Post GRE life gives a feeling of recumbent! :)
Sunday was TOEFL day. Four of us hired a taxi and left campus early morning for Lucknow. What a humdrum test! 4 and half hours of testing. Towards the last section, which happened to be essay writing, it grew like one of those prosaic lectures. I was disinclined to type at all. But like every other thing in life it had to pass.
Now it's time to gear up for one more challenge. Placement season starts December 1. Seems like good lot of companies are recruiting from Mech. department. :)
Meanwhile I came about this article about IITians which shouts of verisimilitude of the situation. All this written is so true! I'll copy and paste some excerpts.
- Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of IITians do nothing of note in their lives. Indeed, many of them became IITians because their parents told them that’s what they should mug their butts off for, and aim to hit the US of A, so that’s what they did. They attended classes, took notes, passed exams, took the gre, applied to a dozen American universities, and disappeared into that country’s vast technological underbelly, to reappear only in the matrimonial columns of Indian papers with a dollar salary multiplied diligently by the day’s exchange rate.
- We lived and ate together, and shared our joys and heartbreaks and good times and bad times, in competition and camaraderie. We compared our philosophies and, bit by stumbling bit, developed our value systems.
- IIT was also a whole insular world in itself, complex and complete, and it sucked us in.
- There were few material pleasures. Lifestyles were spartan, the food abysmal.
- The vast majority of males were totally deprived of female company. The girls lived a strange life.
Life is not at all at peace amongst all the crisis which is characteristic of post GRE of every common IITian. Apprehension of leaving home etc. And I'm now very much disinclined to do so.
