My Co-instructorship back when in hyderabad this summer

I have seen many people especially because I am in the field of would be " so- called probable educators of Engineering students" ( I hate the word lecturer, makes you seem like an old guy) most of them have made this choice for various reasons. Mostly not with teaching in mind.
Because of this any of the professional works that we do my friends seem to relate it to teaching. I justify it saying that it gives me an opportunity to observe an organization from an instructor's perspective.
I was a Professional assistant the previous semester and so naturally when I applied for co-instructorship in summer break I got it. i was supposed to report to my In-charge Prof BN Murthy from BITS Hyderabad campus on May 24th. I got to Jeedimetla from my aunt's place where I was staying. I found the company where I was supposed to work after roaming in the may sun at 11 for close to an hour. Then came the students.

I got 10 students. 4 of them were from Hyderabad campus, 4 from Goa campus and 2 from Pilani campus. I was pretty uncomfortable at the start having never had handled anythin like this because my Professional assiatant experience the previous sem was in classroom environment but this was in industrial environment.

But then the company people started of the classes and the first one month just went in a blur. The company people were supposed to teach them and show them how things actually move in a company.(I got co-instructorship in a gear manufacturing firm). i was expected to teach them the technical stuff so my work involved finding and planning in advance.
Finally came the turn of projects.These were discussed before hand with my students.. By that time there was no more weirdness in the relationship and they had come to accept me as one among their own. Well after all I am just 2 years their senior. Eventually we had 3 great projects.

One project documented an entire lifecycle of a gearbox right from the stage material is supplied in form of billets and blanks. Second project involved the documentation and revamping their MIS. Third project involved developing a far more better website for them than the one they currently used.
Once the projects were done and reports were submitted it was the time to say adieu. I had grown close to my students because we were together for 5-6 hours a day 6 days a week for two months.That was also my first experience in a reasonable position of authority. We decided to celebrate for the sake of future and we went to Hotel Swagath in Kukatpally. Post lunch we wished each other luck. Because no one know when you will probably meet them next.

I will remember forever this experience.

Optimism - A cup that should always be overflowing

Today i feel optimistic.. Like I never felt atleast in recent times.

It is not because I have achieved something.. Not even that I am confident that I will be or become something in future.

I just read an article in today's " The Hindu". I subscribe to that. I believe that It is probably the best English newspaper in India. It is non judgmental and lets the users form their own opinion.

It was about how humans are inherently social and good by large.
The circumstances make us what we are at that particular point.


Just the feeling that though this is supposedly "Kalyug" and It is one man to himself.. Especially when everyone is talking about how competitive the world is often we wonder whether goodness is lost out.. And add to that my placement semester.. Drives you nuts..

But just the fact that people are inherently good means that people do have a 2nd chance once they know that they have made a mistake.

I know my dreams. And I also the problems with doing that. Well i dream of working in NGO's for betterment of society. I am a environmental nut. I would love to travel.

but when I joined engineering I had made an commitment to myself. I will do whatever I want with my own money. Call it independent or anything.

So that pushes back these things by 30 years or so.
But yes I certainly will travel . I will volunteer and work in developing the society. As far as environment is concerned small measures like using tube lights, switching them off when not in use, refraining from using plastics, promoting local foods etc should be fine.