Side Effects of Engineering
Engineering entrance forms should come with a warning label reading “Admission into an engineering course may cause caffeine dependency, insomnia and lack of social life. Proceed with caution!” All those years in engineering are bound to have a profound effect on one’s personality, thought process and the choices one is going to make in the future.
The engineering course seems to possess some weird gene modification process that not only changes how one acts and behaves but also one’s looks and hairdo and gait, etc.
Although some don’t believe in these life-changing power of engineering institutions, they believe that you are chosen at birth to be an engineer based on their karma and whatever you do, you will end up being an engineer and give the world another geek or nerd 😀
Here are some of the best memes on the side effects of engineering:
Sleeplessness becomes the standard
‘Tired’ is the default state of an engineer. It’s hard but you just have to forge on, take your sleeping pills/other methods to fall asleep at night, only to wake up 4 hours later!
Baptism into Nocturnalism
You will not survive engineering unless you accept the fact that sleep is something you can catch up on when you die.
Never too late here…
Finals week, also known affectionately as ‘Hell Week’, is when everyone scrambles to finish their portion while cursing at their past self for not studying regularly and swearing to do it next time. Needless to say, this repeats every semester. The miracle of miracles is that all that you memorize just evaporates within minutes after the exam is over.
Your only hope is caffeine
If you are an engineer, coffee becomes a necessity for you to function and sarcasm your second language. Caffeine is the best friend of an Engineer.
Whatever it takes…
Coffee and sleepless nights go hand in hand (whether you study or not).
Free time and social life? Non-existent!
A common misconception is that engineering means partying, slacking off and getting high. But pretty quickly you realize that reality is the opposite, and socializing becomes a foreign concept to you.
Engineer calling engineer!
And there is no one who I call other than my engineering friends, who also don’t have anyone else to talk to so you eventually feel like you are talking to yourself only.
Perception is the only reality!
You forget the meaning of concepts like ‘happiness’, ‘relaxation’ and ‘holidays’. Apparently, there are some people who actually enjoy their studies and pursue hobbies in their ‘free time’.
You get used to the single life
Engineers have a magnetic personality, it’s just that the polarity is reversed so we end up repulsing the fairer sex instead of attracting. Actually, as per my experience, I am not sure if the fairer sex can be called ‘fair’ at all.
The status is even more complicated than ‘It’s complicated’
At some point in time, you are hit with the realization that Bollywood movies and Chetan Bhagat books are totally misleading. Life is not like Student of the Year or Half Girlfriend — you don’t even have time to think about dating. Well, even if you want to think, it is of no use.
The appearance takes a backseat
Engineering can be many things but certainly not sexist. It deals with girls as harshly. In the rush of projects and deadlines, what you look like is not a priority anymore. In fact, you start to wish pajamas were an acceptable part of the dress code.
You can’t win from an engineer in the loser game
It’s not engineering unless you come out of it looking like you’ve just been through war and/or time traveled 40 years into the future.
Assignments, assignments and more assignments…
Your life just becomes a series of assignments where you ultimately end up copying all of them from whoever completed it first.
Gotta do what you gotta do!
Even though we know that ultimately all submissions land up in a dustbin.
Never to be done!
Suddenly you acquire a lot of friends if you’re that one person in class who always finishes assignments before time.
75% attendance is harder than passing exams
Minimum mandatory attendance is the only reason why engineers go to class.
Viva becomes less about studying and more about acting
But have you ever heard any faculty remembering those favors at exam time? Yet we fall in this trap of hope every semester.
Viva literally means ‘Live’, how ironic!
Your only responses during viva become saying “Sorry, sir” a bunch of times followed by “Thank you, sir” while the external examiner gazes at you in disgust and disbelief. Even though Viva means ‘live’, for an engineer it is like going through the gates of hell, only to be reborn into the same pitiful life next semester.
Placements fever is the worst
You hear horror stories of engineering graduates working in garages, hotels and tea stalls. Worst of all, engineers writing about engineers… phew, what a life!
Talking of the rat race
At the end of four grueling years, you realize there is as much competition as there is unemployment. No one has any idea about how to get a job but everyone is trying to get ahead of others… in which direction? No idea Sir!
The vicious circle of life
When your first job somehow requires 3-4 years of prior experience but you need to first get a job to get experience… And once you do, you aren’t an engineer if you don’t dream of quitting it to either pursue MBA or to become a farmer in your village.
There are hundreds of engineering memes out there that give us a good laugh but that doesn’t mean we don’t realize the effort and contribution of engineers to the world around us. Keep up the good work and keep the tradition going!
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