The very first article of this blog clearly portrays that it had all started with this very dream, or more appropriately 'mission', the achievement of which would lead to the opening of countless gateways in the future. It had been hanging in the balance despite of me having cracked IIT-JEE twice and having gotten admission into one of the topmost colleges in the country IT-BHU, as it 'was' called until a few days back!
But now, all my internal demons have been put to rest as I, along with all the others from our institute, experience a level of happiness, peace, rightfulness and most of all, pride to finally have that extra illusive 'I' in our institute's name that we so richly deserve. While many of my friends started out their careers by walking into the famed gateways of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), people from our institute have the unique pleasure of watching and experiencing the hallowed portals of IIT, being built all around us, while we sit in the very center of it! It makes me really happy to think that we'll be the only handful of students in the country who have had the privilege and the honor of being in one of the topmost universities in India, inheriting the legacy of the Banaras Hindu University, and are now also an integral part of the brand-name that is, IIT (BHU) Varanasi!!!...
We don't have to carry the burden of being a 'pseudo'-IIT anymore. It surprises me to think that after all that I've been through, with all my possible choices having fallen just a little short of their mark when I was struggling to get into IIT a few years back, and the only thing that I could have possibly had in a so-called core IIT being an Integrated Masters Degree in some science subject like Economics, instead now I'm finally doing a Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) course in a core engineering branch from a core IIT!!!...
Everything amazingly fell into place and it's only now that I'm truly beginning to understand what Steve Jobs meant when he said that: "You can only connect the dots looking backwards!" So many other things could have happened just by making a slightly different choice at any of the countless junctures encountered in the past, but everything just seems to have fit in perfectly like a complicated jig-saw puzzle. These are the only times that even atheists might have the feeling of divine intervention!
So, after all the controversies and criticism that I've been through in the recent past, reality finally takes a sweet turn!... There have been so many times when I've felt like showing the finger to fate, but I'm truly grateful that things have finally taken a measurably fruitful shape. We have all tirelessly worked very hard for achieving our goals and I'm not sure if this is fate's way of rewarding us. So, in any case, if there is indeed such a thing, I'd like to thank 'fate' from the bottom of my heart for helping us get something which was so dear to us, that it modified and affected every step we took!...
I've waited for ages to witness this day and now that it's finally here, it's a wonderful parting gift that we got before this year's summer vacation. And, on a personal note, this truly is the beginning of a new era in my life, and I take a solemn oath not to waste this opportunity which has been given to me in the form of the highest graduating platform available in India today! Right from this moment on, irrespective of the past, I'll only be working towards the future. I've always been kind of a rebel in my ways of doing stuff, but now I can finally forgive, forget and move on, as a brand new "IITian"!!!... So, a very hearty congratulations and all the very best to all my fellow IITians for a bright future ahead! Good luck and take care!...
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