Back counting started from 27th December. The day we finished our last paper of seventh semester and the back counting has intensified due to 100 ton load of Lab work and assignments being compounded on us like a geometric progression series. The frantic days of end semester are the moments that I enjoy the most. A single paper lost here and searching it among your batch mates is like searching a needle in the hay. I have been observing this for the last seven semesters and this semester will off course be a no exception it. This tradition will go on for ages to come.
Copying assignments is one thing that I dread the most and try to write it on my own as copying some wrong and shit answers written by others is not the turf that I deal with. In extreme cases, when professors who don’t have mercy on poor engineering students and give us too many assignments that can’t be counted on finger tips, in such cases, I have photocopied faster than a zerox machine. At the end of semester, tracing the original source of assignment is difficult and questioning him why have you written this answer is a complete waste of time. Also you will get replies like, ‘Copy karne ka kam kar’.
Lab work==Donkey work. Okay, I made some observations and have thoroughly understood what’s going on with the experiment, then why to write and waste pages. Save trees and ‘Go Green’.
This is high time of year when you get to see the human nature of all your batch mates and it’s a rat race to cross the maze first. A tiresome process which drains a lot of energy and after crossing the maze first, you have achieved really nothing. At this time of year, you come to know some real friends who help you sail peacefully through a rocking sea.
As you queue microprocessor instructions in the stack, so do we stand to get our files checked. How can a professor sign so many pages in one day? I have seen professors stocking up red ball point refills before the checking assignments season starts. They too know that they are in deep trouble over piling work. I have heard professors who tell students, ‘Please check file before Friday, I am going to my native place on Monday’. This pushes panic button among students and everyone tries to complete that subject’s file by Friday leading to again a long queue. And on Monday, he is still there in the college. He used it to fool us so that he is free on Monday. A clever ploy indeed! But I did no fall to this silly ploy in the semester when he came second time to teach us.
When you go to check your files, try to remain innocent about all the misdeeds you have done in your file. The Professor is also in a hurry and tries to ignore it unless your luck runs out and you had a very bad semester with the concerned professor. Never take ‘panga’ with any professor in your life time while doing engineering.
Hope these last days of our life as an undergraduate student go peacefully and let us enjoy this last end semester days.
(PS: Dedicated to BE- EXTC batch of A.Y. 2010-11)
