... (with due apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
If you can think,
But can postpone thinking indefinitely,
and yet, can pretend to think,
and can make others believe you're thinking..
If you feel sleepy a whole night,
but can reserve your sleep for the lectures next morning,
and can criticize the prof. afterwards,
for his outdated methodology of teaching..
If you can go to the reading room
with a determination none ever had,
and return next morning after attending the first lecture
sitting beside the same person you passed the night looking at..
If you can trust your ability,
only by recalling the rank you got in an entrance exam,
Even if there is nothing on your grade card,
except the 'SRC advice' you must follow as a command..
If you can bear to hear that you got an E in a course,
and can go to PVR or Chanakya the same day
(After all, this grade has given you
a valid reason to tell your parents for summer stay..)
If you can escape bathing *ahem*
for not less than a week,
and can admit this with pride enough,
and yet, can maintain an image of someone nice and clean.
If you can write articles on brain drain in this magazine
in your first and second years,
And try your best for abroad
probably after another two years.
If you read this text with disgust
but in front of me, can praise it
and yet, can speak to the editor
asking him the reason to include it..
You are an IITian, monsignor,
by the core of your heart..
You have got the qualifications
any recruiter would find hard to discard.
[Wrote it in first year for the institute magazine, a copy of which I've come across in a pile of old notebooks today.]
August 24, 2008
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Seems to be your own experiences in IIT as a newcomer. Inspirational one!! :)
But one important question I don't wana miss while thinking on the serious issues
sitting beside the same person you passed the night looking at..
Yeh kis k liye :P ;)
Your crush in the class kya? :P :D
Such insights in first yr, and still u end up being what u end up being. tch tch :P
[phoenix]still u end up being what u end up being.
Kindly elaborate ;)
Hehe. Was a good read!
sach mein first year mein itna gyaan hona kaafi aashcharyajanak baat hai :D
must say u knew a lot about iitians in the very first year!
[Geetika]
Can be taken as inspirational, yes; but when I wrote it I was only trying to write something funny.
Just a general poem.. Not about me! Waise, had no crush in first year.
:)
[Phoenix]
( )tch ( )tch :P :P
[Geetika]
I could do that! Lekin yahaan nahii :P
[Venom]
Hey..long time!
Thanks..
[Divesh, Vartika]
It was the very end of the first yr (the annual mag). And the year did teach a lot. :)
Arre yeh abhi tak kyun nahi post ki thi yahaan par, it existed for so long without me knowing of it. Anyway, good one...acute observations!
Den kahan :P :P :P :D
[vibhav]
See, your good days are back, after a gap of four years! ;) How is Miss Early Morning, btw? For last 5 days I have been dozing off right at her arrival!
[Geetika]
Wind-t, nes, phy deptt :P, orkut.. jahaan aap kahen! :)
oh saahi!! :D
jahan aap ki suvidha!!
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