Are you an Engineer? Well then don't be surprised! We all are!!!

I  guess everyone will be checkin out their updates abt their friends in facebook nd orkut rite..? It was the month of may when i saw some updates *!@#$,B.TEch , Yipee iam also a B.Tech.. Even i too had it until recently.. These days the B.Tech degree has become so easy to get it.. Jus stay in a college for 4 yrs nd there u r... Mostly u ll be getting ur btech degree without any problem.. This is the most common thing these days.. atleast in the south for sure... The craaze for other degrees is all out.. When i was a kid of some 9-10 yrs my mom used to tell me if u score above 85 in 10th Std u take engineering... 65-85 commerce below 65 arts.. And i want u to be an engineer.. Engineers were respected a lot.. People at  my place respect my father because he is an engineer.. Once upon a time a “dream” profession which only a few “Elite” achieved now has become a most achievable. Choose any field, an engineer would certainly be there! Be it MBA Colleges, Administration, BPOs, Technical Companies , Consultancies, Tax Auditing companies, Banks, Stocks, etc. You name it we are therein it...! .

Let me tell u wat most of our fraternity ppl are doin...

Ask anyone in a good position what to do after Engineering and their immediate reply would be "Do an MBA dude" Well that  is wat I, one among the fraternity is preparing for( Seriously Am I.???)... I think 95% of the ppl preparing for CAT is from this fraternity. And also 70% of the ppl who are going to be "The Engineers" are preparing for CAT. I think institutes lyk CAT, IMS, CL,etc are surviving ly bcoz of the fraternity...   The funny part is Many of the people who run these “educational centres” are also Engineers who somehow managed to do MBA from IIMs or thereof. There is no escaping from “us”, the Fraternity. 

We Engineers have breached every boundary and haven’t left any stone untouched! MS ("from Abroad") is again the thing these days among the fraternity. MS is Masters of Science, and not Masters of Engineering! We’ve exploited the 16yrs of Formal education rule applicable to Universities abroad. This rule doesn’t allow B.Sc people to do MS straightaway after Graduating, as BSc is for 3yrs, so in all 12+3=15! However, this rule is changing somewhat but holds true in 8/10cases! MS is not a bad option, in fact a very good one! But its a very costly one.. Of course one might argue when getting an MBA from IIM is costing u 15 Lakhs and MS is gonna cost u somewhere around 20-25 lakhs whats the point...? But the thing is ROI on MS doesnt look very bright... but wher as frm an IIM its way too bright... After all at the end of the day what everyone wants is to earn money.. But a senior of mine told me recently the situation has improved a lot and things are looking very good over there for students especially the CS guys.. but still India is a very hard place to leave... :) (lots of love for my motherland)

But  the majority of the fraternity after finishing their "B.Tech degree" is getting into jobs and that too software jobs.. There was a tym wen software jobs used to be very prestigious.... But nw with TCS alone offering 30,000 jobs a year surely the no of  fraternity ppl getting into the software jobs must be something around 3,00,000... which makes it around 30-40% of the fraternity ppl... Surely these jobs are good.. and they pay u a notch higher than other core ppl... It doesnt matter which group u belong to u can be into the computers field.. In IITs most of the CS guys consider 12-13 lacs as a very good offer but where as other group ppl 8-9 lacs as a good offer... And in other "prestigious institutions" like PEC software gives them 23-28 at a start and the core companies 15-18 ( nt lacs thousands a month)... So obviuosly software wallas salary is higher... 

Most people getting through the toughest IAS are again from the fraternity! Many people working in BPOs (Call Centres) are from the fraternity too. 

What is shocking to see is that is that even now Banks are now hiring from the fraternity! The fraternity over there is hidden from the public’s eye. They are given a tag of a “Probationary Officer” and a tag of "Cashier". While this is meant for any Graduate the inner meaning commerce graduates, but we too are “Graduates”.Guess there are no jobs left out.. We pounce over every piece of meat! Even though we know nothing about this meat. Whether it is Chicken’s or Cow’s or Pig’s :)! Now we are Bankers too!

As the fraternity is so widespread, Recession was ought to hit us the most!  I’m sure someone from the fraternity must’ve been working with Lehmann Brothers or watever bullshit bank , who somehow managed to cause their downfall and in turn World Economic Meltdown! After all we are the creators of our own destiny... :)

The fraternity practices “Leave no stone untouched!” So we have people from the fraternity everywhere...

People do ask me most of the times fraternity wallas nd also the non fraternity wallas, which branch do u belong to.. I do tell them then again i think does it really matter.. watever the case most of them will be joining software nd the other jobs which doesnt need any sort of branch dependency... But still the young generation these days who are going to be one among the fraternity in a few days prefer this branch called "Electronics nd Communication engineering". I still dnt knw why this is the most sought after branch... Most of them tell Take ECE nd u ll do wonders... I dnt understand what wonders the 2 lakh odd ppl who graduate frm ECE every year do... No offense ECE ppl ...Even my princi told on Aug 9 2006,ECE ppl r the cream of the college... 

