Saturday, February 27, 2010

Engineers at work B4 EXAMS...

N.B -- This is a part imaginative theory. It has no link with real tym environment. only few last lines are perfectly true. take this on  a light note.
The mid semester exams started few days back. My friends as usual wouldn’t take dinner this week. This is a part of their preparation strategy. As the midnight oil would be burned for writing tidbits of notes on papers (chutka). They would take their seats a couple of hours before the exam with their totalitarian regime.

Exam begins at 2 ‘O’ clock & the lunch is served AT 11.50. They can’t resist till then even.

The real work would begin then in classroom, the revision on the table that holds their roll number. Some would revise for longest stretch of study hours of their lifetime of 1.5 hours.

 Revision implies writing on the desk, wall, pillars, blackboard, beneath their butt on table

( so that its easyily erasable… HOW ? BY shaking the ass). The first 8 feet on pillar is already filled so now they would stand on the desk and write above that to have a better view during the course of exam. I could state this that the time is not far when they would be using the ceiling for the purpose.

Some would preserve their tidbits for end semester so that they won’t have to work again.
Last semester innovators introduced technology in their work. As they didn’t had the book of AUTOMOBILE ENGG with them. So a laptop was used for pasting down the notes from E BOOK (2 hours before exam). Some would carry 2 calculators with themselves. A few would take the drawing board along with them to the exam hall, so that to bring it along with whole syllabus inscribed on it. Some GOOGLING & MESSAGING is always used. For sure googling is only used by 1 person(always on G-talk??????). Some spend their night typing everything on computer. Feed it in their cell phone and use it directly. A few with hands on experience with PHOTOSHOP added page similar to the pages in the book. For that subject in which the questions were known and data book was allowed.

The calculators with such minute cryptic writing, to be understood (rather deciphered)by the author. They complained of bad lighting facility as soon as the cloud covered the sky outside. As the rooms lighting was not sufficient to show the minute engraved details on the board, calculator. This is mostly used by such procrastinating people who ask for the syllabus during night or in morning & are already placed. These are the most confident people @ exams (not because they have studied but due to their confident dependence on their resources.

These are the one who are jack of all trades, their peccadillo would enthrall everyone. These moments would last long in the memories. The innovative engineers if work constructively could do anything. Their imagination is amazing. There are others also who work hard and never use the properties inside class or the calculator (SANTA, PRANAV, DHANANJAY, PRAVEEN etc… other honest souls). He has enormous concentration before exam and works really hard. This exam have exposed a few saint souls also??????????
HATS OFF BOYS!!!!!!!
Don’t know if girls follow any of the above mentioned methods. ( SURELY they wouldn’t!!!!! )
HATS OFF GIRLS!!!!!!!



UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ( midsem - 3rd paper )


After a disastrous start with 2 papers in a row, it was the turn of most unsustainable paper of entire engg career. We along with ECE students were appearing for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. We were asked to write everything taught (notes + assignment – approx 50 pages). Quite an impossible task for someone like me. This meant :
NOTES of 35hrs (7 weeks 8.15 am  to 9.00 am ) = our 2 hrs 
Sufficient for antagonizing everyone against the PROF. Due to his sinister deed of setting such lengthy Q.Paper and inundating us to write.
 However, his cruel act affected few mundane souls. As many others had extended exam duration. They went on early, revised the whole thing on the desk, on the wall, pillars, their own seat for 2 hrs before exam. Some had burned their midnight oil in preparation of tidbits of notes (Chutka), writing on the calculator.
A guy carried 2 calculators with him in every exam. guess?????????
( though this mid sem didn’t had even a single arithmetic calculation involved)
What kind of calculation is involved is history of CAD/CAM. Management of information, environmental pollution (calculating the rate at which arctic penguin are causing environmental pollution or humans polluting the morning atmosphere. 
OR his cell phone bill spent on Ma , Op etccc....
On my first glance of Q.P arrrrre  SUMIT this last question itself would take 1 hrs. ( I completed it in  less than 15 minutes -- read to know  HOW & WHY)
I started writing at my own pace and completed first Q in 55 minutes, (Pranjal submitted his paper after 5 minutes!!!!!!!!) writing down everything remembered and invented during that period. My hand was severely paining after writing continuously for 4 pages for just 10 marks. Then it was turn of 2nd question. Again a bad  start as  the first part took 15 minutes which was beyond my expectation.
 An impending disaster to proceed. Suddenly, kind of irresistible and an unwanted thought. I tinker my course of action. Aaj INDIA ka ODI hai score kya hua hoga?? I looked for my cell phone (banned in hall) in my pocket silently and started browsing for score. With full network available it took just 3 minutes (ooppsss)to show the score. The score read (80+) Tendulkar on 50.
 YAARRRR Ab jaldi jaana hoga nahi toh match nahi dekh payenge. 
  IT WAS HARD TO CONCENTRATE AS I MOVED MY HEAD HERE & THERE IN DESPAIR. .
The whole process took away my 7 valuable minutes. I was left to be perished with 40 minutes & more than half of the paper to be answered. I proceeded again,  writing at accelerated  pace with miserable handwriting and completed the paper. In the mean process taking extra sheet consumed up my valuable 3 minutes.
I tried my best and just left a Q of 2 marks. The recent development was fully unsustainable on my part.

With just 15 minutes remaining I scribbled down whatever aroused my mind at that point of time for the third question. Even I won’t be able to understand such vulnerable handwriting. One can’t resist it when 1 is at such cataclysmic position. However my natural handwriting is the same ........ EVERYONE knows..
Finally I left the examination hall discussing the paper with my mates & others of electrical branch .The final  destination as for now was towards watching the ODI. Hope, all of u had the same reaction on first sight at Q P.
I am impenitent of my act, have no regrets as I witnessed the marvelous magnum opus of SACHINs double century innings.
VOILA ! SACHIN. LONG LIVE THE  MASTER BLASTER.
There are many stones thrown at you & you turn them into milestonesssssss.