"We have made a sincere effort to carefully assess your qualifications and career objectives with our current openings. We have concluded with regret that we are unable to offer you an employment opportunity with us, despite your admittedly fine qualifications."

The day I went for my first professional interview was also the day I received my first professional rejection. It felt like something very very heavy weighing my heart down at that instance. Staring at the e-mail for i-dont-know-how-long, many thoughts went through my mind.

"Why did they have to reply so fast?"

"Why can't they contemplate longer?"

"Where did I go wrong?" "

What did I say wrong?"

"Am I not good enough?"

"Were there things that I didn't do?"

"Didn't I do fine at the interview?"

And then....

"Probably it just means that I'm not suitable for that job, not that I'm not qualified."

"Maybe it's not such a bad thing afterall, at least I know early and I can focus on looking for other jobs."

"Now I can stop worrying about my job application and concentrate on studying for my exams."

"I'll find better jobs..."

Trying to transform the negative thoughts into positive ones proved quite to be a feat initially. I felt tears coming, but they didn't come out, not until I went to bed. But then only a few streams of tears, not gushes of tears. Probably this implies that I'm not very sad. I'm just very disappointed, extremely disappointed actually. Considering the amount of time and effort and money I invested in this application, I guess I expected to receive some positive results?

Well, I did went through the first two rounds to get to the third round. I can't expect everything to go so smoothly right. Luck can only bring me that far.

As they always say, move on.

Yea, move on I will...