Journey in the storm

The last departmental event of my engineering student life is finally over. It was a damn busy weekend after a long time. Today, I am spending some time resting at home, taking out time to understand what’s next??? The worries of getting a good job are still haunting; getting a campus placement is the only desperate thought on my mind. I wonder what the probability would be.. I know I have not performed to my best and the expectations would be a bit high from my side considering the acads point of view. But I have got to prove the point, marks are not everything. Sadly, I haven’t got any opportunity to prove myself yet.

The last Saturday was supposed to be a very important day for all unplaced (not offered campus placement) students in my department. A HR meet was organised as a part of Industry – Institute interaction program, to enhance the relations with companies and make the students aware of industry demands. I was expecting some big tycoons from the Oil & Gas Industry to address us and give a ray of hope at the end of their address. Sadly, there were hardly any top brass HR’s from the core companies and the only present were mainly dealing with consultancy and downstream industries. The expectations were all derailed at the beginning of event when the list of dignitaries was announced. Then, one by one they were all giving their presentations. All of us were taken by surprise when one of the HR had the result stats of First Year Engineering students of Pune University on the first slide of his presentation. Like everyone present I was shocked to see the stats, hardly anyone amongst us was aware of the results declared a week ago. It showed around 19000 students appeared for exams and only 19 of them scored a Distinction!!! Adding more around 70% students cleared with backlogs… SAD! SAD! SAD! Was the only sound that was heard..  my friend sitting next to me whispered “cheers! We are a part of univ which is so called Oxford of the east!”. It reminded me of horrible years that I have had recently all thanks to the rotten education system around. The reality strikes hard, and every PU engg student would know it better. The decision of taking admission in PU was the worst decision of my life. But now that I have had all the worst experiences and failures, I have grown stronger and somehow I feel the good is about to happen. “Every dark cloud has a silver shining”, so do the dark clouds in my life…

Forget it! I am motivating myself to stay optimistic! The recent years have taught me to be a warrior wherever I go and however the situation is… I just need a single damn opportunity. I am not sure if I’ll get the best but at least I’ll have the satisfaction of putting the efforts. Coming 3-4 months would be the last months of my engineering life, some of my colleagues have already got offers from some big companies. I am getting desperate every single day, regretting the time I didn’t give my best. But don’t know why I am seeing myself employed soon after graduating. I am feeling the positive energy in me, for a change I am no more tensed. Not worrying about the last semester results that would out within a week. I am eager to prove myself, 10 years down the line I want to compare myself with the toppers in my class and see the progress stats. Somehow, I feel the storm in my life is all over and its time to sing… as it is rightly quoted “Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn’t we?”