Sunday, July 22, 2012

The buzzing in 4th year lobby

Note: No offence to fairer sex but I am biased to write this blog from the perspective of an average male engineering student. Majority counts. :D

So what do you called a period of time in your life when you start reading course books before you install internet connection? When you start clearing stacks to make space for academic stuff? When you start discussing pros and cons of government economic policies on dinner and forgot to criticize mess food? When you realize you don't possess formal white shirt and a pair of black shoes? When you start considering the option of waking up early so that you can concentrate more on studies? If this is the case - Welcome 4th Year!

So here we all are, in the final and the most critical quarter our of our awesome college life. Things have suddenly changed. We have become humble, modest (ofcourse until the placement :D) and more considerate towards what our future will be. And on top of that we are succeeding in memorizing what topic we read last night. ;) Ain't it God-ly? Suddenly the focus has been shifted from 'how-to-do-it?' to 'how-to-do-to-efficiently?'. Just remember those nights of end-semester exams time. You crammed the whole formula with all examples, puked it first thing in the exam next morning and were done with the whole theory. Though things are bound to change but this supposedly subtle change is not at all subtle. If not anything, it's scary. Take a walk in your lobby and analyze the environment in any room. As if you have been teleported to another dimension overnight. Here are some incidents that made me believe that it is surely not a just world.

  • "This is all destiny. It is my fate that I am in Civil. No grades, no companies, no job! We were all same when we entered; then what happened that a CS guy gets placed with 14 lpa and we beg for even 4...AISA KYA BHOKAAL HO GAYA BE UNKA??" - Meet my friend and the best guitarist in college.
  • While going to mess: "Oye! Have you solved that palindrome puzzle with the help of link list?"..."Yeah! But couldn't fare better than O(n2)." - Dude! Sabzi in mess is still inedible.
  • "Oh God! Bas is baar ye suppli clear ho jaye...I swear I'll do my BTP on Digital Signal Processing." - The one with less than 15 classes in his 3rd year. 
  • "I am thinking of changing my course to dual degree. 3 years and nothing substantial. I think I am more research-oriented." - The one with 3 supplementary in 3rd year.
  • "Do you have Stanford's video lectures on Z-Tranform? I am done with those on DSP and Microprocessors." - The one whose 500 GB hard-disk is fragmented into 470 GB for 'exotic' videos and rest 30 GB for maintenance and backup. Where the hell is segregation for university stuff? All he had was 'BIG-something-SCHOOL-STUFF'. ;)
  • "I have absolutely no interest in taking up a job. I have my own plans. I want to do farming for 2 years, organic if you ask and then will look for something in creative field." - He is actually gonna do it. He is sure.
  • "Yesss! Rahul(name changed) got 6.xx this time. That means his CGPA is now less than 7. He won't be able to sit for ZS. 1 down." - Gone are those days when friends used to celebrate together their F's in grade-sheet.
  • "DAARU-SUTTA-GAANJA TYAAG RAHA HUN MAIN BHAGWAN...NAUKRI LAGWA DENA MERI. USKE BAAD DEAL RENEGOTIATE KAR LENGE..." - It actually happened. He cannot even poop properly if he doesnt smoke atleast one cigarette right in the morning.
Sweet Mother Of God!
And yes! Best of luck fellas for placement season ahead.

2 comments:

  1. Nic one Pareek! Humaare time par bhi aisi hee cheezein sunne aur dekhne ko milti thi... :)

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