I wish I could say so!! Lots of questions are playing about my mind. Placements, graduation and growing up. I am in the final year of course and I have no clue where I am heading. A lot of my school-mates are already carrying the "engineer" tag and flaunting it with ease.
I seem left out trying to decide between studying further and working. Oh!! There is also the matrimonial path available as my grandmother casually highlighted over the vacation. I am leaving her suggestion out of scope for the next 10 years (on a realistic note 6 would be perfect).
Varied opinions on what is best for me as been analyzed by my entire array of acquaintances. Even last week I was briefed on the "Impact on Recession" by fifty-something co-passenger uncle on the train. Why does everybody seem worried about how I am going to end up but me?
Yesterday we had this one hour of lab class swindled in the name of pep talk on "how to face the world" with recalled moments from his experiences. Since I was the sole person who found the whole thing funny and inappropriate he questioned me on my plans. Clever me blurted the first thing I could come up with. I intended to take each day as it comes. I was made to realize by the same prof that I was thinking like an "average" person.
I wanted to retort I was happy being "average" but the truth is I do have my plans in life. I have read enough self-help books to make me run at the sight of one. I know about "where do you see yourself 5 years from now" and the whole lot of succeeding questions which seem to check primarily "Are you man or animal".
Well, don’t they. All they want to know is are you capable of thinking. I have dreams about my future. Everyone does right from the time they are kids. Just that it is not like me to go around saying “I am so and so. I am going to work till Sep 9th, 2014. I am planning to get married after that".
After a lot of thinking I have decided to step in to work after my graduation. I want to get a head start on the work life and realize my true academic calling before I embark on higher studies. I am not for further studies right away. Definitely not immediately after five years of assignments, tutorials and internals.
And so my final year at college starts...
P.S It is so nice to know that college life is ending as well it is not so nice... ;-) ;-( I will miss having fun!!
