{"id":3531,"date":"2014-09-18T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:07:35","slug":"to-be-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/to-be-an-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"“To Be An Engineer”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Of late, I have been unpacking, and releasing into the light of day, parts of my life that have been boxed up and stored away for years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the gems I discovered were the old issues of our high school magazine The Godavarian<\/em>! The Jumbo Issue of 1986 contained the “Senior Biograhphies,” those of my classmates and mine. We completed our tenth grade that winter and took the SLC examination<\/a> in January, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biographies were interesting reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I present you, mine, written almost 30 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"10th<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The (civil) engineer was so that I would be able to build roads, bridges and houses!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get first honours, you had to have averaged above 80% in elementary school (1-6 grades) and above 75% in secondary school (7-10 grades). Std. (Standard) means grade!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are wondering what being “singled out” in Godavari, the primary school, was all about, you can read about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does your senior biography say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My “Senior Biography” entry in the 1986 Jumbo Issue of the Godavarian, our secondary school magazine. It details what I wanted to be and my recollections of the 9 years at St. Xavier’s school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\"To Be An Engineer\" http:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-UX","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[160],"tags":[142,357,202],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-personal-stories","tag-private-school-education","tag-st-xaviers-jawalakhel-school","tag-st-xaviers-school"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Godavarian-JI86-feat-image.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-UX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29881,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/29881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}