hiya folks!
I have been wanting to get this off my mind for quite some time now and the timing seems kind of very apt with lakhs of kids making decision about their futures. I cant help but laugh at how i fumbled just about a year back !!!
TAKE THE LEAD
Just about a year ago I was fresh out of school, and as you guessed I did not make the cut to enter any of the crème da le crème colleges. But my parents were determined to push me into a “good” engineering college.
Because the gods had declared me unfit for medicine by blessing me with horrible scores. So I said Arts College? And my dad squealed in horror. I did not put you in xyz topper producing factory to put you in a (disgust) arts college. I wonder why it’s such a horrendous crime to study in an arts college unless you’ve chosen commerce.
So that plan was thrown out like spoilt milk so I waited and waited for my engineering counselling which ladies and gentlemen is like a penance but u don’t get moksha at end u get cursed an pushed into the devil’s own palace where you will work like an idiot for 4 years after which it will throw you out.
Like anything that I hate
my parents were delighted and it came that fateful day, after checking on all
the available colleges. I could compare the counselling procedure to a cricket
match but here the big wigs would lose their wicket first. And we mere mortals
would have to settle with ishanth Sharmas
and whoever bats last.
And I entered Anna
University (cue horns & trumpets). And I waited again for my turn .the gods
were testing my patience finally when all the nails in my fingers disappeared I
was called in with my dad. We sat in front of a monitor and my dad shortlisted
a few colleges click click and my fate was sealed blah blah blah engineering college guarantees
100% placement.
I feel that word has been
brutally raped like every engineering student in the country. So if you thought I
studied in that college and will go on to become a 15k earning girl in one
“famous” MNC. You are wrong anna university had different plans for me. Yes I
said anna university I took a course in media science. suprisingly my father
was cool about it..but despite all the oohs and aahs from my friends and
relatives
I got in and now I am a
second year student with no regrets. Oh wait is this an advertisement for your
course this whole article. Before you start rolling your eyes, this is not
about this course that I chose. It’s about the decision thousands of kids are
going to make very soon.
This decision will change their life for better or
worse and it’s all in their hands. There are so many fields, which have not
been explored with a plethora of opportunities. So what if your relatives stare
because you aren’t an engineer or your neighbors call you “not an engineer”.
Just move on because the world is full
of people who talk and talk and do nothing just pat yourself on the back that
you’ve finally gotten out of the herd and you’re walking alone. Walking alone
can be scary but mind you that is when the world will notice you. Make a good
decision and the rest of your life is yours to shape.
Enough of my lectures now
go make your own memories juniors
