What a life!!!What an anomaly

I am one of the clearants of the world famous IIT-JEE examination and am a student in one of its constituent institutes. So I think it is apt to call my life as an average IITans’ .At the very outset I would like to ratify that whatever I am writing are just my views and I neither hold any grudge against the concerned people nor do I despise them in any way.

Most of the time in a year I find myself in 2m*6m room with my computer and a few books. Mess food that any layman would puke the instant having the first bite .One cannot get an empty bathroom to answer nature’s call in the morning and on top of that we have to form a huge queue to do the morning activity. Department that is millions of light years away were we have to go four times a day (we come back during lunch) walking .Failing to keep a good attendance in class one can be in serious academic trouble (year backs). Winters go with us students shivering under our blankets 24/7 with no provision of heaters or even warm bathing waters. The solace that one would get feeling cool breeze of an air conditioner on a humid summer day ,I seem to have a memory lapse of how it be.
And the list doesn’t end there .Ever decreasing (very important )grade points with each passing semester and inability to make future plans tends to make one suicidical. Every passing semester ends with us students severely studying for the end semester examinations not even getting a single spare second even to have three daily meals .(Of course the only time we study in a semester is this time ) .Adding to this is nostalgia of childhood days and homesickness .Not to mention the serious lack of sleep among us .
I just cannot remember the last time I had a chill out in a vacation away or in a resort.

Well all this is my side of the story or an average IITans life .I happened to be with some of my school friends during my endsems break .They were not fortunate (I think the word fortunate is not apt here considering what I wrote above )enough to clear IIT-JEE exams and neither did they fare well in other state engineering examinations. But being born with a golden spoon they got admissions in private engineering colleges of Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore at the expense of huge sums of money .When I talk to them I feel shocked and fuel with jealousy to know about their flamboyant lifestyle. Daily buzzing the streets of their corresponding metros high speed in their Karismas or CBZ’s .Hanging out almost daily in pubs and nightclubs .Living in king size rooms fully accommodated with personal bathrooms ,air conditioners to chill in summers and heaters to defreeze during the winters .Not to mention their severe consumption of tobacco ,alcohol and even drugs.

Well these are my views and I donot feel that the 7000 odd people who join the IIT’s ,IT-BHU and ISM-Dhanbad or some of the NIT’s each year wouldn’t consider I am wrong.
I just cannot imagine the fact that an equally frustrated peer group that is the only thing one as an individual had can mitigate our severely monotonous lives .
One is often lured by elders (constituting mainly parents and professors) that the hardships the one faces in undergraduate engineering studies will one day pay in exchange of a comfortable life in distant future ,but I ask the question what about this life now ???????.....