Well well well…people often say, world has changed, it has not remained as it was before, by saying this they mean there is no honesty, no humanity, no kindness and all praiseworthy human characteristics which of course are a rare observations these days, but can anyone fetch me a single soul who does not feel good when he or she witnesses a display of human honesty, kindness and spirituality, bring me one and I would owe you one, believe me its not gonna be that easy.
Let me put forth you an instance which I witnessed while I was traveling back home for dusshera puja.
I was not supposed to get reservation since I was too late in making my decision whether I was going home or not, though three quarters of all were going, I was moved by the statistics and finally resolved the idea to go. Since I was late, I could not get reservation quite obviously, somehow I managed to get a waiting ticket for sleeper class, generally I travel in third ac, but since there was no probability that I could settle my ass in an ac compartment with a waiting ticket, I found it more accountable to get a sleeper ticket and it was not much of a trouble since I had a lot of friends travelling in that train many with confirmed tickets and too many like me, but anyways, I boarded the train.
I was on my way back home, train was running swiftly, since I was about to leave the state, I thought I should enjoy my last few minutes of tariff voucher before being tagged as roaming, I dialed my local friends n bid them goodbye and chattered till I crossed the loc for the mobile service providers.
I was sitting with two of my friends from patna, we were on side lower berth, on our adjacent similar berth there was a good friend of mine, with a similar waiting tag, sitting with his friend, I knew his friend by face and department and he was quite a friend of mine also, but I never knew his name, even now I don’t know his name. The friends I was sitting with had a visitor approximately after an hour the train has left the platform, he as well was from their native place but was a lot indecent in his social conduct, as he was refusing constantly to leave the place, I decided to roam my butt and see some other friends sitting in other compartments, I went to guys of my class and spent my night their sitting on their RAC berth.
It was a new day and was a fine new day; I didn’t brush my teeth on that day and ate whatever I could get to swallow. Once again I reached my initial position and sat their, borrowed ipod from my friend and started listening to music he had, he had approximately a quarter less than twice a century songs in his ipod, but believe me it was real crap, the had stored the same songs twice or thrice with remixed versions and hip hop versions and rap and what so ever has been discovered till today, I must say, either he was an extraordinary and diehard music lover or he was just fooling around, anyways, it was now noon and was the time when I witnessed a rare phenomena of humanity.
I was sitting and listening to music and there was a boy who was cleaning the compartment with a rag, he did the same to my bay also and asked for a coin as expected, I didn’t had change, so I could not help it, but a lady sitting there gave him a coin, he moved on without showing any emotions, there were approximately seven people in the bay including me but just one rendered him money, but still he was contented, he moved to next bay, did his work, and asked for the same, there was a student of my college sitting in that bay, he gave him a coin which I am not sure what amount was, anyways, he asked him his home place and his name, boy was from Bhopal and his name was pushpendra, the guy from my college asked him to sit on the berth next to him and offered him an orange, the boy took it willingly, as the boy peeled off the orange the guy from my college put forth his magazine for him to put the peel on, he collected the peel and threw it out of window, at least in my life time I had seen for the first time, a passenger and more importantly a college guy collecting and throwing peels of orange from a cleaning boy, till the boy ate the orange, this guy took out a shirt from his suitcase and gave it to him, the shirt was fine, probably was a combed cotton shirt, he gave it to the boy and asked him to put on, the boy put on the shirt and went to wash basin to brush his hair and in his shirt, when he came back no one could imagine he was a cleaning boy, who cleans train compartments with a rag, I saw him smiling for the first time, his smile was pretty, after all he was a mere boy, but unfortunately did not had any childhood and play hood, but seeing him smile was great, I took out my cell phone and clicked a couple of snaps of him, which are still in my mobile and my brother on seeing them asked me who is he and did not say anything, I don’t know why, but I just want to keep the snaps. The boy was sitting there, I too could not stop myself and moved to that bay, we were sitting there asking about his family and all, there was a tea vendor, the guy bought him a cup of tea and gave a whole packet of biscuits, he ate half of them and kept the rest in the pocket of his new shirt, we asked him who for he was saving the biscuits and he replied, for my sister, the boy could see his sister for may be once or twice a week, but had care for her in his heart, I never knew that people at this level also have such feelings, I thought that for them the primary, the secondary and the concern at all levels is just to satisfy their starvation, but I was so so wrong, they are so much like us, like all of us, may they are a little low in their financial status, but at the level of human emotions, they are no inferior to us, they deserve the same respect as we do, and this I’ve learnt quite well, credit goes to my unnamed friend, now I should say, he was the HUMANE I was searching for…
Monday, October 13, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
What have I done???
