The daffodils

Well as my diwali vacations are about to get over i thought of adding another post to my blog!!This time its abt my favourite poem !!Daffodils by William Wordsworth !!I still remember the way our dear teacher Mr Mark D souza happen to recite the poem,focussing on all the intricate details of the poem!!He made us feel the poem as one beautiful song which left a lasting impression in our mind!!He was more than a teacher to all of us!!The reminiscence of the good old school days makes me nostalgic!!

Now something abt the great literary exponent William Wordsworth. Wordsworth's famous poem about daffodils was composed in 1804, two years after he saw the flowers walking by Ullswater on a stormy day with Dorothy.His inspiration for the poem came from an account written by Dorothy. In her journal entry for 15th April 1802 she describes how the daffodils:tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them over the lake;Wordsworth published his poem, 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' , in 1807. He later altered it, and his second version, published in 1815, is the one widely known today.

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:-
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.

Why only MBA???

Post Engineering, all Engineering students come at crossroads, where they have to make a choice – a choice that defines their career for the rest of their lives: to choose one amongst the options of a job, management or M.Tech, MS. The four most widely used options are management, M.Tech, M.S, MBA or a job. Given the current situation in India, most of the engineering colleges are not able to give a 100% placement, which results candidate making a choice between management, M.S and M. Tech. This article is about choosing the option of post graduation in a technical field. In this article I will try to put some thoughts of mine and some inferences I have made in this regard.

Why does one choose CAT over post graduation in technical field (M.Tech or M.S) or vice versa? To quote the Bible, “A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things”. Most of the students choose management because they perceive that a management person makes more money than a research person. This might have been true in the past. But now that companies like Motorola and Honda are beginning to outsource their R&D to India, the demand for Research oriented people is on the rise. "Virtually every single global IT major is rapidly expanding its footprint into India," says Sunil Mehta, vice president, Nasscom. As of now, 100 Fortune 500 companies - including Delphi, Eli Lilly, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, DaimlerChrysler and others - have put up R&D facilities in India over the past five years. Considering the scenario, post graduation in technical field be it M.Tech or M.S is no longer the underdog. And the number of students giving GATE or GRE has been increasing every year.

One other thing which is observed is the wild rush. If you happen to ask an Engineering student why he or she is preparing for M.B.A the answer is generally friends around me are going for it, Technical stuffs are not meant for me! If this is the situation the day is not far when all the engineering colleges around will be reduced to mere graduating schools where all the students graduating from school invariably end up as M.B.A! It is disheartening to find students graduating from premier technical institutes aiming for management, it is fine if one is seriously influenced by management and thinks that he is better of with management considering his aptitude and work skills but I definitely don’t understand the wild rush. How can a person take such an important decision in his career not even giving a thought over his or her performance in the past, his achievements, things which have fascinated him the most! This is for sure the mindset of the students is greatly influenced by college environment and the present situation is quite well known.

This can only be changed by the students which form the intellectual capital of an institute.

Before summing up I would like to pose some questions

How many nobel laureates are of Indian origin? Do you know how many patents have been filed from Indian origin people? Why our country still lags behind as far as technological exposure is concerned as compared to countries like U.S ,Japan?Why our country still lags in defense research sector? Why is our nation taking so much of time in coming up with an advanced Light combat Aircraft? Why is it taking so much to bring another green revolution? Well the answer for all the above questions is one and the same the lack of people with strong technical expertise.

Being a part of such a premier institute if you wish to do something about this then please do take interest in technical activities keep yourself updated ,naturally one will be fascinated about technical field .Then definitely we will be able to do something good to the nation some day and make our nation proud about it!!