15 Life Lessons Engineering Prepares You For

Engineering.

Every parent’s dream and most children’s nightmare. A lot of engineers do feel that they never wanted to be one, but the truth is being an engineer has become as basic as passing your 12th grade. As they say, in India, kids become engineers first and then think of what they want to become. They choose a career for themselves and start their quest in finding themselves only after securing a stable degree that announces to the world, at least, he/she is an engineer.

All that aside, engineering, if looked at closely, is just more than textbook knowledge and their applications. It’s basically a crash course on the subject of life. Here are a few life lessons you probably have, or will learn in the four years of getting a degree that calls for respect, which it deserves.

1. It allows you to be flexible in choosing whatever field you want to build your career into.

 

2. Creativity is the most important requirement of being an engineer.

 

3. It’s basically a crash course in the worst case possible and being ready with a plan B, always.

 

4. Your lab practicals allow you to be a part of solving real world problems along with being a keen observer.

 

5. The sheer number of courses and what they entail, trains your mind to be constantly riddled with questions.

 

6. You surprisingly fix everything for yourself once you learn how to do so in workshops.

 

7. You finally learn how things actually work or, at least, develop a speculative you.

 

8. You learn to win the death race with time for completing your assignments.

 

9. Backlogs are just like speed breakers. They don’t stop you but just slow you down teaching you that you shouldn’t give up on anything ever.

 

10. Trying to graduate will feel awfully similar to making it in the real world.

 

11. The long hours you spend in lectures and the nights you spent coding and re-coding, all rolled with epic time with friends teaches you that work can indeed be mixed with pleasure.

 

12. Techfests give you a glimpse of how your work life is going to be.

 

13. Engineering will teach you how to use procrastination to your advantage.

 

14. It won’t make sense of using most of your education out in the world.

 

15. But trust me, it’s all worth it.

Once an Engineer, always an Engineer.( Even if you are in another profession. :P)

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