Why do people crib so much about MANIT?
Honestly, I don’t get the amount of cribbing I see on here about MANIT.
When I joined in 2013, things were way worse. Facilities weren’t great, administration could be frustrating, and you just had to figure a lot of things out yourself. And guess what?
We survived.
And honestly, that’s probably one of the things MANIT teaches you best - survival and adjustment.
College isn’t supposed to be a five-star experience
where everything is handed to you. Sometimes you have to deal with shitty infrastructure, incompetent systems, difficult people, uncertainty and things simply not going your way. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Because the real world is going to be exactly like that — and often much worse.
At some point, you have to leave the “my parents will sort this out / someone should make this better for me” mindset behind and learn to deal with the world as it is.
MANIT taught us to adjust, figure things out, make do with what I had, and keep moving. Those are actually very useful life skills.
Expectations from the world should honestly be at rock bottom. Not because you should accept everything that’s wrong, but because once you stop expecting the world to be perfectly fair, comfortable and convenient, you become much better at dealing with it.
You don’t need everything to be perfect to build a good life.
Sometimes you just need to learn to deal with the shit and move on.
And yeah, MANIT could have been better.
But it could also have been worse.
If I had to do it again, after all these years, I would do it ,again, the same way.