The last departmental event of my engineering student life
is finally over. It was a damn busy weekend after a long time. Today, I am
spending some time resting at home, taking out time to understand what’s
next??? The worries of getting a good job are still haunting; getting a campus
placement is the only desperate thought on my mind. I wonder what the
probability would be.. I know I have not performed to my best and the
expectations would be a bit high from my side considering the acads point of
view. But I have got to prove the point, marks are not everything. Sadly, I haven’t
got any opportunity to prove myself yet.
The last Saturday was supposed to be a very important day
for all unplaced (not offered campus placement) students in my department. A HR
meet was organised as a part of Industry – Institute interaction program, to enhance
the relations with companies and make the students aware of industry demands. I
was expecting some big tycoons from the Oil & Gas Industry to address us
and give a ray of hope at the end of their address. Sadly, there were hardly
any top brass HR’s from the core companies and the only present were mainly
dealing with consultancy and downstream industries. The expectations were all
derailed at the beginning of event when the list of dignitaries was announced.
Then, one by one they were all giving their presentations. All of us were taken
by surprise when one of the HR had the result stats of First Year Engineering
students of Pune University on the first slide of his presentation. Like
everyone present I was shocked to see the stats, hardly anyone amongst us was
aware of the results declared a week ago. It showed around 19000 students
appeared for exams and only 19 of them scored a Distinction!!! Adding more
around 70% students cleared with backlogs… SAD! SAD! SAD! Was the only sound
that was heard.. my friend sitting next
to me whispered “cheers! We are a part of univ which is so called Oxford of the
east!”. It reminded me of horrible years that I have had recently all thanks to
the rotten education system around. The reality strikes hard, and every PU engg
student would know it better. The decision of taking admission in PU was the
worst decision of my life. But now that I have had all the worst experiences
and failures, I have grown stronger and somehow I feel the good is about to
happen. “Every dark cloud has a silver shining”, so do the dark clouds in my
life…
Forget it! I am motivating myself to stay optimistic! The
recent years have taught me to be a warrior wherever I go and however the situation
is… I just need a single damn opportunity. I am not sure if I’ll get the best
but at least I’ll have the satisfaction of putting the efforts. Coming 3-4
months would be the last months of my engineering life, some of my colleagues
have already got offers from some big companies. I am getting desperate every
single day, regretting the time I didn’t give my best. But don’t know why I am
seeing myself employed soon after graduating. I am feeling the positive energy
in me, for a change I am no more tensed. Not worrying about the last semester
results that would out within a week. I am eager to prove myself, 10 years down
the line I want to compare myself with the toppers in my class and see the
progress stats. Somehow, I feel the storm in my life is all over and its time
to sing… as it is rightly quoted “Birds
sing after a storm, why shouldn’t we?”
