It really grinds my gears, that I am student
of b-tech in a state with 847 engineering colleges. The chaos of the selection
and seat filling process is beyond words. I chose my college after an
extensive search and survey from all sources and I chose my course because it’s
my burning passion , but the answer I get for the same question
from one of my classmate is,
“The Chairman is an
acquaintance of my uncle and my dad suggested the course, so I am here “
. I seriously didn’t know how to respond. I tried my best not to frown and
questioned him “what do YOU want to do with your life?”
He dully replied “I don’t
know man, a dancer may be”. I walked away from that pointless conversation
.Agreed it was rude, but I can’t imagine him coming up with an
explanation, why an aspiring dancer is spending the next 4 years against a LED
screen coding something he is least bothered about.
The point I am trying to make is that,
over time ,the card “engineering” crept its way to ,what one
may call “safe bet “ .It is a known fact in A.P state that 60% of a high school
batch are ending up being engineers after 6 years .For god’s sake ! We have
3.5lakh seats every year .What is the person going to do? .How many 16 year’s
would choose their passion over the peer pressure of 3lakh 49,999 people and
parental pressures?.
Parents, granted, with best intentions at heart wish their child,
success with financial securities, but the catch behind the coin is that, with
3lakh students graduating every year in the same state, what is the guarantee
of job placements and if placed, what quality of pay can we expect? .
Sincere requests I want to make, to all the parent out there is;
please don’t advice/force
engineering as a safety step to pursue the real passion. It doesn’t just ruin’s
the 4 years of your Picasso or Michael Jackson, it also kills their passion
with all the over-whelming stuff of engineering, which their heart can never be
in. Not only he doesn’t get to be what he could, he may end up in a dead-end
job with less than appreciable pay.
The sincere request to all the Government authorities and educational
experts out there is , to please stop picturing engineering ,as a safe bet
and also stop easing up entries into colleges ,because one can imagine
the attitude of students entering ,in knowledge that they are still a lakh
seats to be filled ( That the supply is abundant compared to the demand ) .It
is time to realize that every white building with black boards and personal
computers , doesn’t qualify for an accreditation as an university
and it is time to put an end to such white buildings , it is time to be
a “QUALITY ENGINEER".
- Prashanth akundi
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