It has been long time I wrote about things. In the list of my new year resolutions Start writing is one of the resolutions. But the most important one is stop hurting people ;)
So I was desperately looking for some topic to write about. Last night me and my friend were discussing about guidance for his brother who has joined engineering this year. Our discussion was about how we can help him to make most of his college life in next 4 years. Here I'm going to post the items we thought worth noting.
Time
If you observer which ever we posses, that is not equally distributed to all people, some people are rich and some are poor. Some are beautiful and some are not. Some have educated parent some doesn't have etc...
"Time" is the only thing that is equally distributed among all the people on this planets. A day means 24 hours for anybody, What you can achieve in this 24 hours is in your hands. Sort out what is important and what is not and allocate your time accordingly, when you look back after couple of years, you should not have any regrets.
An inspiring song about Time from Pink Floyd.
Friends
In college you are going to make the friends for life time. They are going to be there when you are chasing a girl. They will be there in all awkward and awesome moments of life. One awesome song about friends by bob mecferrin
As they say "birds with same feathers flock together". You don't have to search for friends, soon you all will be sitting in same bench, drinking same beer and bunking same class. Never hesitate you bunk a class to go out with friends for a party or movie. Few years down the line you will not regret for bunking the class as much as you do for missing the party or movie.
There is a super hit TV show named Friends. It has 10 seasons, each season 24 episodes and each episode 20 minutes. Total 80 hours. If you have not seen already start watching it, There is a reason why it has 9.0 rating in IMDB and why I'm mentioning it.
Music
Don't just listen to music. First learn to listen it. In our life we are going to spend considerable amount of time listening to music, To get most out of it you should know the basics of sounds (note, scale, chord etc..). Learn the types of music read about Carnatic music, Sufi Music. You can feel the goosebumps when you understand how "Sruthi", "Swara", "Raga" and "Tala" form the foundation in Carnatic music.
Pick one Music instrument and learn to play it, you will know the beauty of it. If I had started playing Guitar in college I would have mastered it by now.
Learn Guitar CourseEar course that I enrolled this week.
Fundamentals of Music Theory
Reading
Our lives are steady, comfortable and mediocre. You cannot live like a Hero as shown in movies. You cannot meet Amazing people in real life. But if you start reading books, you will be living two lives in parallel, One is adventures and exciting form the book, other is the real and ordinary life ;).
If you see Game Of Thrones. You should know why Tyrion Lannister is so awesome.
You can subscribe to Amazon Kindle unlimited you will just spend 150 to 200 rupees pre month and get access to lot of books.
Money
If you hear someone saying Money is not important and I don't care about money. Slap on his face and kick on his Ass.
We have studied very hard for Ranks, And now you spend four years to get job. Once you get the job, you work hard. And that results in Salary. So you are going to spend whole of your fucking 21 years of lives to get ready to earn money. So everything boils down to a single most important entity called "Money".
You should find a way to earn money in college. one best way is by home tutions. If you want to do it online, Get an account created in TutorVista by your brother spend one or two hours a day and you will earn considerable money. Which you can use to Travel or Buy the stuff.
You should master the money science. Read little about accounting, economics and entrepreneurship. Now it is not tough to get the free resource to learn anything, in that sense we are so lucky. Courseera is one such source.
Read - Rich dad and Poor dad and Choose yourself
Career
If you see above image you will find there is a difference between Job and Career. If you didn't understand, just remember it for now. Think about what you want to achieve by the time when you come out of college. If you just want a job in TCS, Wipro or other software companies. Just relax you will get it. But you will end up as one more sheep in a herd. If you want stand out, you should do different things then an ordinary student.
You might have seen people from IITs getting jobs in Google and Facebook with hell lot of packages.
Even if you are not studying in IIT you have access to most of the content for the lecture through NPTEL and there is a way to get into Google even if you are not from IIT but determined through APAC
There is an answer in quora from a guy who was from GRIET and happen to be my teammate in Microsoft now started his own start up.
Quora answer
But before this you need to acquire the skills.
1) C and C++ find courses in NPTEL
2) Data Structure and Algorithms. for this you can follow MyCodeSchool. MyCodeSchool tutorials are like spoon feeding any one can learn from it. but you should start as early as possible should not wait till final year.
3) OOPs Find courses in NPTEL
4)Computer Networks Find courses in NPTEL.
You don't need to go to college daily. Bunk the college find the time to follow your passion.