But still u knw the fraternity can be very logical nd everythin.. Probably its because its with what we have to study.. Most of the things which we study has to do with formulas nd all so somehow whatever u study gets into ur mind nd gets into ur vocabulary.... Believe it.. Really it happens.. I ll tell u one example.. When ur friend asks u (nt from the fraternity)" What r the chances for  India win this match...?" U say" I dnt knw.. With 4 out of 11 main players nt playin, the probability is way too low man" 

SO wat i feel is these days the engineers though are more intelligent and more creative they do lack something.. They run behind success nd nt excellence.. So as Baba Ranchod das Chanchad says Run behind Excellence and Success will be automatically urs...

Gooonnneee r those days

Ask anyone who is a graduate wat his best tym of  lyf was.. and if he s a normal person his  reply will be "My colz days" that to with a smile on his face.. He would tell that "Cha those were the days dude i enjoyed the most.. Lots of fun.. Lots of friends.." So i was sitting and thinkin wats the difference ...?

The main thing the colz gives us s the freedom.. All sorts of freedom.. And this freedom s more when u live in hostel.. I learnt what actual freedom means. Till then, my life was a regimen. Study study and more study.Enforced with a cane, kind of routine. The kind of military regimen you encounter in a corporate college in Andhra Pradesh. Wake up a 5 AM, Brush teeth(if possible)-Wash face-Change clothes-And out by 5.15 to study the physics involved in kinematics, why water is called as H2O and more importantly secure a good rank in IIT-JEE, AIEEE, EAMCET, BITSAT,etc.. (the list goes on )

I had completely failed in all the examinations other than this exam called  JET which 95% of Andhra Pradesh students haven't heard of. Thanks to the nativity of my father i landed up in this place called Pondicherry. And finally there i was at the gateway of freedom.. an exhilaration when i entered the portals of PEC. I felt so grown up. So big. So matured. (Till i encountered my seniors during the ragging sessions :P)

No more study hours. No more wardens and P.D.'s to tell you to "Study.. Study.." At that time i understood why everyone from Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Bhai to Mahatma Gandhi fought for it. Yup freedom!! Realised y people waged wars for it. I went headlong into it on August 9 ,2006. The first few days of my new freedom was taken away by seniors. Not that i was ragged lyk the way they show it in 3 idiots. But still No buses No walkin into mess with boxers on and some small things.. But still those days are very memorable.. As there was no responsibility on me. And those were the last days of me being a regular student goin to class by 9 in the morning and gettin 5 marks in the attendance and all..

And once i entered 2nd year things started changin... Irregularity increased.  This was the tym when i first tasted sin.. My first **, My first ****.. and so on... a  lot of firsts..  It was where I learnt to beg. For attendance. For marks. For value. For different things.. The professors were of the opinion that I would make a great marketer. One who could sell anything. This was the place where i learnt to lie.( The basic requirement for a man to succeed in todays lyf)

Those are the days when atleast 5 of my friends used to knock my door atleast 3 times a day starting from 7:30 to 9:15 in the morning. And finally when i get up at 9:30 in the morning the first thing i do is switch on my computer and check if the yesterdays download has been completed.. Then Reluctantly i go to the bathroom for brushing my teeth hopin that some of the breakfast is still left out for me... And while eatin the white stones(idly) or the oily brown paper(puri nd dosa) i decide whether i am in a mood to go for the colz.. If i decided that that the class s a requirement( for attendance) which i generally dont, i go to the class hopin that the prof allows me without askin stupid qs... 

Those are the days i used to watch movies lyk hell.. All types of films :P. I stayed back durin my 5th semester hols oly for watching  movies ( not those oly but all)... Probably i ll never watch those many in my lyf again.. 

Those are the days i used to visit a lot of restaurants in pondicherry decidin which is better so that it could be made as our regular spot. Be it 50 or 500 we always found ways to fill our stomach.. 

Those are the days i used to go alone to the beach sit in the beach for an hour or so feeling the pleasent breeze of pondicherry air. 

Those are the days i used to sit late  upto 3 or 4 in the night( i guess u call it as morning) and watch things i shouldnt and doing things i shouldnt.. :)

Those are the days  i used to start my prepartaion for the semester exam oly on the day before the exam at probably 10 in the morning. My record being 10 in the night for my last exam which i maanged to scrap a D.

Oh God.. I miss those days..

My first blog..

From many days i have been following many a blogs and wanted to start mine own.. I was a bit reluctant to start.. Probably because i felt i cant write huge paragraphs or because i cant make people smile when they read my blog.. But now i am absolutely free and have nothing productive to be done here i am to test my skills as a writer and to see if i can pen down my feelings as i feel them.. Anyway i ll try to post something on a regular basis... Hope things work out fine..