2. IIT Bypass

My earnest desire was to get into an IIT and nothing less than that, for that matter I didn’t know many names other than the six IIT’s where I would alternatively apply. But it did not happen that way and I was very sad about it. It affected me in many ways. I thought there was no other way life was possible for me, my fight with academics was over, there seemed no Bypass to IIT. That was me then, just another buddhu. When I joined engineering I left myself to the flow of things and soon there was magic. God showed me that there was in fact a bypass to IIT and this bypass was so beautiful that I won’t trade it for any IIT in the world. With every day I spent here the bliss of this magic grew, this bypass led to inner transformation and outer excellence. It is here that we had our first crush, first date, first drink, first bowl dance, first breakup, first weird plans, first job and the realization how unique god has made each one of us.

What you read here and down to the last page are pages from my diary. The sailors had them, so did the soldiers on the battlefield, princesses confided in them and so did I. Scriptures say that there is a story being written for everyone, every act you do, there is a dark guy with two horns filling in the log book up there in the heavens. Further it is said that when you reach there on the judgment day, it is read before you to punish you for all the bad things you’ve done. I want to have a good revision of all the things that I have done, prepare sound arguments for all the allegations the demon guy might level against me, ha ha. I don’t want to be like poor Tom begging for a ‘certificate of forgiveness’ from a reluctant Jerry right on the judgment day...