Surat,Gujarat,India

I was admitted to a tier-4 local engineering college affiliated to the state university.

College - Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering and Technology.

University - Gujarat Technological University.

I reach the spot and discover that the college had no boundary, no parking and had an abruptly placed entrance (took me long to find).

It was a 6 floor building without an elevator, and my class was on the 5 th floor (which is illegal according to AICTE), but there’s more to it. They had numbered the floors wrong, so now the 0 floor was 1st floor and the floor i had to go was their 6th floor. I was already late and wasn’t able to find the class and when I finally did, I found it close. Thanks to a senior that he directed me to the adjacent room.

We didn’t know what was going onn….after a long waiting of about an hour they finally directed us towards our classroom and believe me it was decorated as if it was a 5 year old kids birthday, like seriously who the fuck sticks balloons and spirals when welcoming 17 year olds to the college.

What followed was pure shit. I was amazed to know that they even had rules. one of the rule said that “smartphones aren’t allowed in the campus (there’s no campus)” and at that same moment a senior pulled out his brand new iphone 6 to click a picture. *face-palm*

It was a shady power point and the quality of projector was horrendous, we literally weren’t able to read anything on the screen, it was very hot outside and we sat there sweating as the fan above me didn’t work.

After they introduced the staff members, which we didn’t pay attention to. One thing was clear that the college didn’t have any professors. (yes, colleges like these exist in abundance in India.)

The next shock i received was that the guy whom i considered a student and with whom I had a chat on the reporting day turned out to be a faculty member and our class coordinator.

By this time I had realized “ This is the worst place to be in, nothing seemed like the definition of college, this place was nothing but a politically supported money making business which provided a degree in engineering to a lay man.”

That day was my introduction to real India.

No not every engineer from India studies in IIT’s, most of them don’t.

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