Saturday, April 26, 2008
Being out of the Box!
There has been a great boom for the Undergraduate Engineering courses in India. Especially since the last 2 decades. We have seen great organizations booming up with the ambit of IT services across the globe. The global need for people literate about Business and IT combined has reached it peaks. The unemployment graph has been observed to have a remarkable downfall. This certainly means the GDP, Economy and the Indian Currency are getting stronger! So we Indians are getting rich! Wow! This is what I felt when I looked at the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) market position. Looking at the 20,000 mark being reached from the depths of pathetic 1500 points. One would never imagine that the markets in India could boom up to that extent. We have the Golden Bird with us again! I feel proud of it!
So what makes me get worried about the future. Is it because of countries like China emerging with the IT industry? Or is it because of the shrinking and sinking US markets.Well the answer is None of these.
The ultimate worry is the standards we possess.
I have experienced a great blow of something called as "Tradition to Reject Change". Well its my perspective. I joined my undergraduate course in 2005. The first day I had a great conversation with the Principal of my Institute. I felt overwhelmed with the way he approached towards the proper educational needs of a student. Later, I realized that it was only him in the institute to have that bent.
Rest were people who were like doing wonders without knowing its baseline. In short they could not speak out what they were doing. I could find people talking about Maxima and Minima; but when asked about why should I use it, their faces turned dull as they had no answers for it. Am I in the wrong shoes??
Then I realized that my world was with stuffs that are really practical today. And obviously I found it to be the Linux based systems. I brought SuSE Linux 9.2 (audio driver did not work as there were some h/w issues). Then I felt to know more about Linux ( the kernel). I spoke to my departmental Head regarding the same. He felt I could bring a few things that were to the next level. We had a 2 day workshop @ our campus by the FSF-AP officials. That turned the wheels of thoughts into a new direction. Although it was taken by none.
I have seen people mugging up the answers for questions and later the forget both. For them some shit is their duty, but in my world this has been my religion. When I speak about Free Software/ Open Source Software, they start digging deep. Not onto the philosophy but on my academics (like Is he a college topper, Can he be placed, Does he possess some dignity, Does he give respect to faculty members,etc).
I have seen an idiot who boasts himself as a Leader for tomorrows' business but am afraid as he does noting that boasting himself. He speaks about projects and does nothing on its development. Few of them are interested in gathering a pile of certificates that may help them crack interviews. And it ends there.
I met a friend of mine, I felt him to be a technology evangelist but he turned out to be a buffoon. We had a contest as "Go-Alive Challenge" held by Microsoft Corporation, India. It was all about creating email ids for students ( that was not a big deal) and a college website running on MS Technologies. He was very firm about doing it but rejected it at the final moments stating that "THERE ARE NOT CERTIFICATES AWARDED FOR IT". I said " QUALITY NEVER NEEDS A PRAISE, BULLSHIT DOES". But I was wrong there... that bastard just didnt agree to that and we lost it as a whole. I feel I missed a great opportunity for both me and my Institute.
There has been a great boom for the Undergraduate Engineering courses in India. Especially since the last 2 decades. We have seen great organizations booming up with the ambit of IT services across the globe. The global need for people literate about Business and IT combined has reached it peaks. The unemployment graph has been observed to have a remarkable downfall. This certainly means the GDP, Economy and the Indian Currency are getting stronger! So we Indians are getting rich! Wow! This is what I felt when I looked at the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) market position. Looking at the 20,000 mark being reached from the depths of pathetic 1500 points. One would never imagine that the markets in India could boom up to that extent. We have the Golden Bird with us again! I feel proud of it!
So what makes me get worried about the future. Is it because of countries like China emerging with the IT industry? Or is it because of the shrinking and sinking US markets.Well the answer is None of these.
The ultimate worry is the standards we possess.
I have experienced a great blow of something called as "Tradition to Reject Change". Well its my perspective. I joined my undergraduate course in 2005. The first day I had a great conversation with the Principal of my Institute. I felt overwhelmed with the way he approached towards the proper educational needs of a student. Later, I realized that it was only him in the institute to have that bent.
