A Reminder of my Engineering days

I watched 3 idiots (based on Five Point Someone) the other day with my engineering friends in Thakur to bring back all the memories from those four years and I did succeed. I remember reading the book Five Point Someone during my engineering days and getting inspired. Both the book and the Movie have helped me live those days again as they have portrayed our lives so well.
The movie as the book gives a picture of the classes, the exams, the projects, the assignments and the various aspects related to engineering. I agree the movie shows the loopholes in our education system and how much pressure it exerts on the students. But we cannot deny the fact that it also helps to produce the brightest minds in the world. The numbers are increasing and so is the competition intensifying, a mark costs a student his/her dream college and in such a scenario becoming a Rancho is difficult for everybody. For that either you have to be gifted like him or a rich father who can take care of your future. If you don’t belong to one of these categories and try to make a change, the system lashes out at you. It doesn’t end as well in real life as it did for Raju (Sharman Joshi) in the movie.
I also went through a lot of hardships during my engineering. But they have been one of the most memorable days of my life. We had to sit through lectures to keep up our 75% attendance. So we had to come up with innovative ideas to survive the lectures. That’s when I learned games like cows & bulls and also the art of reading Novels during lectures. These four years also taught me the real function of COPY and PASTE . It was used to by everyone to copy the assignment from a single master copy in the class and paste it in our respective sheets like a machine without using our brains. Then came the exams where for the entire three hours we would be busy calculating our precious 40 marks. Half the time was spent in writing the paper and the remaining half in calculating our attempted marks. During results no one cared about the marks scored or who topped, everybody cared if they had the golden letter P with their names. Final project used to be fun. Everybody used to start with enthusiasm to do something new and innovative. But by the middle of the semester either they lost all their interest or were unable to finish it. So that would be the time when everybody went out searching for secondary solutions for their projects. All for a few who already had faith in them of being unable to finish the project went hunting for these secondary solutions in the beginning itself. Thus in the end almost everybody beg, borrow, steal and commit all kinds of sin to complete their projects.
These things over the four years bring people together and so we end up making some really good friends. I have been through a lot during these years right from reading novels in lectures to fighting with professors for being unfair to finishing 200 pages of journal files in a day. Every engineer has a story to tell. I have also done and learnt a lot of things in these years which I wouldn’t have otherwise. I have some good memories of these years which I will cherish all my life.