Dreams of engineering aspirant

 Life was good until I heard about engineering.

It turned amazing after that.

That was engineering for me.

In other words, I was amazed as a little boy that there is someone in the world who has the avenger level power to change the world #EngineersAssemble, to create something.

I hope most of us felt great when we see a Tony Stark fighting for world safety and using hi-tech gadgets in PVR or when we see an Elon Musk launching its own rocket in space; we want to do something fascinating and we opted for engineering.

I like most of us, want to create or contribute to a product which can do good to society because we should do something for it as elders say "One should contribute to society as we are a part of it". 

Everyone knows what they want and they expect the delivery of same. So, engineering brought a lot of hopes and dreams for me. I knew what I was signing into.

As an engineer, I hope I can do something unique - I always wanted to do something unique and out of box kind of thing. There was Metro Man <Padma Vibhushan E. Sreedharan>, Missile Man <Bharat Ratna A.P.J. Abdul Kalam> in my curriculum and reading about them, I thought that one can really be so impressive that you can create something that you can use for making the world better.

As an engineer, I hope I cannot be influenced of creating something evil - The idea of atomic bomb if you think about it, you would wonder that what an engineering marvel it is. BUT you have to understand that how great a product from the engineering perspective if it is destructive, one should immediately leave the idea of that.

As an engineer, I hope I cannot be a prey of Brain Drain - Last week JEE advanced result was announced and its topper left the opportunity to study in the best institute in India because he was already studying in the best institute of world. You see every time one reads about such eminent personalities; they feel sad that no one wants to be in their own country and make it better. BUT deep down we also want that onsite project that we have laid our eyes on from years. And it is not wrong if you see because it is a reality in developing countries like ours - professionals move from their native countries to some other country in search of better job opportunities. 

As an engineer, I hope I cannot be a prey to Mediocrity - If you have watched the movie 'The Gambler' (2014) starring Mark Wahlberg and Brie Larson, you would definitely know what I am talking about. In the movie, Mark is playing a professor who hates being average and hates being one. There is more to the plot but I am not going to tell you that. So, one should not be mediocre in the field whom he/she dreams for, I hope you all can agree with this. The amount at which the colleges in our country producing engineers is unexplainable and also very high; so, mediocrity is very much possible and most of around us is one of that lot.

As an engineer, I hope I can save my planet like Tony Stark - We are coming out of pandemic and many of us are hoping to never face it again. BUT we all know that our Earth is not doing great with pollution and global warming. And we are only responsible for that with our carbon emissions and use of many harmful products (coolants in ACs and refrigerators, plastics for innumerable uses, etc.) for our comfort. An engineer with its known skillset must able to combat with this situation because ultimately, we are developing technology sustainably. I dream of it because every time I see a report that tells me these are the 25 best places to live in 2050 and I don't see our Mumbai, Chennai, New York, Paris in that list, that frighteningly concerns me.

As an engineer, I hope I can be beautifully creative - Our present curriculum at any stage of our education does not allow us to be more creative. Masses associate creativity with only painter, writer, music composer, film maker, basically everyone who comes in the umbrella of being an Artist. Does an engineer be not creative? If he is not, how would he be going to innovate and create. (Yes, creativity includes create in it #NiceObservation) I want to be this.

As an engineer, I hope I can find good problems from my surroundings - Most of engineering students really struggle because they fail in this. How one is going to improve, innovate or create something for society unless he/she does not know the problems of society. We do it everywhere. During coding, we first understand the problem, write the code, then debug and test it till our problem is solved. We all focus on first writing the code and forget about debugging and testing part which is one of the most important parts of programming.

As an engineer, I hope I can be never satisfied - Everyone wants to be content. But there is a problem with contentment that it relaxes and satiates you. And you cannot solve problems with that feeling. That is why I suppose one plus’s motto is "Never Settle".

Now you can understand that one joins an engineering college with such dreams in their eyes because it changes you (IN A GOOD WAY).

There is a poem

dedicated to engineers

and their dreams

Who wants to read them?

Not engineers

not a single person

Why an engineer leaves his own country

does not affect everyone

does not affect students

does not affect aspirants

not even to those 6 graders

who are cracking 1.2 crores jobs at an MNC

Engineers face all

wrath of employers

thrash of society

frustration of age

and also expectation of ourselves

But I hope things would change

this Hope

this amazing Hope

this frustrating Hope