Not long ago, in a city not far from here, there was this boy who wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life. So he went with the flow, joined all the tuitions and signed up for all the correspondence courses. When it was finally entrance exam season, the boy decided to keep his options open till the last by applying for all the exams for which he could find applications forms for.
In case you haven't guessed by now, that boy was me. I can still remember writing IIT JEE. Well not exactly writing, shading bubbles at random and staring at the ceiling! Kerala CEE was much better with questions like 'whats the national bird of india?' Then the Gods decided that i should qualify for both engineering and medicine, therby landing me in a quandary
Option 1 - join engineering and be with my old school buddies or
Option 2 - join med and be part of a select few.
Finally after much head scratching, my old adversary trignometry made up my mind for me. See, it even has the words 'no me try' in it! :D So without further ado, went and joined MBBS.
Was on cloud 9 for a few weeks till the course started. Was flooded with requests from my school teachers and parent's colleagues to 'advise' their children on how to ace the entrance. So i sat down and made up a few fake dos n donts like
'study what u are taught the same day itself.'
'cut down on tv, newspapers and magazines'
'buy humungous books with 25000 MCQs' n so on.
Received a request from a pretty junior of mine that she wanted the books of a correspondence course that i had taken, so pulled out the brand new books from the as yet unopened postal covers, went crazy with a highlighter and a pen, marking out 'important points' n trying in general to give the books a well used look before handing them over! After all i have an image to maintain!
If any of the above mentioned people are reading this, i beg their forgiveness for atleast temporarily screwing their studies!
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4 comments:
ROFL!!!
That was so mean!! Poor kids, hope their collective curses don't land on your head :))
Thankfully most of them cleared the entrance so at least their parents wont come after me with cudgels!
hehehe..similar stories to say..I always wonder why in the whole world they are asking me when am clueless myself how come I got through!!
strange people and stranger advisors!! :-P
Haha...I am a first time visitor to your blog, and must say you screwed up a lot of lives besides yours by choosing medical over engineering!
I still envy my friends who are already either done with their post-grads or at the brink of it, while I'm still struggling with those heavy books!
PS: Like the way you write. Good going!
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