What ever may be your career plan, But one thing I would suggest is take out you time and follow unacademy channel in you tube. It is for IAS aspirants. Even if you are not thinking about it, Just see the videos and follow the channel they will not upload more than 2 hours lenght videos per week. It will change your perception about the thing you witness daily.
There is alot to add it is 2-30 at night will find some time later to update it. for now you can rock with this information.
So I was desperately looking for some topic to write about. Last night me and my friend were discussing about guidance for his brother who has joined engineering this year. Our discussion was about how we can help him to make most of his college life in next 4 years. Here I'm going to post the items we thought worth noting.
Time
If you observer which ever we posses, that is not equally distributed to all people, some people are rich and some are poor. Some are beautiful and some are not. Some have educated parent some doesn't have etc...
"Time" is the only thing that is equally distributed among all the people on this planets. A day means 24 hours for anybody, What you can achieve in this 24 hours is in your hands. Sort out what is important and what is not and allocate your time accordingly, when you look back after couple of years, you should not have any regrets.
An inspiring song about Time from Pink Floyd.
Friends
In college you are going to make the friends for life time. They are going to be there when you are chasing a girl. They will be there in all awkward and awesome moments of life. One awesome song about friends by bob mecferrin
There is a super hit TV show named Friends. It has 10 seasons, each season 24 episodes and each episode 20 minutes. Total 80 hours. If you have not seen already start watching it, There is a reason why it has 9.0 rating in IMDB and why I'm mentioning it.
Music
Don't just listen to music. First learn to listen it. In our life we are going to spend considerable amount of time listening to music, To get most out of it you should know the basics of sounds (note, scale, chord etc..). Learn the types of music read about Carnatic music, Sufi Music. You can feel the goosebumps when you understand how "Sruthi", "Swara", "Raga" and "Tala" form the foundation in Carnatic music.
Pick one Music instrument and learn to play it, you will know the beauty of it. If I had started playing Guitar in college I would have mastered it by now.
Learn Guitar CourseEar course that I enrolled this week.
Fundamentals of Music Theory
Reading
Our lives are steady, comfortable and mediocre. You cannot live like a Hero as shown in movies. You cannot meet Amazing people in real life. But if you start reading books, you will be living two lives in parallel, One is adventures and exciting form the book, other is the real and ordinary life ;).
If you see Game Of Thrones. You should know why Tyrion Lannister is so awesome.
You can subscribe to Amazon Kindle unlimited you will just spend 150 to 200 rupees pre month and get access to lot of books.
Money
If you hear someone saying Money is not important and I don't care about money. Slap on his face and kick on his Ass.
We have studied very hard for Ranks, And now you spend four years to get job. Once you get the job, you work hard. And that results in Salary. So you are going to spend whole of your fucking 21 years of lives to get ready to earn money. So everything boils down to a single most important entity called "Money".
You should find a way to earn money in college. one best way is by home tutions. If you want to do it online, Get an account created in TutorVista by your brother spend one or two hours a day and you will earn considerable money. Which you can use to Travel or Buy the stuff.
You should master the money science. Read little about accounting, economics and entrepreneurship. Now it is not tough to get the free resource to learn anything, in that sense we are so lucky. Courseera is one such source.
Read - Rich dad and Poor dad and Choose yourself
Career
You might have seen people from IITs getting jobs in Google and Facebook with hell lot of packages.
Even if you are not studying in IIT you have access to most of the content for the lecture through NPTEL and there is a way to get into Google even if you are not from IIT but determined through APAC
There is an answer in quora from a guy who was from GRIET and happen to be my teammate in Microsoft now started his own start up.
Quora answer
But before this you need to acquire the skills.
1) C and C++ find courses in NPTEL
2) Data Structure and Algorithms. for this you can follow MyCodeSchool. MyCodeSchool tutorials are like spoon feeding any one can learn from it. but you should start as early as possible should not wait till final year.
3) OOPs Find courses in NPTEL
4)Computer Networks Find courses in NPTEL.
You don't need to go to college daily. Bunk the college find the time to follow your passion.
What ever may be your career plan, But one thing I would suggest is take out you time and follow unacademy channel in you tube. It is for IAS aspirants. Even if you are not thinking about it, Just see the videos and follow the channel they will not upload more than 2 hours lenght videos per week. It will change your perception about the thing you witness daily.
There is alot to add it is 2-30 at night will find some time later to update it. for now you can rock with this information.
