“Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not understand. Involve me, and I'll always remember.”
Yes, I will always remember, the time that I had spent, the gurus that I had made, the lectures that I had attended, the friendship that had blossomed and the crushes that I had, at this premier research institute of India i.e. IIT-Kanpur. Almost everything attached to this place is worth remembering. Right from our “informal” introduction period to our tender farewell, I had enjoyed every bit of time that I had spent. Four years of stay @ iitk was a period, with many global maxima in the graph of my life i.e. maximum fun, maximum learning, maximum time pass, maximum movies, maximum songs and also maximum fraud (I am sure for that). All the success that I take back from here will glow my life forever and all the failure that I take from here will strengthen me from inside.
Before getting into this system, I had a picture in my mind of how my college life would be. I thought that college environment would be like; we will be bunking lecture for movies. Every show would be first day first show; we will be roaming around in the city every night, partying with friends, looking at the hot chicks passing some non-serious comments; enjoying to the fullest. But story turned out to be a bit different although we did enjoyed, the ambiance was much different than what I had imagined. But whatever it be the life was much better then my dream. Living amidst best facilities and care with no worldly tension (off course I mean apart from academic).
For me life at IIT-K was full of challenges. I found that after every task there was yet another task waiting for me to be accomplished. I worked harder and harder to accomplish them. I think in this spirit the span of four years turned out to be too short for me to fully enjoy the beauty of this place. After four years of continuous struggle in this system now I believe that,
“In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.”
And I think exactly this is what the system has done to us. Perhaps the most valuable outcome of our education is our ability to make ourselves do the thing we have to do, when it ought to be done, whether we like it or not. Nothing in this education system is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. It has left us with mere awareness of facts and proved to us that we are not masters in the world. There is still a lot to learn and understand. The greatest gift that I have received from this institute is belief that: “NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ABILITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE”
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
