Rat Race
In my batch right now, there are essentially two kinds of people. On one side are the general category students like me hooked on caffeine and anxiety grinding relentlessly for the NEET PG prep. They juggle exhausting hospital duties, endless lectures of rapid revision, GTs, revisions again, and Qbanks. Most of us quietly put their lives on hold: gyms abandoned, hobbies shelved, social circles shrinking. Every day feels like a calculation: Is this enough? Will this be enough? I am pretty sure that it's a do or die game for me, as someone who wont be able to survive in a hectic clincial branch as medicine, the only option that remains for me are the top branches like Radio and derma which close at 500. Coming from a middle class family with absolute zero background, this feels daunting. On the other side are those with near-guaranteed outcomes. A surgery seat at 40k. Medicine at 20k. The certainty itself changes everything. You rarely see them studying. Or maybe a half hearted a...