15th June 2008...I have completed my undergraduate degree and am headed for a PhD in Electrical Engineering at University of Rochester....I completed my undergraduate thesis viva this week, and am leaving Manipal University for good.
All of us love our alma matter and so do I. Sometimes its just blind love. You curse your institution a great deal, but when you meet some arbit "unclejee"or "auntijee" on your way back home in the train, who talk ill of your institution, you get annoyed.
But now that I look back, I ask myself if it was a right decision to come so far....what did i seek...and what have i found?
Seems a natural question now...
A good decision is based on logic and rationale. It may not always yield the best result, considering the chaotic world we live in...so many parameters...a million choices..and sometimes even choice, is an illusion.
What have I done here that deserves mention? I have done practically everything that i could have, and have been through almost all situations... sometimes.tricky and pleasant at other times.
Perhaps i could have done it differently and perhaps better. But I see myself in the mirror and what I am today, I owe it to this institution. What if i had been somewhere else? What and who would I have been? Maybe someone better....more successful, and maybe worse....But I would not have been what I am today- I would have been someone different.
In all second tier (Non IIT) engineering schools in India life starts this way: You enter, cursing the Institution and think that the institution does not deserve you. Thats what I thought. I was foolish as always. But I did learn soon that for the motivated, there are many opportunities here, a few of which, probably even much more reputed institutions cannot boast of.
But that does not count...To everyone who joins an institution, learn to respect the institution, feel proud about it. Without pride, nothing can be achieved. If you are gripped by the" I deserve better" syndrome, think if you are the best ever to have joined the institution, and think honestly. If you are, do what you please. But if you are not, then there is no reason why you cannot belong there. I say this because this is a suicidal tendency and it leads you into chaos. After 4 years, you will end up in some worse place and crib again. "Vicious cycle".
I have learned things the hard way. But yes, I have, in the end. Yes like all systems, this system has its own flaws. It has all the sham, drudgery that we all hate. But its not any different else where. Trust me, it isn't.
I saw some friends here who keep blaming the system. But in the end its just what you do with yourself. No doubt the system needs to be improved. But did u share your ideas with the management? Did you make a small effort to help out your juniors who are in the same soup now as you were in the past?No. So lets stop all this and get on with it. Lets give back more than we took from our institution, help it grow. Because its yours. By choice or by chance, but you belong here. It made you what you are.
As i leave this place today, I will miss it all. Not only the respect and the affection, also the hatred and jealousy.
It has taught me all what i know today. I raise a final toast to my institution : I indeed am, "INSPIRED BY LIFE" ..
PS: "Inspired by Life" is the motto of Manipal University.
All of us love our alma matter and so do I. Sometimes its just blind love. You curse your institution a great deal, but when you meet some arbit "unclejee"or "auntijee" on your way back home in the train, who talk ill of your institution, you get annoyed.
But now that I look back, I ask myself if it was a right decision to come so far....what did i seek...and what have i found?
Seems a natural question now...
A good decision is based on logic and rationale. It may not always yield the best result, considering the chaotic world we live in...so many parameters...a million choices..and sometimes even choice, is an illusion.
What have I done here that deserves mention? I have done practically everything that i could have, and have been through almost all situations... sometimes.tricky and pleasant at other times.
Perhaps i could have done it differently and perhaps better. But I see myself in the mirror and what I am today, I owe it to this institution. What if i had been somewhere else? What and who would I have been? Maybe someone better....more successful, and maybe worse....But I would not have been what I am today- I would have been someone different.
In all second tier (Non IIT) engineering schools in India life starts this way: You enter, cursing the Institution and think that the institution does not deserve you. Thats what I thought. I was foolish as always. But I did learn soon that for the motivated, there are many opportunities here, a few of which, probably even much more reputed institutions cannot boast of.
But that does not count...To everyone who joins an institution, learn to respect the institution, feel proud about it. Without pride, nothing can be achieved. If you are gripped by the" I deserve better" syndrome, think if you are the best ever to have joined the institution, and think honestly. If you are, do what you please. But if you are not, then there is no reason why you cannot belong there. I say this because this is a suicidal tendency and it leads you into chaos. After 4 years, you will end up in some worse place and crib again. "Vicious cycle".
I have learned things the hard way. But yes, I have, in the end. Yes like all systems, this system has its own flaws. It has all the sham, drudgery that we all hate. But its not any different else where. Trust me, it isn't.
I saw some friends here who keep blaming the system. But in the end its just what you do with yourself. No doubt the system needs to be improved. But did u share your ideas with the management? Did you make a small effort to help out your juniors who are in the same soup now as you were in the past?No. So lets stop all this and get on with it. Lets give back more than we took from our institution, help it grow. Because its yours. By choice or by chance, but you belong here. It made you what you are.
As i leave this place today, I will miss it all. Not only the respect and the affection, also the hatred and jealousy.
It has taught me all what i know today. I raise a final toast to my institution : I indeed am, "INSPIRED BY LIFE" ..
PS: "Inspired by Life" is the motto of Manipal University.
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