  now it was time for action.  we needed to market NITIE like anything to get the best students.  specially since most of them carry many mis- conceptions abt the institute.  apart from that,  we needed to keep candidates entertained while they were waiting for their interviews.
 we decided to screen movies in the auditorium as well as syndicate rooms.  converting the admin.  block into a temporary multiplex :  .  we also kept chatting with them all along,  just to ease the tension somewhat.
 the gd/ pi process got over without any major glitches.  now the next phase of admissions was abt to begin.  results were out in 12 hrs.  there were still one and half months to go,  before the new batch landed in NITIE.
 soon they formed their e- grp.  and requested some seniors to join in as well,  to answer their queries.  me and nikhil had to do the honours again.  we used to spend hrs,
 on a daily basis,  answering their e- mail queries,  which ranged from the incisive to the irritating,  and to the downright amusing. when we left for home after our summers,
 we passed the baton to the IMpact members.  taking a well- earned break.  when i was back in NITIE,  the new batch had just arrived.  i gav them a presentation as the Class Representative.
 the juniors were extremely happy at the arrangements,  and the way the senior batch had welcomed them into the fold.  then team IMpact invited me and nikhil to be a part of the interview panel to select the IMpact members from the junior batch,  since we had been in charge of the admissions process.  taking someone’ s interview was an intriguing experience.
 after giving so many interviews over the last year,  it was fascinating to be on the other side.  and i spent most of my energies trying to figure out what goes inside an interviewee’ s mind.  hope that this experience from other side of the fence will help me perform better in interviews in future.  and the most moving incident was saved for the last.
 a girl from junior batch had applied to team IMpact,  and cleared the 1st round of interviews.  just before the 2nd round,  she came and told us that she was no more interested in IMpact,  and wud like to get in another committee,  as one of her seniors told her that she cud gain more out of being in the other committee.
 we did not take this lightly,  and really grilled her during the interview,  asking her why she let her opinions be influenced by just one person’ s views.  she was very much disturbed when she left the interview.  now we had to make the big decision.
 rejecting her from IMpact wud hav been the obvious choice.  but we realized that the girl had been honest with us,  and we shud respect that.  it wud hav been very easy for her not to turn up for the interview at all.  but she did.  also,
 we knew that the committee she wanted to get into had not selected her.  thus,  after much deliberation,  we selected her in IMpact.  when we were abt to leave,  after all interviews got over,
 we saw her coming back.  she had come back to apologize for her action,  and said that she had thought long and hard after the interview,  and realized her mistake.  this was the 1st decision she had to make in her life,  and she had messed it up.
 she cudn’ t believe it when we told her that we had selected her already.  when we left the room,  all of us felt this was an experience we wud not forget in a hurry.  as i sit back today to conclude my involvement with IMpact,  i feel gr8 satisfaction within.
 not only was i able to do something i loved to do,  and do it well.  i was also able to hav a peep into the human side of life.  we had made an impact,  and got impacted ourselves as well.