Rest were people who were like doing wonders without knowing its baseline. In short they could not speak out what they were doing. I could find people talking about Maxima and Minima; but when asked about why should I use it, their faces turned dull as they had no answers for it. Am I in the wrong shoes??
Then I realized that my world was with stuffs that are really practical today. And obviously I found it to be the Linux based systems. I brought SuSE Linux 9.2 (audio driver did not work as there were some h/w issues). Then I felt to know more about Linux ( the kernel). I spoke to my departmental Head regarding the same. He felt I could bring a few things that were to the next level. We had a 2 day workshop @ our campus by the FSF-AP officials. That turned the wheels of thoughts into a new direction. Although it was taken by none.
I have seen people mugging up the answers for questions and later the forget both. For them some shit is their duty, but in my world this has been my religion. When I speak about Free Software/ Open Source Software, they start digging deep. Not onto the philosophy but on my academics (like Is he a college topper, Can he be placed, Does he possess some dignity, Does he give respect to faculty members,etc).
I have seen an idiot who boasts himself as a Leader for tomorrows' business but am afraid as he does noting that boasting himself. He speaks about projects and does nothing on its development. Few of them are interested in gathering a pile of certificates that may help them crack interviews. And it ends there.
I met a friend of mine, I felt him to be a technology evangelist but he turned out to be a buffoon. We had a contest as "Go-Alive Challenge" held by Microsoft Corporation, India. It was all about creating email ids for students ( that was not a big deal) and a college website running on MS Technologies. He was very firm about doing it but rejected it at the final moments stating that "THERE ARE NOT CERTIFICATES AWARDED FOR IT". I said " QUALITY NEVER NEEDS A PRAISE, BULLSHIT DOES". But I was wrong there... that bastard just didnt agree to that and we lost it as a whole. I feel I missed a great opportunity for both me and my Institute.
So what makes me get worried about the future. Is it because of countries like China emerging with the IT industry? Or is it because of the shrinking and sinking US markets.Well the answer is None of these.
The ultimate worry is the standards we possess.
I have experienced a great blow of something called as "Tradition to Reject Change". Well its my perspective. I joined my undergraduate course in 2005. The first day I had a great conversation with the Principal of my Institute. I felt overwhelmed with the way he approached towards the proper educational needs of a student. Later, I realized that it was only him in the institute to have that bent.
Rest were people who were like doing wonders without knowing its baseline. In short they could not speak out what they were doing. I could find people talking about Maxima and Minima; but when asked about why should I use it, their faces turned dull as they had no answers for it. Am I in the wrong shoes??
Then I realized that my world was with stuffs that are really practical today. And obviously I found it to be the Linux based systems. I brought SuSE Linux 9.2 (audio driver did not work as there were some h/w issues). Then I felt to know more about Linux ( the kernel). I spoke to my departmental Head regarding the same. He felt I could bring a few things that were to the next level. We had a 2 day workshop @ our campus by the FSF-AP officials. That turned the wheels of thoughts into a new direction. Although it was taken by none.
I have seen people mugging up the answers for questions and later the forget both. For them some shit is their duty, but in my world this has been my religion. When I speak about Free Software/ Open Source Software, they start digging deep. Not onto the philosophy but on my academics (like Is he a college topper, Can he be placed, Does he possess some dignity, Does he give respect to faculty members,etc).
I have seen an idiot who boasts himself as a Leader for tomorrows' business but am afraid as he does noting that boasting himself. He speaks about projects and does nothing on its development. Few of them are interested in gathering a pile of certificates that may help them crack interviews. And it ends there.
I met a friend of mine, I felt him to be a technology evangelist but he turned out to be a buffoon. We had a contest as "Go-Alive Challenge" held by Microsoft Corporation, India. It was all about creating email ids for students ( that was not a big deal) and a college website running on MS Technologies. He was very firm about doing it but rejected it at the final moments stating that "THERE ARE NOT CERTIFICATES AWARDED FOR IT". I said " QUALITY NEVER NEEDS A PRAISE, BULLSHIT DOES". But I was wrong there... that bastard just didnt agree to that and we lost it as a whole. I feel I missed a great opportunity for both me and my Institute.
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