Anti-Engineering stance, being a rebel and being noticed.

97 days to go.

Circa 2011. As I started my years in college, this was all over Facebook and a website on ventilator called Orkut. "Engineering has made me unfit for anything in the society. There was a barrage of jokes on Engineering Mathematics. Engineering Graphics was the coursework equivalent of Hitler. I had shut myself in a shell during the first few months, India was losing badly to England (4-0 whitewash, hands down except Rahul Dravid) and hence, my instincts to come up with a new Facebook status were tied and dumped into the bottom of the sea. I would realize a year later that this trend of foul-mouthing about Engineering, blaming it for making one's day frustrating was not a one off. This drudgery was trying to be a wannabe rebel and jump onto an instant springboard for toothless fame would not be a one off and would peak at specific instances of the year. The first few months after joining the first year and during the semester season.

And all this while a determined few, pencils and books in hand, sat down to grind through the basics and set a platform for the next few years. Some got themselves busy trying their hand at sports. Some sold their capabilities in the hope of getting noticed by various clubs and associations. Some walked slowly behind tutors because they had unfortunately raised their hands first and become the Class Representatives (no one volunteered to be the Class Representative ever since. Some precedents are meant to be dumped then and there). They went unnoticed then. 4 years later. They would rise like a phoenix, unperturbed and fly into the orangish, bright and elite horizon.

Where did the rebels go? To temples, to numerous interviews and to Facebook to provide occasional blockbusters about R S Aggarwal not helping them much and some more anti-Engineering chants. They were on par with their version of R S Aggarwal. There always are rebellions of the hopeless kind. Like this, for instance.