CASE

DEVELOPMENT
ANALYSIS

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands

in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy. Indeed,
we all must have faced many challenges and difficulties
in our lives where we tend to paralyze our minds and
enter the state of dilemma as to where to go, what to
do, how to overcome them and what not but the
struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes
us patient, sensitive and Godlike and even teaches us
that although the world is full of sufferings and
miseries, it also helps us to lead towards the path
where we can find a way to overcome them.
After all, challenges are the pathway to engagement
and progress in our lives. Some challenges make us feel
alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled while others
simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as we set
bigger and bolder challenges for ourselves is critical to
our sanity, success, and satisfaction.
Each and every day our lives are filled with opportunity
and its challenges as a complementary gift, and our
ability to make use of all that will come our way, will be
reflective of how each opportunity will come to unfold
in our lives. For, just as we choose to make full use of
one of life's great opportunities, so too we must come
to face one of life's greatest challenges where our inner
ability to maintain our desire, energy, and enthusiasm

to partake of an opportunity will always result in an

opportunity that is taken, rather than lost.
In the face of our adversities, in the face of apathy,
passionate and enthused, and in the face of weariness,
energetic and enlivened, we would need to remain bold
and courageous to ensure that each opportunity will
never be squandered, but saved.
Today, may our lives continue to be filled with all the
energy, strength, desire, and enthusiasm that we can
muster so that all life's opportunities will not just come
to be boldly taken, but ultimately be always fulfilled.
Here comes in the scene-INTROSPECTION, the leading
pathway to overcome all our challenges that come
across during the happy course of our lives after all, a
moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes
experience.
Just like every other common man, my life has also
been full of leaps and bounds with loads of
opportunities knocking my door with certain T&C apply*
tag which stated some challenges with them. One such
most challenging situation where my mind got dumbstruck was choosing the right college. Generally, after
12th grade, everyone makes up their mind and chooses
a college for them but unlike all of them I had to make
up my mind for my college twice even after joining the
college and attending a full-fledged year in that
institute.
It was the time during the last days of my 12 th grade
wherein every one of us were in a state of utmost

dilemma of choosing the best possible college for us so

as to make our career shine the brightest in the entire
world. With the same hope of attaining the best, I was
confused whether to leave my hometown and shift to
Delhi and thus raise the counter of opportunities for
me. But seeing the different factors that could influence
me and compel me to change my decision ruled over
me for abound weeks during which I was completely
insomniac and had always been wondering of whether
to accept a change or not.
After a long process of thoughts and ideas, I had come
to a conclusion to join a local college at my place. Just
before leaving for my new college to deposit my fees,
my phone rang and it was from a very renowned
university in Delhi NCR where I had applied for B.Tech.
in Electronics and Communication Engineering but due
to my financial downhill during that time, I was unable
to join the college. But luckily, the phone came up with
an extremely good news which said that I had received
a 50% scholarship on my Tuition and Hostel fees. This
news made me quite ecstatic but at the same time,
brought up a frown on my forehead which came
because I had to leave my place and live all
independently in a hostel which was way beyond my
expectation since I had been observing my school
friends who were hostelides and their way of living their
lives and hence craving for things at certain times.
But you know, as it is said, Our dilemma is that we
hate change and love it at the same time, what we
really want is for things to remain the same but get

better. After loads of references and views from

different intellectuals, I decided to join this institution.
It was 1st July 2013 when I landed at such a serene
place with my mother to help me out on the very first
day. Luckily, I was able to adjust myself since life is the
continuous adjustment of internal relations to external
relations and so overcoming many small hurdles, I
completed a year in the college. During the course of
this year, one fine day, I came to know about lateral
entry and migration to a different university in 2 nd year
of
your
engineering
namely
INTER-UNIVERSITY
MIGRATION. This made me quite blissful since I had
always wished to join another college in New Delhi but
due to its extremely late counselling, I was unable to
afford to wait for so long.
Just after I came to know about the inter-university
migration in 2nd year in this government university, I
began to refer my friends there and ask for their
suggestions and advices of whether I should change a
college after the 1st year of my college and so as to
what are the things required for the same. I had also
began to read out reviews and blogs on different
forums. My parents were solely dependent on my
decision and they had no objection on any of my action.
This gave me more confidence and I began to be more
actively indulged in all the research after all, it was my
career which was at stake.
After all the research about this step, I had applied for
the migration wherein I had to visit the college 4-5
times to complete the entire procedure and hence wait

