On engineering and beyond...

Well, I know, I'm sorry to have offended all the real bloggers by being absent again! But I can't really help it. Its not too often that I visit the Net, and even then its mostly for a quick check for movies, or my poker status...oops, shouldn't have let that out here!

But with the dreary long four-years of my engineering finally at an end, I knew I had to pay my regards to my blog soon. With a fortnight of my vacations already gone by in a blaze, I now have time to relax and breathe and enjoy the leisure only a blog can offer! As always, I seem to have no specific thoughts in my mind. Yeah yeah, its true, what can I do! My mind keeps toying with my yet-non-existent-but-soon-to-be bank balance, my new life as an earning member of the community, my plans for what right now feels like a long and uncertain, maybe a tad bit scary, journey into life's new roads that have opened up...

I casually look back on these bygone years and its a strange realization I have. The four years of my graduation were supposed to be a marathon of studying, at the end of which lay such a glorious wealth of knowledge! Well, I did reach a treasure, albeit of a very unexpected kind.

Nowhere to be seen are the gallons of flowing programming ideas. Also missing are the countless threads of thoughts which would see me sail through any technical challenges thrown at me. Instead the picture is now muddier, even obscured completely in places. It turns out that I'm nowhere ahead in my technical knowledge. (I was always a little ahead there, to be true, maybe that's why I feel like having learnt nothing new) But so many new concepts have been introduced to me, and not very well at that, that I find I barely know my field anymore! Is there a problem here?

This state of affairs is definitely not good for me, I think. But when I look around, I see that surprisingly, I still fit in well! This is exactly the case with almost everyone at my level! Maybe Engineering is supposed to end like this, the way a natural disaster occurs in a flash, but leaves behind a wreckage to be sorted. People learn from their worst troubles, right!