So, the other day I had the opportunity to appear for the WAT-PI sessions of IIT Bombay SJMSOM. For those of you wondering what WAT-PI is, it is the abbreviation for Written ability test and personal interview. It was the most wonderful interview I had this entire season and I attended close to ten this year. I have more to say on that but lets get to that in a separate post.
I was done with the process by morning and was taking a walk through the campus as I had some free time. My flight was at 6:50 PM. It was a typical engineering college, in fact it is arguably the best engineering college in the country with an acceptance rate of less than 1%. I could never make it there for a B.Tech degree. Maybe MBA? Even the Master of Management program there is highly competitive with only the top 1.5% applicants getting calls for WAT-PI. I consider myself fortunate to have had that opportunity. So even I did my engineering from the best college in my state and the similarities between the colleges were glaring. I felt as if I had returned to my college. People usually say, the time when you study is the best time in your life. Well, not really! School was not so cool, there was a lot of pressure. CET was different. CET, by the way is my college. It is an abbreviation for College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram which was established in the year 1939. Nature is found in abundance throughout these colleges.
The fresh wave of energy you get when you walk into my college is amazing. Even though the class rooms appear dull and boring, I never found it boring. In fact some of the best days of my life was spent in that college. OK now you may be wondering where I am leading you by writing about two colleges. Well, the point is simple. We do not really enjoy the small priceless things in our life while we live. Or do we? If you do, be proud. You are a winner!
"Work hard, party harder". This is the theme of our generation. People claim to have a lot of fun over drinks while partying hard. That is cool. The thing is that we under-estimate the joy we get while taking a walk in the park. It may be my mistake, but this busy life hardly gives me the luxury of taking a stroll in the park. Thanks to the concrete jungle we have created for ourselves, we hardly have a park in the midst of a city. That walk through the college was enlightening. The dry leaves falling, old buildings staring at me, people chatting and having fun, professors discussing quantum physics (Just made up something that sounded technical!). It was just amazing. It was as if I was in a different world. I was alone, out from Whatsapp and Facebook, in the actual world. My understanding about the events of the world has mostly been through Facebook statuses and tweets for I don't know how long. What have we gotten ourselves into? Definitely not something so bad, it has a lot of advantages that it can hardly be ignored. However all I am suggesting, is that we take a walk, ALONE. Think about life, introspect, observe, enjoy peace once in a while. The de-stress it gives is beyond description. I never realized that some dry leaves falling could give me so much joy. It was an amazing experience. Next time you feel low or tired or bored, try observing nature and all the people around you. Makes you value the small blessings you have in life. The feeling is priceless.
NB: Obviously I was jotting down some random thoughts.
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| SJMSOM - IIT Bombay B School |
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| The nature I am talking about. Isn't it beautiful? |
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| Roadways inside IIT Bombay |
The fresh wave of energy you get when you walk into my college is amazing. Even though the class rooms appear dull and boring, I never found it boring. In fact some of the best days of my life was spent in that college. OK now you may be wondering where I am leading you by writing about two colleges. Well, the point is simple. We do not really enjoy the small priceless things in our life while we live. Or do we? If you do, be proud. You are a winner!
"Work hard, party harder". This is the theme of our generation. People claim to have a lot of fun over drinks while partying hard. That is cool. The thing is that we under-estimate the joy we get while taking a walk in the park. It may be my mistake, but this busy life hardly gives me the luxury of taking a stroll in the park. Thanks to the concrete jungle we have created for ourselves, we hardly have a park in the midst of a city. That walk through the college was enlightening. The dry leaves falling, old buildings staring at me, people chatting and having fun, professors discussing quantum physics (Just made up something that sounded technical!). It was just amazing. It was as if I was in a different world. I was alone, out from Whatsapp and Facebook, in the actual world. My understanding about the events of the world has mostly been through Facebook statuses and tweets for I don't know how long. What have we gotten ourselves into? Definitely not something so bad, it has a lot of advantages that it can hardly be ignored. However all I am suggesting, is that we take a walk, ALONE. Think about life, introspect, observe, enjoy peace once in a while. The de-stress it gives is beyond description. I never realized that some dry leaves falling could give me so much joy. It was an amazing experience. Next time you feel low or tired or bored, try observing nature and all the people around you. Makes you value the small blessings you have in life. The feeling is priceless.
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| Random forest in IIT B near Main block |
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