"Study Hard beta, you've chosen PCM, life is not very easy in this field. There's a lot of competition especially in India." a common dialogue I used to hear form my mom. "Dhekho Engineering li hai, it will not be bacchon ka khel. A Metallurgy degree from IIT Delhi will get you a better job than a Computer Science degree from any random gali vala private college. College matters a lot. Get a good college." That's what my dad used to keep telling me time to time. After 10th, I got something like 3 months of vacation. Well one rarely gets parents like mine, 2 months and 29 days (generalizing that a month has 30 days, now please don't comment and start fighting how 3 months can have 30 days consecutively), so we never had a family discussion regarding what branch or what subjects I should take up in Grade 11. One night before the registration, dad just asked me, "So what did you decide?". I said "PCM, will go for Engineering after that." Dad said, "Your choice, you chose it, upto you. Now you have to prove what you've chosen is correct for you." Well at that time i was like, "ok ok, i'll do it"...............
If you guys remember, in CBSE Grade 9, there was this particular chapter called "Diversity in Living Organisms", here's the link to the chapter:
http://www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/textbook/textbook.htm?iesc1=7-14
Now we had to learn this, the whole chapter, there was hardly any part omitted plus our teacher never told us what part to learn specifically and what to skip. This particular chapter was the main reason why I started hating Biology. Now there were like a hundred different species of organisms we had to memorize and each one had it's own habitat, diet, lifestyle and various other information. We had to memorize all that. This chapter literally fried my brain up and it took me almost a month's time to get control over that chapter. And till the last moment, I was not very sure about this particular chapter. My father is a doctor, deep down in his heart he wanted his son to be in the medicine line too, but to his disappointment, after facing that particular chapter, I had started telling him I hated biology. At times he even tried to convince me for taking bio in future but that hate I had developed towards the subject didn't allow me to even think about taking biology for further studies. Now dad well understood my situation and started working on getting admissions in high ranking Engineering colleges.
Here I would like to take a moment (a paragraph actually) and tell everyone that the amount of research my father did for my admission, I can surely bet none of your father or mother would have done it. It might NOT be wrong for me to say that combining the amount of research done by individual parents of all those reading this right now might also not match up with the research that my father has done over this span of 4 years. (Yeah, read it again, I know that's a long complicated sentence, took 5 mins to make it, :D) Grade 9 onward my dad started following the pattern of admissions into the Engineering colleges in India. He was constantly following the posts of this person named Raj Tyagi who has a site of his own which is entirely dedicated to the process of admission for NRI students. He followed the DASA admission process and the cutoffs for various branches in various NITs. It was all permutation and combination of the each branch being matched up with each NIT. At a point I started feeling like he got a hard disk planted in his brain and all the information regarding the NITs was uploaded onto it on a daily basis. I would just say, "NIT Trichy, Computer Science." and he would reply, "Labs are not very good, electricity problem, plus professors are not very friendly. Placements for computer science are better in Warangal than Trichy". I would say "Electronics and Communication in Warangal", he would say "Placements are the best for this branch compared to any other NIT but your college life will not be so easy", which is quite true actually. Everyday he would come from office and would tell us a couple of facts over the lunch just like, "The top ranker of first list, 2012 chose Civil Engg. in Trichy." or "cutoff for Computer Science in Surathkal after first list was 2370 but rose up to 2380 in the second list so it's better not to wait for second or third list" or "the best computer labs among all the NITs is Allahabad's and the newly recruited professors are IITians so Allahbad will be on top for Computer Science in a couple of years". If there was a degree for the research of admission process, surely my father would be holding a PhD degree by now. He's been calling up so many colleges since 2011 and not just NITs, a lot many other high ranking private institutes too. I just don't know how to thank him for all that he has done and is still doing for me but in someway or the other I will surely repay everything back with interest when I get a good Engineering job. (So please wish for my good future in your prayers today, xD)
11th was more like a made-to-have-fun year, never got serious regarding studies, just managed to understand all the theories and concepts and got through the year pretty fast. I even missed two of my Final exams, Mathematics and Chemistry, as I had to attend my cousin sister's wedding. And that wedding is one I would never never forget. It was simply epic. I and my cousins had tons and tons of fun. Well weddings are supposed to be like that.
I even registered for this online coaching for AIEEE and IIT called "AskIITians". They taught Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). They took a 3 hour class per subject per week, I must say they did a pretty fine job because because the city I live in has something like 6-7 CBSE schools and I was the only one in my entire city who cleared JEE Mains and qualified to write JEE Advanced. Well that was something to happy about. And then it even helped me in SAT, got a really good SAT score which got me Computer Science in NIT Warangal and that's how I am here.
12th was quite different. Private tuition for main subjects right from the beginning. I messed up the first half of the academic year, well lets say three quarters of the year but the last 3 months, oh the way I studied, I was amazed finding out what I was capable of. It was the Final Board Examination of CBSE Grade 12, so yeah, everyone automatically gets serious and you have no one to have fun with. Practiced a lot, memorized a lot, practically finished the whole Grade 12 syllabus in just 3 months and not just once, did it thrice. Question banks, past papers, sample papers, it was the 'Ultimate Study Mode'.
