Trying to be a ghot

Blog Number: 1 
Blog dates: October 1, 2018 to October 2, 2018

I’m not certain if “ghot” is a BITS slang or every college around the country uses it. So, I’ll just go ahead and define the term for you guys:

Ghot (Adjective): A person who studies a lot and achieves a great grade (meant to be taken in a negative connotation).

Ghot is a really popular term on the campus. I can say so because the one time I did manage to fluke my way into getting a good grade on one of my quizzes, I woke up the next morning to have “Incognito_Ghot(Max)” written on my dorm room door. Now, let me make it clear to you. I’m definitely anything but a ghot. In fact, I have my mid-semester examinations beginning within a week and I decided to procrastinate over them by creating this very blog, while everyone I know is studying for the examination.

BITS believes in a holistic approach to education and has mandatory biology and chemistry course in the first semester, among other subjects. The only problem? People choose Engineering over Medicine to run as far from Biology as they possibly can! Now, I’m not saying that these subjects aren’t important. Believe you me, they are. It’s just that I have never been able to wrap my head around Chemistry or Biology. The amount of content that needs to be memorized in an age where we walk around with encyclopedias in our pockets has always seemed fruitless to me.

BITS also has a curved grading system for grading the students where the average is usually equal to around 7 CGPA and one needs to get a CGPA of 4.5 to pass a semester. This puts students in an icky position of performing better than the rest of their friends as the people they have to be spending four years of their lives with are also their competitors.

The batches before us, as we’ve been told by our seniors, stopped caring about missing classes a month into college and they even stopped caring for their grade halfway through their first semester. But, our batch, being the ghots that we are, is attending all the classes and studying for the mid-semester examinations with dedication. Even the seniors are pissed at us because

1. The library is now full of excited and energetic juniors, making a good seat in the library a little harder to find (or in today’s case, impossible).
2. We’re making the seniors look bad for not attending enough classes.
3. When have seniors not been pissed off at their juniors? They don’t need a reason to be mad at us.

Ah, the life of a BITSian. Everyone’s in a rush to get a good grade but when someone manages to do the same, they’re made fun of (all in good humor, of course). Let’s see how I cope with the surreal pressures of scoring well in all my examinations and dealing with my friends at the same time.