n’ number of events which takes place in our college.We already have 3 well established fests in our college which follow a hierarchical process,ie..if you want to be the head you got to start from being a volunteer in the previous editions.

Thankfully there were like minded souls & the so called ’waste’ students who were never a part of any organizing teams came together to introduce a purely technical national level fest NEURON so that they could start off as ‘heads’.I was inducted into the marketing department.

Attracting sponsors for a technical fest is a challenge since it is not as crowd pulling as those cultural fests.Moreover this was the inaugural edition.Anyhow convincing the cream of MBA holders(who are essentially the marketing managers ) into wasting their money is quite a task since big firms don’t need to invest in college fests to advertise themselves while the students wouldn’t give a damn to those unknown names who sponsor these events .But for me it was basically getting a lot of exposure interacting with those marketing brains around the city while the petrol bills would be paid by the finance committee.

My first appointment was at a FM station.I have heard a lot about beginners luck ,but that was not to be.Call me what you please,I hadn’t even bothered to go through the presentation I was supposed to give in front of the manager.The manager sat right next to me & both of us went through the presentation for the 1st time-the only difference being I was exaggerating the content while she was sensible enough to comprehend the real picture.Not to mention , my 1st assignment was a disaster.

I had fallen down enough times in my life life to lie their & shed tears.Thankfully there were still pot headed managers around who agreed to sponsor our event.

Though I was not a HEAD(I believe HEAD’s are those inefficient people while their success depends big time on the efficiency of the people who work under them), the secretary of the event would always come up to me & ask for suggestions.So one day I told him to put the names of a couple of those lazy organizing members in the posters so that at least after seeing their names in the posters they would act responsible. A week later the posters were out with my name & contact number.I would still like to believe the posters were printed before the secretary listened to my ‘words of wisdom’ but I avoided him from then on.Nevertheless I didn’t let go the opportunity to flirt with all those out station girls who rang me up for queries.

To be honest the event wasn’t much of a success with the National level tag eventually turning into a local level fest with disappointingly few out of Rajasthan participants.Moreover cheques almost worth Rs 1 lakh bounced which put us in doldrums towards the end regarding distribution of prize money.

There are still people around who are the organizers of the more established & obviously successful events who give us an ugly smile.But we , the NEURON Team take pride in the sweat & toil which has gone into building a platform for the future batches to carry it forward than giving ugly smiles after performing on the platform which their predecessors had built.