Getting into NIT-Rourkela(oh yes,B.Tech CS) one of the premier engineering institutes for getting a Bachelors Degree in respective fields.
The Question that keeps daunting me since I have been here,is whether to slog for the next four years to get a high paying job in a reputed firm OR enjoy the wonderful days of hostel life for the next four years,ignoring that it could jeopardize my career ?
Many may disagree on this saying that getting CGPA of 9+ points is meant only for elite students(the GMATs) who study while eating,sleeping,walking,talking don't even waste time in the loo....... but,to be a 6 pointer APPEARS rather easier,just stay away from books,relish life,have fun to the fullest !!!!
My experience in the past few days over here brings out a rather new theory
”You Become What You Really Wanna Be”,implies its completely in my hands where I want my future to be, in Elite group or the Funk group.....:P
”You Become What You Really Wanna Be”,implies its completely in my hands where I want my future to be, in Elite group or the Funk group.....:P
I have alwayz been somewhere in between the two…having freedom with restrictions…many of you may have been in between the two situations....or some may have been on extremities of either too..anyway…\m/
To decide on which side i ought to be i tried improvising both..here’s how it goes :
SCENE 1: A budding '9+' pointer(it always sounds more lucrative):
Life is bound to be monotonous, it's some what like waking up at 5 am,pray for being a 10-pointer,studying for a couple of hours,swallow breakfast and reach classroom 15 minutes before lecturer enters.Sit attentively in lectures(ignoring the LLBs-"Lords of the Last Bench"),take rigorous notes,answer every question sincerely(valid or invalid with respect to the ongoing topic).This seems to continue till end of lectures and practicals,coming back to hostel(or any place suitable for studying) at evening to complete all their assignments plus revise everything written on board and recollect every word emitted by the profs and if that wasn't enough,even browse topics to be taught future.Then consume dinner and call it a day (may be listen a couple of regional songs laying on bed).
Then comes the weekend holidays,they wake up,wrap up silly chores that can be done inefficiently on weekdays and study afresh for 3-4 hours.Then lunch followed by a short POWER nap.Again wake up and study till dinner.Chat for a while with roomies and zzzzzzz..........On Sunday special prayers for being a 10 pointer(may be accompanied by disguised bribes to god almighty) , study till lunch time and watch a movie or a bit of time pass on insistence by room-mates followed by preparing for coming week.Eventually take dinner and become dead-to-world till next morning.
And yes,getting self-ragged by seniors,assuming them to be gods and obeying every word said by them; be it singing,dancing,cracking vulgar jokes,handing over bicycles,watches and other accessories to the seniors when they demand or even proposing a senior girl student (turns out to be HOD’s daughter in worst cases) . In short being mere puppets to their orders.
During exams spend whole day at library scanning every book bearing resemblance to topics in exam, turn into nocturnal creatures solving question papers of past 5-8 years and in the exam attempt every damn question asked and fill the answer-sheet with all crap studied ever (so that the examiner ought to get bored turning pages and give full marks blindly)
Then comes the weekend holidays,they wake up,wrap up silly chores that can be done inefficiently on weekdays and study afresh for 3-4 hours.Then lunch followed by a short POWER nap.Again wake up and study till dinner.Chat for a while with roomies and zzzzzzz..........On Sunday special prayers for being a 10 pointer(may be accompanied by disguised bribes to god almighty) , study till lunch time and watch a movie or a bit of time pass on insistence by room-mates followed by preparing for coming week.Eventually take dinner and become dead-to-world till next morning.
And yes,getting self-ragged by seniors,assuming them to be gods and obeying every word said by them; be it singing,dancing,cracking vulgar jokes,handing over bicycles,watches and other accessories to the seniors when they demand or even proposing a senior girl student (turns out to be HOD’s daughter in worst cases) . In short being mere puppets to their orders.
During exams spend whole day at library scanning every book bearing resemblance to topics in exam, turn into nocturnal creatures solving question papers of past 5-8 years and in the exam attempt every damn question asked and fill the answer-sheet with all crap studied ever (so that the examiner ought to get bored turning pages and give full marks blindly)
Review:Totally dumb,why am I wasting my precious four years with books ? I wanna enjoy my life here, fly like a free bird, hell with good grades !
