Can you spare some marks?

Board results are out and so is the anxiety for admissions. However the latter has changed its color of late. Anxiety has become more of an external attribute rather than an internal one. Things seem disorderly when they get out of your control. Getting admission in DU is no longer a matter of you choosing which college to go. Your grades are important but equally important are of others. You have got 95%, congratulations, but so have Chintu, Monu and Bubbly. 90s are becoming the new 80s and 80s the new 70s and 70s are still searching their alter ego. But I'm unable to comprehend the fuss. Being from the science background makes me a neutral spectator of all the helter-skelter made by the commerce students. Why is DU considered their only Mai Baap? Why do students feel doomed if they miss the cut-off lists? Aren't all the colleges good enough? A mismatch between colleges has been created mainly based on the popularity quotient. Students right out of 12th start giving judgments about which courses to pursue and which not. I wonder where do they get all this gyan from. Well, there are some acclaimed courses like B.Com hons. or Eco. hons., but what about the rest? Why do the colleges even bother to teach them if they are of no value? Obviously some colleges will stand out in one parameter or the other, but overall DU should act as a monolith, with quality of education at par amongst all the colleges. All of them are at a stone's throw distance. It should be very easy to share each other's infrastructure or faculty. Anyways, even if we assume the current state of affairs, how can just 3 years of college govern one's whole life? If you are missing cutoffs by a whisker, then it's obvious that the system doesn't expect you to be anxious. The whisker-missers will adorn the next college. Every kid cannot get a chocolate; the box has to go empty. If a student is dedicated he/she would excel in his/her field irrespective of the college one has attended. And it's not that fresh graduates are homing in fat packages so that they would not have to pursue post graduation at all. One gets so many chances in life; well if God is picking on you then it's a different story all together.