Part - 2, Remembering those Engg Days (Contd..)

I know it is fun to sometime read about the life of a person when you are able to relate to lot of things with him. I used to go through the same feeling and now I just want to see how people feel reading about my life. Is it actually exciting or not ? . Hope, I am not expecting too much. Well, continuing with those Engg. days, I started realizing that these average marks can't lead us anywhere, let's do something dude..And, may be we call it some inner feeling, I completely changed myself. Started attending lectures, trying to answer the quetions that even I don't know just to impress my professor, and sitting for all the practicals, assigments to show off ( guess this is the perfect word). Well, damage was done, I was just trying to cover it with some glossy paper and trying to show that I am serious about my studies. But then, this cruel world will never ever let anybody be good when he has already been bad in front of everyone. So, all those Skinny Scholars used to tell me, that its ok, I don't need to work so hard. "Yeah Yeah, I know you are already placed, so this is your birthright to advise everyone now". But, then we had no option but to listen to their crampy voices as if they are some wild rats and have come out of their hibernation after 3 years of being underground. Anyways, we got our results and this was the 1st time in my engg., i was close to 1st class (60%), just short of few centimetres. But, then I was happy, as was my freind (he got a bit less though). But, we both were enjoying, we partyed for the whole night thinking what if we had done the same trick in our earlier semesters. But, then we were so much into present day success, that past was just PAST for us. Now, our next target was our ENGG. DEGREE. We enquired from every possible source (obviously an engineer) to know the class that would be displayed in our degree. Would, it be all semesters average or only last 2 sems. So, we used to get all those scary answers. Some used to tell it will be all the sems and me and my friend used to get shivers that this stain will always be there on our degree, but then we had to cofirm it for us to keep motivated for the last and final sem.. Finally, we did come to know that it would be the last 2 sems...So, I started working hard, to try to regain my lost glory. But, I knew it was too late..It was actually very late..I studied very hard and along with me, was my friend always supporting me.This is what we call A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED. Thnaks Dost...So, we both came out with Flying colours, Cummon.. we got the 1st CLASS.. Can anyone beleive..The person who could never ever think of below 85%, that was the dignity level, got his 1st class in the last 2 sems of engg..But that was the truth..A truth that was going to stay there with me forever.. I am talking about the degree..It did had BE in IT with 1st Class...Now, I can atleast hold it with honour.....An ENGINEER AT LAST...

1st Ever...( Remembering those Engineering Days) !!!

This is the first time ever in my life i m writing something...well, i shud thank one of my colleagues and some of my friends who have actually inspired me to do so. i never though of writing actually, not because i had nothin to say, but because i didnt know what is the purpose.. but today when i sit alone and think that who is the one who is there to take all my mind hunting material, i feel there is no one..but wait, is there no one who will take all this...so i keep on askin the same question with myself...

MY journey statred in this world when i was born, but i actually started realising the aim of my existence, when my parents used to ask me that what's in my mind..what m i gonna do...so i used to sit for hours and think like a child that what is the next step that i m gonna take...i saw my friends, gearing up to get gud marks in 12th boards.. i was actually feeling left out of the lot...i joined the bandwagon and left my CBSE board to join the state board to get a certificate showing good marks for my 12th boards...i did score well...and that got me an admission in Mumbai univ..Engg...but was this that i was aiming to do..actually not...i think i wanted to be a doc...thts why i sat for so many competitive exams..but i cudnt get thru ne..be it AFMC, AIIMS, etc...i was actually fed up with this...then i started satisfying my inner ego by claiming MBBS to be an Old age people game...whats the fun doing this course for 7, 8 years and then come out of the college with white hair...so i chose engg...MUMBAI was the city i had to be for next 4 years of my life...

this city totally unexlored by me, full of surprises, was waiting there to welcome one more guest..a NORTH INDIAN :)...I actually wanted to do engg from Mumbai or Pune, so that when i go back home during holidays, i cud boast about the univ in which i am...other universities, like Shivaji, North Maharashtra, Baba Ambedkar, name only used to give me a village like feeling...

I started my course with no aim in front of me..jus me and my engg...

I started attending the college regularly as advised by my parents and elders..attending all the lectures, tryin to be the best amongst the lot, as if i wanted to get that old glory back ( I used to fav of teachers during my school days)...I tried my best but cudn't succeed.. there were guys sitting out there to be ENGINEERS and i was actually sitting there to Study ENGINEERING... so soon, i realised there is no point wasting time in attending classes regularly...so i made a gang of friends and started bunking the classes, going for movies, enjoyin the CUTTING CHAI at TAPRIS...so ever1 was there taking few puffs, and discussing those illitrate students who wanted to be ENGINEERS.. we used to laugh at them claiming that how can we be like those stupid idiots, doing all the experiments and writing all the programmes as if theyr gonna be Narayan Murthy or Azeem Premji..We knew nothins gonna happen...so we used to enjoy...Only days when we used to study was 1 month before exams...Study like Owls in the night, sipping tea to keep us awake through out the night, opening those chapters, that we have not even heard of..by that time, I had got my best friend in engg and our duty was to tell each other how much we have studied and evertime we complete a chapter, we will give each other a ring...so we both got our competitors in each other....The studies used to continue till the next day morning and we used to rush for exams...Engineering Exam itself is a puzzle...See u have to make the sum of a matrix equal to 40..so its upto u, the way u want to add...So, we used to read the paper first and pick the questions, that give us sure short 20-30 marks...So, if some of the questions that we have mugged up ystday came, we used to give it a try and secure atleast 20-25 marks.. now the rest 10-15 marks were actually a FIGHT...as if there is a war between the examination paper and us...we used to find some way out to write something for some question, to get those 10-15 marks from some corner of the paper.. the guys who used to win this war, used to cross that 40 Dead Point...others used to jus hang.....Results used to come and me and my best friend were there in the pass list but with marks like 40, 47, 52, 58, 55, etc..60 was a great achievement for both of us....First time, when i saw these marks and had to tell my parents that i have got 55% in my 1st sem, i was like a duck..How can I tell my dad that an 85% + in 12th has got 55% in Engg.....But, then Engineers are never short of ideas...So, when actually he wanted to blast, i used to start that Engg is very tough..So many of my friends have flunked in all the subjects...Mumbai Univ is like Harvard...So dad used to actually think that his son is a brave soldier fighting this battle alone there..So, till next semester the atmosphere was set....My whole engg went into this..actually not whole, my 3 years...Suddenly after my 5th sem, one day I realised that I am on an average figure of 56% in my past 5 semesters...this was the day when the 1st company came to our campus for recruitement..and no guesses for the company name..it was the dream of all engg. students.. TCS...well, like all big shot companies, they also had CONDITIONS APPLY...so 1st condition came the student should have 60% + on an average...so, I along with my friend did not had the gutts to wait to hear the 2nd condition...So, we both went to the canteen and had some snacks, chaating about what is the use of going for this company, where every1 is used as a resource and not valued enough...What max will we become..a programmer...a software engg..writing codes throughout the day...is this what we wanted from life...So this was the 1st time in life we realised that we are not made for all these companies..We had some talent that no body is realising...but it is there in us...and do we want to waste this talent for these Software companies.. a big NO...Hey wait, don't think we were like great scholars, we were actually trying to satisfy our own inner ego..., blaming all the other engineers who get into these companies and work like donkeys...we dont want to be DONKEYS !!!! ( TO be continued !...)