11 April
With the end of today near, I sign up to blogger and start this blog. Compared to today’s incidents from the morning, this opening of the blog by me can be called insignificant by many. But it is much more of a statement of the starting of another life for me.
I woke up at around six without fuss after many days, and jumped onto my computer and logged into www.bansaliitjee.com. I punched my registration number and found out that I had been selected for the bansal coaching classes. Many of you must be wondering what bansal classes are all about. So let me give you a brief idea of the institute.
In India engineering is the most sought after career, and the graduation degrees are diploma, B.E. (bachelor of engineering), B.Tech (bachelor of technology). The degree of the highest value and which attracts the good and the big jobs is the B.Tech followed by B.E. and diploma. In India the government run IIT (Indian institutes of technology) can only give the B.Tech degree and there are only seven IITs in India. The total seats(the number of students who can get admitted) are 4000 to 5000, but as the population of India is so large, about 4 lakh students give the entrance test of the IITs which is JEE(joint entrance test). The standard of JEE is very high and only the hard working and the intelligent students are able to crack it. So to help the students crack the JEE a lot many coaching institutions have sprung up all over India, and the premier coaching institute is bansal classes which is based in kota(a city in western India). Bansal classes has about 1500 selections in IIT in the past year, which means nearly 25% of students in IIT have taken coaching from Bansal classes only. They give coaching for two years, which means that when students are supposed to do eleventh and twelfth, they study the tricks of cracking JEE(joint entrance exam) in the bansal institute.
And I live in a city which is about 8 hours away from Kota if you are traveling in a proper Indian train. My mother’s best friend’s son also got selected for bansal. And I despise that guy for a lot many reasons. So he will be coming to my city and then we both will be going off to Kota. I have had a flurry of calls from the morning itself, classmates noting down the names of the guys who have decided to go, so that they could ask for the notes after some months. Those morons think that students go to Kota for notes only. Maybe they do, but my reasons are different. I want to get out of my parent’s shadow and make a space for myself, have some freedom, and maybe so that I can talk to my girlfriend without the fear of my parents listening to me. And maybe I want to live a bachelor’s life and find out what it feels like to be the guilty man of your own mistakes. Maybe I just want to be different and present myself to as a brave person for living alone at 16, and maybe I want to run away from this city and from my past which holds equal amounts of mud and rain.
For the sake of all the above reasons, I want to go and the reason which I gave to my parents was that I wanted to crack JEE and that too badly. They believed me and in a glance to each other, they decided to send me away. They don’t really take time to take decisions for me, I guess the magnitude of the time given to a decision is directly proportional to the age of the person for whom the decision is made. Call it a matter of perspective towards life, but I have many more reasons for going to kota other than learning the tricks and trades of JEE, I like a change and an exotic change and experience too. Maybe Kota will give that to me.
At sixteen, I happily decided to leave the place which had been my home for sixteen years, and decided to go to a place about which I learnt about only in the brochures of the various institutes established there. But I guess I will like my life there also...
I want all of you to witness me. We will be pals on this journey. Call me the Kota guy.
