I, The Graduating Engineering Student Turned Incidental Writer (eighth Stride) Hidden Blessings

Foreword.

Foreword.

This series of articles, on the travails and torments of required writing for school term papers, thesis or dissertation, are purposely taken in the point of view of the student in the graduating or senior years. Hopefully, they reveal how much anguish and agony he goes through in every phase of the activity he is obliged to present, even to defend in front of a panel of peers, prior to receiving his much toiled-for diploma.

Previously.

The graduating student, now equipped with a firsthand account of an actual Business Process Outsourcing work experience, decided not to wander from his original BPO project intention but kept cordial relations with his new acquaintance, the call-center agent.

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During the not-so-rare discussion / drinking occasions I have with my venerable foreigner friend, I become more cognizant how lucky I am having been born in a more technologically advanced country and under a culture more free. There were restrains and confines I did not grow up with, no extraordinary bridle or chain that pulled me back from accomplishing what I needed to or expressing myself when I wanted to.

I have likewise become more thankful for the other old man I am very much acquainted with, my English professor. Since the day he gave me individualized instruction in his office, my personal perception of this person has drastically changed. He remains the same person, but instead of a strict, cold-blooded, impervious monster that threatens the existence of the universe, I view him now as a strict, cold-blooded, impervious purveyor of the best there can be in his students. Many of them graduated to distinguish themselves in various fields of human endeavor; the innumerable plaques of appreciation that fill his office shelves are quiet testimonies of their successful scholastic development.

By all indications, he actually sees in me one that would one day bring honor to the profession and the university. Although diametrically opposite to many of his favored novices, being rebellious and world-wise, to him I present an inquisitive, focused, totally dedicated, stop-at-nothing, result-oriented achiever.

It now makes me feel silly and so regretful to have derided him by the moniker I christened him with, duly picked up by my classmates and by his other students: Darth Vader. That is nothing!, according to one of his former students who has made a name for himself and now teaches in the same university. During our time, we used to call him Vlad the Impaler. (To the uninitiated, while Darth Vader was a fictional character from the movie Star Wars, Vlad the Impaler was a real Romanian historical figure. He saved his country by terrorizing would-be conquerors by hanging their bodies on long spears hence the label, and drinking their blood the inspiration for the story of Dracula.)

That explains the well-lacquered wooden plate I glanced at during the tutorial session the professor gave me inside his office. It reads Welcome to Transylvania, and this student turned colleague turned close friend gave it to him. An odd and curios lot, these academicians are.

Judging from the offer-letters I have been receiving lately, some even from other universities, the probability is higher than average that I would soon be joining them, right after graduation.

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by: Mind Rich

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