City girls more adventurous as compared to guys!!!

That’s what The Mumbai Mirror had to say a few weeks back. Reasoning? Statistics show that 20% more girls have opted for unconventional branches as compared to their male counterparts who went for more tested branches such as engineering, medical etc.

Well, even a 5th standard kid can object to the statement saying 20% means nothing as far as we don’t know 20% of what. Let us exempt this slip-up of “India’s COMMERCIAL capital’s” daily. Does it still make any sense? The question is whether your take “adventurous” as a credit or a discredit.

I strongly feel it to be foolish for somebody to opt for something strange just out of a spirit of adventure. Decisions that affect one’s future can’t be guided by an exploratory upsurge.

Why should I give up an engineering degree for one (not sure if I can call it a degree at the first place) in dog training or shoe designing! Yes that’s what they call adventure.

It seems, when it comes to printing 48 pages of junk, this all that people can find. Talk about statistics!

In my lifetime, if there is one book that I want to finish, then it’s ‘War and Peace’. It just refuses to get over. The first time I picked up this book was after 12th boards and when all the entrance examinations got over. The book is about 900 pages, so I thought that I would be able to finish it in a month if I read it everyday. I have had previous experiences with Russian classics, and knew how hard it was to read them, but I guess, I overestimated myself. I could not manage more than 100 odd pages. This all happened in the summers of 2003. I moved on, went to college, but with the book, I remained stuck at the same place. Every holiday, before coming back home, I would say to myself that I shall pick up the book and leave it only once I’m done reading it. But I never managed to go beyond 50 pages in one holiday (that too with a lot of effort). 2 years have passed since the summer I picked up this book, and I have been able to read only about 300 pages till now. It’s not that I’m a slow reader, or that it’s a very tough book. It just that it gets too hard to digest everything in one go, and I just can’t read more than a certain number of pages. This is one book which is considered to be one of the greatest books ever written and the book which millions tried to read but only thousands have succeeded in finishing it.
I’m determined to be able to finish this book before I pass out from NITK, and to be able to tell my children, that I am one of those few thousands who have read this book. :P