Hi all!
My previous post (http://akthegenius.blogspot.com/2011/04/placements-interviews-et-al.html) has some endless frustrations behind it! Let me share a few of those!
We might have all seen students who just come and go to college - students those who bunk the entire morning classes and come only in the afternoon, those who always come only during exam time without touching their books at all and write with bits and answer sheets and cell phones and wall-writings and bench-writings (yeah, they happen) and passing by all illegal means possible, those who don't give a damn about attendance... uh uh!
(Disclaimer: I am not talking about the 'gethu' or 'the good' people or 'my-friends' who DO bunk with responsibility and pass legitimately during semesters. I am talking about the horrible, stupid ones who come to engineering colleges!)
Yeah God! They become engineers too. I am an engineer too. And so are many of my friends (Alright, we get Engineering degrees, that does not qualify us as an engineer, but that's not the point. Engineers is just a point of reference here!) who went to professional courses of various streams in different colleges all over India! Now... THOSE people and WE people are Engineers. What's the difference between us and them?
1) We came to college with lots of 'fear' and 'perseverance' - they didn't!
2) We studied for HOURS during exams and passed with difficulty - they didn't!
3) We put college before everything else - they didn't!
4) We respected our professors just because they were professors (ya it's tough... excuse me!) - they didn't!
5) We maintained attendance... not to get into trouble - they were forgiven!
and the last of all...
6) We maintained a clean record - they didn't!
and for heaven's sake...
WE ARE NOT FOOLS!
Then again, they and we go to the same place - placements, job, and so on! How is this possible? At the end of the day, if we just think about it, THEY have enjoyed life in college more than US!
Alright. Even if it turns out that we were fooled, why couldn't you tell it the day we stepped into this cage called COLLEGE??? WE would have done the same things THEY did! (It does not mean we have no balls! It's just that some significant people had a lot of hopes on US; it was not the case with THEM!)
Damn! It's so frustrating!
If we think about it, it comes down to some things - we must do something different to prove THOSE that we are capable and not impotent and incompetent!
It's high time we got to show we can DO something and they CAN'T unless otherwise there is a pre-defined path shown to them! Don't fall in the rat race!
Come on engineering folks! :) (yeah, I feel [soft-corner] a little bit more for engineers because they study 4 years compared to 3 years for B.Com, BBA, etc.!)
And this is one of the reasons why perhaps Robert Frost once said
'I took the road less travelled-by
And that has made all the difference!'
Great genius HE!
ak
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