The end of Era called Engineering life...

Friday, 19 April 2013


                                                   4th Year…

                The year of placements. The phase which decides your fate. You will calculate your percentage now and then. Above 60 bindass, below 60 bakwaas.  Our faculty has about 400 marks for final semester in their hands. The dream day of every engineering faculty. In this stage, casuals turn into formals, You wish good morning, good afternoon, good evening and what not when ever a lecturer passes through, You will ask stupid doubts during class in short you leave no stone unturned to impress lecturers.
The entire semester completes with the same struggle and the actual study is a day before the finals. Thus from my point of view, a B.Tech Degree is not a matter of 48 months(4 years) but a matter 48 nights(48 subjects in total degree , hence 48 nights before each exam.) A lesson it has taught is that life is not that easy always. Time is one of the best teachers.


       10 commandments of engineering students:-
Study all the chapters one night before the exam.
Never write your assignment yourself.
Start writing the records only on the morning of submission day.
Treat all marks above 40 as Bonus.
Maintain atleast 70% attendance in canteen.
Should pass gracefully.
Should get attendance without being present ( Proxy is mandatory )
If u can’t convince the lecturer in viva, Confuse them.
Should be Outstanding student (spending most of the time outside the classroom)
 Start every sentence with 4 letter word. (F**k, I forgot, f**k, I dint prepare for it etc., )


Situations you go through..

Bad time : Your  non-engineering GF/BF is free to enjoy while u slog with submissions & exams.
Irony: The guy who copied your entire paper passes and you flunk.
Critical Calculation: Summing up the marks you attempted worth in the exam...
Recounting & revaluation: A cruel joke. (asking to recount or revaluate the Supplementary exam marks)



Sub”mission” time.. numerous questions occupy your brain…
   “ what is the font & format?”
   “ The diagrams should be in color or black & white?”
  “ What is this hand writing dude, are the values correct?”
  “ Are the dates correct?”
  “ Are the index contents correct?”

Next comes viva session…


Funny moments on Comprehensive Viva day..

Your mind says..“ I still din’t submit my record, forget about viva..!!”
Praying external examiner shouldn’t go through the content as you fluked some paragraphs.
Making the face of trying hard to remember the answer.
Frustrated moment When asked to prepare and come back for second time.
That face when not even a single letter of your answer don’t match the correct answer.
Confused moment when you don’t know which subject the question belongs to.

Classic moments…

Taking crucial decisions by toss. Ex:- Heads we go home, tails we go now. Heads the you pay, tails we share.
Asking yourself  “how to start this experiment” ( when you are asked to complete an experiment on your own )
“Exam.., what exam ?? !! ( Screwed up face )
When your neighbor girl draw a diagram in her answer sheet and you have no idea which question it is.
 Panic mode : When some one says“ JNTU will be releasing the results today evening “
Major relief:  When anyone announce “Exams have been postponed due to bandh.”
Speed : Getting Ready In 5 Minutes.
 Sharing : Whole Class Copying One Assignment.
Presentation skills : Can Present One Answer In 5 Different Ways For 5 Different  Questions.
Editing : Your Report Contains At least 5 Pages Less Than The Person From Whom You Copied.
 Multi tasking: Playing Games On Cell, Sms To Gf/Bf, Gossiping With bench Mate, Day Dreaming, Making Teacher's Sketch And Still Pretending That You Are Listening What Teacher Is Saying.
Art : Beautiful Art On The Last Page Of Note Book.
 Sense of humor  : Provide Best Unintentional Humor To Teachers During Viva.


Exam time…


                                                                 



What I learn JNTU won’t ask & what I left will be asked for sure.
The awkward  moment when you get struck in mid of the answer and you don’t remember the rest answer.
When you prepare for the question which appeared in last 2 years thinking it would come again. But it won’t.
When you leave a question which was asked last year thinking it won’t be asked this year. It will appear in 16 marks section.
When 4 mark question asked as 16 marks question.

Engineers Anthem after every Semester exam..

 Hum Honge All Clear,Honge All Clear, Honge All Clear Ek Din, 
      OH-HO, Mann me hai vishwas, pura hai vishwas, hum hoge all clear ek din…


The Years of Engineering
           First year: Fond of Engineering
           Second year: Sick Of Engineering
           Third year: Tired of Engineering
           Fourth year: Finished by Engineering

Finally the last day in college….
Graduation day is filled with multi-emotions, you feel elated yet dejected. Happy yet sad, as this will be among the last days we will share with our friends and professors. The feeling will seep in later as the day concludes and you’ll wish it never ends. But all’s well that ends well.

As we’ll walk out from here, the college walls bear the story of the most precious years of our life. Our hearts filled with the best memories we could ever make.
The times we laughed, we cried, we screamed with joy.

College teach us a lot of things... 

It has taught me to lose and also enjoy winning.
Taught me to have faith in my own ideas, and to believe in one’s self.
Taught me to be gentle with gentle people and tough enough to fight the world.
It made me learn enough to step into the real world.

Final moments…



A beautiful day comes to an end with hugs once again and promises to keep in touch. Wishes for a good life and luck flies in every corner while tear eyed students part filled with happy memories.

