finally a post .. :)

Time to remove the cobwebs on my blog...two months is a freaking lot. Too much has happened since I posted last. One whole year is over at BITS and we will have people junior to us next sem.
What does your first year at an engineering college normally teach you?
Nothing. And this is one of the most important realisations that should dawn upon you in the first year. Well ok...its not exactly nothing...as far as the whole experience of living in a fully residential college away from humanity is concerned. You learn quite a few survival skills. You learn how to go without enough food and clean clothes. And you also learn how much you depend on maggi, google and deo. How messaging and gtalk become as important as your tongue for bonding with people around you.

But as far as what college teaches you is concerned...its mostly crap that is hard to value...stuff that you mug up only because you have to. Stuff that you don’t have any clue how you are gonna apply in future. The books might not be all that useless but the same old methods of teaching and examination make sure you retain a very small part of the course. Depending on their interests people find solace in a course or two and keep cursing the rest. There are times when you don’t see any point of you being in an engineering college.

But too many things make up for that occasional dissatisfaction.


All the mugging and the stress...everything is worth the experience..the experience of living life as you never have and never will. Its a journey on road to self discovery....and when you truely understand that you shouldn’t be here studying this you also realise how much you belong to the place.