I think the most important lessons of engineering are to be learnt outside the class room. Engg more than a humongously large number of subjects each semester has to be about surviving on your own. If you are lucky as I am, you will live in a hostel and there will be no place to run away from all the troubles of life. Conflicts will literally follow you to your room. You will grapple with roommates some of them pleasant and the rest outrightly hostile and at one time or the other even the best will go through a snapping and biting phase.
Everything you own will be at risk of being permanently borrowed and u will be
lucky if u dont loose some stuff or the other each week.
There ain't no mom or dad to run too. You have to stand your ground even if there is the threat of wider conflict.
There is nobody to turn to in case of an illness. You lie in your bed fully miserable with a line or two of consolation from a buddy.
You grapple with impossible deadlines. U meet some and others simply pass by like long over crushes.
This is no joke. This is life.
But this is the whole advantage of engg. The lessons one learns are the lessons of life. For future MBA Grads these are worth their weight in gold. Because there is no easy way to learn these lessons. Tuorials cant help anyone here.
Expeience often comes from previous poor judgement.
Engineering Zindabad
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