Those who dare..

The exam asked this guy to write a 3 page essay on 'This is how I dare destiny...'

The guy left the 3 pages blank and wrote at the end of third page:

'This is how I dare destiny...'

He was called for an interview. He sat calmly as the interviewer, an eminent U.P. cadre IAS officer, examined his face. The guy had not shaved and had come for the interview in a stubble.
The interviewer asked him
'Have you done so to hide your personality ?'

The guy replied:

'No Sir, I have done so to REVEAL my personality'

The guy was an IIT graduate and had snubbed a job offer from a reputed MNC in the pre-IT boom era to prepare for the Civil Services exam.

'And he was selected for U.P. cadre,' told that eminent IAS interviewer to me when I went to see him for suggestions on the preparation for the Civil Services exam in my 3rd year of mechanical engineering.

The officer went on..

'And you know this guy had prepared the entire year after snubbing that MNC job offer and still when he saw this essay topic, he decided not to sing songs of his attitude but to do something that was intrinsic to his nature. A moment had been when he weighed whether to write some narrative from this life or to do something which would become a narrative of it's own for others to share. And for such people, risk is not a word they learn from the dictionary. They act. And when they act, there are no limits. You IITians have an edge in the IAS preparation in that.'

I couldn't have agreed more. But his opinion for the IITians needs to be put in right order.

It's not the IIT that makes such people, but it's such people that go to places like the IIT and make IIT the place it is.

As pointed out by someone..

'IIT is not a place. It's a way of life.'