The Story Of My Engineering Life
Every man has a story to tell but not everyone gets an opportunity to tell it early in their life.I, Amrit Ashu, final year student at RV College Of Engineering, my life between coming as an innocent kid from a small town in Jharkhand to leaving the college as a dynamic and intellectual leader going into the corporate world.
RV College of Engineering Entrance
I came to Bangalore as a 17 year old kid from Bokaro Steel City, a small town in Jharkhand.After searching for the list of best engineering colleges in India fir in-numerous times, my father decided upon RVCE. I entered the 63 acre campus with my father constantly asking me if I would be able to live alone and me constantly giving him a concerned look.There were students all around, some coming out from classes conversing with teachers, some mingling with their friends, some sitting alone fallen deep into their thoughts. As I saw them I wondered, which of the three categories would I fall into.
When I entered the hostel and saw my room, I was horrified, a room where 3 beds would fit with great difficulty. A hospital bed lookalike was allotted to me and there were two other roommates , one from Karnataka and the other from Andhra Pradesh.The first question that came to my mind was how would I mingle with two people from completely different cultures speaking different languages, but then as destiny is, that was the beginning of a never-ending friendship.
I had earlier heard a lot of negativity about mess food and was very worried about it as well, when I tasted Set Dosa for the first time, I felt that mess food is not that bad. It was a great day, got an opportunity to meet lot of new mates, many from North India and many from South.The next day was our first class, all excited I went to class, it didn’t take me long to understand that there was a diversity of students, in terms of culture, in terms of financial background, and definitely in terms of interest towards engineering.
We met few seniors, gave introductions, got to understand how to make fun of each other and how to defend ourselves, some of the important learnings of engineering came from these introductions. Exams were always a special part, completing a syllabus taught for 4 months in a single night was something we were proud of doing.Earlier everyone was worried about the marks and GPA, but later we understood that GPA was just an eligibility barrier for placements and nothing more.
I came to Bangalore as a 17 year old kid from Bokaro Steel City, a small town in Jharkhand.After searching for the list of best engineering colleges in India fir in-numerous times, my father decided upon RVCE. I entered the 63 acre campus with my father constantly asking me if I would be able to live alone and me constantly giving him a concerned look.There were students all around, some coming out from classes conversing with teachers, some mingling with their friends, some sitting alone fallen deep into their thoughts. As I saw them I wondered, which of the three categories would I fall into.
When I entered the hostel and saw my room, I was horrified, a room where 3 beds would fit with great difficulty. A hospital bed lookalike was allotted to me and there were two other roommates , one from Karnataka and the other from Andhra Pradesh.The first question that came to my mind was how would I mingle with two people from completely different cultures speaking different languages, but then as destiny is, that was the beginning of a never-ending friendship.
I had earlier heard a lot of negativity about mess food and was very worried about it as well, when I tasted Set Dosa for the first time, I felt that mess food is not that bad. It was a great day, got an opportunity to meet lot of new mates, many from North India and many from South.The next day was our first class, all excited I went to class, it didn’t take me long to understand that there was a diversity of students, in terms of culture, in terms of financial background, and definitely in terms of interest towards engineering.
We met few seniors, gave introductions, got to understand how to make fun of each other and how to defend ourselves, some of the important learnings of engineering came from these introductions. Exams were always a special part, completing a syllabus taught for 4 months in a single night was something we were proud of doing.Earlier everyone was worried about the marks and GPA, but later we understood that GPA was just an eligibility barrier for placements and nothing more.
My Entrepreneurship Cell Team
I took part in lot of extra curricular activities, be it street plays, case studies, playing cricket or making business plans.Entrepreneurship Cell played a big role in my personality development, it is the cell that taught me leadership skills, it changed me as a person, I who was shy to speak infront of a group of people to give motivational speeches in front of a houseful crowd, this is where I learnt that a major part of my life would be about the poeple in my life and how important networking with people would be.I was made the president of the entrepreneurship cell in my pre-final year and it gave me the best memories of my college, having a team that worked so hard that it was awarded the best E-cell in the country by IIT Bombay to organising South India’s largest E-summit, it was here that I learnt to strive for winning wherever and whenever possible.I started getting recognition in the college but never let it hit my head, as it would not allow me to work the same way as I had been working.Then came 8th Mile, our annual techno-cultural fest, I was privileged enough to be made the head of the festival, and we were told that the college management would not be supporting the fest financially.Owing to the responsibilities, we gave our 100% and did one of the best festivals ever.
