Engineering is probably the most sought-after career in India – and even though you go on to be a great catch in matrimonial ads, becoming an engineer comes with its own burdens. These are 15 sad truths every engineer can relate to.
1. Every engineering hopeful dreams of getting into IIT – but except around 10,000 lucky fellas, the rest have to remain content with the other national or their regional institutes. It is the Mecca for all engineering students, a mirage that breaks their heart time and again.
2. Whether you took up engineering of your own choice or you were bullied into it by your parents, you know that being an engineer does not always mean having achieved it all. Like they say, “In India, you first become an engineer, and then decide what you want to do in life.”
3. As they say, “90% of all girls are beautiful, and the other 10% study in my college”. Engineering colleges suffer from a serious skewed gender ratio, much to the tragedy of the boys. And if there are a handful of pretty girls in your college, they usually turn out to be from a different batch or different department.
4. There is competition among students in academics, and then there is engineering. With millions of engineers spawned by thousands of institutes all over the country, the competition is fierce and relentless!
5. The bane of the life of every engineering student is the life-sucking assignments and the autocratic deadlines they come with. Their joy at graduating is less due to the fact that they are now engineers, and more because there are no more assignments at the other side of the college gate!
6. The only things that keep most engineering students going for those four years of their lives are alcohol and the kind herb. For those who do manage to stay away from these ‘evils’, their savior is movie marathons in whatever language they can get their hands on.
7. As an engineering student, you were forever known by your GPA score. If you were a seven point something or above, you were the shiz; you were lucky to be six point something and if you averaged five point something or lower – well, buddy, good luck!
8. The greatest irony for engineering students is how the paper they think they performed the best in usually turns out to be the one in which they scored the lowest. In four years of engineering, the students totally forget what ‘hope’ feels like.
9. The marks on Viva and internals are purely based on what impression the professor has of you, and not what you write or say. Call it prejudice, call it unfair – that’s the way it works, and you’d better create the correct image for your professors if you want to pass.
10. You might be the best student in your batch, but if you want to pass the exams, you had better have a good relationship with the lab assistant. When it comes to practical classes and exams, this man runs the show – and you’d better not piss him off.
11. If you took up engineering after ‘3 Idiots’ released, you realized that there is no way you could ever be Rancho. In fact, there are no Ranchos in real life. You realized that your childhood was a lie.
12. Every engineering student knows that the most important day of their lives is not admission day, exam day or result day – but the day of campus placement. Lives are made and broken on this monumental day – good luck if you screw THAT day up!
13. With so many engineers graduating every year, it is not a surprise that a big number of them are left jobless – or, for better or for worse, opt for MBA to bring some semblance of employment in their lives.
14. So you became an engineer – the proud kid of your parents? Yeah well, good luck finding a job that pays you as handsomely as you prayed for during those feverish nights of pre-exam mugging. Unfortunately, most engineers in India go on to get jobs with low salary. Hello, frustration!
15. If you are an engineer, you are automatically expected by your relatives and friends to fix the electronics and malfunctioning machines around the house. After all, “an engineer is a glorified mechanic only na?” Uh…
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