Have been observing people posting their stories on LinkedIn and other places. This is my attempt at short summaries of learnings over the years from my career and education – Part 1. As this peeks into 1990s and 2000s, its difficult to recollect details but the overall learnings do remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
School – Airforce school – 1990-92: Vague memories but the critical thing was holistic learning. What I do remember is a school that introduced us to discipline, computers, games, extra curriculars and more along with good education with a report card having lots of parameters in terms of evaluation rather than only academics. Learnings: Holistic learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
School – Xavier’s – 1992-98: Place where we led a simple, disciplined life with a happy class of individuals from across the country. Schooling for me included scoring decent marks in 10th, 11th & 12th and getting into engineering along with playing non-stop whole day whenever we got a chance. More than 70-80% of the class seems to be achievers in their specific areas now. Learnings: Values, Simplicity, Good education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
College – LDCE – Civil engineering – 1998-2004: Critical learning was to manage things on your own which included freelancing to get work, learning computers, deciding how to study, being self sufficient, interacting with multi-geographical group of students from across India, making friends and understanding the value of stepping stones and foundation in life. Learnings: Unless you build a foundation of knowledge, discipline and goals – you will continue to face problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
College – ICFAI Hyderabad \/ Dehradun – 2004-2006: Learned advanced concepts of technology around Java, Networking, Operating systems and more in a very tight \/ packed schedule of two years – probably included 25-30+ subjects at a place where I was forced to build a new network of friends. Met some wonderful friends from Northern and other parts of India. Got placed into services part of the then booming Information Technology industry from here. Learnings: Focus on goals around technology & career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will come out with part two at a later point of time for 2006 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Email me: Neil@HarwaniSystems.in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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