My Experience

Floating with the stream against the will :As a student peer and parental pressure did not leave much freedom to identify one’s strengths and work on corresponding careers .the career choices are limited engineer, doctor or loser. Believe me if you are a science student then if you can’t get into an engineering or medical college (of a reputed A graded university) then you will be termed as a loser even the science combinations in schools are divided into medical stream and engineering stream. This was ingrained in our minds. Again college, branch, entrance test rank i.e. whether the seat is earned by donation (in reputed private college) or any quota decide the amount of respect you will get in college, university in other words among people. In 2005 I got into government engineering college with a good rank which was affiliated to indraprastha university ,Delhi from very first day we know that we have got below 1000 rank(generally for everyone in that college for 2005 batch ) out of one lakh students. So we were having satisfaction of beating above 100 students for each single seat. The preparation of the engineering entrance exam consumes so much that the first few months passed with a celebration of victory, a sense of satisfaction laced with arrogance .the desire to learn takes a back seat and the student ventures out to try new, sometimes forbidden things. Since metropolis cities have more competition as compared to urban and sub-urban counterparts. The first year of study gets wasted away in discussing the more reputed college for example in our college regular gossiping on NIT’S , DCE, NSIT, IIIT’S,IIT’S occurred almost everyday. Few guys were riding on two ships first IIT-JEE preparation and second 1st year of engineering so no learning occurs in first year . Then we jumped into 2nd year where we were welcomed by few tough subjects like signal and systems , analog electronics (for ECE branch) etc (i.e. engineering toughness at its peak). Like all the guys (approximately all) mine experience as a student is also not very great .most of our classes did not generate interest for the subject .some of our faculty find ways to spend their classroom time as it was a formality. some of them would spend whole time dictating the notes that were copied from different books, sometimes from a single book(in that case students buy that particular book) ,some teachers would keep on writing on board and keep talking to themselves. Some students was too fattu they submit their assignments regularly. The engineering drawing figures was copied by using table lamps, wax papers etc. sometimes assignments were submitted by taking copy of a student and then changing the cover of copy and then resubmitting it ( because teachers were too lazy they never bother to open assignment notebooks they just mark the name of student who have submitted the assignment and return assignment copy), in preparation of semester exams expected questions were identified by previous year question papers or talking to seniors. Some students even circulate slips that contains answers to these questions (although I don’t have courage to do that , hats off to those persons), some are bold enough to exchange even answer sheets

Like arjun has aimed on eye of sparrow everybody use to aim for the magic number 50 (passing marks) In Indraprastha university, Delhi the placements occurs in 6th sem. During placements we mug up every thing even the name of personal details ,birth date, etc of the placement agency hired by mnc’s. In the end almost everybody eligible gets placement before 7th sem From 4th year every body seems to be buried in English vocabulary or arts or social science books to get into civil services ,top B schools ,foreign university(where social service plays important role) Like all colleges in our college also the practical files were only formality and practicals a burden where teachers show their supremacy. I am a day scholar so I have to daily go up to college and down to home which generally consumes 5-6 hours a day and daily transport facilities of Delhi are so good that sometimes blue line busses seems to be so crowded( word crowded is an understatement I mean busses are unimaginably crowded) that these appears to be last bus to escape from a war-zone (like iraq) which was created by delhi-sealing problem ,gujjar reservations , Olympic torch, republic day parade, traffic police chalans (for bribery).i have proofs for that also according to a latest survey delhi’s transport service is even worse then Pakistan ,Iraq, sri lanka The one problem that our college was having was lack of creation of interest our branch have one girl. And it’s a proved fact that presence of girls in class makes study more interesting for boys so it was dull in that aspect also. In mine case I was a shy guy I even feel shy to talk to girls. I have written this article tell my friends that what we want and what we are getting into Fortunately after a lot of soul searching I have find out what I want to do and have gathered the enough courage to peruse that after being an engineer but this time in enemy’s territory will also be memorized by me in future(in other words four years of engineering). But some of my friends do not even know what they want to do and what they will do… ………..

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