I remember January 2023 clearly. It was my 5th semester holidays. I was mostly playing games and creating MBTI-based memes. I used to post them on my Instagram stories and uploaded 2 or 3 on YouTube just for fun.
INTJ × ENFP was my favorite combo at that time.
Since I had that new INFJ friend, I told her about the ISTP girl — how I directly told her type — and also about the INTJ YouTube girl story. She listened patiently.
INFJ × INTJ memes started hitting different after that.
During this time, I started using ChatGPT to scan for MBTI patterns. But ChatGPT was making fun of my logic sometimes and didn’t give perfect answers.
So I tried to create a mini project based on voice and speech to detect MBTI type. My computer was slow, but I still worked on it.
There was also a constant war between me and my friends: which is better — Java or Python.
That month, I took my first seminar ever. It’s still the only seminar I have taken in my life.
I had never been to any symposium in other colleges. I don’t know why, but during my first 5 semesters I stayed in hostel and never went to the warden to ask permission. They would always say, “Write a letter, do this, do that.” My friends never really cared about me in that matter. That sting still stays, but it’s okay.
This is the time when my MBTI learning went deep. I understood cognitive attraction and corresponding functions.
I also started doubting my own type — whether I was INTJ or ISTJ. Sometimes I felt I used memory and calculated risk like ISTJ, but also paranoia like INTJ.
After taking many tests and doing a lot of research, I concluded that I am ISTJ.
Even after testing 3/4th of my class, I felt pretty lonely. Even though my closest female friends were there, I still felt that emptiness.
That was the month I watched my first anime and started assigning MBTI types to characters, lol.
I got severe stomach pain and took leave the next day.
During that time, only class girls had special placement and training sessions.
My Naan Mudhalvan project team was me, one ENFP male friend, the ISTP girl (my favorite one), and one ESFP girl.
Since they were handling those placement classes, me and my ENFP male friend did most of the project work.
My stomach pain increased, and I also had dizziness. They put glucose on me.
After that, every day in college I was sitting in pain but still moving forward in life.
It was exactly one year since I learned MBTI. I kept a video as my status about this journey.
It was the annual day of my college. I was literally in pain the whole day. Whatever I ate caused stomach pain.
The project was reaching its end. No team finished it quickly except mine.
Even though I was not fine for the past two months, my completion speed was the fastest.
I went to the hospital again. This time the doctor said I had inflammation in my intestine.
For two months, everyone kept saying it was ulcer, food poisoning, and other things. Even the glucose was not really needed.
Now I became scared about whom to trust.
The next day was project submission. Everyone was rushing heavily.
My team completed the entire project within a budget of ₹1000, while other teams spent ₹4000+.
My teammates were me (ISTJ), 2 ENFJ, and 1 ESTP (not a graduate yet).
June came with 6th semester exams. I was still unwell and had pain sometimes, but I completed everything calmly.
After that, I got 2 weeks of holiday.
Only during this break, I learned to ride a bike.
All my friends were busy going for a Python internship.
I was resting and feeling lonely, so I used Omegle text.
I found an INFJ person and that person gave me their Discord ID.
The next day, I texted them and later realized it was an INFJ girl, not a boy.
We became friends.
She shared her pic. Strangely, she made my pain feel lighter.
The whole college attended an online IT job drive.
Out of nearly 100 students, only one guy cracked it.
He was an ENFP from my class.
My staff showed the internal mark report.
I was shocked.
They don’t follow proper rules in my college. In my first 4 semesters, I had 100% attendance.
In the 5th semester, I took only 3 days leave.
In the 6th semester, I took leave only due to my intestine problem.
Still, the marks they gave broke me.
That is when my shadow mode (ENTP/ESTP) activated.
Screw the rules.
I cracked an 8 LPA job purely based on my own ability.
I told my friends to follow my way. No one did.
Still, I cracked it.
7 more people cracked it with me:
All of us were from the same class. Only one girl was from another department.
One common thing I noticed:
I speak 3 languages (2 written). All my classmates also spoke 3 languages.
Most others spoke only 2 languages.
We cracked it faster than them. Not always true for everyone, but this happened for us.
I went to a big hospital and took a CT scan.
Doctors finally told the correct truth: it was just an intestine infection.
They told me to take probiotic foods like curd.
For five months I avoided curd because I was scared, and I only drank buttermilk.
This time the advice worked.
My body started healing faster.
One of my high school female friends took the MBTI test.
She turned out to be ISTJ too.
Other campus drives after that were failures only, lol.
It gave me more insights into people.
It gave me real stories of betrayal, why some people always vibe, and why some stay grounded.
I cracked a 9 LPA offer.
The motivation came when I saw my closest female friend getting selected in the second round.
I really wanted to go along with her.
ISTJs take calculated risks. But when someone walks with them, they take the risk fully.
That created a problem: I had to choose between 8 LPA and 9 LPA.
And yes — I chose the 9 LPA.