Thinkin about something?

My professor remarked to a freshman this morning., "If you think a lot, engineering is a good discipline to be."

If you don't think, then engineering is the discipline for you. If you start thinking, as in, real thinking, you better be a philosopher. For if you really start to think, you will not be thinking about, "What do I do so that a 5 inch bolt has to fit into this 3 inch screw" then you got options. This is what you do. Thats not what thinking is about. When cosidering a solution for the problem above, you are constrained. By money, by manufacturing, by all means to fit or die.

But in some point, if you think, "Is what I am doing really worth it? Does anybody in the world really care about whether this fits a Rolls Royce or a Kia? Or does the guy who buys this even knows what this thing is about?" then you have started to think. If you are the really thinking type and go on further, say, "What happens to the world after this car is released? Emissions? Fumes? not green effects? Okay. what about the person who is not going to make it to buy this effect? Am I not inciting jealousy and violence? " Then you are starting to be a philanthropist.

If you are really really into it, "What is this in the grander scheme of things? Is a rolls royce ever going to make it to the moon? so what if it does? Is it going to the end of cosmos? Is it going to drive God in? Waitamint! Is there a God really? Where is He then? Too busy I guess! What about life? Why is this happening? Why am I here thinking about it? Did God want to me to think this way so that He can change my perspectives? Is He giving me a way to look at in a broader perspectives? Religions?......" Man!!! You have graduated to being a PHILOSOPHER..

( pats on the back, handshakes, claps, spotlights and a graduating cap if a thinking cap is not enough!)

But if on the other hand, you decide to shake yourself out of the reverie, snap shut out of your day dream, "It is all about money man! Jeez, Holy cow! Did you get a gander at the new recruiting lady. Gotta get a date!" and of course there is the Rolls Royce to think about. And then a new pent to seriously think about!

(voices in the background:
Mark, what did you the last you had this problemo?")

HEY! Welcome to the club : You are an engineer!!!!!!
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I havent lost it.

I havent lost it..No. I couldnt have..

Want to write..Lil'Jinx and big troubles

There are so many things that are happening in life. I talk with my roomie. I talk with Anna,Vj,Naresh. I talk to Jun,Joe,Jing,Dr.Herrin. Things are happening at a tumble. I lost something extremely dear to me. I am shaken by its loss but still go on living. I find out something else. I don't want to die.
Everyday a discovery. A remembrance. A day closer to my dreams. Graduation. So much is happening. But why am I living in an island? Why is my mind refusing to connect physically with anything around it? Why does it stay aloof,isolated when the entire world seems conjoined in happiness and togetherness?

Something extremely funny happened yesterday. Any other day. Any other circumstance :I would have been rolling on the floor laughing. I was eating out with Vj and Soddy,my roomie. We were @ this extremely nice Italian restaurant. We were waiting for our tabs, when the "Oh so considerate" hunk waiter got us small peppermint to freshen up. I popped on into my mouth. I tried to bite it and 2 seconds later:made it 2 pieces. Only to find that one of them was my tooth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spat out the mint and was shocked to find my root canal treated tooth sticking to it!!!! I could not even believe something like this was happening.

What would you say! In the first moment, we were too shocked to realize what was the issue and came out of the restaurant. Soddy and Vj rolling on the floor laughing. Me? What was I doing? I should have been laughing too?

I was standing quietly wondering how things like these never fail to happen to me? Wondering what I was going to do about the exposed root. How much would it cost without dental insurance? I had just cleared my insurance tabs for my leg.

Life has been little better than a roller coaster tumble. I would have been extremely happy if not for something that happened a week ago. But now? I feel an immature, irresponsible, juvenile who cant take care of her things.

To top it all, I got my friend a parking ticket due to my ignorance of rules. 100$ gone for helping me.

Guys and gals : take this advise. Don't stick around me. You might get jinxed!

Shristi karta - the sun

Thanks to Vikram. India beams