The Beginning.....

He walked along the road, silently, kicking the can as he went. The place was as littered as a New Delhi Bus Station could be. It was 3:45 am. The 12 hour bus ride had done little to affect the lad’s enthusiasm. His eyes gleamed with excitement – a sparkle and vigour that was so characteristic of him. He had little idea of what lay ahead. This was to be the ‘Transition Phase’. Life would never be the same again.

                    

He had been an academic all his life, securing first grades and winning laurels, which made his parents decide that their son deserved to be doomed to ‘Kota’ as a reward. Delhi was the place where the unending saga of Entrance Exams was to take place. Without a doubt he scaled them all, but life is funny you see. You may plan all that you want but that man up there has his own plans. Despite being admitted in Kota, the boat was steered back to Delhi. Apparently Vidyamandir Classes Delhi was cleared and the biggies of the family thought it to be a better decision to bring the child back to Delhi. Life made a U-Turn. Whether it was a good decision or a terrific blunder, no one can say, but it certainly was the most critical decision of his life. Goodbye IIT. Hello Life.

The most ‘critical’ two years of a to-be-Engineer’s life turned out to be two years of fun and frolic for him. He laughed, he played, he wandered, he loved, he lost, he struggled and yes, at times, he failed. He never quite figured out what exactly it was that he did in those two years. Neither did he study too sincerely nor did he party too hard. But, Aye, he did have experiences, experiences of a life time. Sent to comprehend Maths, Physics and Chemistry he began analysing ‘Life’. If not an engineer, he became a ‘Dreamer’.  

Those two years flew by and D-days arrived. And once again, it was the academic in him that came to his rescue. He cleared all his Engineering Entrance Exams, not with the desired results but good enough to find him a College.  And this is where our tale begins.

This lad is your very own Sumit Bhagat , a third year student of Instrumentation and Control Engineering (Its okay to wonder what’s that!) at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi(and its okay to wonder about this too!) . If you are reading this blog, I extend you a warm welcome to the world of this dreamer. Any words from the reader would be gladly appreciated. Hope you find it an enriching experience :)