Why do i get the feeling that I am not learning much about engineering in IIT?

Lets take a look. I've been here for the past two years, thats half my course completed and the only thing i've learnt about engineering is that you do not need to study much to get decent grades !! Whoa.. that was really not the reason why i entered this place. It was, if i remember right ,with a passion to learn, to be the best ( was it really? well i do not know. Boy, i've changed a lot and this might be a consequence of that. Or not). But you know now that i look back on these years i really do not remember what i have learnt in class. As a person, i will agree that I have definitely grown and have started making decisions of my own, learning to live on my own, roughing it out, standing on my own feet, and having fun at the same time. I've found happiness, I've found passions, I've found adventures, I've even found love. But when it comes to engineering, well, unfortunately what i've found i've either lost it as soon as i did, or i never found it at all. Take my friends who are doing the same mechanical engineering course in other colleges. They speak of stuff I have never even heard about. This design, that circuit, this code. My oh my, you've lost me totally guys. 

Why is it this way? Is it something amiss with the way we study here? Could be, our semesters are very short, we have the least number of classes( we crib about it still, we sleep them off, we wake up, we find end sems, the quizzes are a vague memory). And in these semesters are packed a host of extra and co curricular activities. To give you an example - all that my mom thinks i do is shaastra, saarang and mechanica and fun ( i never fail to mention that)  ! Lol. And to top it all anyone who opens his books well before the night of the exam is tagged a 'muggu'. God!! 

I really do not understand this. Now that i'm doing an intern in wheels india, i've learnt that there are loads of things about real engineering that i do not follow or dont give a damn. Its also made me realise that people from my college all prefer white collar jobs over core engineering ones. I'm going that way too. Pray, my mom would never understand. But thats the way it is. With my track record on marketing, i'd seamlessly slip into any job in that sector. 

IIT M offers you a lot besides engineering, people. In fact it offers the 'lot' part more than engineering. And here i am experiencing it to the fullest. 

A noble thought

I've been thinking. Its not often that i do it but when i do venture down that moss-overgrown path it is with some reason and purpose( and care, cause the moss is slippery.. lol... forgive the pun, i'm just too excited with this new macbook of mine :P ). 

Elections for the second largest democracy in the world have just been completed and the results are out. If you think politics is out and governance is in, well think again, some ppl are just too caught up with politics ! As the country awaits the selection of the cabinet ministers I wonder why is it that ppl who truly deserve the post do not want it and those whom the PM just barely managed not to name them as corrupt and inefficient are fighting like a pack of wild dogs over it. Gets one thinking, well it certainly got me thinking, is democracy the right form of governance. Or its success is just a farce? Or is there something fundamentally wrong with the concept which puts the least efficient person in the most powerful post? 

I had this 2 hour long discussion on politics with my parents ], grandparents and cousins and by god it was awesome, being the most illuminating discussion of my life. I learnt a host of stuff abt politics, how it operates, how it should, how it can be made better ( easy enough, just elect the goddammed right person, ppl !! ). It got me thinking by the end of it, why dont i give it a shot? There are a host of things i want to see changed about the country. And out there are definitely a few ppl at least who share the same ideas as me. The same passion burns in them too. Its not an easy decision to make. And i'm biding my time, one reason being, well i've still got college to finish!! 

FYI, I did not vote this time. What use is there, if all u can do is vote for the lesser of two evils?

Democracy was not meant to be like this....

writers block???!!!

Well sinclair has been caught up with some really work (atleast i hope tat is the reason) for his inability to provide quality posts everyday. and i am sure u r all aware of the extremely high quality standards tat we impose on ourselves to make this blog a better read for u all.....in other words we r just out of ideas to write. Pls be assured that we r a bit down frm the CSK loss to RCB......of all the teams they had to lose the semis to RCB......well i guess i hv wasted enough time already not studying for my sem exams.....and if anyone got any brilliant ideas for our next post pls keep it to urself we r all the more capable of thinking of one........:)

1 in 2

I am getting really bad now at churning out good posts to keep my trusty readers interested. I notice that visits have been on the drop. What I feel is instead of bringing out postd every day maybe i should make it once in two days. Hmmm.. I thought with the holidays i'd be able to achieve the goal of one article per day. But getting quite tough as holidays drag on and enthusiasm drops. So many plans i had.. Well still trying to achieve most of them. Should not drop behind too much. Must keep up.. Must... must....

KKR play spoilsport

Whoa... Who would have have thought the Kolkata Knight Riders could actually win matches !!
But do they have to do it now? When all hope is lost, when so many teams were counting on them. :-P .. Poor CSK (well they still stand a chance of getting through to the semis). But the RR would be one disappointed lot. And the defending champions too. Let down by a team they were counting on. Come to think of it what good does this win do to the KKR? Their return tickets tickets are booked. All they had to do was relax, play for the sake of playing, all the while dreaming about relaxing days to be spent at home watching the IPL semis and finals on TV :-)
Certainly played the spoil sport this team !! Anyway Rajasthan Royals well played IPL09 for u guys. Disappointing you wont be able to defend the title.. Let the tears out. Shilpa leads the way :-) She needs a shoulder to rest her head perhaps. Well got two broad ones here :P.. But unfortunately a couple of thosand miles away :-(

The same old DICE !!

After 3 weeks of heated discussions and debates ( I hope they did all that, but if then again if they did do all that the next part would not have happened), they come back to square zero. The dice ?? Again ?? Hmmmm... design team must be really short on ideas. To not change the logo that came under so much flak. Seriously dudes.. the dice again. Someone pls wake me up and tell me it aint true.

The CSK do it again !!

And what a cracker of a match !! We predicted somewhere in the middle of the IPL that in one match Mcullum is gonna fire and woe betide the team that faces the music. Sadly it had to be the team I'm rooting for(maybe this aint that good a day after all - also i had to cut short a call which i really did not want to...hmmmm).
Hey and a good movie to watch - the notebook. For all those in love , savour it. For all those out of love, uh .. well..give it a miss, will ya...
Time to wrap up for the day. Inter's a-starting tomorrow and cant possibly be late for it !!
Tschau :-)