100 common words ... that get misspelled

all right	coolly	supersede	succeed	proceed
cede, precede	procedure	stationery	stationary	recommend
comparative	ecstasy	analyse	paralyse	repetition
inimitable	absence	superintendent	conscience	anoint
despair	surprise	inoculate	definitely	privilege
predictable	dissipate	discriminate	description	balloon
truly	argument	assistant	grammar	parallel
suddenness	embarrassment	weird	pronunciation	noticeable
vicious	insistent	embarrassing	indispensable	disappear
corroborate	sacrilegious	tranquillity	exhilaration	newsstand
license (v)	irresistible	persistent	dilemma	perseverance
tyrannize	vacillate	oscillate	accommodate	dilettante
accessible	desirable	panicky	seize	leisure
achieve	practise (v)	practice (n)	existence	pursue
possesses	professor	category	rhythmical	vacuum
committee	grievous	conscious	plebeian	tariff
connoisseur	necessary	sergeant	misspelling	exceed
separate	irritable	ridiculous	incidentally	sheriff
occurrence	drunkenness	development	disappoint	licence (n)
until	changeable	receive	pastime	benefited

Placement preparation

I am sometimes amazed how some people do so much for others.

Our campus placements are currently in process. One of the coveted fields was 'Consulting' and the interviews of firms from this field involve solving Cases. These Cases are basically different situations as faced by various organizations. They usually are real life case studies and one needs to do a lot of practice before going for the real interviews.

The case preparation generally is done in groups, so that the interview environment can be simulated. In a group of 3-5, one person would be the interviewee, 1-2 people might take the interview and the others would be observers. The interviewee seat is occupied by one person at a time and keeps rotating among group members. Similarly for the interviewers and observers.

I think it takes some amount of pushing to be done to start preparing for cases. I started case preparation because of the sustained efforts of one of my friends and my dorm mate, Mr. SK. He thought that I should start practicing so as to get to know the flow of things, the various case formats etc. He started taking my case interviews one on one. I have not seen anyone taking such good interviews and giving such in-depth feedback and suggestions. These proved to be extremely useful.

The best part is that SK was more interested in career options other than Consulting. So, as such there was not too much to gain from these interview sessions for him. He also had to prepare for his own interviews. But all this did not deter him from spending time with me. He also helped me with other HR/personal questions that get asked in the interview. He gave so many useful inputs at every stage that I started checking everything that I did about the placements through him.

Even on the day, I had asked him to be by the phone so as to take inputs while deciding between various things as the day progressed. It was on his guidance that I went ahead with things on that day and landed up in a good job.

I owe a lot to him and am not sure if and what I have done to deserve this.