The Coaching Experience
Overall the coaching experience taught me many things. 1. Life is unfair, get used to it. When I started with my preparation I found I was up against people who have covered a significant part of the syllabus back in 10th standard, people who have started their preparation back in 6th standard, NTSE scholars, KVPY scholars, international olympiad medalists. And then there was me starting everything from scratch. I used to waste a lot of time thinking how the competition was unfair, how the institute was unfair to me, how unfair it was for me to be sick during my preparations. It did not change the fact that if I want to get into an IIT getting the best possible rank was my only option, irrespective of everything. There will always be someone who will have an edge, or some situation in which you will have to compete irrespective of all odds being against you. This doesn't mean that you will give up but ranting about it will not going to help. In such cases when you cann...