Engineers rule the world. Well, not exactly. But they do, at least, in their day to day activities. This comes from an Engineer who has written this article i.e me. An Engineer, has to involve himself with complex real life problems, of which only he has the solution. An Engineer, has to suggest various ways of improving the effciency of the products, has to develop new and better mechanisms to get things moving in the forward direction. Well, lets take a peep into a day of a life of an Engineering student. Well, the Engineer here is replaced by "he" or "they".No offence to females, they are great engineers too.Well, the day starts for everyone at morning, and so too for this Engineer. College starts at 9. But he thinks, why go so early. So he gets ready at his normal pace and by the time, he reaches college, its 9:30. Proffesor first instructs him, "Sorry, not allowed". Other students in the class also try to take his case and shout in unison, "No, No, Dont allow him Sir". With a sorry face, pat comes an all weather reply, "Sir, Train came late" or "Tyre Punctured Sir" or "too much traffic, Sir" or the really honest would say, "Got up late, Sir". He is allowed to sit amongst a shout of boos. He is being told, "Attendance will not be given to you" but later on, he gets his attendance. All well and done.
Lecture gets over. Snack break commences. He removes his tiffin box only to find that everyone surrounds him.At the end, he does manage to get 40 percent of food. After all, Thou shoud not eat his own lunch. Remaining part of the break goes in chit chatting, talking to the girls and getting to know what lectures are going to happen in the day. Armed with this knowledge, he and his colleagues try to cancel the lecture for whatsoever reasons. If they succeed, then move on to cancel the next lecture. If not, then they succumb to the fact that they can still shorten the duration of the lecture(Only they know how to). As Sir enters, there is a scramble for places in the last few benches, the corner seats and middle benches where one gets an adequate amount of cover. Once lecture starts, he finds out what practical he has and what journal he has to write. Quickly he gets a copy of the written journal and starts copying down word to word. Never mind what the proffesor will tell, even they know everyone copies.
Lecture terminates due to shouts of "Please Sir, next lecture. Enough for the day". Attendance takes place smoothly untill a proxy happen, and commotion reigns. All know, who has done it but would rather keep quiet. Thats a strong bond between fellow engineers. A few advices later, Sir leaves. Well, Practical starts, and he submits his journal and goes to his place. Ultimately he will get a seven on ten, no matter what he has written. If the subject has a practical exam, then he will be interested else he will lazily watch the other members of the the group perform. He would be the last to enter and the first to leave, to avoid restoring back all the equipments to their right places. After all, time is precious.
In case if any free lectures or periods happen to occur, then there is a toss between cricket and football. Even if there is a lecture, what is the harm in bunking. If there are any tests on that day, he would take special care to seat himself next to the most knowledgeable i.e the topper. After all, even a topper serves his purpose some day or the other.But in more ways than one, Engineers have tremendous efficiency. They seem to be able to prepare for the exam at any point of time. Even if the exam is a good one week away, work will start just a day before the d-day. And they still get away with it. Amazing, isnt it?
The day ends, with a nice snack in the canteen and a walk back with the entire gang to the station from where everyone bades farewell, only to know that they will encounter the very same the next day. After all, it is enjoyable. At home, the engineer has three options, eat, enjoy, sleep. Varying the proportions, the day finally culminates into night, where he downs his shutters and dreams (Please dont aslk what he dreams).
So thats about it, from here. Dont be mistaken, not all Engineers are like this. But most of them are, and i think every fellow engineer would have taken pride in reading this.Anything i missed, you can append it in comments. So, lets have the experiences from your side, my friends.
3 comments:
loved it man!!!
as a fellow engineer, u forgot one thing male:female ratio....very appalling!!:-D
loved the attendance part...
gr8 one again...!
i agree with u on certain aspects though u covered the topic in a very general manner.u forgot the breeds of profs and students or rather observed so.there are some students who always like to sit on the first few benches whatever maybe the scenario.and there are others who realise that there is no point wasting time listening to them when xams are months away.then there are some students who think that the prof is not worth any attention.
same goes for profs.some are highly itelligent and nosy who predict the behaviour of the students.but most of them have either knowledge of the subject like a pin in a haystack.they just try to fiddle around the time and make their presentations using the knowledge of the books.ask any doubt and it will be the biggest mistake of the life.
but its an art actually for a student to look like paying attention when he's not interested.
I must say, a really good read. Though I was about to remonstrate on reading the first paragraph, thinking that I would'nt be considered as an equal on not being an engineer; I pretty much feel the same way about everything else. The same goes for Economics; and it only gets better once you enter the B-schools (because the "school" never sleeps, the day melts into the night and night into the next day, only to realize that one has not slept in 2 years).
Enjoyed the entire post to the core, just the same with the comments too... Someday I might come up with my versions of my classroom encounters!
Something quite weird though, found a few mistakes with english; how is that possible? Were you preoccupied when typing this out? This is not what I expected of Murthi's bright cousin!!!
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