Everyone who's applying for graduate study complains about how painful the entire process is... and of course, everyone who's apped already tells them about how much more painful it was for them! People one year senior tell us how difficult it was before internet connectivity in the hostels. People five years senior tell us how difficult it was without online applications and online payment of the app fee. And, of course, there are the super-seniors. I was talking to Professor C. Rajendran the other day, and he described how he had to order brochures long in advance just for going through them for deciding the univ. Think about every subsequent step and you'll realize what a huge difference computers have made. Today we get our GRE scores the instant we finish the test. We can email our queries to any univ and contact seniors abroad for tips. Everything is now faster and easier than it was before... and still we complain!
Maybe it is something fundamentally wrong with human beings... we use only ourselves as the frame of reference and complain about how long the queue for the ATM is, or how terrible a search engine is. How ridiculous that would have seemed at the time such facilities first arrived! People who have learnt to accept what they can get are the ones who find true happiness in life. Make no mistake, you must utilize everything at your disposal - stretch things to the limit - but when there is no more, don't crib!
As such, I dont find the app process directly painful: it's just the enormity of it! There are simply so many things to do and keep track of, that it's impossible to put on a cheerful face while doing it!
Cheers,
Prashanth.
2 comments:
Hey SP,
I also don't like when people crib but consider this. All this progress happened because someone cribbed so much that it urged others to do something about it. An able person will do anything to make a cribber shut up. But that will never happen and in turn it will ensure progress.
Adarsh.
Hey Adarsh!
I am seeing this only on 25/4/2005... I dont know when you wrote this comment, but I like your weird theory! Except, of course, that in the case of apping, I'm sure the stuff like us getting LAN in our hostels, univs introducing online payments etc were introduced as soon as it was possible and feasible, and had nothing to do with people cribbing! But in general, that's a nice thought: the cycle of progress, the doers doing their best to silence the cribbers, when they they theoretically can't be silenced.
I didn't know you read my blog at all.. keep visiting! Assuming you see this comment , of course.
SP.
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