Following is the content that I wrote for CSE departmental
Magazine, in Haldia Institute of Technology “Hash Define” first edition of 2015.
I still remember the day when I was about to enter the
class room 9001, the room beside HOD office in July 2009. I was given the
subject Microprocessor (EI-502) to teach. My heartbeat increased. I could feel that.
But only thing that was giving me little bit confidence was the fact that I had
teaching experience.
That class included a sincere student Tulika Bose, and
later on the students like Sanghita Kanjilal, Priyanka Chiraniya, Anupam
Majumder, Zaved Mahamud, Saheli Dhar, Sudipa Bera, Prakash Rai, Madhumita,
Anindita, Shalini, Payel, Saptarshi, Zahid, Amir, Kamal, Gitanjali Lama, Rohan
Chetri, etc joined the class which I think made the batch very good.
Next semester, I taught the elective Network Secuirty to final
year students. There I found a student named Rajneesh Kumar, Whom I consider an
extra ordinary student. In subsequent years, I got many good students in terms
of academic, behavior, extra curriculum, event management etc. The list is long
but few names can be mentioned: Huma Nazneen, Deepak, Arpita, Meghna, Shikha,
Gaurav, Anand Chetri, Dipika, Debasmita, Buddhadev,Shristi, Ankita, Namrata,
Nirjhar, Harsh, Sanjib, Buddhadev, Ramkrisha, Debadrita, Farhan, Anjani etc. It
may be mentioned a very brilliant student Swarnashree Chaudhury left all of her
dear ones few months back….
When some students of these batches come back to college
for some reason and meet us we do feel very Happy.
What I observed is that students do come here in campus
with lots of dream, courage in their eye, but that courage demises as they
progress towards higher semesters. What might be the reason(s)?
Somewhere I read that ordinary people adapt themselves and adjust
with the existing environment surrounding them if they do not like the present
environment. But extra ordinary people change (upgrade) the present environment
itself to meet their expectations. Shall we not try to uplift the campus
environment in our small capacity if we don’t like it as it is….
As our ex President APJ Abdul Kalam said: Dream is not what
we get during sleep, but dream is what does not let us sleep.
The fact is that most of live either in Past or in Fututre.
That is we think of our old days like school days, old friends, previous campus,
last semesters etc. or we think about the future – what we will achieve in
future etc. But most of us never live in Present. Only on focusing on Present,
and gathering lessons from the Past we can make our future brighter.
Regarding semester, mostly classes are held for around 160
days. If we can’t make sure that we will attend most of the classes and be there
in class/lab in correct time, then how do we expect that we would be regular
and punctual in office when we join some organization after we graduate?
Extra curriculum activities are very helpful in shaping our
personality towards perfection. My personal experience suggests that sports,
cultural activities, techinal activities, weekend trips to neighborhood tourist
spots or trekking (off course following the college protocols properly),
watching good movies, reading good novels or autobiography really inspire us to
go ahead. That is we have to balance our academic life with our positive
non-academic sides.
Doing interships in semester breaks really helps us a lot
to familiar with the environments in top grade Institutes/companies. But
compare to the huge number of students in our country, the number of students
got chance in these top grade organizations is very less. But nonetheless, we
can do internship in our Institute only under some faculty member.
At last I want to convey what I heard in a program in
Shibpur when one student was giving a quote: It is our Attitude, not Aptitude that decides our Altitude in future.
