What is life for a engineering student?

With

almost half the country’s younger population heading for an engineering

degree, it seems like engineering college would be a competitive and

hostile Hunger Games, where everybody is too busy striving for better

grades, better careers and better salary packages. But despite all that,

most engineers will claim that the days of their college were the best

days of their lives. Why is that? What is there in these colleges that

makes so many budding engineers live in peace and become such close

friends for the rest of their lives. 1. Skewed gender ratio Chances

are that if you’re of the XY Chromosome pursuit, all your hopes and

dreams of having a college life similar to that shown in classics like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai or Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham will

be shattered to bits, when you arrive in engineering college and see

the severe lack of women there. If you’re one of those few “lucky”

ladies, then prepare to feel utterly desolated and disappointed. Not

only will you rarely find a friend in this sausage fest, but you’ll have

a tough time focusing on your academics from the proposals that keep

hounding your door from Day 1. 2. Fear of failure Even

if you didn’t have examophobia before joining college, you will most

surely have it after 4 years of countless papers and sessional tests and

vivas and lab tests and final exams. The words “back” or “suppli” will

haunt your darkest nightmares. 3. Taking it in stride You

will soon grow used to all backs and the supplis, when you cut short

your vacations at home for the 3rd time in a row and come back to

college to retake your examinations. In fact, after a while you start

looking forward to meeting all your friends again at the Biannual

Make-up Exam Meetup. 4. Assignment Assignments

become a joint effort. And by joint effort we don’t mean that the

entire college tries to smoke up. No, if any one person finishes the

assignment, then it is his duty and responsibility to share it with

every one of his batchmates for the greater good. We all remember

flocking to the above mentioned photocopy shop to take out copies of the

solved assignment, so that we could we could just copy it out and

submit. 5. Hunting for notes From

the local photocopy shop to your hostel mates, from buttering up the

HOD for better study material to rummaging around in the library – all

engineering students have had to hanker around for notes when exams

loomed ahead. But we’d still do all of that rather than take notes in

class! 6. Alcohol is your savior Weekends

used to hold the same value if not more back in engineering college,

when friends were many, the alcohol was Old Monk (because nobody else

embodies the spirit of eternally broke college students better than

engineering students) and the moods were varied. Be it heartbreak, or

bad grades, fight with a close friend, or sucky hostel food – Old Monk

was always there to save the day. 7. Slowly sinking attendance Once

you get sick of the monotony of the classroom lectures, you’ll find

yourself feeling lesser obligated to attend classes as the years

progress. Also with time your friends and you have perfected the proxy

system, so you can run like a well-oiled proxy machine and avoid having

attendance shortage as a group. 8. Library study sessions Libraries

that usually lie empty and desolate year around, slowly start getting

packed up as the exams start approaching around the corner. Those

library group study sessions, which were less studying and more snacking

and chatting and dozing are a common sight in all Engineering colleges. 9. Skewed sleep cycles Watching

movies or binging on Game of Thrones episodes or talking to your bae

over the phone – the reasons for staying up late are plenty. After being

an engineering student for a while, sleeping at the right time becomes

almost a fantasy. After a while your body learns to function with just 4

hours of sleep, and sleeping for longer stretches seem like a delusion 10. You crib about it, but you still love it Life

in engineering college in India is not easy. Dealing with one of the

most difficult courses in the country, along with all the distractions

that come with studying with a thousand other students, all from

different parts of the country – is a confusing mess in total. But

despite all the hardships, we love and cherish our engineering days and

will always want to go back to those best days of our lives.