Via Bull temple down memory Lane

A few weeks back I had taken my mom for an outing drive to bull temple , a place I was visiting after several years. Don’t seem to recollect visiting the temple many times during 4yrs of college which is down the same road. Its presence however used to be dramatically felt during exam times. Dodda ganapathi definitely looked smaller now , trapped and surrounded by shinny granite walls.

The urge to walk down the road to my college which I had treaded every day for 4yrs could not be contained. I took the liberty to peek inside college, eager to see what had changed.

It was evening and the classrooms were empty like most lecture sessions during my time. Went to the classrooms to get a feel of old times and then strolled towards the electrical and mechanical engineering labs...Nostalgia hit hard. Couldn't believe it was almost 2 decades since i last came here. Lots had changed and yet few things were the same. Students were sitting on the lawn with notebooks open on their laps but gazing elsewhere, groups of students hanging around everywhere except near the library which stood isolated and deserted. An extra building had cropped up in an earlier vacant land behind the administrative building to accommodate a new engineering branch. The dept of electronic and telecom stood unfazed and unchanged in the long gone years. There were lots more bikes now than during my college time which blocked most of the road towards the boy’s hostel. Cellphones seemed to engage students more than friends. The college surprising looked greener with lot more vegetation. 4yrs of my life spent in this place seemed a distant memory, as if like a dream.

What seemed more unreal was that I had studied those heavy engineering books with electrical circuits, vector diagrams and thousands of formulae...Mine was the last of the annual schemes before the semester system was introduced. We had as many as 14 subjects per year, EDC, PDC, EC and a hell lot of subjects whose full forms I can’t even recollect. I knew several classmates and had several friends who like the subjects and formulae had vaporized in my memory only to be virtually found via internet searches.

It made me wonder how those 4yrs for most of us shaped the path towards our careers and yet the subjects we learnt were of so little significance in what we practically do at work today. Like a flash back from a movie I remembered my telecom professor once telling me “Let me know how much of this high pass/low pass filter graph you will later use in your life”. It was like dejavu !