Dear Auntie,
I am a 17-year-old boy who went to a cadet college from grades eight to 10. I left it in September this year. I had a knee injury which was left untreated for over a year — by the cadet college’s doctor and my parents. I did my matriculation in an injured state, but still performed well, getting 93.25 percent.

My parents enrolled me in a local college in rural Punjab, with ill-mannered students and a toxic environment. My dream is to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world’s best engineering university. Until grade 10, I was certain of getting admission there due to my academic performance. Even at the cadet college, I stood out because of my conceptual grasp of subjects.

But after joining this college — the worst place I have ever studied in — I fear I will fail to achieve my dream. The teaching is poor and the students are non-serious, including a lot of drug addicts. I fear that adapting to such an environment will........

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