I took part in lot of extra curricular activities, be it street plays, case studies, playing cricket or making business plans.Entrepreneurship Cell played a big role in my personality development, it is the cell that taught me leadership skills, it changed me as a person, I who was shy to speak infront of a group of people to give motivational speeches in front of a houseful crowd, this is where I learnt that a major part of my life would be about the poeple in my life and how important networking with people would be.I was made the president of the entrepreneurship cell in my pre-final year and it gave me the best memories of my college, having a team that worked so hard that it was awarded the best E-cell in the country by IIT Bombay to organising South India’s largest E-summit, it was here that I learnt to strive for winning wherever and whenever possible.I started getting recognition in the college but never let it hit my head, as it would not allow me to work the same way as I had been working.Then came 8th Mile, our annual techno-cultural fest, I was privileged enough to be made the head of the festival, and we were told that the college management would not be supporting the fest financially.Owing to the responsibilities, we gave our 100% and did one of the best festivals ever.
8th Mile 2017, I am in the Light Blue denim, second to the right of Anushka
Cricket was a special bond, from seeing Sachin retire to watch Virat take on the world, college life gave it all.Our particular group of friends always had a team, on two particular occasions I was fortunate enough to win the game for the team, one on the last ball and the other with the last wicket,both of which are special moments that will go on with me.
The most important part of college was the friends you make,you won’t get to know when friends turn into family, you will meet different kinds of people, people who will use you for their benefit, people who would show lot of attitude in their behaviour, people who would always be humble and respectful to you, in the end what will matter will be the friends you make, your decisions in life will highly be affected by them, it is these friends who will make college a home away from home.
There are few things that I would like to tell people who would be joining college soon, choose the college wisely and the course even more wisely, use websites like Entranceplus to get a knowledge of college rankings and what are the courses they offer, do not take up any course just because your parents want you to, choose what interests you.Once you join college, try and explore every possible activity, as there are lot of things unexplored for you, which you consider that you are not good at as you have never tried it before, never be afraid of experimenting, you do not know what lies ahead, know your passion, and keep exploring until you don’t find it, and once you find it,dont leave it, because somehwere down in time life will give you an option between stability and greatness, choose the latter,people who have chosen stability have never left an impact on society, be kind, try to help others, everyone loves themselves but not everyone has the courage to love others,be remmebered for who you are and what you have done for others, don’t just be another brick in the wall. The most important thing would be finding yourself, if you have found that, then any course, any stream, any profession would be easy to choose because you will always have a clear set of factors while choosing them.
As I leave college, I understand a lot of things I wouldn’t as a fresher , I take with me a million moments filled with joy, sadness, happiness, nostalgia, I believe in myself now, I believe that one day I shall make a dent in the universe.
Concluding with Steve Jobs’s words “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish”.
Cricket was a special bond, from seeing Sachin retire to watch Virat take on the world, college life gave it all.Our particular group of friends always had a team, on two particular occasions I was fortunate enough to win the game for the team, one on the last ball and the other with the last wicket,both of which are special moments that will go on with me.
The most important part of college was the friends you make,you won’t get to know when friends turn into family, you will meet different kinds of people, people who will use you for their benefit, people who would show lot of attitude in their behaviour, people who would always be humble and respectful to you, in the end what will matter will be the friends you make, your decisions in life will highly be affected by them, it is these friends who will make college a home away from home.
There are few things that I would like to tell people who would be joining college soon, choose the college wisely and the course even more wisely, use websites like Entranceplus to get a knowledge of college rankings and what are the courses they offer, do not take up any course just because your parents want you to, choose what interests you.Once you join college, try and explore every possible activity, as there are lot of things unexplored for you, which you consider that you are not good at as you have never tried it before, never be afraid of experimenting, you do not know what lies ahead, know your passion, and keep exploring until you don’t find it, and once you find it,dont leave it, because somehwere down in time life will give you an option between stability and greatness, choose the latter,people who have chosen stability have never left an impact on society, be kind, try to help others, everyone loves themselves but not everyone has the courage to love others,be remmebered for who you are and what you have done for others, don’t just be another brick in the wall. The most important thing would be finding yourself, if you have found that, then any course, any stream, any profession would be easy to choose because you will always have a clear set of factors while choosing them.
As I leave college, I understand a lot of things I wouldn’t as a fresher , I take with me a million moments filled with joy, sadness, happiness, nostalgia, I believe in myself now, I believe that one day I shall make a dent in the universe.
Concluding with Steve Jobs’s words “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.Stay Hungry,Stay Foolish”.
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