Priya's Blog

March 14, the biggest day in my life. I was declared as an engineer officially. I was given first seat in the ceremony hall. I was very anxious to get my degree. With lot of anticipation i was counting the minutes. The dice was decorated with many dignitaries. There was a huge gathering of friends. We all cherished our beautifull moments. By 11 function started. Till now it was going good only. At the time when our principal started to give his speech. I felt some lecturer is taking class which we don't like to listen at all. Oops!! I was pushing my time. After making all of us sleep. He went back to his seat.

Now our chief guest started to deliver his message. He was speaking about who is an engineer? and who is an professional? and who must have ethics? and all stuffs which are related to us.

But i was not able to concentrate on his speech as something was disturbing. Actually i asked a question that wont we know who is an engineer? or what is professionalism? but we don't act according to that.

According to me engineering is " return of invesment in a short period of time " and i don't accept myself an engineer. Because i read something which was written by someone just to clear the exams. But as we know engineering is an conceptual one. It is not a matter of getting through. It is the matter of gaining knowledge. I studied thoey papers which are outdated and did prracticals which have the pre written results. So what is the use of doing a technical course without getting anything. This is why an engineer is not receiving the proper respect from the society. So this is the fault in our syllabus or our educational system.

As i was thinking about these things they called of my name to receive the degree. I was moving on to the stage and got my prestige. While getting down from stage i thought that i did nothing in my engineering but then all will accept me also as an engineer!!!!