@DM 12 December 2020

To be engineers on call

Three bachelors of technology(BTech) to be graduates on call, currently in their final year worried about placements but more than anything exited to talk about their misery to each other and in most abusive way possible, telling their mess up over call to each other. Of course it is a conference call made by one of the friends and now they all are enthusiastic, tensed and free at the same time. This is us, me and my friends on call these days. Tier three colleges are a fun place to study. After Joint Entrance Exams(JEE) in India, some of us go to prestigious IITs and NITs but remaining students, after carefully calculating everything, like, risk of placements, available lab facilities, expenditure over four years, travelling convenience etc etc, join various tier three colleges and then most of us, after three years of wastefulness, loads of memories, relationships and crazy bonds, always meet on such calls I am talking about here. In these three years these people have done the craziest things possible like almost killing friend on birthday beating him like hell, crazy road trips, being high at peak, icy cold heartbreaks, cozy warm love, found their forever partner, made friends with benefits maybe, got their homies for life, explored themselves every bit, found a new talent of themselves which they never new to have it in them and what not but study. On call, one of us is over exited and energetic about talking a lot after killing up all the quora feed about possible options, the other one bagging some mediocre placement of 3-4 LPA(lakhs per annum) or so and talking about nothing but the silver lining in joining the company which offered him job and the third one either a very smart guy who is not placed yet or a person who has no interest in BTech but joined because it was in fashion, listening to both of them and trying to figure out something out of this chit chat. The fun part is...how can someone discuss their pain and unemployment in such a fun way, with loads of slangs and often the conversation takes turn towards two of them laughing over third one. Since its really unpredictable where each one of them will be after 4 or 5 years in future but during these calls they transcend limits of cluelessness. They may also discuss really funny plans of startups or their wild dreams which are not humanly possible to pursue but this warm phone call brings a big smile for the period when they are on line and for some moments after disconnection also. Meanwhile, some smart heads are preparing for post graduation(Mtech or MBA) examination or even GRE. They may have their own ways of relieving stress which I am not acquainted with since I am in final year and clueless as fuck and also, placed for a mediocre package of 3.6LPA and also mildly preparing for better opportunities and not for PG. Since it is corona, that's why these phone calls are in majority. Otherwise, we would have shared it face to face lol. Its really fun to imagine how some of you might have done these calls and are reading this article, in that case, hello there pal, you are one of us. Good luck for your future.