Wednesday, March 09, 2005

An enigma called final year project

I guess all engineering students face this problem. It is unfortunately a compulsory part of all engineering curriculum and a student is supposed to devote atleast two semesters for it.Juniors often come to know that a certain senior has done a very fundoo project as a result of which he has got a hu ha job and so on and so forth. An air of mystery hangs around the term called " project" when one is in his initial years of engineering.One is not sure as to what it is all about. Hence, many or infact most of the students take up some sort of project in their second year. Hardly 10% successfully completes it though it might not be to the prof's expectations.All myths about " projects" are shattered and the student becomes reluctant to take up any such projects in future. I am talking about the common engineer not the " apping" types and the fundoo ones who are naturally inclined towards projects.
I have hardly come across an would be engineer who devotes regular hours of work on his project. People tend to wake up from their slumber a few days before their evaluation or report submission. The remaining days are full of night outs, tensions and what not. Using all type of search engines to find the best web page from whr u can copy the entire stuff,manually changing the results so as to satisfy the profs..........the days leading up to an evaluation are full of load. The culmination of this entire fiasco is the evaluation. Here a panel of profs awaits you to present whatever work u have done. A student is in real trouble if lands up infront of a dangerous panel. All types of
questions from the most relevant ones to questions like " How did u clear class 10?" can come up. The profs can genuinely praise one's work or they can screw u up badly. Often it depends on their moods. If one is very unlucky he might get an extension which means he has to work for 2-3 months after the end sem to complete their project. Nothing can be more horrendous than staying in the campus and doing ur extended project while ur friends njoy at home. A cool and confident approach along with some nice presentation should see one through unless he is
very unlucky.
Lets see how my first eval goes which is only a day away.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

engg projs r wonderfool :-)) pun intended....coz of em we here in NSIT can bunk as many classes as we want....all in the name of meetin guide and searchin on net... :-D

adios
rohit

9:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

engg projs r wonderfool :-)) pun intended....coz of em we here in NSIT can bunk as many classes as we want....all in the name of meetin guide and searchin on net... :-D

adios
rohit

9:52 PM  
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