Bother Persists

It is always nice to share a little something of your life with the people around you. It makes you get the overload off of you and, in some cases is also beneficial for the people around you. Gives a little perspective.

Equality - it is an abstract term. It is as intangible as air or a thought, but just because of that, it does not mean that it doesn't exist. It most definitely exists - but some have to snatch it away from the hands of the wealthy while some receive it as a gift of their existence, as a pity offering.

Equality indicates a state wherein no human being is different from the other or can remain indifferent about the other. The entire human history is a witness of the level of struggle and perseverance that mankind had to adhere to in order to maintain the EQUALITY among the regular people. There were revolts against the superior powers and the monarchs in order to re-establish the ideas of equality in the kingdoms. When people decided to bring about the equality to the commoners, no building, no empire, no government could restrain them. It was some inevitable occurrence that no one could contain and no one could orchestrate. That is the power that a determined human stand could ever hold.

People died fighting for equality. However, initially this fight was for bringing the lower strata of the society into level with the higher strata and today - it is the other way around. Look, no one can deny the fact that the so-called poor and backward people of the Indian society have taken ill-advantage of the reservations given to them by the government. On my part, I won't even say 'ill-advantage', because that would be wrong. They have taken an advantage similar to that.

I am studying to be an engineer. The fees that I, as an open candidate pay, is Rs. 1,08,000. And the SC/ST/OBC people in my college pay Rs. 14,000 only for the same course. I would like to point this fact out, particularly. Why this inequality? Why?
Now, I am pursuing a prestigious course, so I don't mind the fees. But if I am paying such a huge amount, shouldn't someone pursuing the same course, with the same merits as mine, pay roughly the same amount? Or, shouldn't there be some kind of scholarship exam for the reserved category, on the merits of which the handful reserved ones can reduce their fee amount?

These are some of the things that have always bothered me. And I thought of sharing them with you. Isn't it a bit maddening? Where is the equality then? Are we still supposed to fight for it while the poor people get away with it?

A College Girl Now

It is raining cats and dogs in Pune. God, how I love these rains, but right now it is actually supposed to be the time for winter!

Moving on, this post is actually about my first month at PVPIT. People have been continually asking me how's engineering life going - some are asking out of jealously and some are asking because they want to help me out! Well, this is a humble note going out from my fingertips to all those people who are sitting at home wondering about my progress - Life As An Engineering Student is AWESOME!

It has been a long time since I last posted about my college life. And in this post I will try my best to inform my whereabouts and wipe off the previously held misconceptions about attending lectures!

Workshop Area at PVPIT Pune

PVPIT is a really nice college to graduate as an engineer from! It has some really strict rules and regulations, but they all are rightly leading you to become a punctual and disciplined engineer! The teachers, right since the first day, have been chanting about us attending classes and about the fear called "85% ATTENDANCE"! After 12th standard no student really has a habit of sitting in the class for 6 hours at a stretch, listening to lectures, and this is something I agree as well! Even I became one of these students by the time I reached 12th! And the icing on the cake is the fact that before starting engineering we get a 5 months' break time, which puts us in an even more "lazy" sort of habit, I must say! But at PVPIT, though it was initially tough, attending lectures is not a tedious job! Attend classes and you just need to revise or look through the pages to brush up your memory whenever required! Also the teachers clarify in the class all the questions and major mark-obtaining places from the university papers! So, it is quite a lot important attending the lectures! 

Also I met loads of fun people there, whom I'd never thought I'd ever meet! They hail from places like Osmanabad and Nashik and Sangli and Jammu! And it is an amazing experience meeting people from different places, having to be able to share the experience called "Engineering" with them! Also, due to group studies that we hold in the class, we all have scored brilliant marks in the first mid-semesters - I got a few high scores! :)

It's only been a month and a half since I started engineering and I am loving every minute of it! People might say that engineering is tough and tedious - now, I am not saying that this is untrue - but if you are interested enough in the stream you have chosen, you're gonna totally love it!