It can be really frustrating and sometimes make you feel useless, hopeless, good for nothing, pathetic and all the different negative adjectives that you can use for yourselves. I went through a similar situation when I was in my 5th semester of Engineering and the spread of this experience went upto the final semester. As Rashmi Bansal (the author of stay Hungry, stay foolish) says, this could be a dot in my life which was required to be connected in order to make a broader picture/image of your life.
I was in my 5th semester and surprisingly I did not have a single back and hence was very much enjoying my stay in the hostel as I had to answer only 6 papers and not 7 or 8 unlike previous 4 semesters. I was on top of the world and pretty much saying to myself, "If I can clear 7 or 8 papers at a time, this just 6 papers should be a walk on cake". However, thats when engineering challenged me unknowingly, "I will ensure that you have atleast one back paper to answer from now on". Unaware of this situation, I was having fun in the hostel and as such thought myself to be a good engineer.
Just one month to go for the 5th semester and as usual we had not even started to think about exams. This is another feature when you stay in GEC hostel, though you are aware that it is high time for you to start studying for the semester exams, you somehow start becoming a philosopher and suddenly turn into a saint saying "yeh toh sab maya jaal hain, padh ke kya hoga...akhir toh marna hi hain, chalo jara bahar hare bhare saundarya ka anand lootte hain, taki hum moksha pa sake". And when we realise that if we do not come into our own we will fail, it is already time when we have got to make calculations so as to study in order to give ourselves atleast 35 marks.
So here I was just 15 days to go for the semester and I was still busy writing and completing term works. The semester came and went and the result overall was pathetic, out of the total 42 students only 10 passed and obviously I could not ven think of passing. I had two backs, both rather very surprising ones. One of them "Theory of Machines" and " Machine Technology". Thats how it is, the unexpected always happens and when you are still cursing the professor who gave you less marks, the back paper exams are already ejecting their heads out.
I knew I would for sure clear out both the papers as I was very much prepared for both, besides we had excellent professors who taught us this subject. Especially the "Theory of Machines" subject is the one that I loved conceptually. It had the overturning couple that explained the theory that went behind designing the right weight/height ratio for a car. It also had a separate module explaining vibrations and forces that affect a particular machine. Hence I did not consider it that seriously and took the subjects from 6th semester seriously.
However as mentioned earlier, my life had challenged me which I was still not aware. Lot of tortures to come in my subsequent engineering days!!! I am sure you all readers are sadiest and will love reading the troubles that I had. Stay tuned.
I was in my 5th semester and surprisingly I did not have a single back and hence was very much enjoying my stay in the hostel as I had to answer only 6 papers and not 7 or 8 unlike previous 4 semesters. I was on top of the world and pretty much saying to myself, "If I can clear 7 or 8 papers at a time, this just 6 papers should be a walk on cake". However, thats when engineering challenged me unknowingly, "I will ensure that you have atleast one back paper to answer from now on". Unaware of this situation, I was having fun in the hostel and as such thought myself to be a good engineer.
Just one month to go for the 5th semester and as usual we had not even started to think about exams. This is another feature when you stay in GEC hostel, though you are aware that it is high time for you to start studying for the semester exams, you somehow start becoming a philosopher and suddenly turn into a saint saying "yeh toh sab maya jaal hain, padh ke kya hoga...akhir toh marna hi hain, chalo jara bahar hare bhare saundarya ka anand lootte hain, taki hum moksha pa sake". And when we realise that if we do not come into our own we will fail, it is already time when we have got to make calculations so as to study in order to give ourselves atleast 35 marks.
So here I was just 15 days to go for the semester and I was still busy writing and completing term works. The semester came and went and the result overall was pathetic, out of the total 42 students only 10 passed and obviously I could not ven think of passing. I had two backs, both rather very surprising ones. One of them "Theory of Machines" and " Machine Technology". Thats how it is, the unexpected always happens and when you are still cursing the professor who gave you less marks, the back paper exams are already ejecting their heads out.
I knew I would for sure clear out both the papers as I was very much prepared for both, besides we had excellent professors who taught us this subject. Especially the "Theory of Machines" subject is the one that I loved conceptually. It had the overturning couple that explained the theory that went behind designing the right weight/height ratio for a car. It also had a separate module explaining vibrations and forces that affect a particular machine. Hence I did not consider it that seriously and took the subjects from 6th semester seriously.
However as mentioned earlier, my life had challenged me which I was still not aware. Lot of tortures to come in my subsequent engineering days!!! I am sure you all readers are sadiest and will love reading the troubles that I had. Stay tuned.
