Last Friday morning, for 70 absorbing minutes, my engineering life was at its acme. I had the closest shot at the most desirable company, that we all know by the name of "Microsoft". I also had scores of smss flooding my inbox with words of wishes and accolades. A moment of enlightenment. Maybe, i still got time to avoid being another "Engineering Jackass"!!
3 years into my engineering, i have been at every crossroad and i have done it all. Perfunctory lessons of guitar, a course on the semantics of swimming for the sake of my loving "snobbery",valiant, countable work-outs at the free gym, copious flirting, attended meetings of the most renowned and dormant of clubs, guilty of situation-driven puffing, distasteful wine-tasting, hours of facebooking and a crippled spree of late-night poker, besides owning a polemic disarray of friends and making it to the elite "9 pointers" by a wispy margin. Such is the disparate set of activities, it is esoteric to determine what out of this, accouters me to earn the degree of btech.
(Yes. I have always had a soft corner for sarcasm.)
(I get a lot of brouhaha(meaning complaints) on my needless usage of grandiose vocabulary. But guyz, i have a gre exam to appear and for me, my blog is not just another distinguished inspirational or regretful piece of crap!![:)])
$$Retracting to our original topic of concern$$
Microsoft, this time around, wasn't that scary feeling it used to be. It wasn't that spectral, inaccessible offer adorned in a "10 lacs package". I saw it close. It was this connoisseur of savvy and logic. Terrible as it may sound, ironical it is that a lucid understanding of "data structures" was all it demanded. Irony stretches further, as i recollect a semesterful of "bharath sir" and "Gilberg-Forouzan" existed in my curriculum. But i have always had preferences and priorities. Toiling incessantly for declining relationships. Start cold wars. Fight cold wars. Lose Cold wars. Explore meticulously, a stately Vellore. Drool over at the fairest of singletons. An obscure and mysteriously hot Shalini Misra to recreate and entertain. I have never stayed aloof from a hectic schedule. But sadly, Microsoft never conducted a round of self-introspection to acknowledge my feat of chronologically scaling every milestone conventionally associated with the four years of btech and i now begin to believe the trend will continue for the rest of the companies too.
At this juncture, i am pragmatic to accede a new future in mba or mtech or gre. The blueprint of our education system and a rich family legacy ensures that no disappointment lies ahead of our degree of btech. We will always have options. In fact, this is a conducive time for my fellow mates who want to pursue their vocations. At least, they have a "3 idiots" example to validate their inappropriate btech career. I am no exception.
Almost through with my article, i suppose i have flummoxed my entire audience, who have been determined enough to read the whole article, even if its cumbersome and a satirical welter of thoughts. What point am i trying to make? I am not intending to whet my fellow engineers or mock at their princely life of engineering. I am an aficionado of "Long Live Btech and Its Luxuries!!". The point is, itz still early march and we have measured thicker books than Forouzan in less than fortnights. If i knew i could still prepare and establish a better and welcoming post btech life for me, i wouldn't mind wheedling my chances.
Ofcourse, we all got a face like Tom Cruise and a brain like Bill Gates (aur koi maa-ka-laal hamara kuch nehi bigad sakta), but at this time of the year lets just hope it is not some trivial piece of code that sucks from us, a happening and prosperous future.
(Kudos to readers who understood the aforesaid line from itz very nudity.[;])
3 years into my engineering, i have been at every crossroad and i have done it all. Perfunctory lessons of guitar, a course on the semantics of swimming for the sake of my loving "snobbery",valiant, countable work-outs at the free gym, copious flirting, attended meetings of the most renowned and dormant of clubs, guilty of situation-driven puffing, distasteful wine-tasting, hours of facebooking and a crippled spree of late-night poker, besides owning a polemic disarray of friends and making it to the elite "9 pointers" by a wispy margin. Such is the disparate set of activities, it is esoteric to determine what out of this, accouters me to earn the degree of btech.
(Yes. I have always had a soft corner for sarcasm.)
(I get a lot of brouhaha(meaning complaints) on my needless usage of grandiose vocabulary. But guyz, i have a gre exam to appear and for me, my blog is not just another distinguished inspirational or regretful piece of crap!![:)])
$$Retracting to our original topic of concern$$
Microsoft, this time around, wasn't that scary feeling it used to be. It wasn't that spectral, inaccessible offer adorned in a "10 lacs package". I saw it close. It was this connoisseur of savvy and logic. Terrible as it may sound, ironical it is that a lucid understanding of "data structures" was all it demanded. Irony stretches further, as i recollect a semesterful of "bharath sir" and "Gilberg-Forouzan" existed in my curriculum. But i have always had preferences and priorities. Toiling incessantly for declining relationships. Start cold wars. Fight cold wars. Lose Cold wars. Explore meticulously, a stately Vellore. Drool over at the fairest of singletons. An obscure and mysteriously hot Shalini Misra to recreate and entertain. I have never stayed aloof from a hectic schedule. But sadly, Microsoft never conducted a round of self-introspection to acknowledge my feat of chronologically scaling every milestone conventionally associated with the four years of btech and i now begin to believe the trend will continue for the rest of the companies too.
At this juncture, i am pragmatic to accede a new future in mba or mtech or gre. The blueprint of our education system and a rich family legacy ensures that no disappointment lies ahead of our degree of btech. We will always have options. In fact, this is a conducive time for my fellow mates who want to pursue their vocations. At least, they have a "3 idiots" example to validate their inappropriate btech career. I am no exception.
Almost through with my article, i suppose i have flummoxed my entire audience, who have been determined enough to read the whole article, even if its cumbersome and a satirical welter of thoughts. What point am i trying to make? I am not intending to whet my fellow engineers or mock at their princely life of engineering. I am an aficionado of "Long Live Btech and Its Luxuries!!". The point is, itz still early march and we have measured thicker books than Forouzan in less than fortnights. If i knew i could still prepare and establish a better and welcoming post btech life for me, i wouldn't mind wheedling my chances.
Ofcourse, we all got a face like Tom Cruise and a brain like Bill Gates (aur koi maa-ka-laal hamara kuch nehi bigad sakta), but at this time of the year lets just hope it is not some trivial piece of code that sucks from us, a happening and prosperous future.
(Kudos to readers who understood the aforesaid line from itz very nudity.[;])
