Sam

     You might have heard people say that they like to serve the poor and that’s why they chose medicine as a career. What you don’t hear is what they say at the back of their minds. “I’d like to serve the poor” (In America) “I’d like to serve the poor” (And have a million dollar house) “I’d like to serve the poor” (I think) “I’d like to serve the poor” (Nah! I took the course because I hate Maths)            Hatred for Maths or hatred for physics is not as common among medical students as one might imagine. There are medicos who talk about maths and physics as if they were Hyderabadi Biryani and DBC respectively. One might expect as little maths in the Medicine curriculum as possible but every now and then mathematical formulae keep giving a guest appearance in the text books, some of which we are expected to mug. But there is one, should I say branch in medicine which operates on numerical data. ‘Research’ is where medicine gets as mathematical as possible.        

     If Mohammed Bin Tughlaq was to return from the dead and be made the vice chancellor of AARJEEUHS, he would I’m sure, find its current administration very pleasing…to the point of nostalgia. He would then, I guess, incorporate all the engineering colleges into the university, forcing them to follow its current curriculum. With AARJEEUHS unleashed over those ever-holidaying laymen, this is probably how a typical engineering course would be…                   Every engineering college would be attached to a servicing centre or at least a mechanic shop complex (one with >1000 sheds) for the students to see cases. All the colleges will have to conduct “Continuing Mechanical Education” programs and ‘workshops’ etc. Some of the must-have books for the students would be- Harley Davidsons (since Harrison Ford would be too heavy to carry), Freedom Park Community Mechanics, Fire Fox Basic Wheels and Gears, Reliance Fluid Dynamics, McAfee’s Virology and of course, the Engineering