Scientists dream about doing
things…Engineers do them.
I am a BSc in mathematics but possess an
MCA degree. Hence, I can’t tell you about how I chose Engineering, but I can tell
you how the world of IT chose me.
Learning in school can be boring,
interesting or liberating depending upon how good your teachers are. I always felt
mathematics was the most difficult subject in the world. Until I got Math
lessons from a Teacher in 9th grade who was so good; he remembered
not just the lesson he had to teach each day, but also the page and line number
of the book on which it was printed. As high school ended, I knew if I wanted
to go into Science stream, I had to pick math as a subject, deeply inspired by
his teaching.
Of course, MCA was terrifying and extremely
difficult without an engineering degree, but all through it, my mother
encouraged me that if I have enrolled for it, I can get through it with flying
colors.
Being from a small town, the ambition was
to get selected in a multinational, and prove that the girls of our college
were as capable as the guys. There were hardly 12 girls in a class of 60 in
MCA. It was not an easy ride during campus selection and neither during the
off-campus interviews. But at the end it was all worth it; as the first company
that gave me employment was Infosys Technologies Ltd. It has not always been a smooth ride, but
every challenge that I overcome has induced extra confidence in my personality.
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice
as big as it needs to be.
