I'm 24 years old , sitting in a cubical of a international company, thinking of nothing. This was the day, I've been dreaming about. I got stuck in the flash of the images of my childhood days.
I was 15 years old when I was sitting for my intermediate exams. I was full of energy and enthusiasm to get a bright future. From last 5 years, I've been given daily dose of lecture from father about what does a engineer from IIT means. What is meaning of being a student of IIT. My father usded to say,"IIT is not a piece of Cake. See, Anonymous A ji's son He gave four attempts but could not get in. After so many attempts got in HBTI, state engineering college only. He poured all his money for both of the sons. Second son, can't get even in HBTI." "Look at Anonymous B's son, He went to US just after his degree form there. You know, in IIT, Labs are 24 hours open. Library is 24 hours open." "There is noting like IITs. There is no place for curroption. Even Prime Minister son can't get enter without Passing enterance exam."
My father's expection were killing me. I went to meet a guy who took coaching classes along with 12th board exams. With his experience, He told me that It's like impossible to committe college and coaching togather. I didn't join coaching that year.
After passing 12th, I went to join IIT-JEE Coaching. It was all so different and surprising. A big hall, accomodating 1000 student togather. First, You have to be in line for more than 2 hours to enter hall. Then, 2 to 3 hours of class. There were 4 more batches like that. That means my teacher was teaching 4-5 thousand students. This was not end of the surprises. The batch I joined was called regular batch. Ankit told me that last year there was no selection from regular batch. I said , "What the Fuke, 2500 students out of 4000 study in Regular batch and no selection." I used to be very depressed over the fact. More Over, the negative facts and feeling that everybody had was like a killer. Last year, only 178 students got selected out of 4000. That too from Ranker's batch. It's all a killer for student from regular batch. The batch name is itself so rotten,'Regular'. This was proved, when only 100 students cleared pre round of JEE out of 2500 and only 1 student cleared main round of JEE that to with a rank of 3550.
I cleared Pre and mains with rank around 7000. I was not as depressed as I should be for not clearing JEE. But, I had a good feeling of getting at least some rank. I started study again in Rankers batch that was considered as good batch. In the next attempt, I study with my friend Rahul. We made a discission to study in night togather. Firstly, we found a place to study. Anand's uncles owns a school. We used to go there aftehr coaching. Rahul, me and Anand used to study togather till late night in the school. But, it was not sufficient to crack JEE. We take an-other discission to study in home togather. Then, We started going in each-other home alternate nights and study togahter whole nights. Finally, Both of us cleared JEE. He got a rank of 786 and I got 1055.
I wanted to go to govahiti to take Computer Science with Rahul. Rahul's father didn't want to let him go out of Kanpur. He took Mechanical, IIT Kanpur. My parents didn't want to let me go to gowahiti due to terrorism. I got Electrical, IIT Kharagpur. Both of us got what we wanted, our parents wanted. This was It IIT.
But, Now what. What after getting in. We didn't made some good records in IITs. We lost somewhere in IITs. Till today, We regret to not joining same college and branch. As being a student of IIT, I got a job in a multinational company. But, Is this the end of the story? Did I went through all hard work from class 1 to IITs for this? Am I born for this? Is this what I'm supposed to do? Am I going to pass my life sitting in front of a cubical?
Searching for answers.......
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******Some day I'll go to Himalaya Holding a Kamandal*********
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