37.5% Engineer?

I have been thinking a lot lately. Am just writing something of what I have felt/thought/thinking right now…

-Am really looking forward to go home. (Now thats not surprising really, is it?)

-I just love my laptop.

-Its starting to get really cold here. And I don’t like it one tiny bit.

-My Comprehensive (endsem) exams are virtually over-there is only this “Rep Wri” remaining ( thats Technical Report Writing for you)

-I guarantee that no one can tell which stream of engineering I am pursuing if they have a look at my bookshelf. Its just impossible. Here is the list:

Organic Chemistry, Unix fundamentals, Programming in ANSI C, , Inorganic Chemistry, How to Solve it by a Computer, Introduction to Material Science and Engineering, Material science and Engineering-a First course, Signals and Systems, Programming in C, Basic Electrical Engineering, Technical report Writing, The C programming Language, Essentials of Management, The Intel Microprocessor, Measurement techniques -I (Biology,Chemistry and Physics) , Measurement Techniques -II, Differential Equations with Applications, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, An Introduction to the Mechanics of Solids.

Whew!

-Do I feel like I am already 37.5% of an engineer? Not really. In fact-not one bit! But then I think it willl all come after doing the core courses. This is something in the way BITS conducts its courses. They have a common course structure for all the engineering degrees for almost TWO years rather than the usual one year. So it is like after 2 years of doing engineering, one doesn’t know anything much about the subject he/she is supposed to study. Sometimes its really frustrating while sometimes I really think that it was for good. I made a list for myself of all the courses that I did upto now:

Sem-I

Thermodynamics, Maths-I (Advanced Calculus), Chemistry -I(Physical), Physics-I (Mechanics) , Biology (yes you read it right), Workshop Practice.

Sem-II

Maths-II (Linear Algebra and Complex Variables), Probability and Statistics, Engineering Graphics with Autocad, Chemistry-II(Organic), Physics -II(Electrodynamics), Computer Programming-I.

Sem-III

Maths-III(Differential Equations), Mechanics Of solids, Computer Programming-II, Electrical Sciences-I, Measurement techniques-!, Technical Report Writing.

So it is like I am “Jack of all Master of none”. Is it? Or will it give me an edge over the other engineers?  Whatever said and done, I am really glad that I got to study Biology. Seriously. I mean it.

-During these one and a half years, I am slowly but definitely arriving at the conclusion that  the location of BITS is a distinct Disadvantage rather than an Advantage as claimed by many. I so wish that it was near a city. ( Let the city be Mumbai 🙂 )

-FRIENDS is the greatest series ever produced. Period.