Confessions of an engineering student!

One more semester done. But where do I stand as an engineer?
This is a question that rings my mind every time I receive my semester result. As I calculate my aggregate, I make a resolution that I’m going to do a better job next semester. Focussing on unit tests, cutting down on mobile usage and regular updating with the curriculum are some of the plans to make the resolution successful. The plans are good, but hardly executed. I wonder why the will to follow the plans, fades just as fast as it arrives! By the beginning of next week, I’m back to my original self. ( I hear someone chuckling “a week is too long” – I agree)
1. The alarm is set for 4 AM. But unfortunately some smart man kept a snooze option. I end up waking up at 5.30 am.
2. I decide to study in the bus, but I end up sleeping (No better sleeping pill than the early morning breeze striking your face).
3. I can’t remember things I study a few hours earlier. (Ask me the first movie of my favourite actor which I can never forget).
4. I sleep during class hours. (Let me not mention which class lest the teacher would take to task).
5. I text my friends during class hours, by strategically placing my phone under the desk. (Have I let the cat out of the bag?).
6. I feel nothing when I score badly. I remember there was a time when I used to weep if I scored in 80’s. (that was in school, of course!). “You better get back to that habit”, says my mom.
7. I’m almost always the last person to enter the lab. I go blank when asked viva.
8. I seldom get an output, when I rig up a circuit on the bread board. Sigh. It takes a lot to connect a complex circuit and see the CRO giving a straight line!
9. I can hardly sit through 8 hours of classes and I visit the stores/canteen at least once a day. (That’s not very bad, I convince myself).
10. I’ve developed an uncanny ability to read a textbook and learn things myself. (“At least, you still retain that ability” so goes my dad with tongue in cheek.

Why? Why? Why?

Teachers may call it disinterest. Parents call it irresponsibility. According to me, these ten signs are characteristics of a normal engineering student. But where do I stand as an engineer?
Do I possess at least some of the abilities of being a good engineer? Even if I did, are they being put into good use? I learn everything I can in one month, whether I understand it or not. In India particularly, we’ve been very accustomed to the concept of a good and bad student. People judge you based on the percentage you score. That becomes your identity. How fair is that?

Whew! Too many questions but not enough answers. If any of you readers, imagined yourself in my place while reading the above 10 points, join the bandwagon. If not, I salute to you. I better pull up my socks!