Finally I think I did pretty good in academics in both 10th and 12th. Got a CGPA of 9.6 in Grade 10 Board Examinations and an aggregate percentage of 91% in Grade 12 Board Examinations. But you know people often say "Shit happens in life", well..................I came to NIT Warangal. No no, coming to NITW wasn't the shit part. What I did after coming here is where the "shit happens in life" part comes. We'll see about that later. Right now please do comment and give feedback. At least just choose one of the options below. Any random visitor can vote for that. Hearty thanks to you if you are reading this after reading the whole post. If you've just scrolled down to read the last couple of sentences then thank you still for at least visiting my blog again.
If you guys remember, in CBSE Grade 9, there was this particular chapter called "Diversity in Living Organisms", here's the link to the chapter:
http://www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/textbook/textbook.htm?iesc1=7-14
Now we had to learn this, the whole chapter, there was hardly any part omitted plus our teacher never told us what part to learn specifically and what to skip. This particular chapter was the main reason why I started hating Biology. Now there were like a hundred different species of organisms we had to memorize and each one had it's own habitat, diet, lifestyle and various other information. We had to memorize all that. This chapter literally fried my brain up and it took me almost a month's time to get control over that chapter. And till the last moment, I was not very sure about this particular chapter. My father is a doctor, deep down in his heart he wanted his son to be in the medicine line too, but to his disappointment, after facing that particular chapter, I had started telling him I hated biology. At times he even tried to convince me for taking bio in future but that hate I had developed towards the subject didn't allow me to even think about taking biology for further studies. Now dad well understood my situation and started working on getting admissions in high ranking Engineering colleges.
Here I would like to take a moment (a paragraph actually) and tell everyone that the amount of research my father did for my admission, I can surely bet none of your father or mother would have done it. It might NOT be wrong for me to say that combining the amount of research done by individual parents of all those reading this right now might also not match up with the research that my father has done over this span of 4 years. (Yeah, read it again, I know that's a long complicated sentence, took 5 mins to make it, :D) Grade 9 onward my dad started following the pattern of admissions into the Engineering colleges in India. He was constantly following the posts of this person named Raj Tyagi who has a site of his own which is entirely dedicated to the process of admission for NRI students. He followed the DASA admission process and the cutoffs for various branches in various NITs. It was all permutation and combination of the each branch being matched up with each NIT. At a point I started feeling like he got a hard disk planted in his brain and all the information regarding the NITs was uploaded onto it on a daily basis. I would just say, "NIT Trichy, Computer Science." and he would reply, "Labs are not very good, electricity problem, plus professors are not very friendly. Placements for computer science are better in Warangal than Trichy". I would say "Electronics and Communication in Warangal", he would say "Placements are the best for this branch compared to any other NIT but your college life will not be so easy", which is quite true actually. Everyday he would come from office and would tell us a couple of facts over the lunch just like, "The top ranker of first list, 2012 chose Civil Engg. in Trichy." or "cutoff for Computer Science in Surathkal after first list was 2370 but rose up to 2380 in the second list so it's better not to wait for second or third list" or "the best computer labs among all the NITs is Allahabad's and the newly recruited professors are IITians so Allahbad will be on top for Computer Science in a couple of years". If there was a degree for the research of admission process, surely my father would be holding a PhD degree by now. He's been calling up so many colleges since 2011 and not just NITs, a lot many other high ranking private institutes too. I just don't know how to thank him for all that he has done and is still doing for me but in someway or the other I will surely repay everything back with interest when I get a good Engineering job. (So please wish for my good future in your prayers today, xD)
11th was more like a made-to-have-fun year, never got serious regarding studies, just managed to understand all the theories and concepts and got through the year pretty fast. I even missed two of my Final exams, Mathematics and Chemistry, as I had to attend my cousin sister's wedding. And that wedding is one I would never never forget. It was simply epic. I and my cousins had tons and tons of fun. Well weddings are supposed to be like that.
I even registered for this online coaching for AIEEE and IIT called "AskIITians". They taught Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). They took a 3 hour class per subject per week, I must say they did a pretty fine job because because the city I live in has something like 6-7 CBSE schools and I was the only one in my entire city who cleared JEE Mains and qualified to write JEE Advanced. Well that was something to happy about. And then it even helped me in SAT, got a really good SAT score which got me Computer Science in NIT Warangal and that's how I am here.
12th was quite different. Private tuition for main subjects right from the beginning. I messed up the first half of the academic year, well lets say three quarters of the year but the last 3 months, oh the way I studied, I was amazed finding out what I was capable of. It was the Final Board Examination of CBSE Grade 12, so yeah, everyone automatically gets serious and you have no one to have fun with. Practiced a lot, memorized a lot, practically finished the whole Grade 12 syllabus in just 3 months and not just once, did it thrice. Question banks, past papers, sample papers, it was the 'Ultimate Study Mode'.
Finally I think I did pretty good in academics in both 10th and 12th. Got a CGPA of 9.6 in Grade 10 Board Examinations and an aggregate percentage of 91% in Grade 12 Board Examinations. But you know people often say "Shit happens in life", well..................I came to NIT Warangal. No no, coming to NITW wasn't the shit part. What I did after coming here is where the "shit happens in life" part comes. We'll see about that later. Right now please do comment and give feedback. At least just choose one of the options below. Any random visitor can vote for that. Hearty thanks to you if you are reading this after reading the whole post. If you've just scrolled down to read the last couple of sentences then thank you still for at least visiting my blog again.