When i started preparing for CAT, I had barely interacted with a species called 'engineers'. And when i joined a coaching class for CAT training, little did i know that they would be integrated into my life to such a great extent.
Initially, i was sort of reluctant to be with them. In my batch (we were a non-engineers batch.... see they differentiated students on the basis of that!) there were barely any. But there was something about them. Confused, yet clear. Analytical and critical. Total vellas and still busy. So i interacted with a few. Became friends with some. They were so different from 'normal' people like me, who had done arts/science/commerce grad from a regular college. They spoke the semester language, they worried about projects and assignments submissions and every 6 months they had 'end sem', for which they supposedly studied. But they were a fun lot!! rather had-too-much-fun lot!! The kind of fun they had, was a li'l too much for us lesser mortals! (just kiddin.. to make the ones who are reading this, happy :P)
But they were competition!! So when i prepared myself to take the CAT, it was a serious GAME ONN!! It was Me vs. Engineers!! It was healthy competition though. I had a couple of engineer friends who helped me with math, me and another friend, helped them with verbal. But the damn CAT was clearly biased!! They always scored more than me... (Fine... both of them worked hard for it!) But the CAT made me look at engineers in a very different light. It was deuce till then. But they had Advantage Knowledge in CAT. I made a deuce again in GDs and PIs. Being a non-engineer and a quizzer acts as a great advantage there. its a unique thing. Infact I remember my group interview at S.P.Jain where the first 7 people in my group were engineers (within them 4 electronics and 2 comps!!) and i was beaming when i gave them details of my profile!! :) :D
And now i am at Somaiya... Surrounded by engineers and here my Advantage Knowledge-cum-uniqueness factor (that i am a B.A. eco-stats, quizzer, proficient in french etc. etc.) comes in super-handy. My room mates are engineers, my class mates are engineers (85% of them are!), my friends are engineers and well, we get along perfectly normal. They have a different outlook about things; analytical more methodological and well... organized. And yeah... we would make a nice team!! :) So all (stupid!) past forgotten, i am friends with a lot of them, close friends with a few... and they are all AWESOME!!
Cheers to all the engineers in my life...
Special thanks to:
Rohan chinchwadkar
Mukul Hastak
Siddharth Shah
Nitish Seth
Shreya Bhattacharjee
Shivi Shrivastava
Jyotsna Shenoy
Vishal Thakkar
and several more....
U guys totally Rock!! :)
