On Parting and Leaving

So it’s time for one phase of our life to pass the baton to another. We embarked on our graduation path four years back, entering an engineering college like so many souls in our nation. We were like kids when we joined, and while I can’t call ourselves men by now ( would prefer if someone else says it!! ), we definitely have grown up and matured. The journey has been a wavering one, full of high-speed straights and hair-pin bends too. As always with everything, we realize the importance of everything just when it’s about to be taken away from you. Certain events are not very enjoyable when they happen, but are great stuff for memories and late-night discussions. Fights, alliances, coming close and moving far apart are all a part of the game. As long as one learns from an experience and moves on in life, all’s well. The problem starts when we harbor feelings about people or events that outlive the magnitude of the event!!

Engineering has taught me many different things in life. Humility- One may be an electrical engineer, yet one has to call a humble electrician to repair a tube-light!! The world is full of our fellow brethren, hence there’s not much to differentiate between two cherries from a basket of cherries. That’s where one’s emotional quotient, and soft skills come into play. It’s all about being a complete package these days. Then there’s the lesson about grades. We tend to think that’s its knowledge that matters, pursuing grades is too lowly a pursuit for us, but where they can matter, grades leave their presence felt. And lastly, if not anything, being an engineer is supposed to make one’s mind analytical, though am yet to see its effects!!

More than engineering fundae, I have got a really nice and diverse group of friends. Everyone says their friends are nice, but diversity is something I have come to appreciate from my friends. We all are from the same city, similar backgrounds, similar localities, so not much cause for diversity, yet each one of us is a unique specimen, worthy of honorable mention is his own right. I say “his own right”, because even after lots of effort, no girl is part of our full-time group!! I’ll miss my friends, not just beacause we had a great time together at college, but also because it was a very carefree time spent. I can say whatever comes to my mind in front of them, and be assured that they’ll take it in the right spirit. I wonder if that will ever happen again in life, since professionalism tends to make us more diplomatic. And ours was a very focused group, so everybody is landing up at a secure place after graduating.

I completed all the academic requirements today. Exams, project submission, vivas over, and got a clearance certificate from college. These days, there’s a slight sad feeling every time I leave the college building, a feeling creeps in that soon shall come the time I’ll leave the building one final time. Funny are the ways of life, you struggle and wish you leave this god-damned place, and while you are leaving, you feel like you could have spent a bit more time. However, if your leaving got delayed, you’ll again wish you’d leave soon!!

It’s been a satisfactory graduation for me, there are always things that I could have done better, and there are always things I thought I missed out on. But even though we bickered for half our time at college, I am happy am leaving with a sweet taste in my mouth rather than a bitter one. My college has shaped me as an individual, and though it may not have prepared me well for an engineering career, it surely has prepared me for life.

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