for the migration letter to come so that I could shift to

my new aspired college. It was the time of August
2014, when I had applied for the migration and hence
had to seek help from my aunt who lived nearby my
college. Since it was affiliated to a government
university and was a self-financing institute, I had to
rush down to the main office of the university 3-4 times
in order to get my migration letter.
Finally, on 15th September, I had received my
confirmation migration letter which made me on
seventh heaven. The news of me, leaving the college
was spread like a fire amongst all my friends and batch
mates and I was in a sense quite relieved to get the
desired college and was frantic to join it soon. All my
friends had bid adieu to me and had thrown a farewell
party for me and soon after that I had left my very own
lovely college and had shifted to Delhi. Initially, for a
few days, I had to stay with my aunt until I could find a
Paying Guest House for me.
It was 22nd September and yes, my very first day in the
new college. It felt the same when I had joined my
previous college where I didnt know anyone and was
searching for good friends to hang out with. Luckily, I
had one of my friend in the same batch who helped me
get comfortable with all other batch mates. The same
day, I had to rush back to the University Campus to
submit my fees and get myself enrolled. After my
college, I went to the registrar office in the new
university to complete my registration. My heart was

pounding more than the normal heart beat and I was

biting my lips in sense of nervousness.
When it was my turn to deposit the amount, I was
informed that I had to pay an additional fees of
Rs.45000 annually as a migration amount to the new
university. This made me taken aback since the extra
fees had made my parents budget go haywire since it
was unaffordable for them to pay such a huge amount
as donation since my father was a cancer patient. I was
broken into pieces and I didnt know what to do, where
to go, what to say. I rushed back to my hostel that I had
found and shifted in. My mind got numb and I felt
helpless. What should I tell my parents who trusted me
so much and who were always besides me in every
decision I had taken?
What would I do now, should I return back to my old
college? What would I tell my friends there? How will
they react to this? I was wrenched into cries with
questions popping out every second I try to think of
something else. How would I ask my landlord for the
refund whom I paid Rs.14000/- as a months advance
and a security deposit? This made me feel traumatic
and I was muddled with different voice speeches
striking my ears and shouting aloud way different
thoughts which made despondent. I spent three heart
rending days in Delhi where, at every moment of time, I
used to scratch my head and think about a way to
overcome this challenge that was way too bigger and
flabbergasted than the opportunity.

With all the notions of sorrow and dismal that I had

faced during these days, I self-introspected myself for
the whole day and I had come to the conclusion of
returning back to my old college where I could find a
space for me and where I have people who could
understand me and where I have no stress of life and
where I could live my life freely and with affordable fees
that my parents could spend on my education. Selfintrospection, indeed is the best way to overcome a
challenge or an obstacle that comes across in your life
since what lies behind us and what lies before us are
very small matters as compared to what lies within us. I
had asked for the refund from the hostel and
fortunately he refunded me the amount looking into my
circumstances. On 28th September, I returned back to
my college where all my friends welcomed me very
warmly and had understood my situation very loyally
and hence praised me that I had introspected within me
and hence had listened to what my mind feels and
what my heart says.
This incidenttaught me many things of life that
challenges are what makes life interesting but
overcoming them makes it worth meaningful to live.
Life will keep bringing the same test again and again
until we try and we succeed and hence pass it. So, just
believe in your soul, believe in the fight, do whatever
you want an in order to make things worthy and right.
Questions-

1. What issues can you relate of your own life with this
dilemmatic situation?
2. How can one overcome these challenges with an
alternate solution other than introspection?
3. If you were struck in this situation, what would you
have done?
Notes:The main purpose of the case is to help the readers to
explore and analyse the issue to enable them to
develop the best possible alternative solutions. The key
issues or dilemmas related to the case is the lack of
adequate research and the impatient attitude towards
the scenario. One should always witness all the
domains or dimensions and then make up the mind in
order to avoid any regret in the future.
The approach towards this case was to understand how
to overcome a particular situation since challenges and
opportunities are like lock and key. They are the
ultimate solution of each other. One should plan things
and do effective research before taking any step and
one must introspect within so as to justify the decision
made.
Story By:
Arnav Singh