Realization...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013


3rd year

          We stepped into 3rd year so did our backlogs. There was a lot of change in the atmosphere in college. Our heads were occupied with backlogs & girls. This time, Chetan was in love with a girl of CSE.( love for 2nd time.) Sid was having a “just a friend” type affair with a class girl. Nik was in serious relationship with his schoolmate. Even Balu too got a girlfriend. I was left alone. But happy. This time we had tough subjects compared to 2nd year. For the first time I took out my syllabus book to look what minimum academic requirements to get into 4th year. 

          ‘I got enough complaints from other disciplines on your class. So am shifting your class to the last building of the campus.’ Our H.O.D said in a fedup tone.
          Others packed their bags and I took up my notebook ( I used a single note book for all subjects ) and started walking towards the new class.

          ‘ The new class is just beside the canteen, we can barge into canteen when ever we can in just 2 minutes,’ Sid said in anxiety.  We three gave him a dirty look which we to a eve teaser in bus.

The building was left half constructed with no paint on walls. No other classes were present in that building. We were the only class present. Our class was on 1st floor and drawing labs & library was present on the 2nd floor. We were separated from whole D*R campus as if were migrants from other college.

This campus helped my pals a lot. There were a lot of empty class rooms in the building. Each couple occupied a room and singles used the rooms for sleeping. We used the corridor to play cricket. Totally, the building was recreation park. Mean while, Everyone escalated to Smart Android phones. Mobile internet in our phones came to our salvage. Some glued to Cricinfo and some buried themselves in Facebook. You cant keep technology away from college students. 

We were in Thermal Engineering Lab. My team mates were busy in performance test on 2-stroke & 4-stroke engines.  I was waiting for them to complete their task so that I can copy those readings.  Kiran, the tallest guy in our class was hiding his Mobile phone and like a retard he was smiling looking at the screen. I snatched away his phone.

SINDHU : OH Sweetie, so sweet of u. So what else…
Sindhu. Who is she?
‘Friend from 2nd year.’
“So Sweetie, what’s going onn,” I asked him teasingly.
“nothing, she just ran out of balance in her mobile so I shared my balance with her.”
What an act of Balancing. The word “Sweetie” cost him 100 bucks. Sweetie continued his smile for rest of the hour. 

One thing what I noticed in common when a girl and a boy talks on phone is “WHAT ELSE”. This 2 words occupies major portion in conversation. Soon after the lunch hour, my friends message their respective girl friends “Had you lunch”?
Why they won’t do the same with their parents? Why can’t they call their mom and ask or message their dad ? No one can answer this question.

Apart from love stories, everyone started to concentrate on career now. Some joined autocad, hypermesh classes and some other joined catia. Some people went ot next level, they started learning testing tools, java etc.,

We finished our 3-1 sem exams. This time we wrote some relevant answers. I cleared with 63% and cleared my previous supplementary exams too. So did my friends.
Wait… nightmares never end for our engineering students.
“ Mini projects has to be submitted before 18th of this month.”
“List of students failed to meet the minimum academic attendence requirements.”

I was in top 10 list. My 3 other friends shared 13th, 18th, 19th places.
These 2 lines on notice board gave shivers to everyone. Coz no one has finalised their mini project topic. But we engineering students have special powers. We can make miracles in just one night. We sucessfully completed our project work with the help of almighty Google help. One nightmare ended. Next comes lack of attendence. As some one said “Money makes many things happen.” Its absolutely true.  A stipulated fee was collected from us towards condonation of shortage of attendence. The sum of 1500 rupees took our attendence percentage of 32% to 73%.

The time has arrived for the final play. Lab externals. The place where every student acts equal to Ranbeer kapoor and Priyanka chopra of Barfi. The best place for the lecturers to screw us. They make the best use of 3 hours to take revenge.

You can only hear one line being repeated now and then “You are unfit to be engineer”
 A viva isn’t meant to test our knowledge. It is a chance for bitter teachers who did not want to become teachers to vent their frustration on you. Respect their feelings. Smile a lot. And say thank you in the end.
Then comes the final exams. First,We make a queue outside the book stall to buy all in one. Next, we make a queue at xerox center to make micro xerox of important answers.
We follow the great Abraham Lincoln words.. in his words “ If I had 9 hours to cut down a tree, I would spend 6 hours sharpening my axe” in the same way. “If we have 9 days for the exam, we spend 7 days to prepare micro xerox” though I never dared to copy in such way. But it worked for others.
A night before exam we start calculating the weight-age of each unit.

We gave our final exams.
Common Engineering Dialogues After a paper :
a) ‘What is this yaar, more than 70% of the paper was out of the syllabus’
b) ‘This was the worst paper set in the entire engineering history’
c) ‘I am failing….I got flunked royally’


Things I learned in 3rd year…
1.)  I Never Believed , I Could Smile at Professor Who Screwed My life
But Engineering Taught Me to.
2.)  I Never Believed, I Could Study 1000 pages In 1 Night
But Engineering Taught Me to.
I Never Believed,I Could Write 36 Pages In 3 Hrs
But Engineering Taught Me to.