From Medical to...............

With a 98 in science in Xth examination and being a daughter of doctor parents the choice of stream in XIth was quite obvious!

If u ask me whether it was ‘my choice' then i would like to tell you that with me the case was “put me in whichever stream it doesn’t matter coz I had no specific choice”! I remember like every child my ambitions kept changing, first it was air hostess, then, Miss India, then astronaut, then computer engineer…….. this was what I told my dad while filling the stream form at the end of Xth!nd PCB with Informatics Practices(oracle nd Visual Basic) was finally agreed upon……the non inclusion of Maths was the only clear decision from the very beginning,frm past experiences of my parents with my elder sis…..Since she had PCMB nd handling B&M was a problem observed by them…….even I dint love Maths, nyways so it dint matter ................The second most clear decision was that I was not to b sent to Aakash Institute, the so called premier institute for medical coaching…..again because my sis also attended the same but dint get selected! so they thought its of no use!

So, finally it was decided that I will take private tuitions in Physics and Chemistry……all was well and I was equally content with the decision and looking fwd to my last 2 yrs in school! The period before the summer holidays was so much fun! But after the holidays got over,I think 1-2 weeks later, just days before my dad was supposed to leave back for Saudi Arabia(he is an Orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Saudi) he learnt/heard from someone about Amity’s Synchro programme (a thing that changed my life, for good or for bad and that is for u all to decide when u read the whole story)……so he came home excited and told me about the programme- Synchro students were to form the section A as in XI-A and Mon-Thurs were to be the normal school goin days like other sections and on Friday, Saturday in other building of our campus our respective coachings ,i.e. fr engineering and medical were supposed to be held……(Amity, Noida is a huge campus) this seemed fine to us and since I was not taking any coaching at all before, this seemed to be a good option “Sumthing is better than nothing”…….

and so our section was found with all other bakras(we later called ourselves this) ……now started my XIth! Initially I hated the A section coz it had all new students, mind u….. leaving a bunch of 5ppl every1 was a new admission(I was quite old in the school, was in amity since class I) imagine it must have been so comfortable for the new admissions coz all around them were new, no adjustment problems!!!but for me-‘I felt like a new admission!’..everyday I would wait for the bell to ring and then rush outside my section to meet all my other ‘old frends’….the only respite was that one of my best frnd ‘Pooja’ was in A section and thank god for that!!! i would be with her all the time and it was kind of nice coz we had known each other since class I, we were in the same section too but in class VIII our section got changed, so it was reunion time for us!(the first good thing synchro did for me)……… months went by like this and the situation with the course was that every1 including me HATED PHYSICS! everythng else was fine and I had started liking my class a bit, the running into the corridors after each class lesson (which did make my old frnds angry)…….

then one day in the chem. Lab me and my partner surbhi were performing an experiment on ‘Common Ion Effect’….god,I will never forget that incident coz I remember we did that experiment all wrong nd in a funny way,god knows what happened to us and instead of mixing salt and solution in a test tube we frst put salt on the litmus paper and then poured the solution over it!!!it was a funny sight nd 2 guys of r class standing next 2 us startd making fun of us nd every1 was laughing, they were Abhineet nd Ishank!nw Ishank dint know my name so when I was leaving he dint know hw 2 address me so he said “aye ‘Common Ion’,sunn…….” and 1 mistake I made of responding to ds name!bas, frm dat day onwards I got famous by that name in my class!nd I’l never frget Ishank’s role in ds……he literally bullied me for 2 whole years nd we were always getting back at each other,it was good fun and maybe because of this incident I bonded with the rest of my class!i realized they were not all dat bad and nerdy as I had thought about them………I made friends almost with the whole of the class!!!!ds was the second gud thng abt synchro it gave me new bunch of friends!friends whom I would have never made if I was in some other section, if I was not in synchro!

I just love and cherish all of them!!!!!nd i thank god for what he gave me……..

These were the good things coming to the bad things of synchro!it was not at all an organized coaching institute! The good thing was Ajay Sir and Mumtaz Sir our botany and zoology teacher!what they gave us was immense knowledge,fatherly guidance,frndly advise!nd every moment spent with them was enriching……because of them……… me and my 8 frnds who took medical coaching …were introduced to a different school of thought which bio students hardly relate to….”BIO cannot be mugged up,it is to be understood…..” Thank you Sirs for making us ds way…….m grateful nd proud! nd ds indeed was the third good thng abt synchro!!!

despite all these good things there was something lacking….the absence of good books which are equally important for success in competition…………

Even common books like Dinesh objectives came in later……….maybe when it was too late!the method to study,the books to refer,simple yet important points were neglected completely,here,am not blaming my teachers,am just blaming the atmosphere at that institute!the right way of approaching stuff with a long term goal in mind was just not there! Sometimes I feel How much I could have achieved if I would have known these important pts at ‘the right time’ yes,knowing the right things at the right time is very important and this is an important lesson I learnt in my life,but sadly, In a tough way…..

XIth was spent in ignorance and in a non-competitive environment.the fact that we were just 8 students who were taking medical coaching against the rest 30 engineering students became a negative pt rather than a plus pt…..we did study with r share of fun too but there was no sense of competition or seriousness as far as the weekly tests were concerned and this was bad on our part but like I said we were ‘innocently unaware’ of what the real competition was like, we were unaware of what the future had in store for us……….Physics which is very important for the medical students to master was not taught well to us neither at school nor at Coaching level and ds is 1 thing I can accept in front of every1!it was not my fault that my physics was weak I tried a lot but sadly, defective faculty was a problem! well, the lesser said about this is better!

Then came XIIth another landmark year of my life,another year to learn lessons for a lifetime………………I’l speak about this in my next blog!part 2 of ds………