A student takes great care at every step when it comes to his higher education and college admission becomes the most crucial time and the process, from filling the application form to getting admission in a dream college, is the most critical part of all. Same was the case with Daniyaal Khan who got a chance to study at a National Institute of India (NIT) but a major goof-up changed everything. Khan took to Reddit to talk about his ordeal. Khan had decided to join NIT (National Institute of Technology), but little did he know that his life was about to be seriously disrupted and that too just because of an acronym.
Daniyaal Khan decided to apply in as many colleges as possible for high studies, just like anyone else of his age would. After receiving his acceptance letter, his father along with his few friends decided to take a road-trip to reach the campus that was in “A. Pradesh”. He wrote, “I got accepted to National Institute of Technology(NIT) – Andhra Pradesh, or so I thought.” He added, “My dad and a couple friends decided to make the journey memorable and go by road. All cool. We drove across Maharashtra, into Telangana and finally to Andhra. A 930 Kilometre journey, and given how Indian roads are, it took us 16 hours; though we did stop several times for bird spotting, and adoring the view of herds of deer galloping along the horizon.”
After reaching the campus, Khan panicked when the Institute denied that he had secured admission there, following which they rushed to the coordinator who explained the misunderstanding. He said, “We finally report to the campus, and move towards the admissions counter. The attendant there straight away denies us citing that I was never granted an admission in NIT-AP. Panicking, we report to the admissions coordinator, who explains:
“On my allotment letter, it was stated that I had gotten accepted to “NIT-AP”(In that exact phrase). The problem here is, there’s an Andhra Pradesh and an Arunachal Pradesh. Both are referred to as “AP”. Basically, I travelled 930 kilometres to the wrong state.”
After the major goof-up, the group tried to brainstorm ideas about reaching Arunachal on time for the admission, but that was literally not possible. So, being a sport, his dad too laughed at the goof-up and after 3 hours they drove back home, he told Buzzfeed.