Cosmic intervention paramount

It takes a dedicated amount of trouble on the divine’s part to screw up my life this bad. Today crack of dawn I discover that I was one mark away from the coveted CML in JEE. Now im left bereft of the little honour I deserved and within waving distance of people smarter than me. Of course it had to be my good fortune that the EML is abolished this year, effectively depriving me of any little respect that was left in my academically-challenged life.

After having read Julia's sunshiny blogs, i feel a bit out of place to be back on to my ranting. But here we go again.

For any and all unaware of the JEE system,
There’s a rank list of 9000 odd smarty asses, called CML (Counselling Merit list or something on those lines, the acronym sounds smarter) which grants you some thing to show off to your less privileged friends and a counselling, a possibility of an IIT seat - the possibility ranging from anywhere btw 0 and 100.

In the previous years, there was the most awaited EML (Extended Merit list) for those students who are smart but just not smart enough, to save grace and as ive recently heard, to avail a discount in coaching institutes for the drop year.

The cutoff is 190 this year and Im waitin in the swamp with 189.

With my wonderful state rank in one of the other exams, I have been told that it is in my best interests not to waste the rank and to secure admission at a best local engg college.

Ive been told several times and by several people that IIT is not the end of the world. That I must grab a good seat in Surathkal or in BITs, Pilani, both among the top 10 engg institutes in India. Honestly, my chances at these colleges, though not as bleak , are still not too promising. Really, for my intellectual competency, getting into a college on the 4th list just stinks..

Then theres always the MBA argument.

I still maintain that even though Kapil Sibal is doing his best to increase the number of IITs and sink the IITs' unsinkable reputation (thereby blemishing the elusiveness and charm of getting into these institutes), the IITs will always be the best in this country.

I’d rather not settle for the second best. Of course, life could throw its long-unwashed stinking socks at my face again, but I’l at least be better equipped to duck.

On the bright side of things there are only 10000 people in this country currently smarter than me. Doesn’t sound too bad at all.

The decision of dropping a year has become a fitting climax to my extraordinary failure. Of all the laughable scenarios in my life, the near miss of CML takes the cake ;) This preposterous turn of events has led my transgressed soul back on to the path it was ordained to take

IIT