As I had promised in my previous post, i had to come up with this one which again might just bubble up those few moments of our Engineering Dayz. I could have titled it as "ENGINEERING DAYZ - II" a sequel to my previous post. But then as I have already said I dont want to make my blog look like another bollywood movie :)
So, it all use to happen like this....well if not for all atleast for most I believe. Here we go.... Gulping down the breakfast after a quick shower, we put on our denims, a cool shirt, freshened with some deodorant and leave for college, speeding along the bumpy roads. Finally at the parking lot we give ourself a final look and set our hair looking into the rear-view mirror[am not sure about our female counterparts]. Then we enter our class after meeting some friends, 5-10 minutes late, after the lecture has begun. we select the last bench behind a huge and tall guy and patiently wait only to scream out at the attendance call.
Almost all of us kept gazing at the lecturer but with our minds somewhere down in the canteen or at the door, waiting for `that someone holding a memo' to come in. There are always a few of sincere first-bench-students, who attend each and every lecture and have all the detailed notes, which the outstanding students, (students who always stand out lik me.!) can photocopy a few days before the examinations. Passing comments and gossiping from behind our books or playing cross and knots in the most boring lectures during which half the class would already be snoring.! were some of the methods adopted to spend the lectures.
By the end of the lecture, everyone is feeling restless and eyes on our watches, slamming books and dropping bags just to hint the lecturer but then they mercilessly continued their teaching. Finally the bell rings and most of them out of the class, meeting friends at the sombheri katte or in the canteen with "Plate ek aur spoon anek" formula :D
Above all we just cant forget the thrill of bunking lectures & getting cold shoulders of our HOD, the fun of partying or going for movies and picnics...phewwww..! Moments spent during college days are memories for ever.
Showing posts with label College Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College Life. Show all posts
Legendary Matter
Ladies n Gentlemen… Boys Girls n the Rest out there, I would take all the pleasure n pain in the world to introduce you all a never before, most amazing, humorously entertaining, living legend of APSCE telecom [02-06 batch]… presenting to you Mr. RAVI - K [well, not to be imitated in any other language which leads to offensive meaning] known to VTU as Ravichandra .K & to me/us as MATTER n from now on for all others out there. This happens to be yet another outstanding chapter while I turned back the pages of the novel with golden pages embedded “College Life”.
One fine day there waz a hardcore discussion going on among the back benchers…it was filled with exchange of taboo information [which of course U don’t wanna know]. Then suddenly enters a Gandhi [often reffered to as innocent guys – college colloquial] into the hot discussion n asks what is going on? what are you guys talking about !?! Then this question was followed by an answer “its MATTER”..! n the genius who answered was named after it there after, who then went on to be legendary with in a span of 4 years.
Well its not only the name that’s unique even the subject [matter himself] is. He was famous for his uniquely developed verbal wikipedia from which he used to speak the weird phrases/words which eventually were added to our slangs..! yes, they were so unique and funny that we couldn’t resisted to laugh our hearts out. Literally I can say that he abducted the English then. For those of you who are totally unaware of MATTER & his Wiki, here are few of them which I consider to be unforgettable…
*. Aasami instead of Tsunami.!
*. Fedrix instead of Fedrer.! & a wut not… at the moment I can only recall these.
The other side of his passion was giving cut piece poses to the camera clicks which eventually used to get edited by an unique artist Mr. Rohith alias GADIYAARA. These were made as hot news the very next day in the class n yet another day out at college. Don’t even remember how many day out’s like these we have had. And when it was time for exam he use derive his own shortcuts n explanations which amazingly were funny yet could be remembered well, atleast till the end of exams.
As I closed the book, I felt like somebody kicked me from behind.! But it turned out be my illusion. Today our Matter is a Software Engineer at Mphasis and owns a car to pool from Bangalore
Engineering Dayz
I use to put down hope on paper boats and I use to see them float away, I use to keep them within myself and now I see them break away. Life becomes predictable and like any other bollywood cinema which I never use to believe and I wont still.
