Engineering...The girlfriend you can cheat on

This article is meant to be an ego massage for all engineering students and not only because it talks about cheating on girlfriends. The reason is more philosophical, more psychological. Let me first dwell on the causes of dilapidation of this covetous profession. Most articles on engineering are written by either wannabe managers or wannabe writers who feel that engineering is the sole reason they couldn’t pursue their passion. Since wannabe engineers don’t savor a healthy relationship with the language, articles glorifying engineering are nowhere to be found. 

I have got two words for all those who lament about not following their passions and blame it on engineering. Be grateful. Be grateful that you don’t have a time table and a structured curriculum for doing something you love. The day you start being graded for following your passion, you’ll abhor it. At least now, you’re being graded for something you hate, apparently. So, engineering in a subliminal way makes you love your passion even more.

Moreover if you are so obsessed about your non engineering passions, remember this. The only thing that is going to pay your bills 5 years down the line is your bachelor’s degree in technology.

Also, all of us would agree to the well established fact that a degree in engineering opens all sorts of opportunities. You can do almost anything you want after you have supposedly “wasted” four years in a technical college, right from managing, finance, arts, literature, or even engineering itself. No other degree provides you with this leverage. Engineering is the only girlfriend you can cheat on and she won’t mind. Try doing that with a girl after 4 years, I dare you.

So next time you foul mouth engineering, don’t.

A Unique Bestowal -A Letter to Me by Me

Hey there, older me. First and foremost, I would begin by confessing that it’s the first time I am doing this and I know it sounds funny, but I am nervous. Anyways, you are older than me now and I hope you have gotten smarter; both metaphysically and psychologically. “They” would really like that. I couldn't ever figure out who “they” were, maybe just a bunch of people I’d wanted to please. Well, I’m done and it’s your liability now. To be honest, this is the only thing that I wanted to convey and all this “letter to a year old me” was an excuse for that. But since we are at it, let’s have a boy (me) to man (you) talk. Don’t worry. I will not talk about you having figured out what to do with your life and bullshit. Having said that, if you haven’t, I think you should. Also, I won’t ask if you have a girlfriend by now. Having said that, if you don’t, I think you should. I wouldn't even ask you if have joined a gym. Having said that, if you haven’t, I think you should. Look for a unisex gym, though.

You now know what you were a year back. In retrospect, you hadn't been that bad. Apart from some momentary lapses where you were a douche, it was a pretty good year; uneventful but pretty good. If you don’t top the mistakes, you did last year and of course, try not to repeat them even, believe me you’d get the one thing you want the most, whatever that might be. I obviously won’t make any assumptions about that because I don’t know what you like now.

Frankly I don’t have a clue what’s your reaction after reading this. Are you laughing your guts out? Are you crying your eyes out? Or do you just think its lame? Funny thing is I am never going to know.

And yeah, Happy Birthday.