As they say "Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it". As discussed in great debate me and my friends were discussing about the state of post graduate students in IIT Bombay. Searching for the reasons behind the same and the ways to improve it and what can be done. Here i was selected as the Institute Masters' Representative and my friend was endowed with even a greater reponsibility. This will be covered in a few part series cause their are a few things to share here. I was selected into the academic council as the representative for the master community of IIT-Bombay. This may seem awes-trucking at first or may seem very trivial job depending upon how you want to perceive it but this was the reality. So my job inculded..... wait why do i need to bore you with that stuff, anyone can figure that out. The fun part about being in council was attending the meetings. You were served free lunches and snacks and were treated with lot of respect and mind you it can surely become addictive, but well you need to get your feet back on ground from those high points. The most funny part was the points being discussed. Sometimes the points of discussion seemed so unimportant and so so so...
cant define it but they were something you just dont expect highly intellegent people to discuss. Worst part was that certain important things just got missed out. Sometimes being in the council i feel that what they say about meetings and commitees is really true.. "Its just a bunch of people discussing something about anything, arguing on everything and finally deciding nothing". My belief of an individual making a larger difference working alone or atleast working freely not under a red-tape regime is strengthrened by seeing my friend lead team which was out of the clutches of the council. One more thing which i learned was that if representative of a certain class are in total agreement with the authoritites and have become just a pawn in their hand then the representation is lost. Representative should look at the welfare of the community he is serving and not fall into the trap of pleasing the authorities, may be i myself would be guilty of doing it i am not sure but this was one thing i learnt in my tenure. One more thing is that if you have good intentions and you are ready to make those good intentions your motivation and try to deliver nothing will be able to stop you. Impure intentions no matter how well you try to disguise them will only lead to a state of discomfort and loss of respect. One thing that i am personally satisfied about being a part of council was, that here we were a few months back talking about how we could have brought change and here we were already given an opportunity to deliver that promise.
I am not sure how successful i was but i can say that i worked with my dedication for my satisfaction.
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