JEE Capers!

Okay... I guess the IIT-JEE would be as good a moment as any to start a new blog, huh? Well, what can one say? It's probably the most important day of any Indian engineer or aspiring engineer's life. It's arguably the most competitive exam ever - 300,000 people vying for 3000-odd seats! It's also enough to make even the smartest person on the planet feel like a complete dodo (so I don't even want to start thinking about where that puts me!). And also the additional pressure of two years' hard work (Or not, in my case!) coming down to that one day...
The worst thing about the JEE (by far!) is the fact that there are two 2-hour breaks, one each in the gap between the three papers. And while most people were studying, I was (a) Visiting a relative in the first break and (b) Eating lunch (and even shopping!) in the second break. Also one sad thing about the JEE is that it is held in April. That meant that by the end of the day, the weather along with the mental exercise had got me so pooped out that I could barely stay awake! But my complaint to the JEE committee is this... Why oh WHY couldn't it have been a week earlier??? That way I could've celebrated my birthday in peace!
But for some odd reason, I actually enjoyed the JEE. It is completely beyond my realm of understanding to realise why I enjoyed it, but I did. Maybe it was the fact that no one has any expectation from me in this exam. Or the fact that I snuck in chocolate and an ice-cream between papers. Or the fact that India won the Davis Cup tie against Pakistan that day. (???) [This last comment I owe solely to the fact that I have been living in close proximity of my sister for the last 13-odd years!]. Or maybe simply because I expected it to be tons worse! Anyway, in spite of the grumbling in the previous paragraph, and the fact that I know how much of a chance I stand of getting into IIT (and trust me, this is not a good thing!), JEE was fun.

Renuka, a.k.a. Ron, a.k.a. Bubbly

P.S. I just read through this post and realised I haven't talked about the papers. Typical me to forget the most important stuff. In case anyone is still interested, I (unlike most other people) actually found Math quite okay and Physics tougher. However, almost everyone seems to agree that Chem was the easiest. I am still in shock over this fact!