View on Life - 6 months after joining NIT

Returning to academics after 4 years in industry has made me feel one thing which my other college-mates fail to get a taste of - the leisure. Study in Indian academic system is a rat race of marks in above 90% of cases, and NIT is no exception to this. But one hard truth, industry is a tougher race. In college you strive for marks, in industry you strive for a more basic requirement, to survive and keep earning your own bread. On making a backward move, you get a chance to slow down, to enjoy life once again, having less to think about the consequences, as you are already accustomed to the deadlier race outside.

Going to the personal experiences, it is wonderful to get another closely knit group of friends, which is usually not possible in the industry. However, the latter comment is on a general tone, I was lucky to get close, caring friends in TCS also, but that is not so for everyone. The flavor of residential college is another wonderful experience, which I felt earlier in Trivandrum. Spending long off-hours at the department, coffee shop, dhabas, or in front of the ladies' hostel, chatting and teasing people around, and having less to care about the actual objective of being in NIT, is surely rejuvenating. There are so many problems, in hostel, in projects, in life, but after being nicknamed the key-maker in industry, these are hardly a challenge in here.