“It’s about time, it’s about change” This is the slogan Mr Obama used for his presidential election and became president of United States. He even won the Nobel peace prize recently. The word “change” is very popular now a day since Mr Obama started using it in almost every of his speech. That makes me to remember our old times when we were hungry of change in our MIT life. As I mentioned at my earlier posts, we have got privilege to study BE degree with the same syllabus and we had been recognized as MIT students by local residences. However we all know very well that
the current system cannot guarantee us to become the Engineer that we really dreamed of. The educational facility we were going to get was simply not enough to train us as a successful Engineer. We realized that
we are totally on our own.
Instead of keep complaining the current system reactively, we understand that we should find the ways which we can practice within our limited capability.
At that time, we were influenced by the books written by author Ko Tar and Mg Thit Min. Their articles about knowledge society, active learning, and third wave deeply captured our mind and made us imagining of our current MIT life to the one where we can fully utilize our skills and talents. But reality is far away from our dream. So shall we wait someone to change us or are we going to change ourselves? We started questioning ourselves that why can’t we change our community to knowledge society, why can’t we practice active learning rather than passive learning received from the deteriorated system, why can’t we move ourselves to the third wave although our country is still on first wave. In fact those were quite mouthful terms and seem to be impossible. However we consider that we all had been very lucky of being together in MIT and our friends will become our valuable resources for learning and sharing knowledge if they all agree that we can make it. We made brain storming sessions so many times and finally decided to print our ideas on T shirts.
Here I would like to introduce one of our friends Pai Nay Man Maung who put a lot of efforts in making design of this T shirt to be able to present all our ideas and reflect the current system. He was born to be an artist rather than an Engineer. He has wonderful skills in creating any kinds of arts and he even composed a song for MIT that we sung at fresher welcome ceremony for our 9th batch brothers and sisters.
At front for out T shirt, we put the graph indication about three ages which are agriculture, industrial and technology age. At the left side, we put our own created MIT logo with graduation grown. The word knowledge society is on top of the logo and below is fraternity, active learning and challenging sprits. We put those words deliberately together with MIT logo by giving the sense that we call came to MIT with common purpose where we can actually challenge any situations by practicing through active learning and we can actually transform our MIT to knowledge society. At the below of the graph, we gave a message that we can actually leap to the third wave through learning technology although we are at the agriculture age.
At the back of our T shirt, we designed three waves in different color, the green represents agriculture, the gray is industrial and the black is technology and wisdoms. Two boys wearing MIT shirts are looking ahead the third waves by stepping on the books and our Engineering tools. The sentence below the picture gives message that we technology students are playing in key role to march to the third wave to be able to survive in the globalization age.
We printed almost 200 over T shits for MDY students and 100 over T shirts for Sagaing and Kyauke Se students. We considered our movement as successful movements in terms of production as everyone was interested of wearing those T shirts proudly although we cannot justify how much we manage to change ourselves and our MIT community. However I still believe that
this was good initiative to alert ourselves wake up from the misery of deteriorated system.
At the back of our T shirt, we designed three waves in different color, the green represents agriculture, the gray is industrial and the black is technology and wisdoms. Two boys wearing MIT shirts are looking ahead the third waves by stepping on the books and our Engineering tools. The sentence below the picture gives message that we technology students are playing in key role to march to the third wave to be able to survive in the globalization age.
We printed almost 200 over T shits for MDY students and 100 over T shirts for Sagaing and Kyauke Se students. We considered our movement as successful movements in terms of production as everyone was interested of wearing those T shirts proudly although we cannot justify how much we manage to change ourselves and our MIT community. However I still believe that this was good initiative to alert ourselves wake up from the misery of deteriorated system.
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