Here I come with another SERIES!
RANDOM SURVEY TO KNOW “WHICH YEAR THE ENGINEERS FIND IT MOST FULFILLING, EVENTFUL, DISASTROUS, And ACRIMONIOUS” WILL INDICATE THE THIRD YEAR OF THE ENGINEERING DAYS AS THE MOST ………..
It is THE year of which your seniors warn you when you are busy with your ADMISSION process.
The third year for CRCE PROD 2009 started with RANDOM GROUP FORMATIONS for even more RANDOM and BIZARRE PRESENTATIONS. The GROUPS were finally formed after well over 2 months though they were supposed to be formed in 2 days. (And the aforementioned paragraph is JUST not needed! JUST to summarize the Sem V rituals, does the author mentions it)
The presentations, the ARDUOUS journal-file-sheet-completion and the subsequent SUBMISSION took another 2 months. Then the VIVAs were conducted in November. 4 of them were OFFICIAL and 2 were in addition. The theory subjects were UNCHARACTERISTICALLY cool.
The PLs served as mini-vacations. Aayush, Malhar, Nadar and I indulged into GROUP studies. OR was the subject preferred. Mallu and I would come prepared with SIMPLEX models while Aayush handled Game theory and Simulation. And we would gather together for the KNOWLEDGE SHARING. Again, UNCHARACTERISTIC. INTERESTINGLY, in the OR paper, I messed up in SIMPLEX and AAYUSH in GAME THEORY. This time, CHARACTERISTIC.
With the OR paper came the news of the postponement of DJF. So, it meant that the exam which started on 7th Dec, 2007 will conclude on 14th Jan, 2008. 40 DAYS!!!!! Actually 20 days to be honest. The two days immediately after a paper is a welcome break. For MOST of the engineers!!!!!
The entire class had been pining for an I.V. since the beginning of the third year. The college did not agree, quite CHARACTERISTIC. It was thus decided upon for an unofficial I.V. Till the PL days, nobody really zeroed in on the destination, mode of travel and the I.V. duration. ‘BAS, JANA HAI’ was decided. Fixed. GOA was the destination tacitly understood, wanted and preferred. Duration and mode of travel was considered to be decided later as the exams would begin. An exam paper was likely to be postponed. Train would help us cover the distance up to GOA in 11 hours. So, TRAIN travel got FIXED too. The OR day helped us fix the departure day to GOA.
15th January, 2008. A lot of mutual convincing followed among the friends. Afzal,Pranav,Bangia, Kedar, Anoop, Graham and others were certain they won’t be a part of the trip. SHAAA!!!! KYA YAARR!!!!
The Non-diploma people were told that the Diploma people were ready. And vice-versa. CR did it. Just to get started with the ticket booking procedure. A few tickets were bought initially, but they required being re-scheduled. TOO MUCH OF RE-SCHEDULING AND MESS proved that efficient BillOfMaterial makers are not necessarily sound-itinerary-planners.
MI got over by 4th Jan and cricket practice began. HILARIOUS it was. Cricket practice between two exam papers. I am sure that our class cricketers are the only engineers to do so. And immediately after 14th Jan-DJF, a nice-eagerly-awaited-Goa-trip. Within 12 hours of designing a jig or a fixture. The GOA FEVER did not allow me (and I’m sure all) to concentrate on DJF. Half of the day was spent on the phone. Some 131661633 calls were made by me to my fellow people; all discussions on the GOA trip.
“24 more hours, BOSS!!!!! And we would be in GOA!!!! BAAAAP!!!!”
I would find myself in a reverie more times than usual. For a moment I thought of starting to pack for the trip. For the first time in my life, bag-packing was the most important thing to do for me.
Who says Engineering isn’t eventful!
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It is 5:55 P.M. I am done with bolting the fixture. Hatching is still to be done. And hatching is a makeweight activity which gives the DRAWING a certain kind of a FEASIBLE look. The sheet contains a manually-drawn-compass-drafter-free-anything-other-than-orthographic-projections-FIXTURE. I least care for whether the fixture can even hold a single workpiece. Forget about clamping it. I want to be out of the exam hall. I want to scream just as it is 6:00 P.M. I want to get back home. Do the packing thing. I fix the morning meeting time with Iyer, Nadar and Aayush.
EXCITEMENT WAS IN THE AIR, IN THE BODY and in everything.
( To Be Continued......)
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