I am an engineer and i did my engineering in a way which i would never suggest anyone to follow. For all the four years i never saw the morning, because i had the habit of getting up exactly at lunch time. I never attended classes, never did any assignments, was daring (thats what i preferred to call it in those days) enough to bunk internals (all three of the options given). And i got through everything and finished engineering with a great success (thats what i thought when i walked out of college with 75% marks in aggregate and offers from two of the most preferred companies). 'College life is golden life' - i thought i lived a platinium life, only to realize after 3 years that how foolish i was in those days.

Yes, it took me 3 years to realize that i have spoilt myself to the worst in 4 years of college life. One fine day (somewhere in august, 2008) i woke up, yes i woke up because i had a strictly monitered and discplined life before walking into the college. I was forced, later got used, to get up at 5.30 am. Schedule of day used to be very beautiful. 5.30 am - get up, 6.00 - 6.45 am - physical exercise, 7.20 am - assembly at school, 7.30 - 9.00 am - first two periods of class, 9.00 am - 9.20 am - breakfast, 9.30 am - 1.30 pm - classes continue... (lots more, details not important). Wat i love about the time-table is the tight-packing of tasks, there is no wastage of time (even though as kids we managed to steal time to waste). I was forced (for initial 2 years, got used for rest of 5 years) to follow the time-table for 7 years from 6th to 12th standard.

When i woke up few months back, i started following a more planned and disciplined time-table. 7.00am - get up, 9.00am - reach office... (details not important). Getting up early and following a strict displine doesn't mean i don't waste a single minute and use all the time productively. But advantage with having a disciplined time-table is that i tend to get disciplined in everything, when i work, when i drive, when i eat, when i talk to people. I can say i am working much more productively after setting up a disciplined time-table for myself, rather than when i enjoyed the freedom of being in a start-up.
Thanks to my school (Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Gajanur is the name), thanks to everybody# involved in forcing me to follow the time-table, after 7 years (4 in college and 3 while working) of screwed up time management i could still recover to a disciplined life easily.


# Special thanks to:

• Mr. V.S Hegde - Preeti house's house master for not forgiving even a single mistakes that i did as long as i stayed in Preeti house.
• Mr. Arifulla Khan - Physical education teacher for never letting us escape from following the strict schedule of morning PT (we used to call it mass-pt, i don't know who invented it).
• School leaders from 1994 to 2001 (Nagaraj Gogre, Umesh S, Satish, Amitananda, Vinay MM, Sharathchandra, Harish H S, Aditya N G) for blowind whistle so badly that there was no other option at 5.30am but to get up.