After watching the famous Jobs graduation day speech at Stanford,
I imagined myself going in front of my school's 12th pass outs some day and say 'what follows' (assuming that
the trend continuous that majority are still getting into a engineering
college).
When u get to
college, there are three things you are going to experience. New people, New
ideologies and New you.
NEWPEOPLE:
The first day you go to college, things will be very
different, different language, different style, different mentalities, different
size, so different in size that you would probably end up getting ragged by
your own class mate, and most importantly different outlook, so different that
the girl whom you know for the past 4 years turns her face away 'heart break on
the first day of college' get used to it, u will encounter more of this.
To girls: u ll be looked at as if u r a European tourist entering the rural India, with a WOW. Enjoy the respect, don't do too much, who knows u might not even be worth it and the realization might not be far away.
Dai boys: the lab, the mess hall, lab coat, daily color
dress, bikes, girls, everything will look equally attractive, BEWARE. Labs,
there are lots u ll have to learn outside these four walls and a few machines
get out as early as possible. Mess hall, the pouch - the more you eat, the
merrier, sleepier and bigger u get. Color dress, the maximum u can buy is 10
pairs of trousers and shirts and u definitely know the rest. Bikes, with all
due respect, petrolku daily unga appa-na kaasu kuduppan. The girls, its
scientifically proven that girls get prettier at college and the guys get
stupid, they are still working on the relativity (for the first part of the research,
it was a no girl team. A girl came in as an intern, and they are still working
on the research).
Guys and girls getting into gender biased colleges, I have
nothing to say them except "SMART MOVE", if u know what I mean.
NEW IDEOLOGIES:
Everyday might seem like 'nothing big has happened', but the day before the exam believe me, IT IS GOING TO BE REALLY BIG. Even and odd semesters which will be synonyms for cultural semester and symposium semester. U ll have a lot of things to do but most importantly, do something new, do what u want.
It's ok if u don't focus, it's ok if u don't have clarity, it's
ok if u are not going to get better grades, its ok if to hate somebody, it's ok
to love more than 1, it's ok to raise a finger at your professor and say
"can I go to toilet". Participate in competitions and department
clashes, get face to face with a professor, talk to HOD and explain why u are
better than him, get on your knees for a girl, get into a fight for your friend
even when u know that he is wrong, celebrate that with a drink together, buy a
phone for 15000 and get confused about whether to recharge it for 20 or 30, Go
to new places, meet new people, treat them with arrogance, disagree with them
with respect. Stand on top of the world and say to yourself " i have a
lots left to experience in the bledy world and I am loving it".
NEW U:
GET OUT AND ENJOY. DON'T BOTHER ABOUT THE NEW YOU, HE CAN
TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF.
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. What follows you is always YOU".
P.S.: if any Teacher, Principal and Head of institutions is reading this, we can customize this, no problem at all. :-)
