Recollections of Life - Engineering (Part 7)

As i said, there were a few hiccups here and there in the first sem. The first one was a professor called Mr. UmRa (name changed...obviously...but my classmates will realize who im talking about). He was unbelievable. Firstly, he thought no end of himself and secondly he didn't think of us at all!! Sitting in his lectures was going to be tough!...and it was!

Some of his lectures were downright idiotic...i mean, they just did not make sense. One day he managed to prove the AREA = LENGTH! So, for once the tiny bulb in my brain lit up and i raised my hand to tell him this, only to be given the dirtiest look ever. If looks could kill, i would have been skewered there and then. So, i stood up and said "Sir, how can length be equal to area...and the dimensions wont match anyways!!". So he said, "THATS HOW IT IS GIVEN IN THE BOOK AND THATS HOW I HAVE WRITTEN IT..IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE THEN ASK THE AUTHOR!!"...i stood there with a glazed look in my eyes....

But from that day on, we developed a healthy love hate relationship. He loved to pick on me and i hated his lectures. But well, attendance ke liye kuch bhi karega!!

That was not all. We had to submit a mini-project using VB and Oracle. So, we decided to make an online quizzing application. So, half-way into it UmRa comes up and says, "I heard that you guys are making a quizzing application. I want you to make it for me as i'll be holding an online quiz in my subject at the end of the semester". So we said ok, albeit very reluctantly. But, we were true to our word and were done with the project. He asked us to fine-tune it a little and we did that too. So wehn we went to tell him that he could take the project he says "Arey, i have already taken someone else's project. So i dont think yours will be useful anymore!!"...we were all shocked. I wanted to wring his neck there itself. But sense prevailed and i just said "Sir, this is not fair", but i made sure that the tone had the right amount of dejection and humour! But his incident soured my relation with him to such an extent that even a lemon would have been sweeter...sorry for that one...could not resist it.

The next hiccup was the DBMS fiasco. It was too good. By the end of the sem, we had managed to finish off exactly 2 out of the 6 units. That too was done so fast that i personally did not understand a word of what was taught! But then, the perennial savior, our PL came and the bulb in my brain was just about flickering enough to enable me to cram a little bit!

However, the story did not end with DBMS. The semester was full of extra curricular activities. i had resumed badminton and was playing for the college. Well, i was a part of the team. I rarely got to play but being in the team gave me the rights to bunk lectures whenever i wanted..and i made full use of it. After being out of college due to the matches, i realized that i had no clue as to what was happening in class. I was petrified. I was sure to flunk...but i was proved wrong...thankfully..GOD BLESS GOD!! hehehe...

But besides these, the amount of fun we had in TE Sem-I was unparalleled. It was pure, unadulterated fun. And believe me, if all of us get together even now, the only things we talk about is our college life because that was the reason we all bonded together. With TE Sem-II looming large, we started another semester...the 6th semester, to be precise...

- to be continued...

Recollections of Life - Engineering (Part 6)

Hi guys....im just over my bout of extreme laziness!!...so here i am to write again...

Third year was the beginning of a fun riot for most of us. We knew all our classmates and it was time to ROCK ON! So, for the teachers it was time to try and save their lives and run for it! TE was something that teachers dreaded i guess because they knew the situation only too well. For me, personally it was a time to reinvent my image. Teachers thought i was a good-for-nothing, college-bunking student. It was time to prove them wrong. The only problem was that i was having too much fun to study and hence prove them wrong!!

Classes began and so did the chaos. We were not allotted a teacher for a subject called DBMS. Actually, the one allotted suddenly left. So we were left stranded. None of us thought of it this way though. For us it was free time...in other words BLISS! We used all our time for constructive activities like fooling around in the comp porch, canteen etc etc. No one seemed to be interested in studies except Ashish and Ajay - the only 2 people in our class, possibly, to pay attention in every lecture. But thanks to them, we all passed!! God bless you guys.

Our group seemed to be increasing in strength and the level of our jokes was reducing rapidly (Jay and I being the prime force behind the diminishing levels). The group was as follows :

Jay - Extremely witty, funny, humorous and by far the most intelligent of the lot!!...if you want to learn anything at the last moment...HE'S YOUR MAN!!!

Ashish - Studious to the core, intelligent, teacher's pet (due to a consistently good performance) and will never ever ever be ready to bunk lectures (it changed in final year though).

Ajay - Same as above, except that he was a little more willing to bunk...only sometimes though.

Pranay - The cool dude...will never attend college but will always end with complete files (though they were nowhere close to neat!!).

Snehal - One of my partners in cracking sad jokes, along with Jay of course, intelligent and sharp.

Kedar - A really nice fellow, will be cool throughout the sem and then suddenly start palpitating a week before exams...unnecessarily of course.

Gaurav - He was the butt of all our jokes and fun..but a very sporting guy!!...had a love-HATE relationship with Snehal and Kedar!!...hehehe...

Aashish (yours truly)...i dont think i need to describe myself...that'll be too much.

Anyway...so this was the group...we had lots of fun and studied together a lot...mostly completing assignments and stuff...but it was great fun...the late nights and the fooling around...great fun. TE 1st sem went off smoothly, except for a few hiccups here and there...but they are a part and parcel of engg. So it was ok...

- to be continued...