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On making money

You know dears, as much as I hate to give boring lectures about what to do and what not to do, here are few things I would like you to ponder upon. I know that for most of you, education is for getting a degree, landing a job and to start earning. But have you ever thought how much of earning is actually enough? You might think this question comes a bit too early to ask. Let me finish the degree and get a job first. Wrong. The earlier, the better. Because when I look at your face, I see a lot of amazing talents. And I often wonder, why are these people wasting their talents on just a basic degree. Agreed that some of you may actually need it. To pay off debts, to repay loans etc. But for most others it is just because they are under pressure. They know they are not in the right place, or that they can actually do much more than this. But they just give in to the societal concept that one should study for sometime, then keep working on some monotonous job and earn a huge fortune, th...

on Biotechnology

Hi dears, Hope you all are doing well. I know I have always been a kind of unapproachable teacher. Like one who doesn’t smile or joke in the class, which makes you quite, what to say, uncomfortable around me. Well, but trust me, Iam a different kind of person outside the classroom, not much unlike you all. And there are some hard truths that I have been keeping from you. Not just me, most of the other teachers too do that. Well first of all, about our subject Biotechnology. Yes dears, you are damn right. It is a subject which does not have much job opportunities, as of now. Anyone who is telling you otherwise, is plainly lying. Otherwise, why would even an interview for any temporary post related to biotech see people with all high qualifications, like post doc and more than 10 research papers. So you see, with just a Masters in the subject you are going to get nowhere, unless you write some competitive exam and settle for a regular job. Everytime one of you come to me asking about...

Before we begin

I want to apologise for my bad language as Iam not taking much time to read through this blog and am mostly just scribbling down what comes to my mind,just the way I talk to my class. The opinions shared here are just my views on the subject and are not meant for a debate or discussion. Thank you.