The Path Not Taken: Life of a Successful BITSian -By Kushal Bhalgat, XI B

The Path Not Taken: Life of a Successful BITSian

-By Kushal Bhalgat, XI B

Entering into IITs is one of the common aims of many students who want to take up Engineering. But it was not the case for this gentleman. He was one of the BITS aspiring students. Working hard to get into BITS along with enjoying life was his success trick. He decided to give BITSAT in 2014, he believed that more the struggles a person faces in life, the more value he gets and the more he achieves. He always suggests students aspiring to enter good, reputed colleges, to study until they get the work done and not until they get tired.

Shaunak Naik, who had been a topper in his 10^th class board exam decided to pursue his career in Computer Science. His developed interest towards Computer Science when he had designed his first game in Unity-3 D, Pin-Ball. Shaunak believes in more ‘productive’ study than more study. He believes that the greatest misconception among class 11^th students is that they consider class 11^th to be a rest year. Also, he believes in logical reasoning for advanced question solving. Shaunak being a National level Football player had to pause all of his sports activities so as to concentrate more on studies. He believes that one can manage sports along with studies only till class 10^th and not after that.

Along with sports, he had also paused his use of social media. To all BITS aspiring students he says,” Hard-work is the key to success and there is nothing like the gifted intelligence”, as smart-work did not work out for him. After two years of hard-work, struggle, determination, this young man entered into the Birla Institute of Science and Technology, setting an example for many...