Writing this post my mind is really crowded with lots of thoughts so this post is going to be one of those messy ones. Though for some reason i have never been a fan of seminars and speeches but still I end up attending all of them hoping i might end up attending something useful. Most of the times I have been disappointed by those self development, personality development, public communication development or for that matter "anything related to development" seminars because theres nothing in those seminars other than excerpts taken from books of Dale Carnegie or Napoleon hill.
Today we had a seminar and I was expecting it to be one of "those" seminars but we were told that its going to be a self evaluation seminar and I thought they are going to talk about our mock test results but we were in for a surprise and what a pleasant and encouraging surprise it was. Shalini agnihotri ( CSE 2011 AIR 285) was invited for a speech. A commendable fact about her is that her father is a bus conductor and she is one of the three siblings, so in spite of financial restrictions she has achieved this success. Her speech was a good one, she talked about continuity in studies, interest, dedication, hard work and self believe. Its nothing new but coming from a topper it does mean something. All in all seminar was good one.
Usually I take bus but today weather was fine and a cool breeze was on so I decided to walk to hostel. Walking back I was busy self evaluating myself in fact I am still doing it. Belief is there I know I can, if 900 students can do it then so can I. Hard work has never been a problem for me. I think I have managed the workload quite well and utilized the time to maximum during these two months and if I can continue this I should be well prepared. In fact for this specific reason of heavy workload Dad was not quite excited with my decision of taking up to civil services this year. He wanted me to first get over with my degree before thinking about it but I have different plans. Somehow he agreed to my decision of joining coaching but I think he still is not quite up to my idea. I know parents are never wrong ( at least most of the times) and there have been times when I have thought this is tough. On days when we have all classes in college it becomes difficult to remain attentive in coaching for all 3 hours and then there have been days when I have felt sleepy in first class due to lack of sleep but somehow it all has gone well and theres only 10 days of coaching left and I feel I am heading on the right path.
And yeah the best line from Miss shalini agnihotri was " Preparing for civil services should be an enjoyable experience and there should be no half measures because good thing about it is that no matter you succeed or not, you will find a improved version of yourself after preparation"
Today we had a seminar and I was expecting it to be one of "those" seminars but we were told that its going to be a self evaluation seminar and I thought they are going to talk about our mock test results but we were in for a surprise and what a pleasant and encouraging surprise it was. Shalini agnihotri ( CSE 2011 AIR 285) was invited for a speech. A commendable fact about her is that her father is a bus conductor and she is one of the three siblings, so in spite of financial restrictions she has achieved this success. Her speech was a good one, she talked about continuity in studies, interest, dedication, hard work and self believe. Its nothing new but coming from a topper it does mean something. All in all seminar was good one.
Usually I take bus but today weather was fine and a cool breeze was on so I decided to walk to hostel. Walking back I was busy self evaluating myself in fact I am still doing it. Belief is there I know I can, if 900 students can do it then so can I. Hard work has never been a problem for me. I think I have managed the workload quite well and utilized the time to maximum during these two months and if I can continue this I should be well prepared. In fact for this specific reason of heavy workload Dad was not quite excited with my decision of taking up to civil services this year. He wanted me to first get over with my degree before thinking about it but I have different plans. Somehow he agreed to my decision of joining coaching but I think he still is not quite up to my idea. I know parents are never wrong ( at least most of the times) and there have been times when I have thought this is tough. On days when we have all classes in college it becomes difficult to remain attentive in coaching for all 3 hours and then there have been days when I have felt sleepy in first class due to lack of sleep but somehow it all has gone well and theres only 10 days of coaching left and I feel I am heading on the right path.
And yeah the best line from Miss shalini agnihotri was " Preparing for civil services should be an enjoyable experience and there should be no half measures because good thing about it is that no matter you succeed or not, you will find a improved version of yourself after preparation"
