MESCOE or NOT to MESCOE

3 years it has been. And what a life at MESCOE!!! There's never pressure on you to do coding assignments on your own. Never pressure on you to study for your mid-sems, cos the mid-sem results don't reflect on your marksheet. Never pressure on you to do journal work on time, cos if you are late, so is your co-operative class, which means our submissions get delayed by a week :) YAY!!! (although I can't speak for the girls... they are SO DAMN particular DAMN how can they be SO particular!!) Never pressure on you to mix with the crowd, EVERYONE is really friendly at MESCOE. Never pressure on you to worry about, "Oh no! Fee paying time again. Now its gonna be another 60 grand!! ". Fees have always been moderate, 35G, way less than any other college. Never pressure on you to ride 30 Kms to college, consequently screwing your back and ur life.

So, ya, after experiencing all that. Who wouldn't want to join MESCOE!!

True, engineering is all about chilling out, not learning anything, passing by clearing by the skin of ur teeth, bunking, forgetting everything after exams are over, doing nothing as the semester passes by, but eventually, everyone gets placed. Thats where MESCOE falters. PLACEMENTS. The reason it all exists. To get a job at the end of it all, to realize that someone thinks that you are talented (and you know thats all crap! ), to realize that now ur gonna start earning and support ur dad, to buy
stuff that was once way outta your league n stuff like that.

All the way upto TE, noone ever emphasized that quantitative aptitude was such an important thing. Companies come in and take an aptitude test first. So no matter how good you are at technical stuff, if ur not good at finding how many men it takes to complete so much work when 3 men can do it in so much time, then ur history. Neither did we have any mock tests, which by the way were held every week in other colleges, neither did we have someone who had good contacts to get us the best companies, neither did we have enough infrastructure to boast about, neither did we have enough class strength so that companies would visit by just looking at the sheer number of engineers the college churns out every year. Just when i thought it was all worthwhile, I see some colleges being visited by 75 companies, 150 companies, 250 companies and i wonder... was joining MESCOE really worth it? With only a handful of companies visiting and most of us having to battle it out on our own, i realized, this was a big mistake. Well atleast till i get placed myself!

BUT BUT, ideally, isn't computer engineering about learning technical stuff, coding the toughest problems, understanding how compilers work, learning about Java, .NET etc... So i thought, this system of taking aptitude tests is BullShit. The company tests should ONLY be based on how much you have learnt. Well.... thats what happened once. There did come one company which stressed on EXACTLY that (Indigo Architects). The test was based on one knowing how to write the best
algorithms, knowing the latest stuff in technology. But oops! When did the teachers in out college teach us how to code? For goodness sake, they didn't even teach us "C" properly, let alone .NET, compilers, Data Structures, Algorithms and other stuff. So how in the hell were we supposed to crack that test? Eventually none of us cleared that test...

Diametrically, 80% of my seniors have got placed through some way or the other with packages ranging from 2 to 4, which isn't ALL that bad! Coming to think of it all, mebbe, just mebbe that hope that i will one day get placed in some or the other company still lives on. On the 2nd next month, comes another company, MASTEK. Lets see what happens there. To MESCOE or NOT to MESCOE is STILL the question....