The Best of The G∆L∆BLOG pt. 4

For the last three years I've tried to track every single noteworthy occasion of my uni life in this blog. While making the best of..., though, I uncovered one particular "occasion" that is a bit more noteworthy than the rest. The culmination of my "Placement Adventures". Everyone who is due to apply in in future do check them out. With no further waste of your time, however, here is Placement Adventures # 11 (The End!)

I have been postponing this post for two days now, because I didn't have Internet at home.On Friday the unthinkable happened, but let us go back a little bit...

This Thursday I was having a general lazy day when I got woken up by the phone ringing. A company X invited me for an interview. Perfect timing, since I was still waiting for an answer from the [Intel] assessment day. When I hung up after the conversation with company X, I saw that I had about 7 missed calls from an unknown number. The number was non-standard and could not be dialed; so, after several failed attempts, I decided to just continue with my day.

On Friday morning, I was sitting in an extremely boring lecture [@] 9 in the morning when my phone rang. The sound of "I Like To Move It" by Will.I.Am filled the otherwise dead lecture theatre! Of course I hung up immediately when I saw that it was the unknown number that called me on Thursday. I had not choice, I had to get out of the lecture and try to dial it one more time. I asked my lecturer if it was all right for me to go out and he let me. Of course I could not dial the number, yet again... "Call failed"

I decided I cannot let this go; I stood in frond of the lecture theatre and was begging my phone "Please ring, please ring! I will never ever miss a call ever again!"

THE PHONE RANG!

X: "Hello, Vladimir"
V: "Hi!"
X: "This is S., from Intel, we met on the assessment day two weeks ago"
V: "Oh, hi S."
X: "Are you OK"
V: "Well, I am having a lecture right now, but yeah I am good"
X: "Vlad we would like to offer you a job!"
V: "Oh my god! Oh my god! Thank you, so much!"

[... essentially, more OMGs and Thank-you's]

X: "I will call you later in the day to discuss details. Have a nice time at uni."
V: "Thanks, thank you so much!"

I still cannot believe it! Later in the day I had a longer conversation with S. and I confirmed (verbally) that I accept the placement job offer for a thirteen month placement at Intel.

The search was over.