Things to be done in TWENTY10!

Firstly, wish you all a happy new year. I have sooooo many things to be done this year. I have no choice, do I???

January: Attend the 'Industrial Visit' and hopefully, I won't actually have a poem like 'The Contrive' to write like I had last time around.

February: Organise 'SPACE 2010 - Revolutionise the way you see'. I hope it turns out to be the best festivals that the BE's have seen in their 4 years of engineering.

Sem 5 result expected.

March: My sisters wedding. Help out my family with the preparation. Rishkul and Suresh were very happy that my parents invited them for the wedding. Foodie rascals! Are only interested in food that is going to be served.

If not in February, results will certainly be out in this month.

April: Journal submissions and viva preparations. Yeah, again the same old shit. :-(

May: College ends, vivas start and mid May come the dreadful Sem 6 written exams. :-(

June: Exams continue and end mid June. After that enjoy.

Oh yeah, I would have had to decide between GATE, GRE, Placements and/or CAT by this time. :-( Some one help. :-(

Ok, here it goes. If i decide I'm going to take GRE, study for GRE. Same goes for whichever exam I decide to take.

July: Enjoy the vacation and pretty much do the same I do by the end of June. Study for higher education entrance examinations.

Oh yes, I forgot, college reopens.

Also, will know by now if I have internship in the final year or screw myself with new subjects in Sem 8. :-(

Will the placement process start? :-/

August: If I decide to take GRE, take it now.

Will have to decide my final year BE project.

Will the placement process start? :-/

September: My mothers birthday on the first day of this month. Will celebrate. :D

And yeah, good GRE score means I would start with the application process.

Also, study for CAT. Timepass, you see.

Work on BE project.

Will the placement process start? :-/

October: Ohhhh, here comes journal completion, submission and viva preparation again. Engineering, I tell you! :-(

Prepare to take the CAT. (GRE or no GRE)

Work on BE project.

Will the placement process start? :-/

November: Vivas, Practicals!

And yeah, CAT! (Again, GRE or no GRE)

Celebrate dad's birthday!

Will the placement process start? :-/

December: My final year exams. :-)

Hopefully, we will have internship in Sem 8 and Sem 7 exams will be the last Mumbai University Engineering exam I'll be writing. Just thinking about it makes me happy. :D

My birthday this month. Will be 21. Officially allowed to consume alcohol. Wait, only mild drinks - Beer, et al. Need to be 25 to consume others na!

And yeah, will ask this question to everyone through out the month: '31st ka kya plan hai?'

SUBMISSION OBSERVATIONS

I have a thing for different processes' in Engineering Colleges. Last year it was VIVAS. This time I want to throw light on process that student-teachers practice jointly during SUBMISSIONS

1. Submissions can never take place in the time slot assigned. If a time slot of 9-11 is assigned, submissions will start at 10.30 and will continue for the rest of the day.

2. First question you are asked after your journal is signed is - Kaunsa grade aaya.

A typical conversation would involve

A: Kya grade diya

B: A+

A: Mereko toh A hie diya rey. Mera impression acha hai na (:P expression on his face)

B: Lowest grade toh C+ hai rey. Aur tereko pata hai kya, Person X itna chatta tha, lekin fir bhi B+ hie grade mila.

C: Arey A, usne kya viva liya kya?

A: Nahi rey, kuch dekha bhi nahi.Ekdum mast sign kiya journal par.

3. You start writing you write-ups only 1 week before yout submissions. 

4. The 'paper management' that an engineering student can do is  unbeatable. Consider you have 5 subjects, 8 write ups per subject and 4 pages per write up. That makes it 5*8*4 pages/papers. First part of management is asking for journal sheets/assignments sheets from your friends. Second part is filling the sheet with whatever crap you want to. Third part is sharing that crap with friends for them to fill up their sheet. Fourth part of management is getting all those sheets from your friends and arranging them in a particular order. 

Ask anyone else to do this in a span of 1 week and you'd know the difference. :P

5. Drawing diagrams: The LHS of your journal sheet is always meant to be left blank untill the last day. You never draw your diagrams when you write your write-up. You keep it till the end.  

Others will be added later. :P

David Shepherd dies :-(

I don't know why but I'm sad that David Shepherd is no more. He was one of the best umpires I've seen officiating in a cricket match. I still remember his jump when the score used to be 111,222 and so on. I'm sad because I remember in 12th, I once had an argument with a friend when she claimed that Umpire David Shepherd had died and she was quite confident about it when it was some English County cricketer with the same name who had died. The first thing when I read this news, I sms'd her about his death. :-(

His pragmatic approach earned him respect from not only players but cricket fans like me as well. 

My condolonces to David Shepherd's family. 

May his soul rest in peace. :-(

How?

Two years and 3 months and I have not enjoyed the days I used to. The fun I used to have. The enthusiasm lacks. The smile I sported. I no longer want to get out of my house and enjoy the day. The whole festive feel is missing. 

Here is the question: Why?

9-5 schedule, no vacation and of late - Monday tests are the main reason.  

I have college from 9 in the morning to 5 in the evening every single day except Saturdays' and Sundays'. I remember as a child how excited I used to be about Ganpati, but the last 3 ganpatis, before I can actually enjoy it, its time for visarjan. I used to visit the ganpati mandal from my old colony at least three times in the span of 10 days even after I shifted from there to this new place. Last 3 years, I have been in engineering and I can't find time to go there at all. At the end of the day, at 5 pm I am too tired to actually go to my old colony and then get back home to get to college the next morning. Of course, bunking would do, but its not always feasible. This year, Ganesh Chaturthi could not be enjoyed because of Monday tests. It was just the second monday test and being totally unprepared was not something that anyone in the college followed, though late on, we were used to coming for the test totally unaware of the syllabus. The whole Ganesh festival feel is missing. You have your daily routine and the routine is too taxing to allow you to enjoy any festival.

Diwali - During school days, a 20 day break meant that Diwali was thoroughly enjoyed. Now, we have 4 days holiday for Diwali, only public holidays are given off and other off days are compensated with us working on Saturdays. Why cannot even engineering students be given at least a weeks off for Diwali. Any ways the holiday wouldn't help because Diwali coming during submission time means that we have loads of pending work. I am not blaming any one for this situation but something has to change. We need to be allowed to enjoy at least some days in a year. Many feel that the in 4 years of engineering, every day should be devoted for academics alone. And the many don't include students. Earlier after Dassera, I used to wait eagerly for Diwali and now even before I realise, Diwali is already here. Gone are the days, I used to wait for the day I used to buy new clothes. Now, I need to find time to go and buy them. Around a year or 2 earlier, I was ready with new set of clothes 15 days in advance and now I went out and got shirts for myself on the day of Dhanatrayodashi or Dhanteras.  

I can't even enjoy New Years' Eve. Exams from December 1st week to January 1st week mean that new years even cannot be enjoyed. Though, we friends do meet up it would be so different if we didn't have exams going on. 

I want to enjoy all the above days. 

My question: How??

THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T VOTE

YOU SUCK 

(and this doesn't include people who went to the polling booth and were told they cannot vote)

Long time since a blog update. I can't think of anything to fill in this space. A few months back, I could at least boast of having an active blog. Now, I can't do that either. :-(

SOMEBODY HELP!!!