Yeah. Revenge from my HOD. :)

Long back, when I was in my college's second year, my lab exams were going on and unexpectedly my HOD himself had come for the viva that day.

He asked me one question pointing outside the window towards a far away situated electrical tower : Look at that tower and tell me the Voltage level of that transmission line?

I became confused. how can one tell the voltage rating by just only seeing a tower from a far point?

I couldn't answer. I had never ever come across such practical aspects.

He became quite angry. He started taunting the subject teacher in front of few other professors and students. See, your students aren't able to answer such basic questions. What do you taught them?

I felt immense bad that because of me, my teacher was being humiliated. My HOD didn't stop there. He took whole the batch to college's sub-station visit just after the viva. Then he again started there. What are you all learning? Not able to answer such questions? He mentioned the viva exam incident there and revealed my name in front of the whole batch. All started looking on me with a sympathetic look. Earlier it was limited to only few.

It was more humiliating like anything.

I took his words seriously, very seriously.

Fast forward in final year, I was placed in one of the world's largest transmission utility Power Grid.

Soon my HOD's perception had changed.

In my junior's batch, he mentioned about me later and told “That guy have really a good knowledge and knows the things well but don't show it off among others”

Wasn't it a sweet revenge? :)

When you make the education system limited to the text-books, old styled lectures, complex & irrelevant derivations and memory based learning, lacking the basic and practical aspects of the subject, then such situation will automatically arise. The situation of most of the Indian engineering colleges are similar to it.

Happy reading! :)