Requiem for a dream

In my first year, I had seen a few T-Shirts saying "You can take an IITian out of a Kgpian but not a Kgpian out of an IITian"
For a first year student who had just joined his dream institute after toiling for 1 year it was a dream come true.The T-Shirt was a hallmark of a true IITian or rather IIT-KGPian for which I did have a huge respect.The time passed by, now I am about to become a final year and now if I could, I wish to print those T-Shirts again, with a slight change though this time - "Unfortunately, you can take an IITian out of a Kgpian but not a Kgpian out of an IITian."
I strive hard to get that Kgpian tag away but I can't! What do I have against being a Kgpian? Well, after seeing some of the traits of kgpians I would desperately try and avoid being a kgpian.During my past 3 years at Kgp and intermediate visits to my sweet home, where I could meet a lot of level-headed, sensible, civilised, mature friends where I began to feel a bit out of place with time, I have learnt quite a few things.Some of them are:

There exists a world outside Kgp
That world rules!
Besides 'ch**t' there are other more precious things in life like formula 1.
Being civilized is not rocket science
A bit of formality makes no harm
Being marginally better than a few people here doesn't make you a god
Rat race does NOT exist everywhere, so the justification that 'poltu' is there everywhere in life is out and out rubbish and baseless.

Studs are the following people -

Who have a very low cgpa
Have nothing to do in life so they make friends with people from the other hostels
who are also equally jobless
Must not be well read or having some set of principles
Are parts of fests where getting in is generally achieved by licking asses of seniors
generally have a bike and they smoke
mustn't be a part of many extra-curricular activities

The intellectual IITians become so dumb and insensitive that they are ordered whom to vote for and unfortunately they do not have the guts to stand up against it.
Kgp is the only place people waste half of their life in thinking about crap like- Hall tempo, election pacts, no of heads and members in the fest per hall, general championship which is NEVER fought cleanly etc.The accountability, credibility and achievements of the people who control all these things is a black box!

Well, what I am writing here is nothing new.Not that there aren't many people who think this way.The unfortunate part is they are not united.They are least bothered. They are frustrated with this hypocrisy. Anywhere you go all you can see is mediocres holding on to the power.Why??? Not because the others can't but the fact is others don't want to.Why? Because they are smart enough to have realized that the rat race is not going to take them anywhere.

I have now started to enjoy it though.I am getting to terms with a new facet of a world that I had never seen before, maybe it will help me!It will teach me how not to be in an outside world.

At the end of the day, who cares? I got to see a lot of nice movies here, got to learn the guitar, the hostel life,could make a few great friends, late nights and many other things.When it comes to music, Kgp rocks! So I will just look at this bright side of the picture and be an optimist!But then the pessimist that has his roots deep inside my body, pops up every now and then when I try to be a bit happy, it jolts me back to my self! The utterly negative person! It sends shivers down my body...in about an year my odyssey of kharagpur would be over, my dream of being an iitian would have been realized but the pessimist refuses to fly away.He comes again and plays some melancholic music...I hope its not called the requiem for a dream...