Confessions of a Lady Engineer

Trust me, no offence and being a hard core feminist I don’t at all undermine the power of girls. Especially those who are brave enough to stride upon path of engineering and are infuriated to hell by seeing horrid memes like this each time upon scrolling Facebook.

Yes, though the ratio is dreadfully low of 1:20 of girl: boy engineers and mainly for those who actually had serious guts and opted for Mechanical/Civil, then such images do give some serious hormonal disruptions.

Anyways coming back to the main track and progressing on a genuine note of being an engineering undergraduate myself and spending three years up till now sitting in a class where out of 4 rows- 3 are filled up by ‘Y’ chromos, I am equally frustrated. Listening to all those side comments during externals that we shall be BESTOWED undeniably by higher marks, I feel a tornado buzzing within me. Being doubted upon my capability to perform experiments with some serious machines, I feel damn boiled up too. The sugar-coated help being offered in our projects by the typical male lab assistants, yes it sucks me horribly. And the worst of it all, ranking higher than all these boys being credited to my gender rather than my brains, forget that I am still planning some serious ways to murder those bastards who say me so, phew ! And still worse, when all my hard work-good scores-determination is disregarded with the line “You are girls, it won’t matter for you either ways as your man will be earning for the bread you eat at the end”, well yes I need to control applying all my martial art stunts at that time too. -_- 

Yet, I survive, in this tremendous male centered engineering ecosystem I do survive in the best possible ways. In fact I sincerely rock because I am open to so many options to choose from (pun intended _/\_). Being in an assuming minority, I get that special attention- my always filled up friend requests section or the ‘Others’ section of my Inbox on FB (with creepiness overloaded. Fucking special, in fact -_-) for instance. Moreover, I am always surrounded by people asking for my assignments and some special benevolence in exams (because assumingly, being a girl I am bound to be goody good studious - WTF, seriously?) 

And now coming to the main part, confessing what the girls really think about all the male-engineers. To be precise, ever wondered what discussions go on inside female washrooms while we work on our kajal-liners-lip balms?
Okay.
So here it is.
We all really respect them. Adore them for their masculine powers. Feel so safe that they are more in number than us. Look forward to their coming to us and asking for some study-help. Talk about all those cute boys who are our juniors and sexy men who are our seniors. At times, we even talk about fellow-classmates for how once again they are trying to hit upon yet another of us with wild stone/fogg/axe deodorants; in fact we are so impressed by all this fuss of fragrances guys wrap themselves in for us with all those stupid deo–commercials running somewhere back in their sub-conscious (like, really? :/ ).

Okay, NO MORE LIES. The true fact is we don’t even give them all a damn. All we discuss is about our incomplete notes or college fests or some cute professor (lucky enough if we have got one; I have none adoring professors to have a crush on, seriously!) or a Durjoy Dutta’s novel or some good movies to watch or a real good fashion tip or some mouth watering food joints nearby. Well, yeah okay at times about our respected fellow male-classmates too but only when we don’t have a good joke to laugh upon. (Apologies, no offence I swear!).

Giving all this shit a subtle end. I finally conclude upon equality of gender, respecting girls, not judging them in any way and blah blah crap. Actually none of it seriously. Because I know how to stay in my swag myself. And I enjoy like hell being an undergraduate engineer, and moreover a girl!

(X0X0X0 to all my female readers out there. Fine, some of it to the males too, so stop whining.

You guys read this agony of mine after all, so you got to deserve this one from me! )