So on the other day, I was going by pmt bus. Somebody suddenly called me up. As far as I remember, it’s my dad. So I had received some document from IIT about confirming my admission. We’re talking about that. Since I was in bus, I had to try hard to listen what he’s saying. I started talking loudly.
Now, after the call ends, some guy asked me, what am I doing and what have I done. I told him that I am doing an internship in some company which works in Finance related stuff. That guy is doing MBA in Finance. So we had some conversation about finance and I could not stop myself from telling him that I’m joining IITB for M.Sc program. Luckily that guy knew about IIT and how great it is. So he started praising my success, and blah blah.
I didn’t know that there was another person who was listening us too. That person was sitting next to me. Now this person is almost illiterate(I could make out that from his accent and looks). I tried to make it as simple as I could. I told him that IIT is one of the best institutes in India, etc. After sometime he told me that he’s has a son of about my age. And since IIT’s are best in the India, he wanted his son to study there. Now, he asks me about admissions. I told him that, after +2 there is an exam called JEE, and after gradution one can appear for GATE/JAM to get into IIT.
Now he asks me, “Which exam should you appear to get into IIT after Diploma?”
For a second I fell like, what should I say. Also I had hard time to stop myself from laughing.
It’s like, afaik, those people go for diploma, who can’t get admission in Junior college with there 10th class marks. This person should know that his son is not capable of making it to Junior college, how the hell is he going to compete for getting into India’s best college.
