You can't beat the shit out!!

A friend with managerial background once complained that he can't withstand people making weird noise with their burps right after dinner. And that he feels like beating the shit out of them. To this my immediate and involuntary response was that "Technically speaking, you can't beat the shit out of the person who had just had food. You would more likely be immediately successful in beating the vomit out of him. :P Upon my remark he tried to justify by stating the implied meaning of his previous statement.
The third guy, a layman (in  other words a genius), in our company got seriously agitated with the nature of this discourse, and screamed "Shut it, you geeks!!". And laughter took over !!!

Criticise or Change?

I am sure that I won't find even one single person who has never ever criticised The System he / she is a part of. We, being humans, have a tendency to detest the present, miss the past and long for the future. So do the students. When we were in the school nothing was worse than the teachers and the school administration. When in college, the college administration takes that place and memories of the school life are cherished and we can't wait for getting a job. Then those who are working find it extremely unbearable to be there, miss the student life and long for retirement.
We ask for change in The System (Even I do). Forget being the change for a while. The thing we need to ask ourselves is are we mature enough to enjoy the change. Wouldn't we again criticise the changed environment just like a toddler who discards a toy after playing with it for a while?
Actually it isn't The System that needs change. Its our attitude. 'WE' here, means everybody who is a part of 'the system', any system, government, education etc, will have to change they way we think about The System. Because its us, everyone of us, who makes The System what it is. For instance, both teachers and students will have to have the attitude of learning something new everyday, have faith on each other and strive for excellence. The people, and the people in power will have to collaborate to resolve the issue instead of "being the issues" and playing the blame game. Once we grow up, stop criticising and demeaning others, stop wasting time on gossiping like the envious women, and strive for excellence, the day won't be far when we will be satisfied with The System and be an example for the rest of the world.

MBA after Engineering.

Recently I met a would be engineer who aspired to prepare for CAT and go for MBA right after achieving his B.Tech. This brought back all the reasons I have heard from people choosing MBA after engineering.

So why do people go for MBA after engineering?

Statuary Warning: These are my thoughts and no offence is intended to anyone, if you feel offended you are more than welcome not to read any further.

• Learning Managerial Skills

If it is only about learning, why not learn it the only way skills can be acquired i.e by getting hands dirty and practically doing stuff. If one can't learn to swim by only reading books and one can't learn to write programs by mugging them up for exams, I am pretty sure that it is equally impossible to learn the MBA stuff only reading books. And all the colleges will get you to do is, read, mug up, vomit and so on...

• Position - being a manger and governing fellow engineers

In a system where actual learning happens only on ones own and a degree can't certify one to be a better engineer or manager against another, why do companies rely on them and promote MBAs only? Not sure if this happens everywhere, but if it doesn't then why are the engineers crazy for MBA?

• Engineering was a wrong choice.

So you want to say that you were counselled and compelled by your parents because offsprings of their acquaintances were going for engineering and it was never your aim. And that this time your decision is based upon the counselling of your friends, seniors, acquaintances, you are not going in the wrong direction. 

Or perhaps it was one of your "To Err is human" thingy. How can you be so sure that you won't curse MBA just like you did engineering, afterwards?

• I don't know Engineering - they taught nothing at college.

Again how do you know the college would teach you something? And it won't be the same mug up and vomit cycle for 4 end-sem exams?

• Money - earning more 

Haven't you already spent a fortune in terms of time and money already in order to obtain a B.Tech? Can you afford to waste another such fortune?

• Everything that can be achieved with more money

Hmm.. if materialistic stuff is all you desire and knowledge has no value in your eyes, you should better choose the easy way of making money, there are many successful icons even in that dimension whom you could follow to become the next billionaire overnight.

• I have had enough ... I can't study technology any more?

Yes, right, you have had enough of technology haven't you? So why not go back in the stone age and promise that you won't buy the next killer phone from Apple.

Besides, we all loved 3 Idiots, all engineers embraced it as a mirror of the plights and delights of their very own lives. So how did we end up ignoring one of the many morals (http://bit.ly/9yU2hQ)? People who go for MBA after B.Tech and work as a manager are no better than Donkeys (Rancho [aka Phunsukh Wangdu], enacted by Aamir Khan, 3 Idiots).

Edit: The only case in which such a move is justified is when the person takes full responsibility of his / her own actions and resolves never to blames others.