Engineering Education (Badly needs a change!)

          Producing meaningless batches of robots every year, especially the engineering schools, don’t know what they are up to! With the never ending syllabus, in the burdens of assignments, in the tensions of good grades, suffering from the mental torture of professors, keeping the attendance percentages in mind, in between all the processes a student which dreams of doing something creative, something extra ordinary, that thought dies! It’s just like putting a bird in the cage. It won’t be allowed to fly high in the sky where it wants to, instead of that it is forced to live in a cage full of shit!

          There is no doubt that some students still exceeds in that field, but most as I have seen with my eyes, dreams of doing something different gets stuck in things which they have to do against their wish. And if someone leaves it in between, the society is always there to comment on everything you do. The concept of society still makes me wonder, we’ll talk about that some other day. Nevertheless the day you stop giving a damn about what others think of what you do and start doing what you like is the day of revolution in your life. The best day to start something good is today and remember that tomorrow is always a better day.

          We choose the streams of 12^th based on the percentages of 10^th, not based on the interest of individual, the branch of engineering based on the current flow of market again not preferring the personal interest. The stupid exam systems, no doubt exams should be there to check the knowledge. Exams should check the knowledge, the intelligence, not how much one can cram. In this system I think they are checking how much GB we can store in our mind, they should well know that we are humans, not some machines with hard drives so we can just scan things and there it is on our mind. In the process of getting good marks, to avoid taunts of family and society, the logic and knowledge suffers. I don’t think there is any way one can remember 200 equations filled with weird symbols, unless you have identical memory and only some are blessed with that. Yes, one should definitely know it, but know it how to use and when to use.Instead of that what we get to do is that how to cram that!

          

          I can’t see the need to remember them when in this technological time where everything is on your fingertip just a touch away! Just type in Google and there it is. Why waste time in memorizing them while u can utilize the time doing something more operational. Mental harassment of students seems like one of the most favorite hobbies of professors. No wonder suicide rates are high in engineering schools. Giving useless assignments which contain nothing but a long list of questions which you have to write mindlessly, and yes, we all copy it. Submission time is their time, they are the boss. Rejecting file after file and even if that’s not enough, sometimes throwing them away. These actions might be giving them a sense of satisfaction over the fact of not achieving anything in the life. They expect respect from students, but respect is a two way thing just like Karma, you get what you give. Obviously there are some exceptional cases, the one’s which students loves, the true teacher, who guides the students to the right path. Yeah, they are rare.

          A backlog in exam and everyone loses their mind. Have you seen any team of any sports that has not lost even a single game till date? Have you seen any individual in anything that has not failed? Any successful person who did not go through failure? Any actor who has not given a single flop movie? Besides the exams of engineering, there are exams which life takes. And passing them is much more important than these silly ones! Failure is a sure thing, the key is to not giving up. That’s why we fall, so that we can pic ourselves up! (The Batman Begins :P). And sure engineering teaches you many things, but most of them are from outside of the syllabus! They system can only produce another system. Engineering surely makes you Jack of all, master of none!

P.S.- The problem in India is that the smartness and intelligence of someone is defined by his/her percentages, Sad!

India - The Land of Self Proclaimed Godmen

Since so many years, this topic has been controversial. The number of ordinary people claiming to be extra-ordinary keeps increasing and people keep putting their faith in them. This has to be stopped somehow, the stupidity must end someday. I wish this day come as early as possible. Because there is nothing to lose for the one who claims to be the God, obviously they aren't. They will face some charges and will eventually come up with the clean sheet. What is lost during this process in people’s hopes, their dreams, and their faith which they have put it in them. I must say that people of India are far too innocent while believing and trusting someone. They will easily lay their belief in them, and this is all they want. They will live a luxurious life, will have power, even females who blindly follow them and most importantly the power, which will make them stronger day by day.

Thanks to the media, there has been some awareness about these topics. But there is a say that ‘You can take a horse to the lake, but you can’t make the horse drink water’. All you can do is aware them, but they are so lost in the deep influences of these God men that they won’t even believe you, no matter how hard you try! Not taking any names, you know who they are. And some of you are might following one, but the thing is to keep in mind is that sometimes it’s hard to believe the reality, but you can’t change the fact. And some of you even won’t agree with me about this, but this is what I believe. I strongly believe in God, but I don’t think you need to worship someone who is claiming to be God with his tricks. A belief and hope in yourself is above all of this.

One of the main reasons in India behind this blind following crowd is that everyone what to live a luxurious and life with full money without doing any hard work or facing the challenges which life offers you. Believe me there is no shortcut or secret formula to get success. And even if there was any, no one is that stupid that they would share that in public. They say they will change your life and all they do is to thug you. No one except you can change your life. Please be awake, be responsible and be safe! Happy Navratri to all of You.

P.s. : The problem is not that it happens almost every year and people’s hopes, faith and beliefs are being torn apart, the problem is that people still chooses to believe the new one who emerges out of nowhere!  

Final Year - The Last Hurrah!

Before we could realize, the end was near. So near that you could feel it. It’s going to be over. The unforgettable 4 years of college life were about get over. Time passes, in this case, it flew away! Even a slight thought of end of this everlasting journey creates a teardrop rolling from the corner of my eye.

Coming as a fresher, entering in the strange, new and weird world of college, with all the dreams which we raised through the childhood were either about to be fulfilled or shattered. Settling in the new atmosphere requires quite a time. But once you are settled with bunch of new friends, the real life starts. Flashback of past, home, food and what not! Knowing each other, sharing secrets, girlfriend/boyfriends, fights, last night studies, screwed up grades, backlogs, that promises to study hard from next semesters, romance, heartbreaks, new crush and many more countless moments which leaves an eternal print on your mind that you cherishes for the rest of your life.

No matter how much you curse your college or hostel or PGs, you will miss all of that in the end. I have not seen anyone who does not miss his/her college days! The fear strikes in the final year that what you would do without all of your friends, where in college you can’t live without them for even a single day. Will they forget you? Will you guys be in touch after college? Will you be able to meet them like you do today? That thought of this gives a sad feeling. Because the friends you made in college, are friends for lifetime.

You know it was going to end someday, but in fact, you were never fully prepared for it, you never really thought that this day will come this soon! Still you wish that it should never end. All the Hindi songs like Purani Jeans, College Days, Yad Aayenge Ye Pal starts making sense to you. At this time you realize that the main part is the part of journey, you are going to reach to the destination anyhow, but it’s the journey that makes it worth mesmerizing. Better you enjoy the time, and believe me, You don’t have that much left! So enjoy it up to the best you can, coz you won’t get it again! All the best fellas ;)