Why electronics??

It’s now project time for final years. Brains are burning with ideas.the most important and interesting part of the engineering degree has now arrived. This year many have bravely took the task of doing the project in the college. We have also opted to do it in the college..don’t know what’s gonna happen..anyway will hope for good. Now the question that came to my mind much earlier is now replaying in my mind…why electronics?? And why and how this is interesting…many subject have played part in my life ..now rewinding what all I have learnt gives something interesting for me to enjoy..
Like everyone I also joined for electronics engineering with great interest in electronics..but what happened to me when classes started is ‘what is that which is electronics in this?’…class of physics, chemistry, maths and all age old craps and carpentry and masonry work with a little bit of electronics to relief…is this what is electronics?…oh mistake happened and days of friendship enjoyment.etc..etc.. with a dare to fear ragging.. can’t walk without fear of getting caught by any seniors..what’s going to happen at any time..no idea..anyway life is good with lot of fun and bit of studies…and half an year passed by and with high university exam time I realized two semesters had gone with just a bit of realization in my mind that engineering is loading in my mind…but it’s hanging.

And came the year of serious studies in engineering…the second year…and as told by all. Now we are stepping into serious electronics studies. I thought studies are going to be interesting from now….but what happened actually was that it’s difficult…I really couldn’t digest much of electronics…is electronics tough?. I didn’t find current applications with this. The question came again in my life…what to do with this…? And now fear of the deadly stuffs..the network theory, circuits, solid state devices all got loaded in my mind from all…as all speak..from seniors to teachers, this stuffs are had to crack…but finally after the game I realized this all are good but what to do..time had gone and the sem is over..now no way to rewind or redo…what is this? all gone when I realized that they were good to learn…where was the problem..is it with my studies or with teaching or with all stuffs of enjoyment…where was the problem? What gone wrong?. The problem was with me. And I realized a great thing after some worries of exams and labs …engg is not that which should be spoon feeded or capsuled and eaten…it should come from within. What’s interesting to us can be learnt anyway if we work sincerely..the books are enough to gain knowledge to some extent and the rest gets filled with keen interest..We have all ways of help…net, teachers,etc..but who utilizes this? The problem is within. Teaching is like this in all colleges and we blame our faults on some others…but what to do..the sem is over…

And now reloaded with new aims and new hopes, the new semester is here..and now many ideas to do and perform grown in my mind…the teachings started and my energy also gone up..i keenly listened to the classes, noted down the lectures. The time and the sem is going. And I’m learning it. Circuits, signals, processors..and going deep into electronics. I found applications of circuits in amplifiers, basic devices and it was interesting.8085 processors, the base in processors. I was happy to know that it is the ancient guy in the family..from where the current intels, amd’s all evolved. But, on start it was full of block diagrams. Blocks are tough to remember. Learn and forget type. I learned all blocks. But couldn’t remember much of it even in the series exams. I even doubted. Am I having short term memory?

The university exams came. I done it hardly. And then the fifth semester. It went as usual. And now the semester of projects. It was an interesting semester. The mini project which is an important part of engineering. It’s the chance to apply all we have learned. We did something good. From the 3rd semester onwards we studied lot of EC. Circuits, digital electronics, processors, signals, communication and lot more. When what all we learnt gets applied, it becomes interesting…and it’s our project. PCBs and soldering all makes it interesting…and we go a bit into the computer territory..the programming. Here the question gets solved to some extent..how electronics gets applied?.. and it’s interesting..and there will be a bit of tension on where will we reach at last…but it gets solved at last.

The next big thing in engg…seminar. It’s what that moulds something more than technical knowledge. Our ability to present ideas, our creativity and and one more thing…it made me learn power point..
Seminar is a confidence booster. It boosts our confidence to present ideas..But some do it just to escape from it. If done sincerely, it helps. And hearing all others seminar is also interesting..It makes us amazing..how many new technologies are developing? And hearing all these through seminars is interesting. The growth of electronics is tremendous.
Now, we are on our main project with full help from the college. The project based on digital signal processing…dsp. Dsp, the toughest thing all will feel in 5th semester..and was the same for me too…but after we learn matlab and get into project, I feel it’s interesting.. Don’t know what will happen…we are doing it..and there’s much help from college. All hardware stuffs are provided from college. Two DSP kits, each costs 30k, two systems with internet and a laptop with wi-fi… Can a college do anything more?? We are happy for the help from college..
And we are developing our project…hoping for the best. Now I got the answer.. why electronics?...it’s really interesting…