Farewell MNIT

Good Evening to all my lovely friends and respected teachers. Well, I would like to say that this whole 4 year stay in MNIT has been an eventful journey..filled with crests and troughs in life and emotions but each and every moment has taught me a new lesson.

The biggest contribution of MNIT has been that it has given my life so many different shades and colors...and friends who can do anything for me and for whom I can do anything..

Preparing for IIT-JEE I had gone to Kota but ensnared in the pangs of home sickness ran away from there in 7 days. I thought my career had received a severe blow..not being able to stay away from home would mean it was useless to prepare for IIT or AIEEE as no IIT/NIT is in Udaipur (my home town) but I still prepared at home and got into MNIT ..not knowing in how many days will I run away from here :) ...spemt several sleepless nights in the first semester and the initial period was made really difficult because of ragging..but it was my friends who gave me the support, the courage to stay here made MNIT 'a home away from home' for me..

By the end of the first year I was able to sleep really well..the clutches of home sickness were gradually disappearing / melting away..

: I can imagine myself as within an ice cube ..the ice cube signifying my mind always occupied with thoughts about home..my mamma and papa..but by the end of the first year, for me, the sun at MNIT was shining brightly enough to make the ice melt away..

Ragging taught me what freedom is in the real sense..First day in MNIT I was told the rules to follow as a first yearite...never to go to canteen, to go only to the right side of college (failing which you will get slaps on both sides), no jeans...no T-shirt, no back gate, no dean gate .. if caught the repercussions were there to face..this made the occasional outbursts really adventurous..

Hence ragging taught me how to live in subjugation, how to respect seniors, how to control my emotions after some really hurting remarks and how to follow the rules.

After my Group freshers I realised what freedom really is! All the restrictions suddenly disappeared like a drop of water placed on a hot pan..and it was like going from hell to heaven..my feelings just like a person getting out of a prison after an year..
With the end of the first year started the wait for my juniors on whom I will exercise my bossdom..

Thus life at MNIT was also a reflection of how my corporate life would be..moving from lower to higher echelons..MNIT also gave me for what I had come here ultimately for : A Job :)

Hence the college has given me a lot..has really made me a different person altogether..has given my life an unforgettable experience..and to confess it would be difficult to leave my home for the second time now..