SCENE 2:Now enters the 6-pointer(appears simply nasty,but it takes good deal of courage to be one):
Life is totally dynamic and jam-packed with surprises (both pleasant and not so pleasant,more of latter in fact) like getting thrown out of class for doing nothing (okay,may be just for laughing in front of the professor,oh come on that ain't a heinous crime at-least) and other weird punishments; messing with the seniors, even disobeying them (told you it takes courage !) . Their day actually starts at 5 pm after having soundly slept in all the lectures.Wake up,seize snacks at the mess and go play any god-damn sport or swim or watch any movie or linger online or attend some stupid orientation of any club (which you have no idea what is it meant for) ; you actually never run out of options to kill time! If you ever do just take a book in hand and the very next instant every other thing on earth apart from studying seems interesting (including staring at the graffiti on the wall) . Well after having fun till night,come back and take hold of dinner and then again roam around with friends till mid-night (its so blissful being able to go around in a soothing climate at night) .Back to hostel, either go online, play PC games or simply watch more movies. Continuing that till 5-6 am,catch forty winks until some roommate kick your ass screaming, its some idiot’s lecture on some crap topic (that has nothing to do with my core course) followed by dressing-up on bed and a sprint to the bathing room to brush.Grab break-fast,pick up any random book (just for sake of having one) zoom on your bicycle and enter the class room ten minutes after lecturer does (exactly the way celebs enter the red carpet for premier of their movies) destined to the second last (last bencher's are alwayz caught) and sleep peacefully....zzzzzzzzzz…!
Oh yes,if you thought this was fun,the better part is yet to come.The week-end holidays simply get more interesting and lively.Waking up at noon and having lunch for break-fast.Later elope out of the campus with friends and go around in search of hang out places only to return by mid-night or maybe some times find a day scholar and sleep at his place and directly come back next morning.Keep enjoying till sunday mid-night,until the geek room-mate reminds you to do an useless assignment....aarrghhh ! Investigate half of the hostel for a GMAT whose been able to crack it; coax him to give you that assignment with a gentleman's promise to return it back before the lecture next morning.....phew(that such a huge exhaustive task !)
At-last,with exams on the edge and studying at the eleventh hour, getting intoxicated by series of (coffee) shots at the night canteen.Do a night out with friends with futile attempts to learn something in a few hours,what others spend days understanding.Hardly catch 30 mins of wink and lapse another 30 snoozing the alarm ! Explore the entire building with drowsy red eyes to discover your prison for next 2-3 hours. Barely write anything in exam apart from your name,until some kind soul takes sympathy on you and gives answers as charity to a beggar and also a hope of clearing the exams (thank god for hearing our early morning prayers !)
Oh yes,if you thought this was fun,the better part is yet to come.The week-end holidays simply get more interesting and lively.Waking up at noon and having lunch for break-fast.Later elope out of the campus with friends and go around in search of hang out places only to return by mid-night or maybe some times find a day scholar and sleep at his place and directly come back next morning.Keep enjoying till sunday mid-night,until the geek room-mate reminds you to do an useless assignment....aarrghhh ! Investigate half of the hostel for a GMAT whose been able to crack it; coax him to give you that assignment with a gentleman's promise to return it back before the lecture next morning.....phew(that such a huge exhaustive task !)
At-last,with exams on the edge and studying at the eleventh hour, getting intoxicated by series of (coffee) shots at the night canteen.Do a night out with friends with futile attempts to learn something in a few hours,what others spend days understanding.Hardly catch 30 mins of wink and lapse another 30 snoozing the alarm ! Explore the entire building with drowsy red eyes to discover your prison for next 2-3 hours. Barely write anything in exam apart from your name,until some kind soul takes sympathy on you and gives answers as charity to a beggar and also a hope of clearing the exams (thank god for hearing our early morning prayers !)
Review:Holy shit...who must have enjoyed life so much ever ? I love living life this way ! But then again, what am I going to be after four years of such vain engineering ? A mere job-less engineer ! Sounds horrible ain't it ?
Now you see why its been so tedious for me to select one of those options ! And to the ones who say, "why not study and enjoy too,be a 7-8 pointer and be between the two worlds". In my opinion,life is totally vain doing that;you’ll study a bit and get average grades to settle with an average job;because,the 10 pointer will grab the creamy job.You may perceive that your enjoying a bit, but with the restrictions and fear in mind,you are ought to miss the real fun and freedom of life,its just pointless sailing in two boats (some thing that I am doing right now....huh…..!)
