Do we appreciate anything or anybody?

"Appreciate" as per oxford dictionary is : "recognize the full worth of" but today it seems that we have forgotten this word. We are so much interested in our own selfish needs that we are never grateful for anything that comes our way. The mindset that:people are supposed to help me, i should get this/that, its my right to claim this, is certainly making us rude. There is this overwhelming sense of entitlement. We take things for granted and thats where all goes wrong. We don't care for what others do for us, we just think that they are supposed to help. But this is not the case. Everybody deserves some thanks and gratitude for helping us.

With people getting richer, we are forgetting the virtues of gratitude and have started to believe that money has the power to get anything done. Well it sure does have the power to get you materialistic things but what about relationships? How much do we interact with our subordinates, our colleagues or our friends. We just think that these people are there for us. If somebody makes a mistake, we are all guns over him forgetting that its human to make mistakes. But then we are divine and we don't make mistakes.

So next time your friend helps you, somebody offers you his support or you buy something from a general store remember to say 'please' and 'thank you' coz it is all that is needed to make things work.
So please say please. [:P]

what have i learnt from IIT

IITs may be among the most coveted colleges in India but is it really the mecca of education? Is the best research centre in the country? What do students in IITs really learn, why are they seen as some of the best brains in the world? Well to the common man the answers to these question may be immaterial because after all you want is a good job after graduation which come as a guarantee with IIT admission. But are IITs really worth it.

According to me IITs are the toughest colleges to get in but the easiest to get out (of course wid a degree) of. All the hard work, determination, number crunching stops when you enter IIT. People here have a laid back attitude in general and will do everything and anything to avoid an assignment. Copying assignment, getting profs to postpone deadlines is everyday affair. The real education starts a week before exam but that is forgotten once the exams are over. After three years of studying in a branch of the so called best engineering colleges in India I now wonder what really have i learnt. I am certainly not the master of any subject and not even a jack of most. What really have i learnt????

The only thing that I can safely say about my college is that it makes you an all-round personality. Interacting with people who have such unique talents teaches a lot. Its the people, my friends, my classmates that have taught me the best lessons of life. Everybody here is skillful in one or the other thing and gyaan-dhara never stops. Everybody is always bubbling with new ideas, new information that is how we learn what we learn. From politics to cultural fest, from technical quest to daaru-party, from night-outs to complete bunks, from four-star to dhaba, from pub to hostel terrace, from campus lake to brahmaputra, from hostel field to hilltop, IIT has taught me all.

I thank my friends, my seniors, my juniors and everybody else for teaching me all the important things in life. No matter how much I hate our college for its shortcoming but my Heart, my Soul, my Love will still be with IITG.

luv u all.......