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Articles: Humour | An Engineer's life
- Mr. Gelli Badarinadh
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An Engineer's life
It all begins with Std. 10- ' Bete, you got to study just like the neighbourhood boy, Krishnan Venkatraman Subramanium Iyer, who slogged day and night to get admission in Ruparel.'
Then comes the crucial H.S.C.* *where we are again reminded of some other scholastic persona (although such people don't possess one) who scored 99% in PCM and is still slogging (and will continue to slog for his entire life). Loads of pressure, the entire personality of the child changes during that frustrating year, still he does his work thinking
that he will relax next year.
Finally the candidate manages to get somewhere close to 93% and *feels happy*. (Only till the day of admissions where he notices that there are 2407 people in Mumbai who have a score better than his.)
College in Vashi, 4 hours journey, is what is constantly hovering in and above his head. And, if forgotten, relatives, the so-called philanthropists, are always there to remind.
Finally, if the soul is lucky, he manages to get admission in a college in suburbs.
Again he *feels happy*. (Only till the day his Mechanics and B.E.E. lectures begin.)
He feels life is hell and is totally unable to figure out the reason he is made to study this.
Then the most technical, intelligent and practical work begins in his college, the submission*. *Although it's highly technical, intelligent and practical, (a repetition of all three qualities was necessary here) there is nothing surprising that his younger brother studying in the seventh grade does it for him.
Again he slogs day and night, and after the first semester, where he has made an attempt of 90 marks in mechanics, he *feels happy*. (Only till the results, where he gets 20 in mech. where he was expecting 80.Now he's confused as to why is it called A.T.K.T. Actually it should've been 80-K.T). And since this is his first experience, he fills up a re-verification form, anticipating miracles. He gives his K.T
examination and passes this time, and then the re-verification results come stating that he had cleared mech. in the very first attempt. A perfect, engineering experience.
*But engineering also has its advantages*. It helps a person improve his relationship with his grandfather, because now they can chat on a common topic. He is made to study the same computer languages that his grandfather used to study during his young days.
This is how engineering inculcates values in students. It's really appreciable.
Semesters pass by and the young dude, turns into an uncle.
Finally there are campus interviews conducted in his college and he again *feels happy.*
(Only till he realizes that there were only 2 students selected out of 1453 applicants.) Then he tries his luck with G.R.E and luckily gets selected in one of the top grade colleges in the States and *feels happy. *(Only until the day, the authority at the consulate rejects his visa because the engineer's face had an uncanny resemblance with his brother in law whom he hated, or for some other similar reason, which 'they' don't bother to state.)
Then the tired, frustrated engineer gives hundreds of interviews for a job without a response, and the poor soul *feels unhappy*. (Only till the day he gets a call from a U.S based company with an annual package of 60,000 U.S dollars.)
So the moral of this article is, no matter what critics say, we
engineers rock. What say?
Regards,
Badarinadh Gelli
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