The first day at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus was always memorable for me. As I joined in the winter session and that time registration was on 7 Jan 2010 and classes started from the next day.
I would like to give you a brief background to understand my situation in the classroom. Before coming to BITS, I was working in one of the industries governed by central Govt. So I was not habitual to sit in a classroom and glance at the PowerPoint presentation. Opposite to this, I always had someone to work for him i.e. take care of my tea (thrice a day) and lunch. I just need to go to the office, sign some documents, give a visit to the plant and spend the rest of the day in my office. I was almost at the edge of spoiling myself and was the major reason for coming back to this classroom.
On the first day, we had lectures from morning to lunch which was followed by a lab session of 3 hrs. In classes, professors were going through the ppt and I could hardly get something out of it. It was like a generation has been passed and so many new things came into science in the last six months. Other students sitting in the classroom look like a genius to me, because they were well prepared to answer anything asked in the class. I was literally nervous and got some inferiority complex from those students. A similar thing happened during the lab session and most of the time in the lab I used to stand and observe the experiment that I am supposed to perform in my next lab session, to make sure I am not going to spoil the experiment. They knew everything related to the experiment; what chemical has to be used and where they are kept. So things were interesting and tedious at the same time. So I started questioning myself, did I made a mistake by leaving the job,