I am an engineering 3rd year student. I have learnt a lot of new things since I was in 12th standard and I took admission in engineering course, but have I learnt as much as I was supposed to?...I think I haven’t and most of the people like me would bear a coincidence of thought with me. Is this my fault? May be it is, but is it my fault alone? Am I the only one to be held responsible for? Most of the people related to field of teaching, holding orthodox thoughts of seventies would say, yes, you are. But many of my friends and those related to the field of learning would say, I am not or rather they would say, we are not. Many people who have no idea about engineering education in India would be confused about my statement, so let me clarify it for them.
What most of the graduation students do during the course of their semesters is watching movies, gossip with friends, fancying around and sleeping more than eight hours a day, I am not talking about studious guys and toppers, they have their own routine to follow, but the big question is how many are toppers in a class of sixty, there are four or five or may be six at most. Is this figure satisfactory for a country holding population more than thousand millions?...I think it is not and everyone would say the same unless he holds an extraordinary vision of optimism and a patience to wait for next thousand years to match European countries. Our honorable ex-president Mr. A P J Abdul Kalam says, it is a crime to have a low ambition, so isn’t it a crime to be ready to lag behind others for thousand years if we have the capacity and resources to lead them. Now, coming back to the big question, why other students like me waste time in worthless activities, may be because they find the education too boring or may be the case is that the people teaching us make it horrible. We have foreign visiting faculty at our college every now and then and they talk of making education interactive and interesting but that never happened. All of us know that there is a shortage of faculty at colleges all over the country but no one talks about the quality of that present. Aren’t they playing with the educational front of the students? Being a computer science student, I talk of CSE curriculum, we had object oriented programming in our 4th semester, we were supposed to study C++ and JAVA languages in one semester, which lasted for just four months, and if I make a count of working days, it would not be more than 90-100 days at most. Is this period sufficient to train someone to be a software engineer, the most funny part of the story is that the faculty coming to our class for the first time to take the subject is saying himself that it is not possible to complete the subject in a semester, what am I supposed to perceive from this statement, shouldn’t I feel cheated? I don’t know all of the programming basics but still I come triumphant by scoring a 10 points in the paper, how do I do this?I have got 15-20 programs to mug up and vomit on the paper, isn’t it easy to become a 10 pointer in the subject, let me tell you the height of our concept regarding the subject, one of my friend was writing his semester exam and he forgot a few lines of the program and thus asked his fellow saving teacher’s eye the coding at that place, his friend was perhaps a brighter student and thus told him the procedure to get the code and not the exact code, unfortunately my friend was not eligible enough to go through the procedure explained and so asked again for the exact code, since it was a C++ practical paper, his friend told him to call a particular function from the base class into the main function to get the code but again my dear friend was having no idea what his friend was talking and thus he could not write the code with his friend’s help, may be he would have fetched someone else’s assistance afterwards but was not having anything for his kind friend except a few nice words lying on the left side of the number line. It’s not the story of my friend alone but it’s the most common case in our field. When my seniors go for their placement aptitude tests and interviews they come and ask us for the basic books of languages.
Let me tell you one more interesting phenomena of the placements at our college, recently a company of international repute visited our college, I am not mentioning the name here as it can be taken as an offence towards the selection process of the company, the company is basically a software solution provider, in the aptitude test of the company students of almost every branch appeared, but only 30 students from CSE got selected and 20 from IT, 100+ from ECE,50+ MECH and so on. Isn’t it surprising that a software based company is taking minimum input from the software courses, some people argue that the deficiency is in CSE and IT students, I have a question for people saying this, we know that most of the top rankers of the entrance exams of colleges opt for CSE and IT and of course ECE ,so is it believe worthy that the toppers turned losers in three years and most of them did, and those who were inferior to them three years before are now superior, I am unable to understand the reason behind this or may be the case is that the company is not interested in taking too much software students may be it is their own strategy, I don’t have the privilege to question that, but let me reveal one more interesting observation, most of the 9 pointers were unable to crack the aptitude test and most of the 7 pointers did it.
Now, I think I have made my point. Now the teachers who were there to blame me for my failure in learning all possible concepts tell me why their favorites, who remained 9 pointers throughout have failed and those who were so called average guys have succeeded, tell me if they have the answers.
This all makes me feel, did I do the right thing in remaining a student somewhere in between a topper and an average student, I cannot be called an all-time topper neither I am an average student, I am not on either of the sides, this sometimes makes me feel insecure, a famous saying is that be the best in all the affairs you are involved…unfortunately I am not…did I do the right thing…this makes me ask myself sometimes…WHAT HAVE I DONE???
