Life of an Engineer!
Engineering isn’t just a degree. It actually is a rite of passage that prepares you for life. It is an approach, a thought process, a foundation that actually prepares you. You are ‘Engineered for Life Excellence’.
- First Taste of Independence: This is usually the first time we leave the safe confines of our homes and family! The little bird leaves the nest to face the world by itself!
- Enter Competition! You realise that despite being the topper at school, here you really have to work hard to be among the best - it is an environment that challenges you to be at your best!
- Life starts getting Practical: You start seeing practical applications of all that you learn - be it Applied Mechanics, Motors or Digital Signal Processing!
- The options are a plenty! You start looking at career options across fields, starting with your core. An IT job with its fun looking lifestyle and better initial paychecks becomes an inviting prospect!
- Knowledge Tree building: We get better and better at distilling things to their essence. We work more on the lines of Elon Musk’s knowledge tree having realised that rote-learning and sophomoric knowledge don’t cut it
- We love pressure: We start handing pressure better - we can do last minute preparations, consume a crazy amount of information in a short while and still end up with good CGPAs!
- Been there, Done that! It is usually during Engineering that we get introduced - First drink, first smoke, first sex, first high from weed, first serious relationship, first porn, first job, first venture, first failure. There isn’t anything that we haven’t tried!
- The Tribe of like-minded folks; We understand friendships better - you start knowing your ‘tribe’ and realise that it is perfectly ok if you do not get along with everyone. Aspiration levels, EQ, intellect and fun propensity play an important role in the selection process.
- The Class Act: We become really good jugglers - classes, projects, relationships, science/literary/sports clubs, inter-college competitions. Hackathons and a whole slew of activities while ensuring our CGPAs!
- Engineers for Life: All through life, technology adoption is natural for us. Every problem is approached with more logic and less heart. We love pressure situations and persist where anyone lesser would have given up! Failures don’t shake us and success doesn’t stop us. And we are fiercely competitive - no matter what!
I love being an Engineer!