4 years, a lifetime
I received a very interesting mail a while back. It was about how engineering students approach each year of their course. I thought of improvising on that a bit.
You see according to me, the four years of our course can be perfectly related to person's life. Each year can be equated to 10 years of life. Did the math? Now, let's proceed then.
The first year, you are new to the college, scared of seniors, lecturers, try to learn anything and everything about your friends and your surroundings. You even have the school boy crush on some girl who turns out to be your senior. As the year progresses though, you are more comfortable with your fellow classmates and are at ease in college. These are something you would do the first 10 years of your life. Let me explain. You see, as a kids, you were always amazed by your surroundings, wanted to learn about the minutest of details and asked the stupidest of doubts. That attitude gradually changes and you can understand your surroundings better.
Come second year , you are proud to be the "senior" and are totally excited by the idea of ragging juniors. This can be related to your teens. Raging tempers, rebels and not knowing what to do. Going out your mates, enjoying the kind of life shown in movies. Really, this is what everyone does. However, by now you have a set of friends and so called "groups" are formed in your own class. You get first hand experience of your faculty and department. In other words, exposure to the real world.
In the third year though, things are much more serious. You think you know what you want and set targets as to where you want to see yourself in the next few years. This is the 20's. Focus on career, the general idea of settling down keeps you preoccupied. You get the "been there done that" attitude and begin to streamline your thoughts. By now, the number of friends have come down by a certain extent and you confide only to a select few.
Now, you are in the final year. You have finished all the antics, done all that you wanted in the last 3 years and now just looking for peace of mind and maybe even finding that special someone you always wanted. Agreed you don't go looking for someone in your 40's but that's an exception here!! So there, in 4 years of engineering an entire life of a person can be relived.
The above analogy could have been interpreted better I suppose or maybe you would not agree with the idea at all. However, it's just what I felt.
P.S: There is no intent of discrimination between engineering and other courses. Since I am in this stream, the context has been used.
CURRENT SONG: CARNIVAL OF RUST(Poets of the Fall)
CURRENT BOOK: HOW TO PREPARE FOR CAT(TMH)
You see according to me, the four years of our course can be perfectly related to person's life. Each year can be equated to 10 years of life. Did the math? Now, let's proceed then.
The first year, you are new to the college, scared of seniors, lecturers, try to learn anything and everything about your friends and your surroundings. You even have the school boy crush on some girl who turns out to be your senior. As the year progresses though, you are more comfortable with your fellow classmates and are at ease in college. These are something you would do the first 10 years of your life. Let me explain. You see, as a kids, you were always amazed by your surroundings, wanted to learn about the minutest of details and asked the stupidest of doubts. That attitude gradually changes and you can understand your surroundings better.
Come second year , you are proud to be the "senior" and are totally excited by the idea of ragging juniors. This can be related to your teens. Raging tempers, rebels and not knowing what to do. Going out your mates, enjoying the kind of life shown in movies. Really, this is what everyone does. However, by now you have a set of friends and so called "groups" are formed in your own class. You get first hand experience of your faculty and department. In other words, exposure to the real world.
In the third year though, things are much more serious. You think you know what you want and set targets as to where you want to see yourself in the next few years. This is the 20's. Focus on career, the general idea of settling down keeps you preoccupied. You get the "been there done that" attitude and begin to streamline your thoughts. By now, the number of friends have come down by a certain extent and you confide only to a select few.
Now, you are in the final year. You have finished all the antics, done all that you wanted in the last 3 years and now just looking for peace of mind and maybe even finding that special someone you always wanted. Agreed you don't go looking for someone in your 40's but that's an exception here!! So there, in 4 years of engineering an entire life of a person can be relived.
The above analogy could have been interpreted better I suppose or maybe you would not agree with the idea at all. However, it's just what I felt.
P.S: There is no intent of discrimination between engineering and other courses. Since I am in this stream, the context has been used.
CURRENT SONG: CARNIVAL OF RUST(Poets of the Fall)
CURRENT BOOK: HOW TO PREPARE FOR CAT(TMH)
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