Trip to Kharagpur for campus recruitment

Trip to Kharagpur for campus recruitment:

The campus recruitment was scheduled on 10-Dec-2007. HR could not confirm the itinerary till 7-Dec-2007.
The journey to Kharagpur from Hyderabad itself is a big story, if not planned properly which was happened with me. we took flight on 9-Dec-2007 @11.20 which reached Kolkata at 1.30 pm. We hired pre-paid taxi from Airport to Howrah Railway station which costed around Rs.200/- which is very cost effective more members are travelling. Reached Howrah station at around 2.30, then had our lunch in Food Plaza in the new station building. As usual, any food in Kolkata is sweet as the case with the rice i have taken. we caught the train at 5.30, which reached KGP around 7.30. Normal second class seating was booked and sitting in restricted space for 2 hrs is a real pain.
we took a cab from station to KGP IIT campus and got the guest house accommodation.
Our process is that first we will have presentation about our company, followed by test and then interview. It was informed that the presentation will start @7.00 AM in the morning.

Being Alumni of IIT, I remembered my M.Tech days (1996-1998). IIT campus, including the recruitment cell did not change at all even after 10 years. It brings a lot of pride when I remember the IIT days. I visited my department, which also did not change much...CAD/CAM lab has got more computers now.

We were ready by 6.30 and reached the recruitment cell by 6.55 AM. Surprisingly no one was present except a couple of students. Even the coordiantor did not turn up on time. we called him and then at around 7.30 we came to know that very few B.Techs left is Comp. Science dept. Our entry criterion to the test is B.Tech(Comp. Sc). Our HR has to allow M.Tech & Dual Degree B.Tech guys so that we have enough group to conduct the test. As many few students turned up and as we now changed the criterion to inform the M.Tech and Dual degree students, we had to postphone our presentation to 10.30 AM. The presentation went well and the Written test started at around
12.15 PM. I never imagined that I will come to the same campus as a recruiter....:)
After the test is over, we shortlisted 13 candidates our of 32 attended.
Our interviews started and went till late night at around 11.45.

Next day again we woke up at 5.30 to catch a train at 8.20 from KGP to Howrah...
Finally landed Hyderabad at around 5.30 PM....