Do students really get to pursue careers they are passionate about?

The Joint Admissions Board announced the second revision of courses in a few weeks past and to be sure, many prospective University students had to go back and revise their courses.

Many students settled for courses that they would actually not have considered as their first choice degree courses. Such is life; one really never gets what they ideally want. Talking to a few working professionals, one realizes that a majority are in a profession that they don’t like.

The reasons why they ended up in whatever profession they are in are varied. Some got grades that never allowed them to pursue their dream courses, some chose courses because of the attendant prestige that they would have derived from the said courses. For instance, many an A student chooses medicine or engineering or law simply because society expects that brilliant A students should choose certain courses. Others chose courses that they thought they were suited for but on enrolling in Campus, they discover that the courses they chose cannot match their personalities, talents

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