Ah! It feels so good to be a student again. It’s been quite some time and I am enjoying every bit of academicia. Strange it may seem but it is true that it all started on a normal working day afternoon in the loo of Brickwork India, the place where I used to work. Archimedes found the buoying principal in the bathroom and said “Eureka”. I too, on the other hand found or rather came to know my result of IIFT. The relation may not be that profound but I would like to believe the feeling of ecstasy would have been the same. I could have sung a eulogy for the person from IIFT who let me know the result, such was my elation.
Rewind 2 years from now and the situation was not the same. I had just graduated and was feeling elated albeit in a different sense. I was finally free from studies. I had got redemption. The sense of being independent overpowered that of being student. The umbilical cord was sort of broken though IIT was still in my heart. A child had entered into a world totally different from what he had seen for the past 4 years at IIT. I was enthusiastic about the then job which was to come then. But little did I know at that point of time that there would be reversal in the feelings after few years.
Come September 2007, I started valuing my student life. Perhaps not being a student anymore for a good time made me realises that how much I craved for student life. The value of a particular thing can only be realised when you don’t have that thing. I realised how life was much better in graduation days. IIT was like a pseudo world for us with students inside constituting the population sans the leaders. The equations, the theories that I used to hate once became my friends again. One is actually a lot more secured there than in job life. He/she can afford to commit mistakes and get away with it. It is not that I would deliberately want to commit mistakes but the fact that one feels so secured in the four walls of college. The sense of responsibility takes a back seat. These all made me all the more determined to crack the B-School tests and IIFT proved to be boon in the sense that it allowed me to feel that lost sensation of being a student again. A sensation, so valuable. A sensation as pure as driven snow.
While getting to IIFT has made me student again, it has also given me another chance to rectify the mistakes that I had made during my graduation at IIT. No more do the round the clock classes/ assignments drive me insane. I don’t fear them anymore. In fact I have started liking them. While I may crib at the hectic schedule but I do it for the heck of it. For I know the price of the substitute is very high, which in my case is job life. While I may not be able to remain student forever, I have still been able to keep the professional life at bay for another 2 years. The feeling of being a student is so overpowering that it has made me to write this article which I would not have done had I been the person few years back. I feel rejuvenated. I feel reborn again. I feel like playing the second innings.
Rewind 2 years from now and the situation was not the same. I had just graduated and was feeling elated albeit in a different sense. I was finally free from studies. I had got redemption. The sense of being independent overpowered that of being student. The umbilical cord was sort of broken though IIT was still in my heart. A child had entered into a world totally different from what he had seen for the past 4 years at IIT. I was enthusiastic about the then job which was to come then. But little did I know at that point of time that there would be reversal in the feelings after few years.
Come September 2007, I started valuing my student life. Perhaps not being a student anymore for a good time made me realises that how much I craved for student life. The value of a particular thing can only be realised when you don’t have that thing. I realised how life was much better in graduation days. IIT was like a pseudo world for us with students inside constituting the population sans the leaders. The equations, the theories that I used to hate once became my friends again. One is actually a lot more secured there than in job life. He/she can afford to commit mistakes and get away with it. It is not that I would deliberately want to commit mistakes but the fact that one feels so secured in the four walls of college. The sense of responsibility takes a back seat. These all made me all the more determined to crack the B-School tests and IIFT proved to be boon in the sense that it allowed me to feel that lost sensation of being a student again. A sensation, so valuable. A sensation as pure as driven snow.
While getting to IIFT has made me student again, it has also given me another chance to rectify the mistakes that I had made during my graduation at IIT. No more do the round the clock classes/ assignments drive me insane. I don’t fear them anymore. In fact I have started liking them. While I may crib at the hectic schedule but I do it for the heck of it. For I know the price of the substitute is very high, which in my case is job life. While I may not be able to remain student forever, I have still been able to keep the professional life at bay for another 2 years. The feeling of being a student is so overpowering that it has made me to write this article which I would not have done had I been the person few years back. I feel rejuvenated. I feel reborn again. I feel like playing the second innings.
