Unboxing Stories: Engineering Diaries

A wonderful episode with Aditya Manjarekar, it's full of fun elements throughout 11th and 12th standard preparing for JEE, we have talked a lot about MIT Pune college and its semester pattern and how life is inside the college hostel. And then we have a wonderful journey of preparing for MS considering all options and finally achieving one goal.

A new episode with one of my closest friend Tanishka Chougule, episode full of motivation, stories, struggle, fun and entertainment. A very Socially active, confident, hardworking personality pursuing her MBA after completing her Engineering. Yet another unique story with lots to learn.

"A marvellous personality who is not going to stop for anything, caring out for people, helping and growing with people, I am excited to introduce Shalmali Jadhav as my 10th guest for this podcast. A mixture of her engineering life, her startups life, her MS experience.

A journey travelled by thousands of aspirants who want to pursue Enginering is of preparing for JEE, the guest to this podcast is one of those students who travelled the path, he shares his own unique experience and I must say that its a wonderful journey.

Curiosity is what got him into engineering but before that he shares his struggle of 2 major years to prepare for JEE. He shared his tumbing experience of 2 major decisions of choosing college and department, but with a great piece of advice from his Dad, he sorted that out and have completed 4 years amazingly. On the other hand I have also added my 2 years story which is similar to his. We discussed the past that we kept on carrying but we should've left it then and there. He shared his stories of exploring Kolhapur city and how he lived the 1st year of college. Mistakes is what we can only discuss and try not to repeat them and help others not to commit the same mistakes, he shares what is mostly important in terms of Computer Science as a student. PBL - Project based learning was an important aspect which we regret that we didn't take it seriously. Sharing his best memories he mentions that one needs to live hostel life once in a life. Summarizing his whole story he mentions that we can rebuild anything from zero, no matter how much we have failed we can push ourselves back up and live our life.

Hope that you like this episode and overcome your failures too.

A complete different approach to life, a different perspective to the picture of life. I know this episode is bit long but I simply couldn't drop a single part of this episode with Niranjan Patil. This will change your way of thinking, your mindset, your approach and definitely you are going to learn something about spirituality and branches under it.

A perfect example of Simplicity and Selflessness, It's my pleasure to introduce you to Viraj Chougule. One another student from Mechanical Engineering background but with completely different approach to life and career.

There are some deep conversations but most of it is funny just like the person he is. We started with "why engineering" and how he decided to choose core branch of engineering knowing less job opportunities that come with it. Continuing on to discussions of First Year with events and all. He gave a good story with learning on how not to get into traps of certificate for volunteering if you don't know how to have fun. Two major recommendations by him - No Group Studies and No Last minute Studies, listen to the podcast why he has this opinion. We further discussed on how to choose Internships, which company to prefer with perspective of learning. We got into some discussion of having relationships in engineering and what commitment should mean to everyone. Viraj belongs to a business family background but how he wants to explore his own path is appreciable. Next we discussed a recent incident which was really coincident and if we compare how our lives are so similar at this stage. I had to ask him how he holds this calmness and how he keeps cool head. And I must say you won't recognize his family background with just looking at him, cause he carries himself so simple and he is so grounded with his attitude. He explains how he keeps going through this struggling period and what keeps him to get up everyday and move on.

Hope you enjoy this episode and learn a thing or two from this amazing person.  

Viraj Chougule  

5th Episode of Stories of Common Engineering Students, this episode is a chill and light-hearted conversation with Harshada Panhalkar.