Dilemma

As the news of the disapproval of the deemed status of about 4 dozen universities flashed in the news, most of us were in a state of dilemma of whether to laugh or worry about. This news spread like fire in the woods and so was the increment in the excitement of the students who thought that this would cause an unexpected end to their careers or if not so at least it would cause a delay in their results. The rift was much more prominent among those who had 555 better plans for their future. This mass mainly students who were placed in some organisation or the other or those students who were serious about their higher studies, though not to mention that this excluded those for whom filing for the CAT and GATE form was more of a tradition than their career choice.

The news came in the late hours of the day when for most of us the day has just begun and the activeness an the muscles has just started building. But, the news created an unexpected rift amongst the students for whom there were other reasons too to worry about including the recruitment of TCS and the not too important factor EXAMS. Apart from all these, it was astonishing to see that even those students whose buried themselves under their beds for the two reasons stated earlier, came out of it to join hands in the time of dilemma in which nothing was difficult to say about the futures of about 2 lakh students nationwide.

The situation was even worse for the students like us who studied in a university which had no parent since time immemorial but now was going to be adopted by some university and that too on mercy grounds. The newspapers too were doing their best to break our morals by publishing articles which were in some way or the other going against our favor.

But the only think that was good was that the dilemma did not last long and finally a bit of relief was gained as we got to know that all those students who have been enrolled in the times when the university had the deemed status, would get their respective degrees having the deemed status and they would be spared of the embarrassment of carrying different colored mark-sheets with them to the company office.

...Aniket Trivedi