The Secret Life of the Engineering Student

Engineering school.

When you hear these two words, your mind automatically conjures up funny images of geeky nerds who live in a world of machines and speak Elfish.

Now if there was ever a vote on the most outrageously  incorrect myths that people believe in, this lay-man’s image of the ‘science types’ would rank among the top three. (The other two being- existence of UFO’s and Shakespeare’s ghost writers).

Let me tell you, engineers break this ‘scientist’ prototype quite convincingly. In fact, being a science grad helps take your ‘The Big Bang theory’ experience to whole new level.

You can finally understand the ‘String theory’ and Schrödinger’s cat references. (If you don’t know what I am talking about, you clearly never took science seriously. Like at all!

Yes, it is true that your average engineering student has to stay up more nights mugging for her Mechanics-101 class. But it’s still less than the medical students! Thankfully.

Now one good thing about engineering school is that it gives us mass base and much loved authors. It is really much more fun reading about the drunken escapades of fed up students than the philosophical ranting of a much too well read author. I think only that can explain the immense popularity of the campus novel among Indian youth.

Thanks to films like ‘3 idiots’, the ‘Engineer=Nerd’ barrier is on the verge of demolition.

Now it is your turn.

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