Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A Degree Called "Bachelor Of Technology!!"

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.[;])

18 comments:

  1. Dude, i guess i have become habitue to your blog... it was a nice try to efface the adjure to shift to an austere vocabulary, but please, your thoughts deserve to reach the commoner.

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  2. Adding to what chotu said..well described post..If I were u, I would have added loads of humour into the post..But still it's nice..:) keep blogging..

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  3. i agree with both of them dude...!! because of your high class vocab one loses the feel of what u r saying... and engross him/her self in dictionary to understand the meaning of the words...
    Still a gud one bro... :)

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  4. well, a bit humorous though, especially the point of ur cold wars and shalini mishra combined... nice blog... written in a passive mood... cheer up dude..its nt the end of the life.. u gt farthest thn ne of d IT guys cud... tht gives u a rsn to instill faith in urself!!!:)

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  5. and adi: its his blog...he hs d right to use ne vocab he wants( siding avi coz wrds he used wr awesome!!) if u dont noe the wrd, google it..simple!!

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  6. flummoxed,as u intended it to be.bt i sense a slight feelin of regret in ur tone as to hw u ve lived dese 3 years.call me shameless but i am toh proud of it.to my very core.enjoyed a lot,learnt a lot,mugged a lot(lol).
    and pls dude dnt ring the alarm bells so soon,we ve gt a lotta tym so continue the "princely life".
    btw the most desirable company,definitely not microsoft.

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  7. u feel dat da reason u dint make it thru,ws b/c u enjoyed ur collg lyf.dat aint true.i know the oder who guys who made it thru to the interviews along wid u,slogged fr the entire 3 years and still ended up nt being selected.so cheer up buddy, u ve spent ur tym in the best possible manner.der r loads o oder companies to come.

    wht u ve achieved is commendable bro,kudos!!!

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  8. @aditya: dude, u prepping 4 mba nw..so, dis vocab sud b lyk familiar stuff. thnx 4 ur suggestions thou. i vil c whr i cn improve upon.
    @vamsi: thnx mate. der is a sad humour abt d article, if u hv gone thru certain lines as aman points out. i dint wanna spoil my motive behind d article by being 2 comical.
    @garima: thnx sis. as i said, i needed 2 b vry specific abt certain feelings n expressions. so, i hv 2 tk d use of vry specific words, hvng 2 use high vocab in d process.

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  9. @aman: thnx a lot bro esp 4 siding me on dat vocab thing!!:)
    well, yes..d article has a regretful side 2 it, bt m nt pessimistic. jst analysing stuff n wandering whr it cud hv got bettr.
    @dizzy: well..well..my fav critic..as xpctd d most minute of observations...thnx mate.
    d article is slightly regretful, bt ofcrz as i said, m a fan of btech's luxuries 2..jst analysing if thngz cud bettr smwhr n if we cn finally hv d cake wid d cherry on top by d end of 4 yrs.
    thnx again:)

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  10. @evry1: at certain points, wen i hv written "me" it doesnt necessarily mean "jst me".
    i gess sum of u missd out on dat, so had 2 mention it separately.

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  11. hmm.. Interesting article. Your expedient seems to be pretty simple.Put in a truckload of crippling and onerous jargon which leaves the readers flabbergasted and in awe of your resolute hold over the english language and voila!! you have a fan following which is all nonetheless commendable. Well done. - stita

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  12. Gud 1 Avinash...luks lyk sum1 has started studying seriously 4 gre!! reminds me of sumthing else u said a few days back about multitasking ;)
    Anyways...an eloquent 1..outstanding vocab..:) tasteful theme with a valuable moral :)
    i guess u r rite..we shud start studying nw..d "luxury days" r about to end !:)
    Well done.. :)

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  13. kya barbaad likh rakha hai..... aage se aisa kuch likha toh user abuse use karke tera blog band karwa dunga........ saale bas pelna aata hai tujhe....aur kuch kiya hai aj tak......
    bas dictionary kholke phadu words chune aur likh diya..... log blog padhe ya dictionary dekhe???...... ghanta hai tu,,,,,

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  14. kya barbaad likh rakha hai..... aage se aisa kuch likha toh user abuse use karke tera blog band karwa dunga........ saale bas pelna aata hai tujhe....aur kuch kiya hai aj tak......
    bas dictionary kholke phadu words chune aur likh diya..... log blog padhe ya dictionary dekhe???...... ghanta hai tu,,,,,

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  15. Dude..get over urself n ur snobbery.
    Stop using that thesauras lying there on your desk and if u really have some intellectual worth then write somethng original and post it next time..
    Writing such crap wont get you anywhere but in deep shit of even more shitty words !!
    good luck for next time

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  16. kuch dhang ka likh de yaar please.
    Aise bakwaas article mat likh and logon ko padhne pe majboor mat kar

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  17. @Stita: i had look down d meaning of "onerous", althou it seemd vry explicit in itz context. thnx 4 ur compliment. nt xctly n inspiring article as u wishd, bt hopefully, mre intent.
    @kriti: thnx dear. i gess, u vry precisely briefed d xct point i hv tryd 2 mk..n ya multitasking is at itz peak!!;)

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  18. @anonymous frnz: thnx guyz 4 d publicity..i gess sm myt evn pay a visit 2 my blog 2 read ur comments n lyk my blog instead!!:p
    vil kp ur views in mind nxt tym around thou!!(i smtymz hate being diplomatic)

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