Blog-timeee :)

It's 3 12 AM. And I'm wasting lots of time. Trying to avoid work.. Trying to avoid Math, more specifically. And really, you can't blame me! I think I've had enough and more of Math and I still have one more day of studying for Math. I really can't help but hate Math, all those variables and numbers and signs are just engineered to confuse me, I'm mighty sure of that :(!
I can't wait to get my ass out of this life-killer called the IB. I mean really, I would've been a real masochistic kid to have actually wanted to do the IB. But as Butta said in his letter to Mr Keegan, when we were not in the IB, it was such a flexible program. We had such a diverse range of seniors to look up to. Not every person wanted to do engineering or sciences. We had seniors who wanted to be happy in life, not these crazy clones, these pseudo-intellectuals who only want a 42-point average and 2400 SAT scores. Really, I find it so annoying when I ask the career counselling centre about the options available in India for Psychology and Mass Media students and they give me this vacant look that reads their mind.. And I read, "Why are you in this school if you want to do something unconventional and non-stereotypical? You're a lost case if you want to be anything but a doctor or an engineer." And then they shake their head all sympathetically which, frankly speaking, makes me want to punch their faces. I mean, really, how can your performance in a measly 6 subjects be a parameter for how successful you end up being? I don't think it can, not really, no. So the next time I'm looked at condescendingly for having broken stereotypes I'm really going ask them where all the engineers are today. Cause really, they're nowhere. The engineering market has saturated and yet, all the apparently smart people will fight tooth and nail and kill themselves over a simple degree. While I, on the other hand, will be enjoying my work some place in the Bahamas, writing novels, having a long vacation, being a PR head of department at some hugeass MNC.
So much for my little rant, I shall now stop.
Oh and by the way, no offence to all the engineers and aspiring-engineers. This is by no means an attack on your career option. This is an attack on all the people who are studying engineering only to receive the haloed engineering degree and be proclaimed as the world's smartest individuals. This is only my way of saying that people need to shift focus and look at a wider perspective, people need to realise that everything is not limited to one option. You always have a second option, the more risky one, and only the daring are willing to explore that option.
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