Expectations

Written By: Tanmay Dadhania Comps | B.Tech. II

Karthik Sunil Mech | B.Tech. II

Jog your memory. Go back to the day you first step foot in this prestigious college of national importance. You feel slightly scammed by the presence of the ‘N’ instead of the elusive ‘I’, but you get used to it soon enough. Then comes the peak of your college life — before the college starts, you meticulously plan out your entire 4 years (5 if you are a scholar of the sciences and 6 if you aren’t) that you’re going to spend here. This is it! This is the closest you get to your ideal college life. After this, it only goes downhill.

Let’s critically analyze all your first-year fantasies: (Please keep tissues handy.) • With the new-found freedom and increased opportunities to mingle with the members of the opposite gender, you were very confident that a classic romantic such as yourself (whose looks went unrivaled in all the lands) would find their soulmate with enormous ease — just like Bollywood portrayed it to happen. Needless to say, this doesn’t really come true.

Due to the lack of tourism and repressed desires of exploration in the past few years, the young populace of the college is quite interested in exploring new cave sites and riding shiny new bikes. Unfortunately (or fortunately), due to the lack of guidelines and lack of a partner with whom the exploration is to be done, only a select few (the lucky ones) get to embrace the pleasure of embarking on this journey.

When all else fails, SVNIT comes in clutch with its wondrous selection of clubs. You join them thinking that you will forget all the pain that you are currently experiencing. However, they manage to impress you by introducing a new kind of pain: the physical kind.

A 9-pointer was a given for you, considering the prodigious genius that you possess. Your love life did not turn out to be like 2 States, but your CGPA did end up sounding just like one of Chetan Bhagat’s novels, 5-point-something.

Now, being the exemplary engineering student that you are, you try to reverse-engineer the situation a little. First, you bring in the money, then you get a girl. Then your CG won’t matter anymore! “Okay great, we’re on the right path,” you say to yourself. After channeling your inner Doctor Strange and skimming through all the possible scenarios, you conclude that you’re going to fetch yourself a coding job regardless of your branch. There are only two types of people in this world: people who positively reacted to the aforementioned point and people who cringed at it. In layman’s terms — people who sit for coding interviews and people who sit for core interviews. In a distant past, another type also used to exist. These primitive people fantasized about following their passion and spoke about “never having to work another day” if they were happy while working. Such vile thinking!

With all the tragedy surrounding your life, you take refuge with the 2 friends that you still have after all these years. But, this wasn’t always the case. Remember all those friends you had in the first year that you planned on going on exotic trips with? It turns out that snakes aren’t allowed on planes.

We hope we didn’t make you shed too many tears while reminiscing about your initial months of college, the days when you used to post pictures with #collegelife. Looking back, you realize that maybe college life isn’t meant to be perfect; it definitely wouldn’t have been the same if everything went as planned. You finally understand that all the mess-ups were worth it because they only made the ride better.