I am an engineering 3rd year student. I have learnt a lot of new things since I was in 12th standard and I took admission in engineering course, but have I learnt as much as I was supposed to?...I think I haven’t and most of the people like me would bear a coincidence of thought with me. Is this my fault? May be it is, but is it my fault alone? Am I the only one to be held responsible for? Most of the people related to field of teaching, holding orthodox thoughts of seventies would say, yes, you are. But many of my friends and those related to the field of learning would say, I am not or rather they would say, we are not. Many people who have no idea about engineering education in India would be confused about my statement, so let me clarify it for them.
What most of the graduation students do during the course of their semesters is watching movies, gossip with friends, fancying around and sleeping more than eight hours a day, I am not talking about studious guys and toppers, they have their own routine to follow, but the big question is how many are toppers in a class of sixty, there are four or five or may be six at most. Is this figure satisfactory for a country holding population more than thousand millions?...I think it is not and everyone would say the same unless he holds an extraordinary vision of optimism and a patience to wait for next thousand years to match European countries. Our honorable ex-president Mr. A P J Abdul Kalam says, it is a crime to have a low ambition, so isn’t it a crime to be ready to lag behind others for thousand years if we have the capacity and resources to lead them. Now, coming back to the big question, why other students like me waste time in worthless activities, may be because they find the education too boring or may be the case is that the people teaching us make it horrible. We have foreign visiting faculty at our college every now and then and they talk of making education interactive and interesting but that never happened. All of us know that there is a shortage of faculty at colleges all over the country but no one talks about the quality of that present. Aren’t they playing with the educational front of the students? Being a computer science student, I talk of CSE curriculum, we had object oriented programming in our 4th semester, we were supposed to study C++ and JAVA languages in one semester, which lasted for just four months, and if I make a count of working days, it would not be more than 90-100 days at most. Is this period sufficient to train someone to be a software engineer, the most funny part of the story is that the faculty coming to our class for the first time to take the subject is saying himself that it is not possible to complete the subject in a semester, what am I supposed to perceive from this statement, shouldn’t I feel cheated? I don’t know all of the programming basics but still I come triumphant by scoring a 10 points in the paper, how do I do this?I have got 15-20 programs to mug up and vomit on the paper, isn’t it easy to become a 10 pointer in the subject, let me tell you the height of our concept regarding the subject, one of my friend was writing his semester exam and he forgot a few lines of the program and thus asked his fellow saving teacher’s eye the coding at that place, his friend was perhaps a brighter student and thus told him the procedure to get the code and not the exact code, unfortunately my friend was not eligible enough to go through the procedure explained and so asked again for the exact code, since it was a C++ practical paper, his friend told him to call a particular function from the base class into the main function to get the code but again my dear friend was having no idea what his friend was talking and thus he could not write the code with his friend’s help, may be he would have fetched someone else’s assistance afterwards but was not having anything for his kind friend except a few nice words lying on the left side of the number line. It’s not the story of my friend alone but it’s the most common case in our field. When my seniors go for their placement aptitude tests and interviews they come and ask us for the basic books of languages.
Let me tell you one more interesting phenomena of the placements at our college, recently a company of international repute visited our college, I am not mentioning the name here as it can be taken as an offence towards the selection process of the company, the company is basically a software solution provider, in the aptitude test of the company students of almost every branch appeared, but only 30 students from CSE got selected and 20 from IT, 100+ from ECE,50+ MECH and so on. Isn’t it surprising that a software based company is taking minimum input from the software courses, some people argue that the deficiency is in CSE and IT students, I have a question for people saying this, we know that most of the top rankers of the entrance exams of colleges opt for CSE and IT and of course ECE ,so is it believe worthy that the toppers turned losers in three years and most of them did, and those who were inferior to them three years before are now superior, I am unable to understand the reason behind this or may be the case is that the company is not interested in taking too much software students may be it is their own strategy, I don’t have the privilege to question that, but let me reveal one more interesting observation, most of the 9 pointers were unable to crack the aptitude test and most of the 7 pointers did it.
Now, I think I have made my point. Now the teachers who were there to blame me for my failure in learning all possible concepts tell me why their favorites, who remained 9 pointers throughout have failed and those who were so called average guys have succeeded, tell me if they have the answers.
This all makes me feel, did I do the right thing in remaining a student somewhere in between a topper and an average student, I cannot be called an all-time topper neither I am an average student, I am not on either of the sides, this sometimes makes me feel insecure, a famous saying is that be the best in all the affairs you are involved…unfortunately I am not…did I do the right thing…this makes me ask myself sometimes…WHAT HAVE I DONE???
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