A PPT a day keeps enthusisasm away....

Its placement time out here in iimb and that implies PPTs PPTs and some more PPTs....now wat exactly is this 3 letter acronym u may ask?...well for those uninitiated with the limitless world of management jargon...its a "Pre Placement Talk"...some prefer to change the last word to Torture but hmm...more on that as u read on...
So wat am I, a first year doing attending ppts??....good question....well since the seniors are having such an amazing time filling up forms/preparing for the final interviews/writing end term exams and generally getting tense about life that attending PPTs is a headache they want to pass on to their juniors at the first possible chance....and we juniors are the perfect "bakras" as I prefer to call our tribe...this funda of swapping and getting someone else to attend was never there during our summers process wen we were getting massacred by the unending flood of ppts...but well c'est la vie i say...
anyways so todays ppt was one of those kinds which I would call a Class III ppt....me has my own method of ranking ppts....which is somewhat different from the conventional way of classifying companies who come to recruit on campus....(in terms of days that is)....
rather for me a class I ppt wuld b one which holds ur interest for atleast the first 5 mins....a class II ppt wuld b one where looking at the face of the guy whos talking makes me reach out for my cell immediately...and Class III wuld b those whr my PPT group would fight amongst each other not to attend...showing the path to enlightenment in terms of the ennui value of the same....
me has had the good fortune of attending one each of all the three in this final placement season till now....
the class I ppt was that of my summers company...(plz note the speed and agility with which i hav classified it 'class I') ....the seniors who came to attend were all the topper variety...they looked moderately interested..didnt yawn endlessly through the ppt and tried not to pass notes amongst each other....moreover they also didnt make the mandatory attendance sheet very obvious....showing that they gav atleast some iota of respect to the company...kind of heartening i wuld say...but wat was shocking was the extreme enthu they showed in rushing towards the centre of the classroom when at the end of the ppt the company began distributing t-shirts....quite a stampede it was...leaving me to contend with a small size t-shirt....mayb my bro wuld wear it....
the class II ppt i went for was kinda fun coz ppl asked stupid questions, talked non stop and decided that reading magazines was a better utilization of their non existent time....
now coming to todays ppt...well...the typical class III ppts where the seniors begin early in the day by literally begging us (the juniors) to attend in their place with sundry assurances of treats/direct cash and even future employment if we went....
so i finally decided to offer myself up as a bakra and decided to go....wen i got to the venue i found that internal glitches were causing the company to wait and the ppl who had come to take the ppt were as disinterested as us....not letting go of their cell phones and hoping against hope that the ppt gets cancelled...(me was hoping the same tho)..
wen the ppt finally began i rushed to grab the last row seats and was narrowly beaten to it by a fellow batchmate..wat with the pushing and shoving going on amongst the rest of the fortunate ppl who were attending...i say "narrowly" beaten coz i eventually managed to get to my chosen destination by moving like lightning and reaching the solitary empty chair in a movement reminiscent of superman and his likes....
the ppt was awful to say the least....the package offered was silly in terms of value and the presenters lacked any sort of charisma....or even basic presentability....
the most awkward moment came wen the presenter asked for questions and there were none...
anyways all heaved a sigh of relief wen it finally got over...which made me wonder y ppl bother having these ppts in the first place?..but then i guess its the way things work out here...chalo more on life later on....