Don't let the cups alone drive you… Enjoy the coffee also !!!

February 5, 2012
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.  

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to hot coffee

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups.  

Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup,  we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

  
Don’t let the cups  alone  drive you… Enjoy the coffee  also !!!    

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You KNOW you are living in 2009 when.

 1.   You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.
 2.   You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
 3.   You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
 4.   You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
 5.   Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses
 6.   You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries. 
 7.   Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen
 8.   Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
 10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
 11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
 12. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.
 13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
 14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
 15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9 on this list.

 

22 things your child should be able to do before they start school

February 5, 2012
Nearly every parent feels some anxiety about their child starting school. Will they get picked on? Will they keep up?



Now psychologist Janine Spencer of Brunel University, has compiled 22 key skills, based on government advice, that every parent should teach pre-school offspring. Dr Spencer explains them here:

1: Write their own name
Reading and writing are two of the hardest things a child will learn. The best way to start is to make sure they can write their own name. Use pencils, not pens. Yo...


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Bill Gates’ 11 Rules of Life

February 5, 2012


Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT m...


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Tips for Safe Internet Usage: Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet

February 5, 2012
Internet has a lot of advantages, but on the flip side, it has some evil features too irresistible.

“As we found more users online, we introduced certain safety and privacy features” 

Electrons rush about delivering her superlative testimonials and status messages. She has 548 friends, out of which 240 are tagged ‘best friends’. She is fifteen and she loves surfing various social networking sites.

Though teenagers have become permanent netizens, it helps to remember one mantra: when it c...


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How to deal with post exam stress

February 5, 2012

With exam results around the corner, some of you must be stressed out about your scores, especially if you aren’t sure if you have done well. Here are few tips which will help you calm during your wait.

  1. Try not to talk about the exams once it’s over. When discussing with friends we are more likely to discuss about the mistakes we have done. This will only highlight the point that you have not given your best and till will in turn increase the stress level.
  2. Its better not to go through your ...

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How to write the “perfect” CV or resume?

February 5, 2012
In order to appear for interview regarding any job, a person needs to have a CV or Resume. Whether a person gets a job or not depends considerably on his/her resume. Many a times, people do the mistake of ignoring the importance of their resume. People who think that resume is not so important for getting through a job interview are very wrong. People should understand that before the interviewer see you, he see your resume. It means that your first impression is related to your resume. Here ...

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Mechanical Engg

November 13, 2011

 
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest and most versatile of the engineering professions. This is reflected in the portfolio of current activities in the department, one that has widened rapidly in the past decade.

Graduate Education

LIT’s graduate programs in mechanical engineering attract students with a variety of backgrounds, interests, and talents. We provide extensive opportunities for graduate students to engage in advanced research and colla...


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Departments

November 13, 2011

Engineering is a process of constant updating of the basic laws and functions of ancient science. It’s a method used to make life easy to life with simple process..

“Engineering” it’s the word playing the world today. Hear your heart’s beat, it sounds the technology and science; Touch your nerves to feel the heat of today! Yes, today there is almost none in this world to disagree that engineering rules the world. Yeah! We do breathe the techno now but when we look back where is begun...

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Institute Profile

July 11, 2011


Laxmi Institute of Technology is a self financed Institute which started its functioning in July, 2010 affiliated with Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad. Laxmi Institute of Technology is being managed by the Smt Shantaben Haribhai Gajera Charitable Trust, Surat. Within a short span of its operation, the college has provided all the necessary facilities to help the students which includes a well eastablished library containing a large number of books, reference books, technical and g...


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About Me


Asst. Professor & HOD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, LAXMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SARIGAM, Post Bag No.15, Sarigam P.O. Valsad -396155, Gujarat, INDIA