An Incident Worth Remembering

One motto I believe in is – “Nothing is impossible”.
If you give your best you can achieve what you want.

One of the challenges that I tackled successfully is the incident of scoring high marks in the last semester of my engineering.

It went like this – I had written my first semester papers very well and was expecting a score of more than 70%. But when the result for first semester was out, I was shocked. I had secured 66%, my lowest score in last five semesters (but fortunately, high enough to be distinction). One may think how can one be shocked even after a distinction but this is what i am. This was something unexpected. I had decided at the beginning of my engineering to score better marks every year. I was quite successful doing this. My marks were as follows –
First year – 65.86%
Second year – 70.33 %
Third year – 71.40 %
So to achieve my target of being better every year, I had to score more than 76.8% in the final semester which was a huge ask. During the same time period one of my friend gave me another challenge, he asked me whether I could make my average of engineering count more than 70% which meant I would have to score a mammoth 79% to do that. I accepted that challenge.

I gave my heart and soul for doing this. I slept for 5 hours a day in the final month of my exam. I got so anxious that I used to talk in my sleep about the subjects I was studying (according to my cousin). I secluded myself for that one month. I kept saying to myself that I should never let my hopes die. Finally I finished the exam. I didn’t know how much I would score. What I knew was I had given my best efforts.

When the final results came out my joy knew no bounds. I had secured 79.86% in my final semester. So my final year score was 73.46% which was better than my all other scores. To add to that I even managed to get my aggregate of engineering count more than 70%.
Thus I was able to confront and overcome the challenge I had accepted.

Finally I would like to say - “If we start doing what we should and then what we can, we will find out someday that we are doing what is supposed to be the impossible.”