“Although it has not been long into my repship, I have started feeling the heat. It is hard. It is very hard …to do what others want when you know that their demands are not justified. You want to run away and live a life of your own, away from responsibilities, but it is not to be, because you cannot be what you want to be. It is the worst feeling you can ever feel like having….”
The advent of trophies for BSP and BSW are simply unexplainable. I can’t think of any reason of their existence apart from the fear of the authorities that without them there will be no work of student publications and student welfare in the institute. Does it really give off a positive note to the people? It is fortunate on their part that the IIT’s are isolated from outside world and the inside stories seldom leak out. Because if they do, then there will be few places to hide their faces.
And the reason for this is no less a fault of the students, because it is an unfortunate reality that what the authorities think about us is correct. We do work only for trophies. Otherwise, there is no real reason to make arbitrary night-outs to complete articles or workshop planning other than trophies. But then, the more intelligent question will be that what can a trophy do to make you do this? And the answer is simple.
To earn respect and honor in the hostel and the institute.
This simple statement has a lot to say and this is my version of it. When you come to iit, you do not come to become a rep or secy. You come to study technology. You come to get a good job. But you get neither. And you realize it well into the first semester itself. So, you try to escape to more comfortable places and hallucinations, one of them being this, the one I am talking about. You take up repship in your second year, to satisfy your hunger for work and status, which you seriously require to survive in iit, because you just cannot see yourself not doing anything and it really hurts when you pass by your department topper or the one who is a nine pointer. So, this is an easy escape route. You know it really well that whenever you are spending time in doing something or the other for your club or board, someone in your department will be mugging desperately, trying not to leave anything unrevised and doing numerical, practicing problems for the upcoming minor or major. And it hurts you a lot. And hey! If it does not hurt you then get a checkup.
At the end of it all or even at the beginning, people may say that give no less time to acads, but that is all bull shit. They never mean what they say. They have ruined themselves, and they want the same for you. They say that these things do not waste time and you get enough time for studies as well. True enough!! But where goes the interest? It is gone. And the victim, dissatisfied with iit and its corrupt system, blames it on everyone except himself. His discontentment shows up in loneliness and you see it only in his eyes and the grade sheet. Finally, when you grow up and are promoted to the next year, you do the same with the newcomers and the lower ones. And this vicious cycle continues. No one wants to break this. And the ones, who want to break it, cannot. Sometimes it looks all right and fine, but sometime it really kicks you off in the back and hurts you to the deepest of cuts. I do not know if it will ever stop…
The advent of trophies for BSP and BSW are simply unexplainable. I can’t think of any reason of their existence apart from the fear of the authorities that without them there will be no work of student publications and student welfare in the institute. Does it really give off a positive note to the people? It is fortunate on their part that the IIT’s are isolated from outside world and the inside stories seldom leak out. Because if they do, then there will be few places to hide their faces.
And the reason for this is no less a fault of the students, because it is an unfortunate reality that what the authorities think about us is correct. We do work only for trophies. Otherwise, there is no real reason to make arbitrary night-outs to complete articles or workshop planning other than trophies. But then, the more intelligent question will be that what can a trophy do to make you do this? And the answer is simple.
To earn respect and honor in the hostel and the institute.
This simple statement has a lot to say and this is my version of it. When you come to iit, you do not come to become a rep or secy. You come to study technology. You come to get a good job. But you get neither. And you realize it well into the first semester itself. So, you try to escape to more comfortable places and hallucinations, one of them being this, the one I am talking about. You take up repship in your second year, to satisfy your hunger for work and status, which you seriously require to survive in iit, because you just cannot see yourself not doing anything and it really hurts when you pass by your department topper or the one who is a nine pointer. So, this is an easy escape route. You know it really well that whenever you are spending time in doing something or the other for your club or board, someone in your department will be mugging desperately, trying not to leave anything unrevised and doing numerical, practicing problems for the upcoming minor or major. And it hurts you a lot. And hey! If it does not hurt you then get a checkup.
At the end of it all or even at the beginning, people may say that give no less time to acads, but that is all bull shit. They never mean what they say. They have ruined themselves, and they want the same for you. They say that these things do not waste time and you get enough time for studies as well. True enough!! But where goes the interest? It is gone. And the victim, dissatisfied with iit and its corrupt system, blames it on everyone except himself. His discontentment shows up in loneliness and you see it only in his eyes and the grade sheet. Finally, when you grow up and are promoted to the next year, you do the same with the newcomers and the lower ones. And this vicious cycle continues. No one wants to break this. And the ones, who want to break it, cannot. Sometimes it looks all right and fine, but sometime it really kicks you off in the back and hurts you to the deepest of cuts. I do not know if it will ever stop…
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