Life starts after 00:00 (Engineers)

The moment you join an engineering college, you sort of sign an imaginary contract with your life to sacrifice night's sleep for all the good (or silly) reasons. Basically, you can't sleep when all your friends are thundering into the enemy in Counter Strike at 1 am in the night. Late night chats with your friends or distant mates are nothing to be compared with. Your parents have no idea that you are awake after 12-12.30 midnight for you have already turned 'Last seen' off from your whats app account ( I know right). Be it tens of Assignments or mugging for exams or a marathon of F.R.I.E.N.D.S episodes, you just can't go to bed! After all the discussions of science, religion, politics with roommates, you check the time and its 4 am and decide to sleep.  Mornings are opposite BTW as you can't leave the bed for the 8 AM class... Then you check your attendance, calculate the drop if you miss it and take an important decision whether to run to class or to keep sleeping. Its already 7.55 am!

The professors know that they suck and you attend their class for the sake of your 75% quota, so he deliberately will show tantrums like not allowing you when you are ten minutes late. In those lucky days, you might sneak in at even 20 mins past class-time but not always and the walk back to hostel will bring back all the activities you did the previous day which costed your attendance. Imaginary scenes of you pleading in front of dean to allow you to write the exams despite less attendance comes to your mind. You vow not to miss class the very next day (Too much!). 

Not to forget the exams and the all-nighters before it, studying all night and directly sitting for exam in the morning, that feeling of completion is something not everyone gets. The running back to hostel and sleeping all day without care for the world is another such feeling.

As the Second year ends, a deep realization seeps in, ' Sab moh maya hai ' and you feel like give up everything and go to Himalayas but alas that can't be! You came here for a reason- Career and degree which is still tens of exams and assignments away.  

Finally, when you get past all the hurdles, 1000 formalities, hundreds of short and long exams, and 4 years of screwing yourself up, you get the piece of paper with 'Certified Engineer' written on it. You think for a second what have you sacrificed in life for that piece of paper and wish the interviewers understand this value (Which is not gonna happen :P ). 

The habit of staying up at night keeps you up even in future when you are in job or settled and it is something like this: 

PASSION is the key

We all have some special talents if not many. We all have certain capabilities beyond which things are almost impossible. Now if we judge a FISH by his abilities of FLYING in air then we will always be disappointed. Even if we train the fish, influence him to fly, to start flying because of the benefits of flying , the fish won't fly. Simply it will die once it comes out of water. The point is he might have been a terrific swimmer but that is not taken into account.

Parents spend thousands of rupees in nurturing the talents of child up to class 12. Art classes, dance classes, cricket coaching, singing classes are all filled by great talented students. Many win national prizes in these fields. It means talented individuals among us can master their fields quite well. The point here is suddenly after giving 12th exam almost everyone is following only two narrow paths with the signboard engineering and medical. MOST of us loved the movie 3 IDIOTS but very few grasped its meaning and true value. Even an enthusiast  wildlife photographer is trying to get a seat in medical. Due to this reason MANY other challenging departments like Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Planning and architecture, Economics, Statistics are NOT getting talented individuals. Test centres for Engg-Med are so crowded as if every Indian kid was born with the dream of becoming an engineer or doctor (which is not bad but many are aiming only quick money/job and not PASSION for that field). We have the largest population of engineers and doctors in the world but there's lack of DEDICATED and TRUE research in in this country. REASON: after getting the degree nobody's interested in the subject anymore! (The same subject for whom they have spent nights without sleeps and gave many sacrifices). The money mindedness of youth attracts them to the MNCs and they work like robot and mint money till they die.

Guess what would have happened if Einstein, Raman, Edison, Habib contractor etc had followed the same path. We would have missed out so many things which can be discovered through passion itself.

“At the end of the day we all need to remember to keep going. However, just making it another day doesn’t get us where we truly want to be. We must move with vigour, passion, and fixed determination to achieve our goals"

A recent news item showed 40% of Kota's students suffer from HYPERTENSION at this young age due to the Extra pressure given on them to crack entrances. Research says such students will never be satisfied in their professional lives and will suffer hypertension and other heart diseases. The same study also outlines the fact that they have been turned into robot like mindsets and will fail to have a good life in most cases ahead even if their bank balance will be high.

“Life is all about making choices. Right choices at the right time will be rewarded and life will give a chance to convert the wrong ones to right. Now it depends on us whether we can make the right ones or not. Same choice may be right for someone and disastrous for his friend so we have to think wisely while making choices"