When I got through JEE, I told my relatives that I got seat in IIT. But apparently most of them never heard of that. Many confused it with ITI. (ITIs were Industrial Training Institutes which were a highly popular during ‘80s and ‘90s, and not in use presently).
C’mon man.. you are playing anagrams with my college name..!!
One day one of our family friends who was a teacher, asked me what I was doing. I told that I was studying in IIT. That guy suddenly got up and shockingly asked me “how could you join in IIT after your +2..? Isn’t that after tenth class..??”. I was completely clueless after hearing that. It took me couple of minutes to understand what he was talking about. He was referring to IIIT which was Govt of AP initiative which takes students after their tenth class.
After many such incidents I started telling them that I’m just doing engineering in Chennai.
Later, many shockingly asked me “what is the need of going such far distances for pursuing engineering, despite of having many engineering colleges locally”. I could not answer them, for all these questions, my smile gave them answers.
Chemical Engineering or Chemistry Engineering..??
This is the typical doubt one asks me when they know that I am doing chemical engineering. Most of them directly lands at the conclusion that chemical engineering is all about chemistry and chemicals and tells me precautions on how to be careful with chemicals.
Understand guys, chemical engineering is no where related to chemistry or chemicals. Well, it has more in common with physics and mechanical engg than with chemistry or chemicals.
Prof M S Ananth always says that it is the worst insult to any chemical engineer if someone asks if it is all related to chemistry.?? :P
C’mon man.. you are playing anagrams with my college name..!!
One day one of our family friends who was a teacher, asked me what I was doing. I told that I was studying in IIT. That guy suddenly got up and shockingly asked me “how could you join in IIT after your +2..? Isn’t that after tenth class..??”. I was completely clueless after hearing that. It took me couple of minutes to understand what he was talking about. He was referring to IIIT which was Govt of AP initiative which takes students after their tenth class.
After many such incidents I started telling them that I’m just doing engineering in Chennai.
Later, many shockingly asked me “what is the need of going such far distances for pursuing engineering, despite of having many engineering colleges locally”. I could not answer them, for all these questions, my smile gave them answers.
Chemical Engineering or Chemistry Engineering..??
This is the typical doubt one asks me when they know that I am doing chemical engineering. Most of them directly lands at the conclusion that chemical engineering is all about chemistry and chemicals and tells me precautions on how to be careful with chemicals.
Understand guys, chemical engineering is no where related to chemistry or chemicals. Well, it has more in common with physics and mechanical engg than with chemistry or chemicals.
Prof M S Ananth always says that it is the worst insult to any chemical engineer if someone asks if it is all related to chemistry.?? :P
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