So, how are we going 2day? Guess its all the same as any other day or may be a little different than the monotonous one. Well, as per the fact that I am an Engineer..! [exclamation does mean something for VTU –
I swear in the name of all the VTU guides n texts I have referred to and all the college get-to-gethers I have attended till date, dayz at APSCE were & are still the best thing that has happened to me. Today, when I sit back and refresh my 'hard drive', all the memories just bubbled out. I felt very nostalgic.! as I watch all the wonderful snaps, which were clicked in sheer 'euphoria', on all the occasions which are worth a KOHINOOR..! [diamond I meant :P] & I simply have nothing else to say but to confess college dayz were & are THE BEST days of My Life!!"... Those 4 years has left behind memories to cherish which are undoubtedly worth remembering an entire life time.
So there I was sitting with my father in the midst of huge crowd filled with anxious students and their parents at the college reopening day waiting to hear from the DEAN about wut we hav got for our future soon after which a small meal arranged by college ofcourse. The next immediate thing happened before I knew was Queue formation for stationary..![prescribed texts by VTU for a sem were given to each student]; Soon after which… came a disastrous aakashavani listening to which I was dumbstuck..[wut the hell? Its jus opening day] but I had to rush for the classroom announced to meet our HOD, Mr. Sateesh Kumar for the 1st time n had a glance at my future classmates. Next to which was obvious - running home.
First year was like thorny way coz it had 1st in it. Not that the subjects were tough but you know how its gonna be. That was like “to be remembered” sem, when the VTU papers were like walk in the park. It was hard in the sense everyone around me were weird then. Everyone trying to prove that they are better than the guy/grl whoz sitting next to them and vice-versa. And then if both of them [fellow mates] realize that the guy/grl next to them both is better than them 2 together, we tell him/her “Neen bidamma Kilaadi”[ no doubt we were sarcastic] . Most importantly I needed a very good memory to remember what lie I had told about myself to whom..![am damn sure it would be same with you as well].
Second year was way better than I imagined it to be then. Not in terms of subjects that we had to study but each one of us by then had realized: “the guy next to me is no better than me and the third guy is cool even though he is better!”, And that is when you tend to become human to others. I had the pleasure of being in Telecommunication department of the college which had a bit of everything, so it was good for me. Never to forget that it was this year that we had most of the tough subjects. A few of which worth mentioning are EC, LD, PE, S & S, CS and more. Now, all these subjects are just abbreviations, or at least they are remembered as that. What they stand for or how much sense they made us is not really considered. The ‘L-board’ lecturers didn’t make it easy rather they projected the difficulty of passing them. How can I forget those moments of joy that we guyz had in our 1st excursion in 3rd sem which made news among our batch mates & ever since then our class stood as role model for UNITY.
Third year was good fun as we were used to the semester routines and adding to that were annoying subjects. We all knew that we were in one of the tough streams of engineering but with friends around it was always fun & kinda got used to it. By then we also had a few parties n trips [will write about those shortly] and were the proud batch to organize Sports events and college day [stage performance] of that year [2005]. We also took the responsibility of organizing the send-off for our seniors which was a success as well… by then It was time for yet another blow by VTU [V Trouble U]- I mean to say the crap xams. Then comes the placement fever. This was a point of time when one can observe everyone getting truly serious. But then, there were some of us who never got serious jus like me.
And now we were in Fourth & Final year which made us the senior most of the college and by then I had realized what are we tested on/for? Our ability to write pages of crappy [on-steroid] passages? Mugged-up vomit adorns University answer sheets. But, I couldn’t be unmindful, of those exceptional geniuses, that one-in-a-million guy/girl, who sees through. Who swims against the current, and emerges from the wreck. Who studied stuff with a reason & that reason, not being restricted to a secure job. By then the project fever was all around and also the “can’t wait to finish” feeling. And before we knew, we are done; it was time for the exchange of sentiments. All well dressed, lined up and waiting for the PHOTO-FINISH remembering those 4 yrs of “struggle between pen & pride”. Huff… not to forget saree made girlz look cute.
That’s about it. Before you get into the comfort zone with people around you, things change. That’s life I guess. And then you realize, if you have to do it all over again, it is very hard. It just takes such an effort to make it through all those pathetic subjects. Isn’t that true?
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