These words are not mine. Come on. Can it be? No, never. A person deserves them and who may be iterating them to his conscience. He is someone who is at a position he never deserved. He has never inspired me nor he can in future. But one things for sure, I see him and I start to believe that yes luck is something. And that bloody luck can work wonders for you. It can take you to the heights you never dreamed of, and at the very same time it can take you to the depths you have only read in fantasies. I have heard that its hard work that matters and I firmly believe that its solely hard work and ur pure approach towards that hard work that matters. Neverthless I have witnessed many who dint deserved what they got, they used unfair means to reach ahead. All those times, I was a mute spectator as I also believed that God is there and he will not leave any of those. So I kept mum. But yes I have wept when I was alone, not coz others succeded but coz I failed where I shouldnt have failed.
So I was talking about some person X. Now onwards I am gonna refer to him as X.
So it was post summer of 2003, to be precise month of July, when I saw Mr X. There was an important course that he was going to take. The course is one of the backbones of CSE. It was very important as it was going to form the base for all future courses. Anyways so here is Mr X. We had entered the second year of our college life. Seniors said that he is a very good fellow, he teaches very well and blah blah. Actually we had our first insight of Mr X as soon as we entererd college. When we had joined he was taking the same subject of our seniors and when the seniors were going for first minor, we saw them carrying books. We wondered!! And we came to know that the exam is open book! to our surprise!! And when the marks came, it was again to our surprise. Everyone in the class got in the range of 0.25 - 2 out of 15. What this guy has done? What has he asked in the paper? these all things we used to ask among friends. never mind, now it was our turn to bite the bullet. As the course started I was not at all comforatble as he used a totally different approach. he refrained us from consulting books. Never taught what was supposed to taught and always focussed on what should have been a part of some other course! There were some brilliant students in our class and they were really brilliant. They were catching up with him, but most of us faltered. All those students were in his eyes for all good resons and their intelligence. But herefrom started what shouldnt have been. A partial approach in lectures, labs and tutorials. I will write another blog about that. But after the start of that semester he said that he is leaving this institute and going to join some good college. Now the college he had said that he will be joining wa sreally good. We were ignorant, I must say ignorant as we tried to stop him. one thing I regret, I signed the applciation which was floating in the class to make him stay here. And he stopped, and we regretted. Till date , we are regretting :(
So as the semester progressed we were learning nothing but MS Word and story telling :) Every one was slowly n slowly turning into a story teller as we had to write stories and we had to think. Think without any base. And he started showing partial approach to us. I am not envying those good students. But from whom he considered "The Brilliant Set" one was the most undeserving. Some of us a re still clueless as to why Mr X praises him so much. He praises him n gives his examples.
He took advanced version of the course in 4th semester and the lab assistants he had for the course knew nothing,except one, and they were also praising some and always humiliating others for the charges of stealing, copying and all rubbish. Some people were influencing lab intructors to gain unethical marks. Any how Mr X thought that only some persons deserved his attention and his colleauge's attention. So we were left unattended, which led to disinterest in the subjects he taught and ur understanding of those subjects suffered.
He is still practising his partial approaches. He thinks highly of two. These two are very special for him. He arranged job for both of them at his personal level. Now he is forwarding resumes of some set of persons determined by him and one of his most loyal student for a top notch company. The criterion for getting a chance to forward you resume. The first is that you should have attended hi course in 6th semester and intersect this set with the set which his most loyal student maintains. The set maintaines by his most loyal student is of his friends. So If you are in the intersection of these two sets, then you lucky man. See luck came here too! and then only you will get a chance to try for an employment with that dream company.
No i dint get a chance. ANd i feel good about it. I dont even want that chance given by Mr X. I am capable enough that I can search oppurtunities on myself. And that will give me satisfaction, personal peace which I feel is most important. cause I am not one of those who have forked tongue. I am not a hypocrat.
I am just myself and I am proud of it.
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I am just myself and I am proud of it.
bas, paaaji !!!! nothing else matters.
but, just a word of caution, one should always have certain measurable standards which one should try and live up to, if not this one, may be something else.
aur to bas, aap acha likhte hai, but sab kuch ache se samajhne mai time lagega :)
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